Page 309 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3

WHEN OUT OF REALITY WE BECOME SATAN
that step in the ladder one should have got accustomed to find him naked with himself.
One of the most destructive consequences of Ego is its identification with ideas and its basic inability or unwillingness to look directly at any reality which is unflattering to that contrived sense of self. Life is always exposing what is unreal but avoidance keeps the Real just out of reach. This is the problem of Ego and in the modern persons we find this as a particularly bad case of affliction-of-avoidance. There is desire to maintain a confidence in that which is not only dubious but also unreal. It is no wonder that many modern schools of enlightenment who are selling some of the innumerable forms of this confidence and enlightenment are having many and varied categories of clients. Satan is very busy and popular now a days selling superstitions of varied tastes and statures.
There are too many masters and messiahs of the modern world marketing freedom, liberation and enlightenment. Name the type of freedom we want we have a dozen persons ready to serve us. From
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