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barrier with anybody else. No surely you are not going to get out of this barrier easily. So long as the body is there we are bound to have this problem. So long as we are enmeshed in this body, it is going to be a problem. But when is this problem solved? Only when the 'sheaths' are torn. Just as you take a seed, if it is sowed as it is with all the sheaths then it grows into a tree, You remove the sheath, then you can never make it sprout. Similarly human existence cannot continue once these sheaths are removed. However that is not our purpose. God has created us to live here. We cannot take out the sheath and say we have nothing to do and say ‘I am off’. That is the solution of a Sanyasi. He wants to takeout the sheaths and be off. We want to be fruitful to this earth. Divinity wants us to express ourselves as useful personalities. So these wishes which are binding us today shall grow out of ourselves and our wish shall be something connected with all. The ‘shanti’ that we have got should be a 'Viswa Shanti'. That is what we should aspire for. So long as this is our individual wish and we try to hold on we will never reach the stage of seeing God in all. But if we start changing our attitudes and not only pray for ourselves but pray for all the people in this world, we
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