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CRAVING OF THE SOUL
problem is solved. That is “Reality at Dawn”, read the concerned chapter.
“When we think of the goal, its longing brings the distance in view, because we have become used to such sort of thinking.” Because when we talk about the ultimate when you say beyond and beyond then the distance comes and say this is not something that I can do, because we are accustomed to think like that. Tradition has gone on imprinting on our head that this is not an ordinary matter for grihastas, only some people can get it and after many lives they can get it, it is not possible in one life, you are condemned, all these things. The distance comes to our view.
“In the beginning we enter what is behind the matter, and we touch only the ground and not the Reality” that is, when you start thinking, you are just behind the matter and then you are seeing the depths and not the Reality.
“The echo of voice diminishes when it travels a long distance, and then there is silence all around.” Persist in the path and you will find that particular noise, which was there, doesn’t echo further. You are accustomed for certain type of thinking, persist in the path, you go a distance then
the echo is not there disturbing you. If you don’t go 49