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GURUDEV SHREE CHITRABHANU
plined. When you downgrade someone else through envy or a desire to elevate yourself, remember the professor of mathematics who drew a line on a blackboard and asked his class to shorten it without erasing or touching it. Only one pupil could solve the puzzle. He drew a much longer line parallel to the original line. So stop any impulse to cut down another and instead draw a longer line for yourself.
2. Pray. Lift up to your higher dimensions. When you pray you are opening a window within yourself. Prayer means communication with your higher self. From that summit you can see endless vistas of light and energy. Einstein was able to contact the energy of the atom through his soul's energy.
3. Connect. You have communicated, you have opened the window and seen the infinite resource you have there. Now stretch out your hand, saying; “Let me have it." Go inside, let the light rush into you.
4. Progress. Walk forward in that light. For this you may need a teacher who can help you remain in contact with this higher energy within. In his company and with his influence, you are able to go further. When you falter, he lifts you—“Come on.” As the music of a band revives a soldier, a teacher lifts your spirits in the same way.
To remain in a state of light and affirmation is very difficult. If you are with negative people and are out of sorts yourself, in a few days every gain you have made is gone. The teacher has painted beautiful things, but they are washed out as if a bucket of water had been washed over a water color. You must stay consistent and know that if you are in contact with the main thing, your higher consciousness, everything that you need will flow from it.
When you finally learn to know this most important personage dwelling within you, this king of kings, the healing process takes place. You accumulate no more adverse karma since the strength and measure of the