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frightening images of what is yet to come. And these same images are secret storehouses of all the sensations that accompanied them in the moment of their creation. Each one is laden with its original emotional content that pours into us each time we revisit them. The problem we know has been dealt very precisely in the article ‘Problem and its solution’ by Rev. Babuji Maharaj. The more we are drawn into these flooding considerations, the more we suffer. And the more unwanted this painful experience becomes, the more we unconsciously resist our mounting turmoil until we are caught in a full-blown storm. A seemingly harmless thought, which we turn over in our mind, thus becomes a tornado. This problem has been discussed by the Master in his Commentary on the Fourth Commandment graphically citing a story of a person who got infatuated with a woman called Jamila.
The only reason we ever find ourselves to be caught in a psychological storm is we have been drawn, without knowing it, into identifying and actually merging with the mental images from our
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