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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
that our real condition/status is that of devotee. This call to live true to our condition of a devotee is possible only when we understand the lesson of ‘nothingness’ that is given to us every time we take Pranahuti. This is what we mean when we say ‘imperience beckons.’ When we try to live according to our status of a devotee we are faced with many problems that cause misery to us. To protest against such a serving for having practiced a value in life is immature. True it is that the pain caused by the misery mentally and physically is hard to put up with. It is only when we know and feel that inseparable oneness with the ‘nothingness’ that is experienced in meditation, we feel enabled to look at things in an objective manner and accept every hurdle, pain and misery in the path as a necessity to grow in spiritual life. In fact these miseries are nothing but loss or separation that is felt by us of things, persons and ideas that we thought are our own exclusively. This identification or owning of things and persons is the main illusion that we are able to appreciate when we are merged in an ocean of bliss during meditation where oneness alone is experienced without any
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