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virtues are not yet clear even to you. Do not consider the work, assigned to you, as useless labour, without payment and return (Begaar), as explained to you yesterday. (Note: This refers to the topic concerning ‘purification of lower self’ (Tazkia-e-Nafsa) on 1-7-1944). So long as pleasure ensues from fulfillment of sensuous (worldly) desires through impulsive actions, ‘purification of lower self’ is not perfected. On having achieved ‘purification of lower-self’, one does not derive pleasure from associations etc., but that act is performed as if it were a useless labour, without payment and return (Begaar). This principle is correct unto its own extent.”
[02-07-1944: pg. 46-47 (A.B.II - I)]
Easiness In Uneasiness
“Going beyond easiness is uneasiness. A man becomes conscious when similarity or sameness is disturbed. As long as easiness is there, there is not disturbance. The state we acquire by the help of the meditation causes a repulse. When the outgoing tendencies of the mind come in touch with it or, in other words, when the tendencies touch the field of easiness, its opposite is felt. So we should also try to calm down the outgoing tendencies of the mind. I now give you something about uneasiness. If somehow a man can begin to feel easiness in uneasiness then he will give place to the outgoing tendencies to enter in it.”
[ 11-7-1928 ( A.B. Vol 1 ) ]
Living Dead Condition – Method of
“What is the method whereby the thought arising in one’s mind is made to strike the Master immediately?” “This can be achieved through establishing extreme affinity with the Master. The method consists in going on making oneself calm so as to annul ebb and tide altogether. This concerns practice; and it can be comprehended only through that. This is known as the condition of the “Dead”. This alone is ‘Jeevan Mukthi’ (liberation in life) in the real sense if the condition has become like that of a dead person. This condition did not develop in anybody; and I just went away with the craving in my heart (to see it in someone). Although the pleasure of spirituality is experienced to a large extent before arriving at it, it is really there only after it. I was in this state since birth; and the same has been the case with dear Ram Chandra. Now the question arises, how it is achieved. The practice briefly is this: one should continue cleansing