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and unknown ceremonies. Show me any and I must have taken to it. Please do not insist, nothing will come out of it."
I replied: "I am confident that you have not experimented a ceremony that I intend to show to you. If you will experiment upon it, you will most certainly reap the reward of your experiment. But do promise me to experiment upon it for six months more. Only then can I reveal it to you."
In view of my confidence that good man thought to himself "I have chanted the Navakara for 36 years, let me do the same for six months more." He said: "OK, I shall willingly propitiate upon the Navakara for six months under your guidance."
"Actually the ceremony is very simple. But I have my own doubts that after knowing of it, you might not be willing to continue it further."
He replied: "I give an undertaking, an assurance that for six months, I shall abide by what you tell me."
I explained the ceremony to him in these words :
"Well, sir! Vidhi is of two types: external and internal. A specific place to sit, Asana, Mala, Mudra, incense etc. come in the first. The internal Vidhi means the inner self full of the deep and genuine feelings of friendship, love, compassion, objectivity towards all the Jivas-this comes under the internal Vidhi (Abhyantar Vidhi). You have experimented with several external Vidhis all these years. It is necessary that these should be got identified with this Abhyantar Vidhi. Your Sadhana has failed because there is a slip somewhere. When we pay our respects and devotion towards the Pancha
