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LEARNING IN SPIRITUALITY
that he has decided that these are necessary or urgent. Obviously, such a demand is as ridiculous as a student in the class room learning Mathematics, demanding he should be first taught about Binomial Theorem because he thinks that to be the most important.
The real fact is, we can learn only what we can absorb. If we are to impose or interpose conditions gained from speculation, imagination, emotion or intellect, we are yet to learn, how to learn. This is made possible by being totally open to the Trainer, and being unprejudiced as to what one needs to learn.
The aspirant, not knowing what he really is, not knowing where he came from and where he can go, is hardly fit to say that he should get his instructions in a particular form or method. Rev Babuji often used to say that most of us love our experience and not Him and that we turn to Him to feel such emotion. In spirituality, we WAIT but do not AWAIT.
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