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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
and night in the fire of anxiety in this way. His human life is not only wasted thereby, but the accumulation of newer and newer sins render his future (lives) miserable and gloomy.
Everyone in this world seeks happiness, but none secures consummate, undivided, lasting happiness. Life comes to an end in the pursuit of happiness which recedes farther and farther. The reason is not far to seek. Consummate undivided happiness does not really speaking, inhere in the objects of nature from which man seeks to derive happiness. Therefore, if we desire happiness, we have to get it from the original source/God who consists of consummate, undivided, lasting and true happiness.
The grease and grime that block a man’s spiritual flow are the feelings of greed, ego, anger, hatred, lust and attachment. These vices stick so firmly and become so fixed that man assumes them to be part of his personality. He thinks it is natural to be jealous, hateful and full of pride. But is it? Is that his natural, original state? Or did he start out with pure, clean and unclogged fixture?
His permanent fixture is soul. His original nature is purity and peace. If he finds himself in a state of impurity and peacelessness, then he should know that something is wrong and that he is away from his perfect stage. Then he needs to start the unclogging and the purification process so that he can return to his original state. How to achieve it, we come back to it later.
Shri Iswar Sahaiji observed as follows “Human life today has almost quite confounded on account of the defective understanding of the real values of life. Almost everyone craves for peace, happiness and bliss in some form or the other, but the means he adopts for the purpose actually lead him just to the reverse of it. He wants to be a
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