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CRAVING OF THE SOUL
that is the craving of the soul. The matter is what is binding us. With our imaginary and illusionary attachments we are trying to say no to the permanent attachment that the Divine is telling I am always with you, I am inseparable from you, you and I are one, you are my best friend. “Priyosi’me”, you are my best friend, you are most dear to me. We say, no my wife is more dear to me than you and that is the problem. My money is more important than you, my property is more important than you, my son is more important than you. Is this not our answer to our God? Has it not been our fate? Is this not ungratefulness on our part, in this system particularly. I do not know about other systems but in this system where we are repeatedly being told, “I am with you, I am here, please hear me” we say wait for some time I will attend to somebody else and the poor man patiently waits for the next day when you may perhaps sit in meditation, poor man he has to wait.
“While referring to this path to the Ultimate, saints have said `beyond and beyond'.” To this path he says. That is the path we are following “Beyond and beyond”. Never is the stage that this is the ultimate that I have reached. Ultimate is an ever-receding one. Don’t be satisfied
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