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“The difficulty arises when we remain held up by our own resourcefulness applied for our advancement”
3. Sri. M. Radha Krishna Murti
The topic forms part of Babuji’s message delivered at Mysore in Dec 1965 on the “Efficacy of Raja Y oga.”
To get out of shackles of bondage and gain freedom from this worldly misery and also realize one’s own self is a natural longing of several individuals deeming it as their duty to aspire so. This wish finally centers round the thought and wisdom. At human level, it represents finiteness engulfed with several bondages all around. The means and methods adopted to get into infiniteness largely shapes the future advancement- basically wrong methods adding to more entanglements adding to the already existing ones, thus serving as a serious impediment for further progress. Those act as inducements for happiness, though short lived as worldly fleeting pleasures, acting as binding forces.
In addition to this unfavorable situation, religious practices already studded with dogmas, being routinely followed by a grihasta to get some solace act otherwise, barring approach to any hope of higher consciousness.
Babuji observes that “if our present level inspires within us a consciousness of a higher type of happiness of infinite character we may be awakened to the idea of going further into the sphere of limitlessness”. Knowledge gained by being adepts in religious texts, if not supplemented by the required wisdom to discriminate the correct path for furtherance into the sphere of reality is seldom useful. In such a situation, a mere ‘Aptavakya’ may facilitate one’s choosing a correct path to journey into limitlessness. God favours a really deserving individual a Master who serves as a turning point in his spiritual life, affording him a chance of exposure to higher type of consciousness. This may help an individual to
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