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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
attanchments to things are essentially becauses of this. This skin and its colour, the fat that is deposited over our bones are the things that attract us first towards another person. Similarly the forms that we give for God attract us. But then if we burn the fat it forms soot also, but if we go to the bones which is inside us, we get to the Real Nature of the Soul. Phosphorous is a self effacing thing and no traces of that element can be found later. Possibly this why phosphorous has been referred to here as spiritual. It makes sense to me, otherwise what is there to talk of bones. The talk of attachment, love etc that we have got for some person unfortunately fades out the moment the fat deposits are depleted and nobody likes to love bones. But if we don’t know how to learn and love bones you will also not learn spirituality. This is one of the reasons of penances and austerities that was practiced earlier by our people. Babuji Maharaj never asked us to do that. But then He is asking us to understand that we going to get spirituality only through the bones, it is the bones that matter because He says phosphorous is abundant. Where phosphorous is abundant to illumine the particles however soiled they may be. But if we know the nature of these bones and understand that what it
is, then however soiled the fattly substance around us 420