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“Some are deluded by their own thinking and some are illumined by Divine Grace”
This is the experience of many of our aspirants who participated in the Mansarovar programs.
The malady of the modern man is his habit of perennially polluting Silence with thoughts just as we pollute the world’s great rivers with the vile waste of humankind. Many aspirants somehow think they can enter silence taking their prejudices with them and they cling to these preconceived ideas of what Silence is. As a result, they do not truly dive deep into the Silence. The reason is that to let go of such ideas is to let go of the sense of oneself, to let go of identity, and that is death to the ego. Even the ideas of heaven and hell are a consolation to the ego, because in both heaven and hell the identity lives forever and is even important enough for eternal life or torment. It is divine grace only that can enable one get out of this illusory notion of self or ego or individuality or identity. Without such a divine grace one can only be deluded in his thoughts in silence or noise.
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