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VAGARIES OF THE MIND
created in bliss because the new brain has no memory of what is held in the soul. Also, the body has its own mindset from its experiences based on samskaras and it has a different agenda to what our total being is seeking to experience.
Our progress in spiritual life often gets blown to smithereens by the demands of our samskaras and the conditioning of our minds by society. The only chance we have in life is to ‘wake up’ to this knowledge and be ‘born again’ to a new life of our own designed on the lines of the Natural Path. Life as per the path is lofty enough to resemble a life in bliss. Our prayer thinking the Master to be an ocean of bliss and we are merged in it is experienced when there is strict compliance to the commandments of the Master. It is wise to wake up and respond to the call of the Master “Awake, O sleepers, it is the hour of the dawn.” while we are in the body, because then we are giving ourselves every chance of fulfilling it. Life then gains a meaning. It is not about our acquiring more and more money or our sex life or being somebody who is acceptable to others and to
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