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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
aspiration, are education, intelligence, good luck, and we are partly right. These characteristics can surely help someone in their climb to the top. But what about the rest of us average folk, those not blessed with the above characteristics? There is one single characteristic that can give us scope to achieve our goal and that is the ability to set realistic yet challenging mid term goals before we reach our perfection. Aspiration is a vital key to success.
Desire invariably involves expectation and if it is not fulfilled there is despair, frustration and anger. In Aspiration there is persistent effort and the effort itself becomes a source of joy and happiness. Sadhana is its own reward. In genuine aspiration there is no frustration. By killing the desires, aspiration builds true happiness.
Master, in his book ‘Ten Commandments’ asks us in the third commandment to “Fix your goal which should be complete oneness with God. Rest not till the ideal is achieved.” He is clear in directing us to fix our goal as oneness with God. We are thus
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