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Role of Abhyasi
QUESTIONS OF CHANGING OUTER CIRCUMSTANCES
Feeling of withdrawal of power means something akin to nothingness. I do not want to have even power but only its ultimate state. In that condition the power, when it is required, is there.
Personally I am of the opinion that if we are deprived of all things necessary for the upkeep of worldly life, and in its place the inner life which is worth having is given to us, we are in no way the losers.
On this path, I think the question of changing the outer circumstances does not fit in aptly. It is rather that the abhyasi has to adapt himself to circumstances in order to practice submission to the Divine will. The Divine will is predominant, and the circumstances are the results thereof. We have to learn to take them as Divine gifts. Of course, I agree that it is not an easy job for a common man, so the natural limitations appear to be most distressing to him. But instead of worrying over the circumstances
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