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call Imperience) out of habit of mind are not the silence any more than an idea of candy is candy.
One of the main points that we stress most during meditation is that we sit and do literally nothing and allow the Master to handle us as he deems fit. This is a great practice of keeping quiet and be silent without putting any effort. But habits of thinking persist and compel us to think that we should be doing something- if not for our sake but as an effort to help the Master in his work with us. This renunciation of effort on our part is the greatest renunciation which naturally leads to the renunciation of the results of effort and the renunciation of knowledge about both the effort and its result.
We have learnt in PAM, that our Self consists of four parts- buddhi (intellect), manas (feelings), ahankar (ego) and Chit (Consciousness). We find during meditation that the manas is agitated because of habits of association with persons or things in the vital and physical planes, the buddhi is agitated with the habits of thought relating to various types of enquiry into the nature of things of the various planes of our existence and ahankar is
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