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YIELDING
be an integral part of our general life and it should go hand in glove with the life of an ordinary house holder rich in emotions, feelings, desires and aspirations. Every thing in the right place is the way to be spiritual.
Afflictions, trials and tribulations in life have to be met squarely with a lion hearted determination and the tenacity of a crocodile in waters. Master in his 5th,6th and 7th Commandments gives us the attitudes that we should develop in the spiritual life. It is true these conditions are the results of sadhana, yet there is need to prepare the mindset that is capable of living according to these spiritual stages.
Yielding means we accept the superiority of the person or power over us. We have come to spirituality for freedom and the demand to yield appears on the face of it contradictory. But when we find the loci of our self is somewhere we are not able to identify, as it happens in the states of absorbency, it becomes evident that we are not the particular ego/self that we supposed we were and acceptance of the superior power becomes possible.
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