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in the unenlightened parts of us. As we move in the path the Viveka dawns and the understanding that no disturbance can remain within us without our granting it the force it needs to sustain its fury, and we realize that we have at our disposal two great powers. Our faith and confidence to realise is one and the other is the force of Pranahuti. Thus we find that we are empowered to dismiss storms when they appear in our psychic system and, with time and practice, we learn to dismiss these disturbances before they begin.
Analysing these invisible conflicting forces at work within us we recognize that all the storms in our lives share a common cause. Each storm, large or small, centers around the feeling that something is happening to us which we do not want to happen. The conflicts rise in us because of our unconscious resistance to something that has already happened. Whenever we face an unwanted event and find ourselves feeling nothing but resistance, we can discover that this stress-mess is made from our insistence that this should not have happened. This
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