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Reality at Dawn - Religion
They do not want to get rid of the ideas they have already imbibed. Further they apply their power or thought and make them stronger and more solid. Everything casts a reflection in a form similar to its own. If the thing is subtle its reflection will also be subtle in character and if it is gross the reflection will likewise be gross. If we concentrate on a solid thing we are sure to become ourselves inwardly solid. Great havoc has been wrought by teachers, who have presented to the ignorant masses everything they had learnt from the holy books in hard and solid form. It destroys the reflexive power of mind. If one develops such a horrible state he is gone forever. He loses his approach to a broader vision and the capacity for further progress becomes extinct. Such person may be compared to frogs in the well, with a little field of activity, which they consider all and enough. They remain whirling round in a closed sphere, hemmed in on all sides. They are hammering on the same thing all their life. Stories and illustrations of gods are all and enough for them. When the practice continues for long the cells of the brain are affected and they become saturated with the thoughts, which grow stronger day by day. Finally the whole nervous system is affected. The external opacity gradually creeps inwards and completes the work. They are now completely impervious, both within and without, to the passage for the Divine Light. Their approach to inner self is completely barred. I shall prefer to call them living stones. The hardened crust, which they thus developed, keeps them
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