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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
concerned with our ideas about Divinity however good they may be. Master knows what is best for us. That is the reason we are to ignore our own thoughts which is our resourceful ness coming into play as a matter of habit. So yielding to the method and Master is an attitude that should be adopted before we start the meditation. Yielding to Him and developing an attitude of waiting will help us come out of the habit of applying our mind over and above the simple method.
Likewise Pt B and Pt A and 9 pm prayer should be done in its simplicity without entertaining any doubts about their efficacy. If we entertain other thoughts than the ones the meditation prescribes, we are getting trapped in our resourcefulness.
When it comes to evening cleaning, we need to be confident of the method and not entertain doubts on whether cleaning is really happening or not. Only then it becomes a will to cleanse ourselves. At prayer before bed time, we sit in a supplicant manner; we must offer the prayer understanding its essence. We must be careful not to ask for anything in the prayer that we apparently think is needed for our advancement. I came to know once that one brother was praying at bedtime that his office environment should change so that the quality of his meditations should improve. This indicates lack of clarity of applying the given means and we then try to be as resourceful as we can be for our advancement. Yielding suffers totally in the process. Yielding should be a continuous process on the path.
These are elementary points about the methods which we seek to clarify in training programs and also later. Most recently, the book, “Three truths and trillion doubts” exhaustively addresses many issues related to the practice of the methods. It is very beneficial for all aspirants to go through these compilations which have
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