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Silence Speaks
vanish, and its condition will be that which is due to the conscious diverting of the Consciousness towards the soul, which it had from Will and Life.
The Creation came into being. Immediately after the advent of Consciousness we became just like a weak patient who is given the tonic, as a result of which he starts more indulgence, and due to that indulgence again begins to suffer on the death-bed. There was nothing wrong in the tonic given, but the fault lay in its wrong and improper use, and the pain took such shape that the necessity of medicine began to be felt acutely. I say again that if there were no disease none would have remembered the health which was in the beginning. Only the patient can value health with regard. By getting liberation from this alone the symptoms of health are created.
You will ask how the things which are called troubles, or the reverse of the Original, get power. The answer is that the power of Consciousness or chaitanya shakti makes them powerful in proportion to our paying attention to them, and gradually so much force is created that that thing appears to
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