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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
load on one’s consciousness and hinder his growth towards the higher states of consciousness. It is only when one is firmly established in the higher state of consciousness that one can be happy. It is this process of bhog that unfurls various situations which may in turn out to be the causes of misery or joy.
The first thing that a practicant of PAM learns is that he is not here to gain anything, on the contrary he is here to lose everything. (Any gain is only another impression being added to the already existing ones). i.e. All the impressions that one has brought along with him in this life and also the ones that have not been brought along. So the earlier concepts of happiness taught/understood by one since childhood have to be re evaluated.
Being in the family life one has to do his duties and in doing so one is bound to face different situations of Joy, difficulties and worries. When one ponders over the difficulties and worries he can understand that every difficulty helps in getting out from a misery. As long as one takes it as a divine gift no further impressions are formed. The sufferings and miseries are agents that help one in getting rid of some desire or the other. Miseries serve as a tool in going towards the goal of happiness. Contrary to the common belief that miseries are punishments, it is one’s own desires that punish and not the miseries.
All are happy when they are undergoing the results of good impressions because the results are up to or more than expected. Only some of them think about the results and are grateful to the Divine and also develop humility.
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