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XIV

SERVICE*[1] with Sermon on

SADHANA : ITS MEANING AND METHOD.

(1922)


UDBODHANA.

Hymn—Adimadhyanthamulondanivadu

(Telugu).

Om! Parabrahmane Namah! We salute and bow down before the Supreme One. We prostrate ourselves with the reverence, with the adoring obeisance, of the spirit before Him, the Supreme Spirit. Not the servile submission from fear, not the prudent and calculating praise for profit, not even the grateful acknowledgment and avowal of indebtedness and obligation; but truly and purely it is the devout prostration of reverence and love before the All-holy and the All-clement. This is our highest duty, oar rarest privilege, our keen-

  1. *At the 10th anniversary celebration of the Cocanada Brahma Sadhanasramam (25-12-22).