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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
essentially an acknowledgement of our inability, a dependence upon external events. Wish may come true or not. Understood this way the meaning of the words ‘I am yet but a slave of my wishes’ in our Prayer gains enormous significance. We are struggling with the things that are out of our hands and yet are clinging to it.
On the other hand ‘Willing’ is the use of our own power. The person who has developed his ‘Will’ does not grumble about the things that are not in his hands and even accepts failures brought out by no apparent action of his own, but is content to make the fullest possible use of the opportunities that does prevail. The person does not dwell again and again on the same thought or argument. If something does require to be thought over, it is brought forward and all the facts bearing upon it are considered, so that a clear and candid decision is made and then the matter is dismissed from the mind.
Our Master, Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur stressed the fact that our mind is filled with countless thoughts, and therefore making each
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