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person, compromise. ‘What is our fate? What else can we do? We have got to have one person’. Those people who are not strong spiritually, naturally seek some support. Whatever they get, they catch hold of it. It is not their fault. There is nothing wrong with people who go to someone, that is their level, but anguish has led them to that conclusion. Don’t think they have not gone through anguish. Everyone of them has gone through anguish. That is their choice. They thought that they are not sufficiently strong enough. So, where have they got astray, in shraddha before. They were not feeling that the means, and confidence in themselves was not sufficient for that. And the Goal, they had to bring it down, to the physical level, they had to. So once, they brought it down to that level, they were able to accept. So, the living Master is a compulsion on their conscience. They cannot otherwise live, something they have to accept. Otherwise, they will become sick, mentally sick. Even in day to day life we keep seeing a guru, we know that he is no good, yet we are helpless. If you had trusted a guru who was boastful, this state is unavoidable. You come to know later that this fellow is a crook.
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