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and even for old people to follow anekanta. Sometimes I wonder how some of the old and seemingly illiterate women who partake in the workshops on meditation will be able to grasp its essentials. How will they be able to practice meditation? But when I hear of their experiences and the results of their long durations of meditation I feel that the ease and determination with which these illiterate women understand and practice meditation, many very well read women do not.
Meditation and experience are pathways to the inner
The knowledge of meditation and experience is not bookish knowledge. Meditation is not closely linked with youth or old age. It is the way to the inner self, the way to assess the inner world. The man who has been able to estimate the value of the inner world will move ahead on this path. But one who has not assessed the inner world, but has concentrated on the world of circumstances alone, will not be able to move ahead on this path.
Living around the self: living around others
Assess the self and others. Assess both but from
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