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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
when we are succeeding and others are not, we will feel superior. Of course, we are prudent enough not to demonstrate this openly, but it will be a secret pleasure hidden behind false humility. Those who are not succeeding will be looking at us with wide- eyes admiration and envy, and this inflames our ego further. So far as we are succeeding we will believe this whole heartedly. There will be no doubt in our mind that we have got this spiritual cloak well stitched. But when the wheel of fortune has its movement to the other side, we will be totally disillusioned as we not only have lost our health/ wealth, but we find ourselves stripped of our spiritual identity that we humoured ourselves with.
If an individual is seeking spirituality proper, it doesn‘t matter which path he takes, as the Divine being Just always shows him the true path when the time is ripe. When we have sound health and good wealth or we do not, it is due to our past actions only or Karma only either in this life or earlier. To find reasons outside ourselves for such money/ health and attributing it to a particular spiritual path would be self defeating logic. Under such logic, if we follow
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