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the Master the results will be splendid. Then the following of the commandments become easy. For truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. When we practice and live such a type of love we will be inwardly free of all hopes and desires, but outwardly do what needs to be done. Without hopes in our heart we live as if we were full of hopes. Giving up the idea of being a doer becomes easy when we love others and all our acts then take the status of being service and sacrifice. We can then live with our heart now cool and now warm just as everyone else. Having thus been embraced by the divine this is how we live in the world, completely free from the least trace of ego. Further having emptied ourself we find experiencing emptiness is also experiencing peace, and the potential of peace is it‟s unfolding as harmony among all people, animals, plants, and things. The conditions of uparati, upeksha, Atma nivedana and sthirachittamu then get matured and transformed into the condition of surrender and the
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