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 necessity, the necessity to feel the omnipresence of the One Divine in all one-s living and moving and being.
Shri Ram Chandraji has beautifully explained the commandments not as vidhis (inviolable obligations) but as basic observances which help spiritual progress. Any deviation only causes delay and one-s co-operation with his Master or Guru is obviously necessary. This is all that is needed on the individual-s part. It is his effort (yatna) which will help the speedy progress of his evolution. Though the Guru-s transmission would do all these too, the individual-s conscious collaboration is valuable on the path. In this sense these are commandments.
These commandments do not prescribe or proscribe any duties or acts, which are against the decent behaviour of persons who wish to live a good life among men and society. The virtues, which are requisite, are universal virtues. There is no prescription that men should on becoming spiritual, be beyond good and evil moralities. On the contrary it is clear that no one can be said to live a normal life that creates tensions within himself and in his environment. The goal, if attaining the highest good, which is liberation or freedom from all misery and perfection of one-s spiritual nature determines the inner voice which is indeed the divine awakened within by the spiritual 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































































































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