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TRANSFORMATION
Silence Speaks
shattering of these sheaths because in that case one would be straying away from the real purpose.
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Realization is neither a game of contest with the nerves and muscles, nor a physical pursuit involving austerity, penance or mortification. It is only the transformation of the inner being to its real nature. Change/transformation can be brought about in two ways; firstly by desiring for it, and secondly through force. But in the latter case, there is no lasting effect. So, every abhyasi should intensely desire for his transformation.
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REALISATION
You request me to make you mine, and to take you to be mine alone. I am trying to do that very thing so that you may become actually mine, though I am already yours. It is to say that you wish to experience that which is the very end of every activity. It is just as if a child were to say, ―Let me
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