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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM VOL 5
possible only in service- service to the divinity in humanity- shedding and spreading light all around striving to bring happiness and peace in the kingdom of God. To make this world the kingdom of God is the goal of any spiritual person and this is possible only through translucent living. We do not subscribe to the concept of enlightenment as a fixed state. Instead, life itself is an endless river of enlightening, where every moment there is the possibility to live with more love, creativity, humour, art, and generosity of spirit.
Such a state of enlightenment is freedom from our own mind. It is total freedom from the Ego. The Ego of course, does not really exist. It is a collective way of speaking about thoughts. Realisation does not mean cessation of thoughts. It is a state where we know that they are just thought constructs of the mind. As was mentioned earlier this type of awakening is happening in many individuals. I presume one of the things that precipitated this collective awakening is the fact that our physical life is becoming less secure. The fact that we have so
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