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72 Twelve Facets of Reality
to master, hold, or possess something or someone is an outside influence. That influence will subside only when you see in your experience that there is nothing in the world of forms which you can hold on to permanently.
Why does this kind of hypnotic trance occur? It occurs because of your having an obsession with the body. To break the dependency, you have to see the elements of the body as they are. Otherwise, there is no end to the ways in which mind and senses become entranced.
Now let us become more aware of the process the unaware mind goes through when it is influenced. Observe the person whose eye is attracted by a beautiful face; all the senses respond in that direction. He begins to have thoughts of how to meet, and before long his mind is making plans about the person. If he allows himself to be driven in this way, without checking his thought or behavior patterns, the circle of thinking will continue. By comparison with this new fantasy, his marriage and family will begin to seem dull and uninteresting. His mind will have gone somewhere else. So he uses all his energy to get what he expects to be fresh excitement. You can see that the cause of divorce is the mind in which the seed of attraction has taken root.
The mind continues to find some excuse to reinforce its growing seed of desire. The person who might otherwise have been bothered if his wife did not ask him, "What did you do today? Where were you?" now becomes irritated by these same questions. Before his mind started playing games with him, he would have appreciated her interest in his work. This same man now thinks, "My wife is putting her nose into my activities." Or he rationalizes by saying, "She is a hindrance to my growth. She doesn't give me space."
Once a person allows this seed of attraction to grow,
| 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 |