Page 327 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

alternate day are worth while will only be deluding themselves with their own resources of thinking.
It is true that the Great Masters lived in absolute freedom and gave a great tradition; and in our system we call that the Ganga Jamuni tradition. This river of spirituality should be maintained pure and simple. Once the stream is polluted and is contaminated the poison will ever remain even though we cannot deny that the polluted stream also has many uses. Polluted Gangetic water may not quench our thirst but surely can quench a fire or wash away sewerage. The ignorance about this kind of poison is more dreadful than the poison itself. People who are ignorant of this pollution are denying themselves the chance to know their true identity and in the process go subtly sometimes and not so subtly many a time- insane. Such waters of pseudo spirituality and religion do not lead to truth; they offer consolation and ego fulfilment, and those are mistaken for benefit. That is the fate of those who like to govern themselves by their own thinking and do not enjoy the divine grace.
Many aspirants hold that there is substantially no difference between what goes by the school Vedanta and spirituality. I was myself a student
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