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There are lines in Savitri Our least stumbling are foreseen above 📖🌱 […]

The Supreme diplomat makes our fall a means for a greater rise.

Our errors are his steps upon the way 

While these lines will help to dissolve the guilt we drown ourselves into., but then what abt taking responsibility for the mistakes we make..

Won’t these line become a justification for making mistakes…

Besides, why would that person then pay for those errors as per karmic laws… as the mistakes were foreseen above and were His steps upon the way.

What we call as errors are part of the play. Just as a child who knows not to walk and stumbles while the parents look on indulgently, sometimes smiling, sometimes cheering, sometimes scolding, sometimes holding but never condemning so that we learn to walk and run, so too the Divine knows that these stumbles are part of the growing up process and sees us grow through it, holding where necessary, scolding where needed but changing through it, either through the consequences or through an inner awakening. Even if we wish to be lazy and not chose because we have read that God holds us, Nature will still compel us to choose and learn and grow. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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