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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
name. Later we understand that our form is our self which is another early relationship.
As we have noted earlier it is the Ego that is the main barrier in the path. Ego is deeply ritualistic and repetitive and a profoundly compulsive need to always see the personal self as being separate from others, separate from world and separate from the Universe. Ego is love denying obsession with heavy load on separation, narcissism and concern for self.
When we say that we want to be free we are only expressing the need to be free from a set of relationships that cause in us never ending fears and desires of the separate ego. We have earlier chosen to spend hours, days, years and lives in the process of identifying ourselves with desires and fears- all in the name of ultimately transcending them. We cherish to dwell in the network of desire, all the time assuring ourselves that there is time for seeking to be free. That is something that never happens, and those who would rather have spirituality as a post-retirement avocation are bound to end up with a cycle of rebirths. Spiritual life has to
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