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THE DEMOLITION OF THE PAST IS A CHAPTER IN THE NATURAL PATH
alleged jnanis and masters of the day, whether the much talked about Vairagya is after all not a negative attachment. Every serious sadhaka therefore replaces it with the love for the Master whereby positive feelings develop which is helpful for him and the society.
The problem of ̳I‘ or ego in the spiritual field is well recognised and every one of the great seers has prescribed some method or the other to eliminate the same. It is generally termed as abolition of the ego or the abolition of the Past. Ego is nothing but a bundle of samskaras and none of them have any reality content. This leads to the problem of how much we negate our ego and what are its means. While experience of states of void is nothing new for the practicants of PAM, we know such states do not last long and that is why we often seek recurring experiences of the same. In this context it is necessary to note the distinction between a State and Station.
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