Page 52 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 7
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SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
is how we feel when we recall past mistakes, painfully reliving how we fell down and we are sure that whatever that error may have been, it should not have taken place. We feel it is natural for us to go along with the feeling of not wanting what we are powerless to change. This is a strange struggle put forward by our indisciplined mind and it is almost similar to wrestling with mental ghosts. An aspirant with faith in himself and the Master realises, of course after sufficient suffering that once something has happened in our life that moment is over and it is gone for ever out of our control. The mischief of the unclean mind is to make us believe that which no longer exists to be here and now. The natural question that arises now is ‘how can something from our own past feel as real and as alive as it does to us in the present moment?’
It is informed to us by the scientists that within our mind lingers an untold number of chemically and electrically stored images of the way things were. These mental pictures include complete scenes of every experience past, as well as pleasurable or
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