Psychology of Enlightenment

SR No.: 001807
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chitrabhanu
Publisher: New York Dodd Made & Company
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Dhyan
File Size: 5 MB

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Anāhata–Love, the Ever-Expanding Circle
ligion. I am amazed that these people have not forgotten our moments together after so much time.
What do you think it is that makes us remember someone and want to communicate with him again? We respond to the good feeling which flows naturally from that person who is emotionally self-sufficient. Meditating on the first energy center with the mantra shivam shānti will help you to establish this sense of self-sufficiency and vitality.
When you have absorbed this peaceful benediction, turn your attention to the second center. Here, indecision gives way to certainty. What you determine to do, you do. The doubt which drains your energy and prevents you from accomplishing your chosen task is merely a weakness of the mind which can be overcome. Everyone possesses a hidden creative potentiality which is activated by belief in oneself. All it needs is the right moment to call it forth.
I'll give you a good example: There was a man in Bombay who became gravely ill. One day his son came to me and persuaded me to visit his father. When I saw the old man, he was too weak to move. It took two nurses to help him from his bed. Several days later, I read in the newspaper that a fire had broken out in the building in which he lived. This man was living on the seventh floor and there were no elevators, so I assumed that it would not have been possible to save him. Then, to my surprise, someone told me that this old man had been the first person to escape. While all the other tenants were gathering their belongings, he rushed ahead of them down the stairs.
After a few days, I visited him especially to verify the story. Again I found him lying in bed with two nurses at
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