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ultimately some neem tree will grow. We want to makea horse, but it becomes a donkey. Is it not happening?Some people through long years of practice becomeimpractical. Improper practice of wisdom can makeone impractical. Is it not a paradox? It should make onemore practical and more effective. It should enable oneto be more useful to the society. If not, what happensis, that the waters are taken by the personality and notby the soul; the fertility of the field (body) is absorbedby the personality and not by the soul; the fertilizersare also more used by the body than by the soul. Thatis the danger, if we do not regularly and daily askourselves: What am I really doing? What am I to do? –because there can be an unconscious deviation, a drift.Instead of being on the right road, one may have takento a left turn, not knowing. Then it takes a long time tocome back to the right road again. Once one exits thehighway, until one gets the sign ‘U-Turn’, one has tokeep going on the same road. It happens in everyone’slife unless there is a daily introspection.It happened once to a person in Visakhapatnam. InVisakhapatnam the trains that go to the north and thetrains that go to the south, come at the same time tothe station. From Kolkata to Chennai, from north tosouth, Visakhapatnam is the middle point (the Yogapoint). So the trains that come from the north and thetrains that come from south, they meet there. A travellerwho wanted to go to the north entered the train goingto the south. After some travel he asked his neighbour,“Where are you going?” He said, “I am going to south.”Then our traveller said, “This is the scientific age, inthe same train my (this) seat goes to north and your(that) seat goes to south.” Like that, within the groupthere can be persons who are regressing, thinking thatthey are progressing. Many times we are confused, arewe progressing or are we regressing? Are we going upthe steps to the divine temple or are we going down thesteps into the temple inferno?So, daily introspection is needed. What am I to do?Where am I? Am I in my personality and where in mypersonality? The personality itself has many grades:clean mental, prejudice and pride, jealousy and hatred,desire and aversion, ambition and fear. Where are we?Do we have fear? Do we have ambition? When there isambition, there is fear. Do we have aversion? If we haveaversion, we have also desire. If I say, ‘I don’t like this’ itmeans that there are certain things I like. So, not likingis a negative form of desire. See how it is. Are we withaversions? I see many group members suffering fromaversion. It means they have desires unexpressed. Theyput up a spiritual face but are inside full of desires.I am making a scanning of the human personality.Ambition and fear, desire and aversion, jealousy andhatred, pride and prejudice are commonly seen. When20 21
we have prejudice, we have opinions about others.A person who expresses opinions about others is fullof pride. Jesus says, “Judge not.” When we judge, itmeans, we are proud. Whom are we judging? We arejudging a son of man, who is also a son of God. Thesedualities spring up the moment we think of spiritualpractice. They are the first to spring up like weeds.That is why there is much conflict in the groups.Why conflict in the groups when we have come toexperience the soul? Why do we indulge into conflicts?Conflicts emerge, because they are deep down in us.They surface from within. It is better that they surfacethan remain hidden. In the presence of a Teacher allweaknesses surface, so that the aspirant knows himselfor herself better. Is it not better if certain inherentweaknesses are surfaced? If they are surfaced, we cansee and we can work to eliminate them. If they do notsurface, they kill us.Suppose a man is living with a cobra in his bedroom,and he does not know that there is a cobra in thebedroom. Is he not in danger? Why cobra? A cockroachis enough. Because today people fear even a cockroachas much as they fear a cobra. I know persons, whenthere is a cockroach, they shiver – and if they see acobra? Instant death! So, if there is a cobra in the houseand someone tells him that there is a cobra, he can findways and means to catch it and restore it to the forest.That is why the first spiritual impulse coming from thesoul surfaces the weaknesses of the personality. If theinherent, hidden weaknesses are not known to him, hecannot set his first step on the Golden Staircase.22 23
Page 1 and 2: Other books by the author:The Theos
Page 3 and 4: Sri K. Parvathi KumarThe Golden Sta
Page 5 and 6: About the ComposerDr. Sri K. Parvat
Page 7 and 8: Welcome NoteHearty fraternal greeti
Page 9 and 10: mere presence. She was even seen as
Page 11: service to the society, only medita
Page 15 and 16: ourselves in the east and we have t
Page 17 and 18: ecause of the offence we have done
Page 19 and 20: AlignmentThe second aspect of a cle
Page 21 and 22: we meet challenges with ourselves.
Page 23 and 24: grand empires? It was thieving gold
Page 25 and 26: there, he could see no one. The bus
Page 27 and 28: An Open MindThe second step of the
Page 29 and 30: If we have an open mind, we can rec
Page 31 and 32: to his disciples, “Learn to be si
Page 33 and 34: will be in eternal quest, never end
Page 35 and 36: so many millions do it, not because
Page 37 and 38: it through love. So she conquered J
Page 39 and 40: position at that point and wait! Ob
Page 41 and 42: the two peaks. It is through a vall
Page 43 and 44: An Unveiled Spiritual PerceptionRig
Page 45 and 46: A Brotherliness for One’s Co-disc
Page 47 and 48: owner, because of the treatment. He
Page 49 and 50: A small story from out of this stor
Page 51 and 52: Lord Krishna saw the situation. He
Page 53 and 54: just one advice from a wise man may
Page 55 and 56: want to understand the Teacher and
Page 57 and 58: of wisdom. Vivekananda, the Mother
Page 59 and 60: The written scripture is but a symb
Page 61 and 62: A Courageous Endurance of Personal
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the top of it, I have seen you than
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the society. He was invited to the
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cannot take away my food from me. I
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It is an aspect of love that dawns
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