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14 MEHER BABA JOURNAL of helplessness in the face of strife and struggle. Further, true detachment does not consist in clinging to the mere formula of 'Neti', 'Neti' which sometimes becomes an obsession of the mind without any deepfelt longing for enlightenment. Such interest in the mere formula of negation often exists side by side with an inward dwelling on the temptations. Detachment can be integral and whole-hearted only when it becomes a part and parcel of one's nature. The negative assertion of 'no', 'no' is the only way of unwinding the positive sanskaras gathered through evolution and human lives. But though this process THE NEGATIVE SANSKARAS MUST ALSO DISAPPEAR BEFORE EN- LIGHTENMENT does destroy the positive sanskaras, it results in the formation of the negative sanskaras which, in their own way, condition the mind and create a new problem. The assertion of 'no', 'no' has to be sufficiently powerful to effect the eradication of all the physical, subtle and mental sanskaras; but after it has served its purpose, it has to be ultimately abandoned. The finality of spiritual experience does not consist of a bare negation. To bring it under a negative formula is to limit it by means of an intellectual concept. The negative formula has to be used by the mind to decondition itself, but it must be renounced before the ultimate goal of life can be attained. Thought has to be made use of in order to overcome the limitations set up by its own movement; but, when this is done, it has to be itself given up. This
THE REMOVAL OF SANSKARAS 15 amounts to the process of going beyond the mind; and it becomes possible through non-identification with the mind or its desires. To look upon the body as well as all thoughts and lower impulses objectively is to get established in blissful detachment and to negate all the sanskaras. This means freeing the soul from its self-imposed illusions like 'I am the body', 'I am the mind' or 'I am desire' and gaining ground towards the enlightened state of 'I am God,' 'Anel Haque', or 'Aham Brahmasmi'. (To be continued)
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