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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
convert a busy city into a big forest. But if a man has no abstraction or concentration he will find a big city in the thick of the forest Aspirants should watch and test the mind always. They should try to keep this perfect balance. Real meditation gives immense inner strength. If one cannot realize this inner peace and strength, surely there is some error in Sadhana or meditation. Building castles in the air or Manoraja, Tandri and Alasya, sleepy state, brooding, and other negative states of the mind should not be mistaken for Samadhi or meditation. Untrained, inexperienced aspirants always make mistakes and are deluded.
A microscopic minority only are fit for full and deep meditation The vast majority should combine meditation with action in the beginning. When they really advance in meditation, they can slowly give up action.
7. KILL DESIRE Arjuna said. “But, dragged on by what does a man commit sin, reluctantly indeed, O Varshneya, as it were by force constrained>" The Blessed Lord said. “It is desire, it is wrath, begotten by the quality of mobility, all-consuming and all-polluting—know thou this as our foe here on earth. As a flame is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as an embryo is wrapped by the amnion, so this is enveloped by it. Enveloped is divine wisdom by this constant enemy of the wise in the form of desire,
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