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artificial. Artificiality can only be lost when we are free from both the negative and positive ideas. In the negative you lose something. In the positive you gain something. So when losing and gaining are there you are in tune with Maya.
If we name rest as unrest and unrest as rest, then in the state of unrest we will say ‘I am at rest’. But for this every body must taste both rest and unrest. This really depends upon the depth of thought. The Ultimate base of every thought is Reality, which gives power to all that one asks for. The tragedy is that we go to the power alone, but not to the base of the power. Hence we commit wrong acts more than right ones. The real character is formed in saintliness, and the suffering is half over. The suffering is really that which we do not suffer.
The spiritual history of India hays that the Saints of India have prayed to God to give all the miseries of the world to them, so that humanity may be free from it. The people generally follow the spiritual methods so that they may be relieved from suffering. It is my idea that the saints are not to enjoy but to be enjoyed by others. Suffering and peace both become one at their base. The most wonderful thing I found when I travelled abroad was that people are hankering for peace. They know what is before peace, but they do not try to know what is after peace. If anybody asks for its explanation, I can safely say that non-peace peace is the real peace, and is nearer to Divinity. After peace is Reality, so loving and embracing. We start with the cradle and rest in the grave. That is the whole life picture of the human life.
In 1942 I had a dream of my Revered Master, who said. “There are persons who crave for wealth but they cannot dl anything they take me as their base”. He also described a meditation for me with instructions that this sort of meditation should only be done when the body consciousness is thoroughly gone, and the soul consciousness starts. This sort of meditations works by banishing the idea of soul. This idea should also leave one for good. It has come to my experience, for the first time in spiritual history that both body and soul ideas have got to be got rid of. Afterwards consciousness of consciousness should also bid farewell. This idea I have expressed in “ Efficacy of Raja Yoga”. The scientific world may not agree with my views because this thing is beyond matter and science cannot explain it. Real psychology is beyond mind, and the Reality is beyond and yet beyond.
The people generally may call it an ambiguous statement. Freshness is there but richness is not there. They are rich when they have got wealth; they are poor