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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
necessary to know that satisfaction of desires will not give us peace. Sadly, this is precisely the strategy people have been taught to achieve peace. At best, the peace (satisfaction of desire) is temporary and there is always the next desire to be fulfilled. And this is the only doorway to peace that is taught generally.
The seeking of desirable circumstances keeps one focused on the future, so in the mind tomorrow holds the promise of peace and, as a consequence, today's freedom and peace is unnecessarily sacrificed on the alter of tomorrow. This happens when one tries to die to the present and live in the future, a ridiculous proposition. Sadhana is not for tomorrow it is for today. We should know that tomorrow exists only in the mind. It is therefore not meant that we abandon all plans and live only for the moment. My dear wife always found fault with my plans that did not materialize. It took me considerable time to explain that plans are like planting a seed, but one cannot guarantee the outcome. We do not plan for the outcome of events
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