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PATH OF GRACE
forgetfulness of the presence of these instincts in us is felt and a deep quiet settles in.
It should therefore be clear that those who claim to have gone beyond this point are only talking about their condition in a relative manner. So long as the body exists, the need for food, air, water, and sex apart from shelter cannot be totally conquered. Such attempts by the practitioners in yoga led to various forms of perversions, which needs no mention to the discerning sadhakas. What Pujya Babuji Maharaj advocates is control and moderation of these urges and not total annihilation of them. Since total mastery of this knot means really perfection in every sense of the term with reference to that knot and since it cannot be achieved by directly attacking these fundamental urges, the path of Yoga of Sriramchandra’s provides a solution by enabling the sadhaka move to higher planes of consciousness, so that with the divine wisdom of the higher centres the lower self is tackled and wisdom is percolated to the lower realms of consciousness. The sadhaka after having achieved certain depth in the laya state of the consciousness of this knot is
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