Page 420 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

very important step in our progress. It may be noted that stepping back from our own thoughts and learning to watch them is the same as stepping up to a free mind. Being receptive to higher facets about ourself grants us the insight that the facets once feared are no longer facets that frighten us.
ii) We should stop digging up things that are over and gone. We should learn to stop chasing after our "bones of contention". Holding grudges is not going to help us move forward to happiness. Being a palaeontologist will result in a handful of useless bones for which no museum authority would pay a pie. We should give up the grudges. This is the essence of the 7th Commandment. Our concern is to look ahead, to move forward, and to build our own happiness and that of those around us.
We know we are spiritual beings. It is the common averment of all spiritual traditions that our spiritual nature was perfect in the beginning. It is only when we left the Homeland the problem of impurities and attachments developed and we became enmeshed in the cocoon of our own making. Our original
condition has been described by the masters 420