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Introduction to the Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
of the Ultimate Reality which has been chosen as such there is one necessity, the necessity to feel the omnipresence of the One Divine in all one’s living and moving and being.
Shri Ram Chandraji has beautifully explained the commandments not as vidhis (inviolable obligations) but as basic observances which help spiritual progress. Any deviation only causes delay and one’s co-operation with his Master or Guru is obviously necessary. This is all that is needed on the individual’s part. It is his effort (yatna) which will help the speedy progress of his evolution. Though the Guru’s transmission would do all these too, the individual’s conscious collaboration is valuable on the path. In this sense these are commandments.
These commandments do not prescribe or proscribe any duties or acts, which are against the decent behavior of persons who wish to live a good life among men and society. The virtues, which are requisite, are universal virtues. There is no prescription that men should on becoming spiritual, be beyond good and evil moralities. On the contrary it is clear that no one can be said to live a normal life that creates tensions within himself and in his environment. The goal, if attaining the highest good, which is liberation or freedom from all misery and perfection of one’s spiritual nature determines the inner voice which is indeed the divine awakened within by the spiritual
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