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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 7
concerned there are many instances when the aspirant even though is making sufficient progress according to the intensity of sadhana he puts in this system, considers repeatedly and ad nauseum the virtue and advantages of the systems he never practiced or those that were being practiced with practically no spiritual progress. It is unfortunate that some aspirants even start making irresponsible judgments about the Master calling him a liar etcetera. All these are due to impure mind which plays its jokes and tricks with our aspirations.
It is important to consider why the mind does these tricks. Now we know that the mind is capable of evil thoughts in the sense that these thoughts act as obstacles in reaching our goal, the question would be how is it so? Dr. K.C.V. raises this issue when he says “The question of questions for religion would be, how does evil arise at all in a god-created world? Or if evil infected this creation from the very
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