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PRAYER AND MEDITATION
calmness and peace. Among the other instructions for aspirants the most important and noble idea is evening cleaning. When the Divine descends, when the Divine agrees to enter your heart, naturally the darkness, dress and dirt go away. When there is light there shall be no darkness. So, when vibrations start flowing into you, automatically, the dirt, namely the samskaras standing in your way, get washed away. Various questions are asked by aspirants regarding this simple practice. Whether one should clean before meditation, or pray before cleaning, or clean each point and so on. My revered father used to reply all such questions by saying, “Look, this is the wall and that is my ante room and I have got my broomstick. Whatever is dirty I sweep it". Should you clean yourself or not, you should know more. If you know you are pure there is no need to clean again. But do you at all feel in your life that you are pure? By normal standards I am a fairly decent, well behaved person. But still I am conscious of what Freud called Id, the unconscious desires; the unconscious cries; the pleasure principle, I don’t allow it to play any active part in my day-to-day life. But that does not mean I am above it or conquered it. So, the necessity for cleaning is a continuous affair for all of us. I may share personal piece of information and
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