Page 99 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 9

THE SOLUTION
Though I know the paper (Satyapadam – New Era - Basant 2010) is a bit tough as it deals with the problem of transformation itself and how our mystics, saints and others have struggled to bring down the influence of the lower mind in all our activities. Annihilation of it is the solution that the recluses and sanyasis have given. Moderation is what Master talks or it is trying to bring the lower to the functions of the higher through the laws of the lower itself. The animal needs to be tamed and not to be slaughtered.
The struggle that you and I are making in the process of taming of the lower nature is something that is exceptional. It is not common nowadays to find people struggling to control the lower nature. People have yielded to it (lower nature) more by option. Somehow or other, the tenacity, which is one of the essential characteristics of life itself is going down. People don't want to be tenacious, they want an easy life, easy going, everything instant, including instant realisation. That is perhaps one of the notions people have got about realisation. Pranahuti does not grant you instant realisation. Pranahuti helps you to realise how you can control