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eyes of our Master into which he tried to peep into said it informs us that Infinity is close by.
It is identity or separateness that is the cause for our incapacity to express the divine fully even when the divinity is offering itself for our mergence. It is our identification with our thoughts and feelings that obscures freedom. It is the “sense of self” that motivates our creation and sustains our illusions and consequently invokes the suffering of disillusionment as a result. Identity is a sense of self that exists only in the mind through effort and this identity (also called ego) enslaves, through thought itself, the individual who abdicates his/her freedom for ego fulfilment. The thinker and what the thoughts are about, transforms events and experiences into either a confirmation or a contradiction of this ego thus making it seem more real regardless of the event. Whatever image is painted through thought on the canvas of mind “about the self” is called the self. Thus it may be observed it is a vicious circle.
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