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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
One finds that one’s problems of the evolution into Divine nature get solved easily and without the arduous practices which do more harm by producing tensions in the life. Theories of Maya have produced more tensions than solved them. Similarly renunciation has produced tensions of a different kind. Even the practice of virtue has become a hazardous enterprise in the modern world. The ethical life is a life of tensions whereas really it is the life of vice that ought to be so. In any case vices produce tensions and create more complexities at the physical, mental and spiritual levels.
Shri Ram Chandraji in the Reality at Dawn presents a simple philosophy of the Sahaj Marg which could help everyone to become normal, undepressed and unrepressed, detensioned and happy even amidst the chaos that is shrouding the world today.
The ethics of Sahaj Marg consists in its being the preparation and practice of spiritual life. It has been held that before one undertakes the practice of Yoga one should possess or cultivate the fourfold means (sadhana catustaya), as pointed out in the Reality at Dawn viveka, vairagya, sama and dama, uparati, tittiksa, sradha, and samadhana.
The Vedantic explanations are slightly different from those adopted by Yoga. In any case every one is agreed that it is necessary to awaken to the sense of the temporary and the permanent, out of which the others follow necessarily. The Yogic transmission of
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