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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
and gets disturbed. So this inner feeling is what we should learn.
A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions of silence and quiet. As we progress in the path we breathe on our own spiritual condition and live in it. This is an attitude that comes by practice only.
We should learn to distinguish between desire and aspiration. Desire usually relates to lower levels of consciousness of body and vital parts. Aspiration relates to higher values for which, we want to live. Both are based on manomaya kosa the realm of mind only. The manomaya kosa thinks. It has got a two- dimensional approach. It thinks low and it can also think high. That’s why Revered Babuji puts the heart higher and says the manomaya kosa thinks generally low. We have to think high. So our desire must become an aspiration. It is not desire to seek the ultimate. It’s an aspiration. The word must be clearly understood.
Desire often leads to excess of effort resulting in much labour and limited fruit with strain and exhaustion. In case of failure to achieve, it results in despondence, disbelief and revolt. In some cases
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