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YIELDING
duality. We really own nothing and that is what the great Isa Upanishad states in its mantra that, all belongs to Him and therefore relinquishing all we should enjoy and be happy. This approach to the problems enables us to acquire one of the noblest spiritual qualities called as fortitude. Fortitude and forbearance cannot be cultivated that easily without the awareness of the true nature of ourselves as essentially Void/Nothingness. These attitudes are the basics of the quality of Yielding to the Divine Will. Thus we find in our system these qualities are developed by the constant influx of Pranahuti.
In his Sixth Commandment our Master exhorts us, to know all people as our brethren and treat them as such. The fraternity that we are asked to develop is again based on the requirement of not claiming everything that we see and feel as our own but share it with others in a spirit of fraternity. All existence has the same origin and their true nature is Nothingness. Ultimately all are the same and none of the separate existences have any claim of owning anything. This spiritual understanding once gained
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