Page 368 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

of child hood experiences which are unpleasant or traumatic if not the products of past lives samskaras. These are to be purged and any conscious attention can only be strengthening them. The methods of the Master alone if implicitly followed can give us relief.
During the purification process irrespective of adopting any method given by the Master it is generally reported that
i) They feel highly restless. I can say that the moment one feels bad one should realise that an old habit has recurred. One may feel guilty, fearful, anxious, sad, angry, resentful, or just uneasy. These thoughts are so habitual that we sometimes are not even aware we are thinking them. Our negative emotions are our best signal to know that we are on an old trap. It is only when we adopt the process of just ignoring the thoughts that we can come out of them or else we will be battling with them through the entire period of purification which really means that we are not thinking of purification at all.
ii) While cleaning if we find ourselves dwelling on something that happened in the past that
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