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odd traits of behaviour. Master says “Then the bondage of egoism came in and got firmly established and people started thinking very highly of themselves though they were not so in truth. Ideas similar to this began to arise in some of our preceptors; and the disease is spreading instead of dying down. Endowing them with power has become risky for me. Power exists for achieving the Divine and for benefiting others; but in such persons it started inducing intentions of selfish profit.” “ This alone can be said about them that they have strayed away from the path; and to bring them back to the path has become near impossible due to their having gone away from their dharma their duty.” Where moral character deteriorates and Dharma suffers there can be no spirituality worth its name. It is absolutely necessary that the surrender to the Master and his method as also the Satsang is fully practiced to remain with courage in the path.
As already hinted above there are two basic kinds of moral judgments. The first one relates to
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