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Love is the Inner awakening to Reality
producing wrong effects, with the result, each centre lost its originality imbibing different effects. Continuing this process for years, at the termination of life, we assumed another form with the accumulated effects of grossness of our creation. We have been adding layers of grossness completely masking the inner Reality, thus affording no chance of reviving our original connection with Reality. The grossness, so accumulated over a period of time, produced by the charge of the mind became the “Self”, marking itself as an individual force with its separate entity. If by chance, either by the effect of circumstances or by the company of Pious Persons, a passing air of Divinity is aroused, Religion comes in handy to welcome us into traditional modes of worship of deities, attending to religious discourses, reciting sacred spiritual texts thus deriving satisfaction that we are fulfilling our obligation to God, by these sacred duties, imposed by ourselves of our volition.
As religions have failed the common folk to provide practical means of attaining the ultimate, spirituality remained as a different field of activity altogether, presumably not amenable for adoption by common man.
If by Grace of Divine, one gets a chance of contemplating on the very purpose of existence, and develops an inclination to come out of the cycle of births and deaths, realizing the temporary nature of life, wisdom dawns on him, by comparing his present state, he comes to know that there is something Superior to what he has. Unending thoughts pestering him incessantly will soon make him realize that they are spoiling agents and some diversion has set in preventing him to remain at peace with in himself. This leads him towards the first step in renunciation (Vairagya); As a natural corollary, he develops the power of discrimination (Viveka) that
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