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VAGARIES OF THE MIND±
The topic of this seminar “Truly speaking, we give wrong suggestions to the mind” is a sentence taken from the message given by the Master on the historical event of the Centenary Celebrations of the Samarth Guru Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Fatehgarh in 1973 at Chennai. Master on that day was beaming with spiritual splendour and in his message gave out all the aspects of his system of Rajayoga in a crisp manner. This sentence as such is not new wisdom as we know our tradition repeatedly stated that our mind is the cause for our bondage as well as our liberation. John Milton said "The mind in its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven." Our quest to know our true nature has drawn us to this path of Rajayoga.
Obviously, the quality of our life cannot be very good if we do not know who or what we are. It
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Talk Delivered at the Seminar on 16 December 2007
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