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research in the field and never gave any dogma or untested proposition for us to follow.
The Ten Commandments given to us by the Master we may see is a good mix of the virtue and social ethics. The moral standards fixed in this Path we can see are not merely aimed at developing character but have a greater purpose in promoting the speed of moving into Trans- personal realms of consciousness through moral courage and confidence. How the following of the Commandments of the Master is related to our progress in the Path has been discussed in the books “Efficacy and Practice of Raja yoga” and “Imperience Beckons”. Ours is an enlightened ethics (A system of ethics that evaluates actions in terms of their capacity to produce happiness) and does not focus narrowly on character, particularly on character understood as something mental or internal, and separable from its various external manifestations. Our ethics tries to judge the people we are and the lives we lead. It gives us a comprehensive account
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