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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
hammered on the anvil for shaping into adorable ornaments. They became the ‘flowers of humanity’ thoroughly honed by sufferings.
Let us look at the results mentioned in the same article; He says that the Adi Guru laid great stress on right morals and proper behaviour, which have always been the basis of yoga. He further says that the person whose life is not pregnant with high morals is incapable of having the finest type of spirituality, which is beyond everything and worth having. Every suffering event is a learning opportunity and if undergone sensibly as outlined previously, we develop ‘fortitude and forbearance and even a little peace of mind’. Peace of mind develops through right understanding, through the faith in Master and having given everything to His charge, the charge of the higher soul and having therefore disassociated from the bhoga itself as if it were someone else is undergoing the same. We emerge as stronger personalities now capable of even undergoing suffering for others’ sake, which in fact every saint worth his salt does willingly and lovingly too. We develop strong feelings of empathy and sympathy towards all the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, the downtrodden, the disabled and the discarded and are strongly motivated to do whatever is possible to alleviate their sufferings without discriminating. That is nobility of character, resulting from our own experience of suffering.
We also realize from our experience straying from the path of virtue and ignoring the real values of life brought us untold suffering. As a result we bear principled character and strive to uphold the real values of life and this prepares us to hold on to the finest type of spirituality.
He says further that through the practice of PAM, tension goes and de-tension develops and finally both tension and de-tension go leaving a partial vacuum. God is total vacuum, hence we get nearer to God’s state
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