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PARALLELISM AND INVERTENDO
immediately gets filled by the Divine flow because that resonates immediately. Because Divinity is nothing and when certain vacuum is created there is certain amount of nothingness in us and these two things get resonating and that’s what makes us get a state of calmness. Calmness of mind comes in meditation when we think about Divine thoughts. Even in the crudest form of it when we think about a music, which is connected with the Divine, our mind is more calm. Otherwise it is not. It is stirred, excited. When it comes to the concept of God it becomes something that is calm, settled. Peace comes in. Why peace comes in then is mainly because there is certain amount of vacuum that is created in your mind and because we feel submissive to the Divine. There is a certain amount of putting oneself down. We don’t say that we are equal to him. What I am just trying to tell you is this is Sri Ramachandra’s invention. The significant point he makes is, because of this submissiveness the vacuum is created and the since the vacuum and the ultimate are of the same nature there is a certain amount of resonance between it and the resonance gives us calmness. We feel the influx of the Divine. So the influx of the Divine is nothing mystifying. It is nothing unnatural. It is nothing unscientific provided we accept
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