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ATTITUDES FOR PROPER SADHANA
We should learn to remain quiet within, firm in the will to go through the process. These are the two attitudes basically, required. We should be quiet with a firm will to go through the process, refusing to be disturbed or discouraged by difficulties and fluctuations. There are difficulties in sadhana and there are discouragements also. This is one of the first things to be learned in the practice of Raja yoga. If we do otherwise it will be promoting the instability of consciousness. Ekagravritti itself is affected otherwise. A simple and sincere call and aspiration from the heart is the most important thing and is essential than capacities. Sincerity is what is required.
Also it is necessary to turn our attention inwards rather than outward to understand the inner call from the inner presence of the Lord. Our ways of thinking are externalised. Any thing that we talk is externalised. The misfortune or fortune of it is that we go by the Pratyaksha jnana. Pratyaksha jnana depends upon the senses, five senses. Whatever knowledge we get, we get it through our eyes, our ears, our nose, our tongue, and our touch. We are not aware of any thought or
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