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PROPER MOTIVATION
requests for intervention. Surrender to the Will of the Master thus becomes absolute necessity in the more evolved persons.
Another notion about enlightenment is that it is state of transcendental infallibility and unflappability. Master has asserted that Kama and Krodha will continue but many aspirants take it to mean either as a permission to indulge in them or totally neglect the knowledge and prefer to hold on to the old notions of the same.
The notion that if anything can upset a person then such a person is not fully enlightened is the most commonly entertained thought perhaps based on scriptural authority and social convention. It is an acknowledged fact that being unemotional can be the result of drugs, depression, dementia or simply "who cares" attitude of persons. It is a fact that there are many enlightened persons in all traditions who loved their cause so dearly and fought for the same very aggressively and that they could also laugh, cry, play or over eat and also get angry if need be.
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