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doubt unless the mind is physically disabled to move that way, for the poison of evil, buried within, may at any time begin to display its action when perchance the control is relaxed. That means a life-long game of context involving all the risk of reverses and failures. Besides this, the physical suppression by strangulation of mind leads to internal grossness and renders the mind incapable of higher ascent in subtler planes. It is, in fact, not the controlling of mind that is suited to our purpose but its right moulding and the proper regulation of its activities. This can be affected not by the use of whip but only by purging out the evil through the process of internal cleaning. This is the only effective way for the transformation of the real being of man.
Unfortunately there are some amongst the teachers professing to guide the people in spirituality who apply their material will-force for suppressing the thoughts in order to create a state of coma. The Abhyasi who is incapable of understanding its true spirit feels greatly impressed since it offers him a sort of sensual pleasure which is grossly misinterpreted as ̳Anandam‘. Nothing related with the working of senses can offer the real Anandam, and this
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