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As I look within me, there is one part which is luminous, wants the Divine and at the same time there is this another dark part which is creating so much trouble. Sometimes thoughts linger on desires and ambition and I consciously pull them back; sometimes past wrong tendencies come up. ๐Ÿชท๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป […]

This division is in everybody. It is by sadhana that one becomes one-pointed. It takes long time. Faith, sincerity, aspiration and surrender hastens the process.

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I get the feeling that my younger brother and his partner aren’t happy about the idea of โ€‹โ€‹me going to another country. Whenever I bring it up, their responses don’t seem very enthusiastic; plus, since itโ€™s a business run by my brother and his friend, it sounds like staying there would essentially be like working a regular job. ๐Ÿงญ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ[…]

It is important to be independent, financially and otherwise. Lower movements are everywhere. There is no place upon earth where one can completely escape them.

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Poverty

It is a world which has emerged from the Inconscient and these things [poverty and misery] are results of the imperfect working of the human

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Alok da, I was going through this work by the philosopher Descartes called Rules for the Direction of the Mind. So much of this work is about how to better purify the various human faculties of sense perception, memory, judgment, imagination, etc., so that one can observe minute facts of nature with precision and without prejudiced universal presuppositions and arrive at a true universal knowledge, which is arrived at only after mastery of minute particulars. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ“–๐ŸŒ„[…]

Certainly the Hindus knew the various means of purifying the mind and intelligence and, during the heydays of ancient India, the Vedic period and even

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