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An Approach 61
4. The inability to know the difference between one’s spirit
and its subtle sensing tools, is not just that lack of
knowledge, but it serves as a mental and emotional
environment, which is productive of and supportive of the
other conflicts of identity, and energy. These conflicting
energies may be dormant, reduced, appearing periodically
or expanding fully.
5. That spiritual ignorance is revealed to someone when he
realized that what he considered to be eternal was
temporary, and what was pure was actually impure, what
was joyful was in fact distressful and what was spiritual
was mundane.
6. The compelling tendency to react to other influences
occurs when one cannot distinguish between the viewingsensing
power and what is seen through it.
7. The impulsive urge to link with other factors emotionally
creates as a result, a craving for repeated contact with
those factors and a devoted attachment to any pleasure
experienced by such contact.
8. The strong urge to dislike certain factors arises as a need
for conflict and disharmony. It is an attachment to
distress.
9. The instinctive fear of death is the subtle body’s way of
showing its dislike for having to repeatedly give up gross
forms in an unpleasant way. To counteract the effects of
this, the subtle form exhibits a strong focus on mundane
existence. These energies operate even in the psyche of a
wise man.
10. The mental and emotional conflicts are to be nullified by
squelching their eruptions so that when they arise within
the mind or emotions, their urges are inhibited or forced
back into dormancy or potentiality.
11. The mental or emotional eruptions are to be squelched by
developing a meditation habit whereby the attention
effortlessly links to a higher concentration force or person.
12. Impressions of everything encountered do lodge in the
mind and are stored there but this stored energy is itchy
and troublesome. An advanced yogi may perceived those
stored impressions which erupts into mental and emotional
distress and is even felt by persons who are not yogis.