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is divine grace only that can enable one get out of this illusory notion of self or ego or individuality or identity. Without such a divine grace one can only be deluded in his thoughts in silence or noise.
The ideas of Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, or Mohammed are the same substance: thought. That is the only plane in which they can exist. If we need to commune with them we should be adept in being in Silence. All images and forms of such personalities and I make bold to say even that of our great Masters Lalaji and Babuji sahibs are imaginations we have and it is essential to be in pure thought to commune with them. Silence or a state of no mind grants this first boon of getting rid of imagination. We cannot create dreams in such a state but only observe. Like the Ganges and other great rivers, the rivers of spirituality of the world are as polluted as are these great rivers: polluted with the filth of the past and present. As such, what goes by the name of spirituality many a time is only customary, traditional, ceremonial, and peddled to the credulous herd as security and consolation. But it is harmful to life because that which distorts the reality is harmful. Those who think that all the methods of the masters who come to the stage every
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