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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-10

 

From Surging Joy

By Dr Sarada Nataragan

 

We too suffer life in the world by choice, not by force…We forget

that so long as our lives are poisoned by the illusion of identity

we have to undergo the effects of poisoning.(21)…Repeatedly we are

told that if we cling to our limited identities, if we nurture our

sense of separateness, we are bound to be plagued by sorrow and

fear, by anger and distress, by conflict and tension…Any desire, any

thought springing from the sense of " I " carries traces of the same

poison…Good actions, good thoughts, good motives, all these become

polluted when the idea of `my' or `I' is superimposed on them.(22)…

Saddest of all is our addiction to desire…Where does the solution

lie?...We can pursue every ideal, fulfill every dream, achieve every

goal, providing we remove the poisonous thought, `my ideal', `my

dream', `my goal' from it. Then the very pursuit will be joyous and

fulfilling. Bhagavan has not asked us to keep away from life in the

world. But he has certainly asked us to inoculate ourselves against

the poison of identity by injecting the serum of self-enquiry. Every

thought must be monitored and only those necessary for the present

action, for the actual work allowed entry. Any thought that has a

trace of identity, of the `ego', of `I am the doer', must

immediately be nullified by self-enquiry.(23)

 

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