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VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SPIRITUAL TRAINING
working from the blue skies. Divinity requires a person to help. That is why we say you better take assistance from some person in the path and the best person is the one in whose presence your thought seems to get silenced. Not get silenced, seem to get silenced. Thoughts do not seem to have the same amount of force when an aspirant sits with his trainer or when an aspirant sits in meditation with his trainer it makes him feel somewhat better, some calmness descends into him. The strife is reduced, the stress is reduced, the depression is reduced. And that is the index that is being given and there is no change in this. When we read Aurobindonian literature, we get the same thing. The cases of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Shivananda are also the same. No person has given any other definition except quietness, quietitude, silence, peace, happiness, bliss. These are the words. Some of them are used alternatively. Some of them in substitute for each other. Some times they have been added as extra qualities. Maybe it depends upon the way in which they have presented their system. But none of them have given a set of people who would be delivering this peace or calmness or quietitude. Neither in the house of
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