Page 205 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3
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REALISATION
many lives, is not really so. God is simple and can be achieved by equally simple means. The hard and fast rules of life and tiring practices prescribed by teachers for realization have really made matters so complicated that people are led to believe it to be beyond their power and capacity. I may assure you very sincerely that realization is not at all a difficult thing, only if you earnestly divert your attention to it. Iron will to achieve the goal together with proper means and guidance is the only thing required for the complete success”. (Dawn of Reality Page 69, Para 2)
Master makes it a point to clarify that all those who profess to teach us about the ways and means of Realisation have no practical knowledge and are essentially Guru kitabis (bookish gurus). He states that “Generally learned men, though I respect them much, express their opinion about Realisation or its condition on the basis of their learning, and not upon their empirical knowledge which is really the dependable one. For that reason I regret to say that Realisation has now
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