Page 422 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 1

BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
Attachment to anything other than the Divine is the intricacy we build on our soul. The cocoon of the silkworm is being built, have been built by us regularly. This example Babuji Maharaj mentions elsewhere and says we have formed or put ourselves into a cocoon. It becomes difficult to come out of it without breaking the cocoon.
We always like to seek our way or to solve our problems of life through the difficult methods so commonly prevalent in our country. The methods that we have adopted are materialistic not spiritual. This is explained in the coming sentences. That is why disappointment and frustration result. Because people who have been trying to get at the Ultimate through the rituals, through tantras, mantras and yantras, through having holy baths in holy rivers, trying to do pilgrimages are all resorting to the external means; totally materialistic and through that you are not going to reach. It is the assertion of the Master here that we are not going to reach and frustration results. I can recall the experience of a peson who came to me long time back, who was with us for quite some time and for reasons best known to him and the intricacies
he developmed he is not with us. He lost his qife and 418