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THREE TRUTHS – TRILLION DOUBTS
they were able to keep up their goals and they succeeded. That is the lesson we have to learn. Not to go to temples which they visited. Not the monasteries they lived in. Surely not. Then we are just trying to go back into the past. Those of us who have been seriously studying the birth and death problems know that there is something of a sheath which requires to be torn for getting out of this cycle of birth and death. Some of you might have tried this also. I don’t deny the possibility. I am aware of certain things. But there is a gap between that and the spirit. Beyond the mind, spirit is there and there is a gap there. If this is broken, spirit alone stays and that is what exactly is sought to be done when the diversion of the flow is turned towards the Atman. The thought membrane in the heart requires to be shattered. Then there is no question of rebirth. But that does not happen during the life time. It should become some thing which when touched should be get broken. It should become so very thin. The woof and the warp both will not exist. First it is the woof then warp. Warp is what we are trying to get rid of through cleaning. The woof takes time. That’s what we attend to at the end of the day during cleaning. So long as these threads are there the superficial
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