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CRAVING OF THE SOUL
life, from which silence starts”. Here he says silence tells you that there is a life of silence. Here there is a life of noise, in the beginning that’s what we started with, the life of noise. The life of silence is there. Those of you who have reading one of my articles called “Working in silence” will understand how you can work in silence. If we don’t know how to work in silence we need not talk about spirituality at all and you and I have to work in silence. That’s why we say you please meditate early in the hours of the day, it is silent, try to make your mind calm, try
to feel the presence of the Divine, work with it.
“When we dive deep then we bring pearls out of it”, an obvious sentence. But are we prepared to dive or are we prepared to swim? Is it more happy to swim than to dive or is it more happy to dive than to swim? Swimmers may answer. I don’t know, I don’t know swimming. “The wisdom of man is that he should make the unfavourable things favourable.” He is talking about the earlier things because your problems are unfavourable things, you think it is not favourable to you, but in reality they are favourable. A burden, an attachment, it is a disgust you get after sometime. With every attachment you get a disgust, every person feels this, you get a disgust, you do not know
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