Overcome Habitual Thoughts

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All sorts of habitual thoughts, concerning the body, the dress, the food, and so

on, must be overcome through the Atma-Chintana, or reflection on the Nature of

the divine Self within one's own Heart. This is an uphill work. It demands

patient, incessant practice and inner spiritual strength.

 

Srutis emphatically declare: " This Atman cannot be obtained by weak persons. "

Sincere aspirants dedicate their whole being to contemplation of the Eternal,

having withdrawn their affection from the world of sense-objects.

 

Those who have destroyed the Vasanas and host of habitual thoughts will enjoy

their final beatitude in the Brahmic seat, replete with trust, quiescence and

equality. They will have equal vision over all. This mischievous and powerful

mind generates all pains and all fears, all sorts of diversities, heterogeneity,

distinctions and dualities and destroys all noble, spiritual wealth. Slay this

troublesome mind.

 

When the seen and the sight merge into one another in the seer, then is the

experience of Ananda (bliss). This is Turiya state. Then one sees the

illimitable Jnana, Atman only everywhere. All sorts of distinctions and

dualities vanish now entirely.

 

Thoughts of attraction, and thoughts of repulsion, likes and dislikes,

Raga-Dvesha are annihilated in toto. Then the sage will not be conscious of the

existence of the body, though working in it. He will never lose his control even

amidst the many illusions of the world, like a woman who performs her household

duties whilst her mind is engrossed in her paramour at a distance. The sage will

always centre his mind on Brahman.

 

May you always be performing only those virtuous actions that will help you in

the attainment of Jnana, without any thought of worldly prosperity in the

future. May you live drowned in the ocean of Brahmic Delight, in a state of full

illumination, having destroyed all dualities, distinctions and differences!