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whether it be in our finances, our relationships, our sense of time, our confidence, our health and our spirituality too. This problem was clearly stated by Rev.Babuji Maharaj when he said the present day problem is „greed.‟
Deep within we have a feeling of „insufficiency‟ and that is the root cause for this feeling of „not enough‟. We feel incomplete because we have somehow lost the intimate inter personal relationship that we have with the Divine. The natural complementary part of our being is the Divine but not knowing this we start feeling the need to use the world of material things like money, possessions, friends, spouse, career etc. But it is not realised that any amount of money and riches will cure what may be called the disease of „poverty consciousness.‟
I wonder whether I am bordering on abrasiveness when I say that we are in a condition of „psychic sleep.‟ A psychic sleep where we have allowed ourselves to be seduced by the attractions of the
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