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If one is not free of dirt like laziness, fear, desires (for sufficient money for a comfortable life, tasty foods, sex, affection & recognition of other persons, etc.), ego, irritations, anger, etc.; it is said that one shouldn’t invoke/pray to the Divine for help, as Divine’s force may have bad effect in the presence of the dirts. Is it really true? 🙄[…]

But who has said that? It is completely wrong and very far from truth. One needs the Divine purity when one is dirty and the

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Recently, I was studying Sri Aurobindo’s The Essays on the Gita alongside the actual Gita text. It suddenly flashed in my head that whatever Sri Aurobindo is saying there in these Essays, though it may seem to contradict the traditional commentaries on the Gita, but when his arguments are compared with the actual text, they seem to be exactly the thing Krishna wants to say.😳[…]

It is quite a correct and pertinent observation. The Gita has undergone much distortion (in its meaning) in the hands of the traditionalists. That is

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