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DUMPING SANSKARAS

Sheela Kalchuri Fenster

 
Once I asked Baba, "When someone bows to you, they place all their sanskaras at your feet. Similarly, when people go to the samadhi of a Perfect Master and bow down, they place their sanskaras there. What's the difference if they go to the samadhi of those who are not advanced? There too they put their sanskaras. They could go to anyone — still they are dumping their sanskaras on them."

Baba said, "That's true. If your faith is there, it doesn't matter even if the person being worshipped is not real. But the day your faith is not there, all the sanskaras come back to you, and you are not benefited. At the samadhi of a Perfect Master, whether or not you believe in him, when you bow down your sanskaras are left there. They never come back to you."

 

GROWING UP WITH GOD, p. 183
2009 © Sheela Fenster with David Fenster

               

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