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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
purification. Our individual efforts many times we find are not sufficient and the need for external help becomes paramount.
Even as an undisciplined child, our ego needs to be guided by a competent person in this effort. This is a necessary step in the spiritual path at the stage of surrender where we learn to hear the inner voice of the Master. To talk of surrender without such a capacity to hear the inner-voice of Master is not proper. When we learn to distinguish between the voice of our ego and the voice of the inner Master we have moved considerable length in the path of spirituality. For this purity in body and mind in all aspects is the minimum requirement. Without such a purity we cannot hear the Master within. As a suggestion I may say that when we are busy convincing ourselves that we are right, we should know we are using our mind as a debater. It may be logical but we should know that it is not our highest source of wisdom.
We can know the difference between our voice and that of the Master by noting that the voice of our ego is characterized by being self-centered, self-aggrandizing, based on fear, angry, rationalizing, complaining and reactive. The voice of the Master is always humble, loving, compassionate,
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