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as above. This is definite that the one who has not experienced meditation cannot enter the limits of experience. His entry is barred.
The success of practice
Those who have sat down for meditation for the first time say after ten days that they could never have imagined that such an experience was possible. When there was no question of imagination, how could they have imagined? How can a man standing at a distance imagine? It is not the subject for imagination. The one who has not dipped into himself, who has not tried himself, how can he imagine the benefits or results of meditation? How can a man sitting on the shores of an ocean estimate its depth? Only the one who has dived into the ocean can describe its depths. We know our outer self, not our inner self. Many people spend their lives knowing just their outer self. They never get an opportunity to go within. Are they able to see all that is within? No they are not. They do not know what lies within. Only the one who goes deep into meditation, takes long dips in spirituality, knows the principles operating within. Many of those who
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