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 Younger men are fortunate in getting this contact at a much earlier age. But the great thinkers of the past have really contributed to my make up. They have been responsible for keeping my aspiration for Reality awakened, in a state of awakening. Though apparently they have stated different positions or aspects, all such differences and barriers are taken away. In my case I had no confusion, no difficulty. On the contrary I found an integrative process taking place, and I could enter into each system with a wonder that God pervades all of them. That is what I found. But our difficulty is that one good system corrupts.
We live unnatural and artificial lives. We all appear to be something that we are not. We look happy, cheerful, at least most of us. But who knows what we are inside where no one can see us? Most of us are composed of volcanoes, seething inside, ready to burst at a moment's notice. Modern living conditions all go towards such a makeup of man. So what should we do? We should think of the modern world as a trial to help us to awaken us from a mentally depraved mankind.
To rectify this unnatural state of affairs my Master has said that it can be done by a proper type of meditation. We must try to become natural. Normally every struggle to become natural makes us only more unnatural. If you try to untie a knot, you only make more knots. To ask you to get back to nature, original nature, is a great call indeed.
I can understand why this system by this great Master is to make every one get back to naturality. What it means is the Original condition from which we came down and got involved in the grossness. The theory is that we have an Original condition of peace and equilibrium, but some movements have pulled or taken us away from that state of Shanti. We have been thinking that this state of non-peace and non-equanimity is the real state. This has come about from our experience of the variegated phenomena of this world in which we live, a world full of objects of enjoyment supposedly created for man's enjoyment; a world of beautiful things to be acquired, beautiful women with their vices, handsome men with their weaknesses; that all this is for man's enjoyment. Yes! It is a magnificent world! But then why should it be mixed up with so much evil, so much corruption, so much misery? This question is unanswerable, why there































































































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