Page 600 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
In the beginning our understanding of the commandments is very rudimentary. Even so if we follow the commandments sincerely, our ideas and notions get shattered one by one and clarity steps in up to that extent.
It is imperative that we follow the commandments sincerely. As we start following the commandments, gradually our understanding also gets refined. Let us take an example.
The commandment seven says “Be not revengeful for the wrongs done by others”. It has more to it but we can understand at least this much at the beginning so let us take this as an example. We need not go to the extent of saying, when somebody hurts us or harms us in the office or house we should not be revengeful. We have formed so many veils that our mind fools us into changing mundane events in the home or office into something where great damage has been done to us and so it becomes very hard for us to follow the commandment. In such a situation the first thing that you can do in following the commandment is not retaliate. That itself is a very big challenge for people in today’s society who have never been taught not to retaliate. So we will fail in the following of that commandment for quite some time till the wisdom dawns that doing so is taking us nowhere. During this time however we should not stop practicing the methods given in the system thinking that this system does not work for me. That would defeat the whole purpose and nobody but we would be the ones who will not know what it would have been had we followed the Master assiduously. So we are losing out on the chance of finding out what is the state that the Master has promised us. As our dear guide has said on many occasions, we may falter many times and fall but we have to get up and continue without brooding about it.
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