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actions. It is amusing that every early in the morning there is a ritual of waking up the Lord in every temple and He is yet to develop that habit. I only am stressing how difficult it is to develop a good habit.
To obey the Master who has developed total control over his internal and external apparatus as our beloved Master is the way to become like him. He always said that it is his wish that all become like him. It is common sense that we replace bad habits ( or as Master puts it spiritual diseases like laziness, sloth or indolence, envy, hatred, jealousy and a host of other negative traits which affect sadhana) with good ones, which is the basis of all selfdevelopment and spiritual evolution. But habits and attitudes die hard. This is evident when almost everyone who has ever tried to quit smoking, alcohol or coffee will tell that this is not always as easy as it would seem.
Smokers are addicted to nicotine. But according to modern science of brain, all habits induce emotional states that produce chemical changes in our brain. Consequently, we become addicted to the chemicals secreted by our brain no matter what kind of habit we create. We are further informed that with every thought or action we undertake, we create electrical pathways in our brain. As some wit said all that we know is "neurons
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