To pray to have a spiritual Master before entering into the spiritual life is to do the first thing first.
To pray for God-realisation before entering into the spiritual life is to try to do the last thing first.And what does it mean?
It means that you are one with ignorance-sea, you are in ignorance-boat and you are for ignorance-goal. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Arise! Awake! Thoughts of a yogi, Frederick Fell, Inc, New York, 1972
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