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Divinity is a Play and Divine the Way
monotony and exhaustion, with this the heart starts seeking something beyond this play.
When do we decide to go back? Rev Grand Master, Lalaji Maharaj describes one of the conditions of heart as Upram, which is a state of desirelessness in spite of desires. This is due to exhaustion or satisfaction, He says “While doing any thing the heart becomes monotonous in end i.e. it becomes subject to Upram. If it is for the reality, well and good. If it is worldly even then it is heartening because once again the period of ascension starts after it. This is the practice of the travelers on the divine path.” (Path To Perfection 209 Letter dated 10th March 1931 from the Revered Mahatma Ram Chandra Ji of Fatehgarh.) But for some others, a rude jolt is felt in life which will turn the vision from world, which may be from a loss of a dear one or a treachery by a friend or a sudden physical dysfunctionality etc to name a few incidents. When the unreal world that we so carefully build around ourselves gets shattered, one starts looking for the Real behind this life. This is called as Viveka or traditionally sat asat viveka. The viveka developed in such circumstances definitely puts one on the spiritual path but the condition of Upram alone carries one forward in the path. The onset of Viveka is starting point of our backward journey to our homeland. In PAM the diversion of flow towards the base initiates this journey backwards.
There is only one and one path and that is a perpendicular path: Our evolution has been an expanding spiral and we have been moving away and away from the centre. This was stated by the Master as, “This vast circle of material manifestation, the direct result of Maya, is unlimited. In it we go round and round with ceaseless motion like the rim of a wheel, ever farther and farther away from the pivot. (Dawn of Reality 100).” That means
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