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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
get rid off their habits of thought. This is essentially due to the impurities of the mind of the mental and aspirational planes. More than anything else the problem is due to the habit of thinking that our true spiritual nature is Mind, a Cartesian fixation, which has permitted many to get dictated by the super boss Mind. We should remember as often as is necessary that our mind is our servant or slave and should serve us to solve our problems by analysis and synthesis. We are not obliged to obey what it says and in fact we do not where we give an over ruling based on a gut feeling or humane appreciation of the problem.
One more important factor that I would like to share is that many aspirants in PAM think they are not progressing because they are not only aware of thoughts which are based on habit as we discussed above but also that perception continues to be present while all scriptures say that they are gone. Even in Silence as we have observed above there are thoughts, not only that perceptions also are there. Behind the sense organs we have what are
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