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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
majority is that the end is near or the end has already come. The main thought wave that is circumambulating the atmosphere now a days is fear. Pretty sure it is not the end of life but the end of life as we know it. From the enlightened point of view this will appear as something that has to happen in the cyclical nature of events. From the Gandhian point of view this situation is what we have bargained for; it is the result of our collective neglect and procrastination in dealing with our economic over-indulgence, nelsons’ eye to corporate corruption, ‘not my problem’ attitude towards drugs and violence. It is necessary to know that the pattern of the world's condition begins in the patterns of our own behavior and beliefs. As long as we continue to hang on to the attitudes and actions that created our current predicament, we will continue to experience turmoil. Turmoil, chaos, uncertainty, changes etcetera are all signals of an old way that is passing away and a new way being birthed. First the pain and then the joy.
The degree of pain we experience is completely proportional to our level of resistance to the necessary and irresistible shift that is happening. Pain is always caused by resistance to what is. It is essentially in the realm of Prana sarira that we feel
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