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Spiritual Awakening
5. The call of the Master when he asked us to follow the ninth commandment namely ‘mould your living so as to rouse a feeling of love and piety in others’ when sincerely followed makes us feel that we need not wait for awakening to happen to transform us. In reality when we choose any thought, feeling, belief, habit, or deed that is just a little more noble, a little higher than the one we had before, we increase our consciousness just that much. An increased consciousness moves us that much further along the path. Ultimately, the spiritual journey is the journey of shifting from a life that is quite unconscious to a life lived in full consciousness. It is all about living more fully, more purposefully, and more joyfully along the way to awakening. This is the journey of moving from darkness to light, from suffering to acceptance, from judgment to allowing, from insignificance to significance, from disease to wholeness, and from separation to unity.
6. As we work through each step on the spiritual journey, we are really making a horizontal move along an imaginary Scale from left to right within that step, followed by a vertical move up to the next step and move in that from right to left. In fact in the game of life developed by Imperience there are two steps for each level of consciousness one for moving from left to right and the other for moving from right to left. As you are aware the two steps relate to one level of consciousness depicted more candidly in the book “Towards Infinity’ of the Master.
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