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have them. During the meditation itself if we are going to have these thoughts repeatedly coming again and again the same thoughts, that means it is haunting us. There are two types of thoughts as I have already told. Some of which go on repeating, it does not leave our mind, some of which are drifting. To start with, the noise now that we have observed there, then just now we have heard some auto, then somebody is talking, this boy is talking. This type of thoughts they are floating, we do not have to worry. It is not disturbing when I talk to you. Suppose, on the other hand, if there is some disturbance which will not permit me to talk to you, then that is something about to be attentive. So, we have to differentiate between the thoughts that come to us. We should not bother too much about the thoughts that go on floating but if they are repeating, it is something that we have got to worry about. Then we have to observe the nature of that thought. And accordingly we have to use these methods which are given there and the meditation at points ‘A’ and ‘B’ effectively and this problem can be solved. If it does not, then we have got the Three Point Japa or Four Point Japa, which can be taken up on the advice of the trainer. So far as I see, there may not be any necessity to prescribe this meditation normally in case of a
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