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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
remembrance which would not have been possible without some negation. So it would be proper to understand about negation so as to gain more in the path of remembrance. I feel that negation and remembrance are concomitant to each other.
I have understood negation in this manner - Negation: When the self experiences and recognizes the presence of Master as all supreme and also endearing and chooses (surrender) to remember Him, live for him and work for him as a part of him. A process where we tend to give lesser precedence to our selves. This is the experience of mediators of the Natural path and it is not due to an understanding or intellectual knowledge of a cosmic compulsion of Rta even as a use of force in case of animals or sub rational beings or not even reconciling through rationality but the love that germinates and grows into total self effacement. Pujya Babuji says this negation manifested in the form of Love for the Master is naturally possible for us as “Remembrance brings a lover close to the beloved. There is no limit to this closeness. The greater the love or affinity, the more does one advance towards Him. This relationship comes to us by inheritance. Now it is up to us to develop it as far as to secure utmost nearness to Him” ( Imperience Beckons page- 19) .
Love has to be understood as phenomenon occurring in the supra rational levels of being which is simple to understand but difficult to articulate. The commonality of the aspirations to express in its universalness is the starting ground for the relationship of love which is the essence of the first line of our Prayer,” O Master, Thou art the real goal of human life”. Here Master is the goal of human life or the goal of human life is Master. But the commandment under discussion asks to offer our prayer with heart full of love and devotion. That
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