Page 317 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

flexibility, adaptability, creativity that your real life is endowed with. We start expressing adequately and are understood because our real nature is free. In such a true state of consciousness we are always in a position to discriminate and decide in all matters because fear and anxiety are gone. In making a proper and mature choice we start to distinguish between that which is real, valid, and constructive and that which is not. All this happens because we accepted the few moments of silence during meditation and also persevered in the path as per the method of the Master and thereby avoided getting into difficulties in the path.
When we understand the love and compassion of the divine in granting us the few intimate moments during meditation we will be able to understand through imperience that the quietude, calmness, peace, silence and stillness are not to be taken to be identical states of mind. We understand that all these are states of a deepening order of consciousness, silence being the deepest. In a state of deep silence, there are no thoughts, feelings or mental movements that can disturb or alter the peace of the inner-being. We also
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