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Remembrance of everything should merge into the Remembrance of One – the Ultimate
It is clear that thoughts and emotions are the two most important influences upon man’s life.
A true abhyasi will turn every second into an opportunity to dwell in the Divine thoughts. Such Discrimination is one of the main characteristics that develop in a true abhyasi.
We have to live constantly in the presence of the Divine, live in the feeling that it is this presence that moves us and is doing everything we do. We have to offer all our moments to it, not only every mental action, every thought and feeling but even the most ordinary and external action such as eating. When we eat, we must feel that it is the Divine who is eating thro’ us. When we can thus gather all our moments into the one life, then we have in us unity instead of division. No longer one part of our nature given to the Divine while the rest remains in its ordinary ways, engrossed in ordinary things. When our entire life is taken up, an integral transformation is gradually realized in us.
We have to understand the necessity of not admitting into ourselves any thought which destroys aspiration or creation of truth of our beings. It reveals the considerable importance of not allowing what one does not want to be or does not want to do to formulate itself into thought within the being. Because to think these things is already a beginning of their realization. From every point of view it is bad to concentrate on what one doesn’t want what one has to reject, what one refuses to be, for the very fact that the thought is there gives to things one wants to reject a sort of right of existence within oneself. This explains the considerable importance of not letting destructive suggestions, thoughts of ill-will, hatred, since destruction enter; for merely to think of them is already to give them a power of realisation. We have to
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