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BALANCED EXISTENCE AND STAGES OF PROGRESS
is dispensable. Both of them are required. Each one of us has been blessed by the Divine, with certain endowments and it shall be used of his sake. Whatever we do shall be for the good of others which naturally includes your good. Whatever you want to do if it is only good for you it may not be likely to be good for others. The reverse proposition however is not correct. When you try to do something which is good for all, naturally your good is included in that. So the jivatma has to be somehow or the other be transcended. And we should atleast enter into the realms of the Mahatma, start thinking about the higher things. So the yielding to the Divine is the first step in that.
People have asked me what is yielding. Both the Divine as well as the beast are with us. We have been serving a bad master in the form of the beast all these days. We have squandered several lives doing that. It is time we start serving the Divine and not the beast in us. So such a person alone is one who has moved to the higher self. Atmanah Atmanah Jitah that is what they say. One has to control the lower with the higher. The lower self is one’s own, the higher self is also
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