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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
transmission. One’s awakening of the divine within and hearing the inner voice is a true moral attainment, which will be in tune with the divine Nature.
The real moral life arises from the surrender that one makes to the Ultimate Reality, giving up oneself in all one’s nature to its realisation. Surrendering oneself to the Divine Force and Reality also means the recognition that one is by oneself incompetent to pursue it integrally. It is not merely the resignation of oneself to the fate in things, but a willing acceptance of the hazards on the path of integral spirituality till the final goal is reached. It is true that doubts and scepticisms may arise on the path of spiritual evolution as in every other walk of life, but they may be recognized as merely the testing periods of the progress made and the steadiness acquired so far, thanks to the transmission of the Guru. In a sense they are verily the stepping stones to success. There is no pessimism on this path since the path is a great moral anti-depressant and anti- tensionist. The spiritual utterly exposes the moral pathology of repression and conditionings and possibly makes the downward movement to antisocial and criminal behavior impossible. But these are not merely large claims A moral or spiritual transformation of man must involve these. If religious codes have failed-as we can see the religious pathology-it is because they have not taken man seriously for the transformation and provided outlets for social pathology.
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