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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
closed; we are totally lost to all intents and purposes’ (Sruti p277). We can see that as the ego builds up the affected person becomes even oblivious to the problem caused by it and starts living in a world of delusion of his own making which finally leads to the neglect of the Master. The Master’s voice is scarcely heard; His warnings and cautions fall on deaf ears. The person feels that he can carry on himself and that he knows all there is to be known. This leads to a curvature on the path with serious consequences to the real progress of the person on the path.
The Master refers to the state of some of the preceptors in whom ideas of superiority began to take hold and the ‘disease’ as He calls it, was spreading instead of dying down. He goes on to describe the deleterious effects of falling a prey to selfishness and egotistic feelings. It was becoming risky to endow them with power, which exists solely for achieving the Divine and for benefiting others. But when given to persons afflicted with egoism it started inducing intentions of selfish profit in them. Not only they forgot they were abhyasis first, but also started debating their own practice and injecting their own personal ideas into the detailed rules and methods of meditation practice decided and laid down originally.
They began to teach the considerably altered methods of their own practice disregarding the fact that in the very subtle rules of practice even the slightest variations can have dire consequences. They desired to use the power which was given to them buried as they were in their selfishness and egoism and also became insensitive to the burden cast on the Master by their wrong doing.
Now the Master talks about the confusion in their minds which is their belief that their faith in their ego is
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