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Pitfalls in the path
our Master in which we insist on goal clarity and do not compromise with lesser benefits. We should realise the path chosen by us fixes before us the ultimate as the goal of life. Conditions like peace, bliss and balance are not our goal. We may and we do get relaxed many a time and it is wiser to be advised on that.
3. There is a tendency among the aspirants that we are to seek bliss. The words and conditions associated with the Sat Chit Ananda unfortunately confuse many. The Sanskrit word for "meditation" is bhavana, which means "mental cultivation" or "mental development." The word "mental" in this case does not refer just to thinking and reason, but to a wide spectrum of mind-body functions – sensation, awareness, emotions, attitudes, predilections. One way to think of bhavana is that it's a kind of training. You are training mind to understand and experience in a different way. Contrary to popular notions of Raja Yoga meditation, however, the point is not to go to some happy place away from our problems while we meditate. A regular meditation practice may enable us to confront the root causes of our problems and let them go, but this is the opposite of escapism. However Master always advised, us not to push ourself to conjure up visions or the unaccountable sensory experiences, which most of the time are just our neurons misfiring. As they don't mean anything in spirituality we are advised to not attach to them. There are however occasions when we do have
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