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Sadguru's advice is reassuring . . .
The pursuit of the three fold path is the transition of the atma into the form of knowledge, in the form of the faith and into the form of the conduct. The absorption of all these three in a concurrent thought by the atma, is the accomplishment of the pursuit.
How essential the appearance of that state is for such a pursuit has been told before and the tremendous internal effort has been termed as imperative for that. As the Soul gradually stabilises in the true form of the self, the affected disposition gets dissolved on its own. It does not need to be abandoned.
Our effort is on in the wrong direction. We are making an effort first to stop the fickleness of the mind, the affected thoughts like anger and such. But unless the jiva stabilises in the Darshan guna, the charitra guna does not appear. The sentiments of anger etc. are aberrations of conduct. Hence, the internal effort is to dispel the mithyatva and for settling in the Self. Unless there is stability in the true self, an outwardly ready jiva may well be satisfied that he is understanding the charitra, but his affected disposition does not leave him.
A Sanyasi while once returning after bathing in the river Ganga, was touched by an untouchable - chandala. That he was touched by an untouchable became a big issue as if the sky had fallen. And the Sanyasi 's soul which should have been quiet and peaceful, was turbulent with anger. There was a give and take of harsh words and then fisticuffs. The Sanyasi was frail and the Chandala was hefty. The Sanyasi had his bones broken. With great difficulty he extricated himself and came back to his hermitage and his attendant deity appeared. The event had been insulting. Anger and ego within had not yet been subjugated. He started abusing the deity. 'How is it that you did not come to my rescue?' The deva said, ‘Maharaj! I had indeed come there, but
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