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“The difficulty arises when we remain held up by our own resourcefulness applied for our advancement”
had the same thought. Except for the methods graciously gifted by the Master to humanity it would be impossible for me even to come out of that idea. At the outset I feel that the method of worship should bring in harmony and openness and balancedness in us. We by restricting our thought of Divinity to a particular form or sphere, our wisdom which is a precious resource gets blurred and we fail to understand Him as He is formless, limitless and all
pervasive.
The problem I experienced in worshiping Divinity by conferring some form which is conceived something to be external and alien is that we get attracted and attached to that form and refuse to accept Him as He is or It is as it is. Thought fixation is what happens. We get charmed by the beauty of organizing things in a ritualistic way. Even I observed people being obsessed with respect to it that they start comparing from one to the other. Most often we get tired, and our thought gets locked in the letter rather than the spirit of it. By trying to limit the limitless and externalizing, it is our consciousness that gets limited to a particular sphere and struggles to experience freedom. Divinity is something which enables us in experiencing freedom. Therefore anything contrary to it we feel it as some drag or pressure in our heart rather than experiencing freedom.
Where it takes years and lives for people struggling to experience certain amount to calmness, peace, detention, or a sense of freedom it is given to our experience right from the beginning of introduction into the system due to the influx of Pranahuti. With little willingness and cooperation this has been my experience at the very first introduction into the system of PAM propounded by the Great Master Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shajahanpur, U.P India. And this we need to understand and be sensitive to grasp and discriminate
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