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VICHAR MALA.
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As grains boiled or parched in fire cannot germinate and fructify, so is a theosophist weakened in all material desires; ar he has none of them.
Why then are theosophists found to differ in practice? Some show a disinclination, others a predilection; therefore it cannot be maintained that they are without desire of material enjoyments and it has ceased.
Anath! theosophists all have One doctrine as their own;
From ignorance alone Is produced a variety of opinion.
Though theosophists are a numerous body of men, yet they have one doctrine in common, which they practise as mentioned elsewhere:-"What am I to do, where am I to go." "What am I to take and what forsake? Because my self is full of all things just as in cylic deluge the whole universe is covered over with water." All theosophists have this knowledge to a certainty; and ignorant persons are distracted by many things which they believe to be certain truths; but of them it is impossible to say, so many are the varieties and so numerous are they. As Bashistha said to Ramchundra :-"All theosophists including myself have certain knowledge of the secondless Reality but of ignorant persons I am quite unable to say what their various certainties are."
But then, a wise person may not have any desire due to himself, but he may have it for another, or influenced by another's desire. remove this misapprehension, it is
said. To the wise,
Service of many inds does a man of merit. While a bad man treats him unkindly. But he drinks that indignity, And is neither pleased nor offended.
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