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ATTITUDES FOR PROPER SADHANA
extraordinary effort is put in to pull down the higher levels of consciousness leading to violent reactions and very often wrong forces find their way into consciousness and the sadhaka confuses that to be leading truly to the Divine. A sort of shackles into which, the practicant gets into. I have seen this particularly in 2 or 3 abhyasis who are practicing meditation, who wanted to bring it by force. They got into states of almost madness, mere madness. Aberrations happen. We have to yield to the Divine. Coercing some thing will not work.
When the vital being is under play, impatience and restless disquietude creeps into aspiration also. Even in aspiration, when the vital beings are there, the impatience creeps in and the restlessness starts. These two characteristics are Rajasik in nature. So in order to avoid these characteristics we generally suggest not to take Rajasik food, not to move in Rajasik Company. Otherwise we will become restless. If your mind has been already put into enormous Rajasik stuff like watching a movie, your mind will not be calm. It will not undo it. Ultimately there is nothing right or wrong. What is appropriate? What is inappropriate is what we should know. The viveka of a
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