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Liberation from the Cycle of Birth and Death
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father with a stick, grabbed the box, and ran. At that moment, the volcano erupted and the whole village was buried, father and son as well. Their relationship was superficial, based on need and greed. Their mutual protection was only to get material gain.
So become a spectator. See how the rich become poor, the young become old, the great become small. It is a joy to watch. The ornament changes but the gold remains.
Observe your form. It is beautiful. See who is in the center of your form, who animates all this. Who gives feeling to the body, allowing it to sense and to feel? Who gives voice to the throat and taste to the tongue? Who gives the sense of smell to the nose? Who gives light and sight to the eyes and hearing to the ears? Who gives awareness to the mind? When you realize that you are the one animating all your senses, you will stop accepting false beliefs and outside supports. You will have persuaded your doorkeeper mind to open the door and let you in-to see your own reality. Once you experience this changeless center of yourself, you exclaim, “That reality is here! That reality is I!”
Now you watch the circumference from the center. You observe life from that point which views all points. You are in a state of equanimity. You are not caught up with each turn of the wheel. In this way, you are free, not from past karmas which continue to move the wheel of samsara round and round, but from the ignorance which formerly made you cling to the changing elements themselves. Freed from the swings of mood, you glimpse the real freedom of moksha.
With this glimpse, you have the power to use your will to make decisions, to change what you want to change, even to heal your body. You know that you have at your
| SR No. | 002013 |
| Book Title | Twelve Facets of Reality |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chitrabhanu |
| Publisher | New York Dodd Made & Company |
| Publication Year | 1980 |
| Total Pages | 180 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Religion, & Sermon |
| File Size | 9 MB |