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practice of nothingness and of presence of the Master. Confession in religion has this same purpose but being made into a technique it is likely to lead to abuses. Confession in private or in public have no basic value unless one follows the same up to rectification or seeks God's power and help to lead him upto that stage when he will not ever go wrong: this is perfection.
Thus by practising the presence of God and seeking his guidance and treating God as one's confidante and true friend one gets nearer to Him. Man has, it is well known, three kinds of impurities which are Mala, Superficial impurities or dirt, Vikshepa which are unreal projections of desires and so on for enjoyment, and lastly Avarana or layers of grossness which overlay themselves on one and drag him down and restrict or indeed separate him from God. Removal of these is possible only by continuous Abhyas so that one is taken nearer by God. Of course, it is God who finally or rather from the very beginning removes them and comes daily nearer and nearer to man. But one should on his part at least know that he suffers from them and wishes to get rid of them. There are so many who consider them to be excellent qualities of man. This inversion of thinking has to go. Much of our trouble arises from the wrong appearing as right and the right appearing as wrong. God's guidance alone can help us to see things in their true nature.
Thus one begins to improve the next day and feels Master's presence becomes one persistent conscience in all doings hindering us from repetition of the wrong acts of the previous day.
The bed time, as has been spoken of under the first Commandment, is the time of rest and contentment, of recuperation and remembrance and quiet recollection is possible. This is the best time prescribed by nature for recollection and reviewing and linking oneself with the Master. This Commandment thus is very important as it preaches the practice of constant remembrance of the Master through day and night and always.
Thus do we pass from the Unreal to the Real Asato Ma Satgamaya of Upanishads, with the guidance and grace of the Master.
OM TAT SAT