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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
control ourselves like over boiling milk sprinkled with cold water.
We will all be crying for Him/Divinity/Master constantly. Let us not allow our minds to wander into the mire of discontent and worthless distraction. Let us not waste our lives like that. Let us be on fire for God within, be hungry for Him within every moment. Let us convert all our cravings into one massive flame of desire for the Divinity/Master. Then all our limitations will be consumed in that emancipating flame. If only we find worldly pleasures so tempting, how much more tempting must Divinity/Master be?
When we again and again keep on trying by meditation and by constant effort to remind ourselves that we are not mortal beings but immortal souls, then we may know for certain that we are gradually breaking apart the chains that have long bound us to the consciousness of flesh and ceaseless change. Once we begin sloughing off these fetters, we have glimpses of ourselves as souls made in the image of God and the more we hold that Divine image within, the more we feel His love in our hearts, His wisdom in our minds and His joy in our souls.
The desire to get worldly things is quite artificial. This desire springs up and perishes but is never satisfied.
There can be affinity in the things belonging to the same category not to different ones. Therefore the body, a fragment of the world has a desire for the world while the soul, a fragment of Divinity has a desire for God. So we have to be content with our legitimate needs and be in the consciousness of the Divinity to transcend our desires.
There cannot be our union (i.e.) undue attachment with the world and there can’t be our disunion from the Divinity. In this connection it may not be out of place to mention the life of ‘bee’ living in this earth. That is “as
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