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PRANAHUTI AIDED MEDITATION AND ANTYAKALASMARANA
others with Karuna and Maitri and practice Brahmacarya. They seem to have all the controls of the body and mind. How great it would be, that it is so with all of us?
Thus by the practice of PAM we have steadily moved towards control over the wishes. The wishes are no more our bondages. Think it over again and again. We find that we are at the helm of affairs or more appropriately we have the reins of the horses which are under control and their wild behaviour has been curtailed. It is futile to think in terms of annihilating them as the Sanyasins would ask us to do. No sane man cuts off his nose because he has cold. It is difficult to control them. True. But with the Divine which is the Master of all and everything in the Universe assisting us nothing is an impossibility. Awareness of the Master and our Grateful attitude towards him being maintained in all the states of Consciousness – waking, dreaming and sleeping – ensures our victory over these wild horses. For a person who is not exposed to such an influx the
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