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Silence Speaks
whom I showed practically, but momentarily, the state of Realisation. They felt it and appreciated it very much, but they are not prepared to leave their idols, because they have become habituated to it. And their wisdom has become quite blunt. They have already lost discriminatory power, and that is the cause of our downfall. When the power of discrimination goes away, fear sets in. They will not leave idolatry because their fore-fathers have been doing it all along. This is one thing. Another is this; they think if they leave it, some calamity will befall them. This is our tragic story.
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LAZINESS
It is my strange experience that laziness can also breed cancer. I have come to the point that laziness is surrender to the self. In other words, a lazy man surrenders to the self which is suicidal for spiritual growth. I am also very lazy, but this is only in household work.
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