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tell me, how is it you decided to come and reveal the truth to me?”
His friend confessed, “Your approach was always penetrating me. It created a different atmosphere. Your willingness to drop the matter and stay calm even though you lost your costly things gave a different example before my eyes. I saw you in a new light. That made me repent and see myself. Then recently I felt you so strongly that I had to find you and get rid of that part of me which is low. I want to be like you."
Munishree held his friend's hand. “Thank you. You have done a good thing. Now you are free from guilt and shame. I forgave you long ago, and admire you for taking the courage to come and speak frankly to me here."
His friend went away happy, light, and unburdened, and Munishree marveled at the power of positive vibrations.
Freeing myself, eventually my friend came to understand freedom. So if you are free, sooner or later, you are able to free someone else. This universe works so precisely. It is wonderful.
This awareness of the importance of forgiveness made the upayoga of sleep meaningful to him. When he had cleared his mind before sleep, he enjoyed the depth and peace of yoganidrā, and those hours in which both body and mind were in deep slumber became fewer, yet more concentrated and intense. That happened when he no longer had to work out restlessness and unresolved problems in dreams. His dreamless sleeps were deeply restful and rejuvenating.
Sometimes, in a quiet state of yoganidrā, something would dawn upon the surface of his mind. In his third year of the monkhood, someone gave him a gift on his birthday. He did not have a chance to open the present before he went to bed, but he had the thought, “I wonder what is in the package.” During the night, his mind's eye opened the package, saw that it was a book, and read certain pages. The next morning he got up and opened the gift. He saw exactly what he had visualized in his mental film. It was a small glimpse, but he realized that when the mind is uncluttered, the unknown reveals itself and becomes known.
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