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ATTITUDES FOR PROPER SADHANA
The language of feeling starts. So far, language of senses was there. All the language that we talk about is sensory. Non-sensory language is feeling. Feeling heat is a wrong word. It is a sensation. We don’t feel the heat. We use the word “we feel the warmth of friendship”. It is the friendship that we are trying to refer to, not the warmth. Friendship is an idea that we have got in our head, which doesn’t have sensory equivalent. It contains so many things. All senses provide the input and beyond that also we have non sensory inputs to understand the feelings. We have inputs from our hoary tradition also.
Why I am talking of this friendship concept is, that is the word we have used for God, Sakha. Sakha is the word that has been used for God. He is a constant friend of ours. He doesn’t go away from us. He maintains his friendship with us. It is a bondage, which is very difficult to express in sensory words, that is why our words will fail. We will say that we have a friend. What is friendship? Nobody knows what it is. The word is very common for all of us. Fraternity for example that we are talking about is a construct that is not sensory. They are feelings and when we try to bring it down to that level of knowledge it becomes sensory
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