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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
for it changes its form and then alone it can be taken as fully matured. Everything here seems to be very light. Thought loses its weight and the abhyasi begins enjoying peace and settledness. This blissful state of peace is in due course transformed into Reality. But dear brethren, a real seeker is he who all along with his state of tranquillity, feels a restless craving for the realisation of the Ultimate. It is in fact the very thing which removes thorns and thistles from our path and facilitates our march onwards.
We have persistently been hearing that the world is like a dream and that we should take it to be so. But to my mind those bookworms themselves have never been able to visualise it in that light, though the preachers have ever been emphasising it vigorously. As a matter of fact it is an inner condition which blooms automatically by the effect of the right practice when one reaches up to it. If we force our mind to accept it as such it will be a mere hoax, far far away from Reality. It is in fact the condition of a particular place which a pilgrim on the path comes across during the course of his journey. If we harden this feeling through artificial means and thereby draw the conclusion that we have acquired knowledge and that we have actually realised the world as a dream, it will be highly deceptive. The characteristic feature of the place is peace and our merging in it means that we have absorbed it fully. When we emerge out of it to attain identicality we gain full experience of the condition. In this state we feel a sort of freshness like that which a sun stricken person would feel
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