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“A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion”
Importance of feelings aspect during meditation: The
confusion between heart and mind needs to get cleared in our minds and hearts for smooth progress in the path. The heart is the instrument of knowledge in the field of spirituality, which needs to be nurtured very carefully and also intelligently as it is very delicate. The feelings of rage, anger, revenge, prejudice, jealousy, sensuousness, despondency, excitement etc disturb the balance of the heart and thereby we cannot feel the subtlety. If you look particularly the commandment 7 from the heart’s eye. Infact Master asks us to view the entire system from the heart’s eye, i.e., from the feelings aspect. The harboring of feelings of revenge cause hurt to our hearts and disturbs its balance. Not only that, it is our duty to protect the nobility of our heart as advised by the Master in this commandment. To quote, “...so that the feelings of resentment may not arise and one may not lose nobility of character” IB commandment-7. As long as the heart remains disturbed we remain away from the remembrance of the Master which is so subtle.
One of the grossest levels of confusion, which infact can be treated as one of the greatest blunders on the part of the practicant is to feel the practice of the ten commandment and the meditational practices as non congruent. This is one of the biggest confusion that can ever hover the minds of the abhyasis and if they take pleasure in this confusion then I one has lost the ocean.
Confusions due to carry over from earlier practices and beliefs: The following of the Ten commandments, very aptly called as ways of living is the answer to one of the persistent questions of mankind of, How one should lead his/her life? Any person’s thinking
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