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Remembrance of everything should merge into the Remembrance of One – the Ultimate
supreme at all times. If we look at the prayer given to us, the second line deals with this aspect of contentment saying that” We are yet but slaves of wishes putting bar to our advancement” At each stage of advancement the bar is felt and expressed in different ways but when look at from the remembrance aspect, the wish fulfillment is a bar to negation. From sadhana angle negation is not an intellectual exercise of self annihilation but the extent of dedications of one’s heart, mind nay his life for the cause
of the Master.
Negation grant us freedom from misery (Misery is always defined in reference to the self – jiva aspect and life is a great lesson in misery and afflictions) as all work is for the Master and by the Master but the experience of happiness for no apparent gains of material wealth is the positive affirmation of the progress in negation. From the practical angle, one of the yardsticks in this subject would be the levels of commitment to the service of the Master. If the individual has his own agendas to be fulfilled apart from the duties which he is enshrined to fulfill as a grihasta dharma then that indicates the amount of wishes that need to be fulfilled or have become a bar to his negation.
It is the experience of the sadhakas of the path that the first change in the state of his consciousness is the development of vairagya which goes on getting rarified and rarified as one moves on into higher levels of consciousness like Bramhand and beyond. Here when we say the condition of vairagya becomes rarified means that it is felt naturally. One does not feel attached or there is an inclination to possess and enjoy. One loses the conscious awareness of his vairagya. For others it looks like vairagya but for the subject, it is a state of contentment preceded or existing with the feeling of reconciliation to the will of the Master. One learns to be
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