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When undergoing difficulties, as Master has stated, “Really speaking, the difficulties are the operations of nature for our own good” (SDG 65) there is a three fold advantage,
• Miseries help us in getting rid of our impressions, there by liberating us to that extent.
• One is more inclined to think of the Divine when going through a rough patch in life either out of helplessness or because of the Master’s statement of “Mere consciousness of God cures many of the evils of the mind and removes difficulties from our path.”(DR-86)”
• There is another big advantage that Master has stated “When impure impressions come into bhog, the eyes of the creator are towards us” (SDG – 121), which affirms the belief of the abhyasi that the Divine is always with him.
In the same message Master had stated “It is a hidden dictum of Nature that every soul must live a happy and restful life.” And in the eighth commandment Master asserts that the happy disposition one should have is next only to the Divine. A happy disposition is a state which percolates its effect upon the lower layers and purifies them”. For one to get established in such happiness, one’s consciousness has to grow to such a stage. Individual consciousness grows in a natural way in the Natural path from
a) The experience of the transitory nature of life. When one starts to contemplate on this, one understands that there is something that is permanent. The question that comes up is what is permanent? The
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