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invariably accompanied by violence and terror and replace the same with confidence in the Divine and consequential Spiritual values. The important question is how do we live this spirituality of harmony in a situation of violence and terror that is present in every part of the globe? The basic attitude we need to have may be this: where discord breaks the bonds of relatedness, harmony reinforces them. The principle of harmony and the courage to stand up to all the forces that cause fragmentation and alienation has to be pressed into service.
Integration and harmony demands fusion of various parts of the whole by conscious decision. That is what is called in spiritual life as yielding which when fully developed attains the state of self surrender. Surrender to the Master means the surrender to the Centre which is the integrative and harmonising principle. The parts understand their role even as in a drama and the Leela of God gets appreciated. The beauty of such a dance may be seen as a dance of beloved ones or the dance of creation or even destruction. In all these
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