Page 219 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 5

THEY TAKE MILK BUT ALSO EAT PICKLES AFTER THAT
truth of their own Being as a matter of natural progression.
Unfortunately it is not so. These spiritual states and statuses themselves produce a peculiar grossness which forms a center of identity. A person who really takes the milk ( as Master puts it) and is saturated with it may because of past habits or vasanas feel that he/she is awakened but when the experience fades into a memory, then the identity is in turmoil. This, the aspirant feels, creates the need to go deeper into the technique or to have more faith. This is presumed to be the solution to the problem that caused the experience to fade. The aspirant then starts thinking constantly about how he could maintain the imperience. Instead of total surrender to the Divine the aspirant resorts to taking steps (compared to taking pickles by the Master) to remedy the situation instead of growing into the states of consciousness offered by the Divine. With respects to all such victims who get attached to the forms of the Infinite I may say it is their inability to live upto the teaching of the Master constantly, and
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