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Bodhayanti Parasparam – Vol 10
trainer once or twice an year and discuss with him during the annual congregations. You will see for yourself how having someone who knows you and who can give you one-on-one advice when you need it can make a huge difference. Practice with humility however.
11.The most important aspect of meditation practice is to loosening our bonds through Viveka and Vairagya. Attachment of any type is attachment only and is a bond. The only attachment we can have is the attachment to our goal. Our determination to implement or attachment to the Ten Commandments of our Master when diligently followed makes us realise that we are not insulated beings. We realise slowly but surely that we are not something enclosed within this skin and everything beyond the skin is the other. For this reason, it is stressed by the Masters that if we practice only to benefit ourselves it will probably not work. Although we all may begin practice seeking remedy for ourselves, if our practice is sincere we will become more sensitive to the suffering of others and wish to benefit them, also. Otherwise, our meditation practice can amount to brood in the cage of our egos, reinforcing the self-and-other dichotomy instead of dissolving it.
12.Thus it is for this reason the experience of meditating in satsangh is hugely beneficial. One of the potential perils of a solo practice is that practice can become an intensely personal thing that is ours and ours alone and which may
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