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destroy themselves but bring destruction to the whole world.
The one solution that emerges from all this is: the need to know the natural mode and the yogic modes. The cause for the manifestation of the natural mode and the key to the transformation of the yogic mode lies in being the knower and not the consumer. Only knowing, not consuming. We should know the event, not experience it. We should not get carried away by the event. The one who gets carried away will never be able to understand reality. Only the one who is standing on the shore can understand the event, not one who has been carried away by the flow. The one who gets carried away gets caught in quicksand. The one standing on the shore can understand all that is happening.
Meditation is a method of knowing. Know, know every event. It is not bad to know. Not only the good events, know the bad ones too. Not only the likeable events but also the disliked events. When knowing happens then nothing is bad or good. Nothing is liked or disliked. Like-dislike, good-bad, beautifulugly, these are things that happen after experiencing an event. It has no links with getting to know.
Acharya Mahaprajna
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