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I am the Soul
what are the thoughts that strike your mind? Are they about the material life or the spiritual life? Despite hearing words that invoke spiritual thoughts, if the mind remains preoccupied with material life, if you remain engrossed in the worldly affairs, what else do we expect but thoughts about the material world.
Our speech reflects our thoughts. Just look back upon all that you said on one entire day and compare if you spoke more about material things or about Soul - God - Faith - Devotion. What about the activity? The entire day's activity is centred around self-seeking, perhaps around the wife and family or perhaps for social status; tell me, did you really do anything apart from this for the sake of the Soul?
How will the path of liberation come to the mind when pride and vanity replace true faith, when attachment and aversion replace true knowledge and when passions and carnal desires replace true conduct? How do we possibly see the path of liberation when the knowledge dries up and all activity is possessed of the pursuit of inanimate things. Vanity, material outlook and indulgence have covered up knowledge, faith and character; and penance that is supposed to purify the Soul, often gets buried down under pomp and flourish.
Thus, seen from any angle, we find the mind, speech and body engrossed in the material life. The turmoil of material life is always brewing within. The soul is stuck in the mire of passions and hence the path of liberation is eluding us.
When will this path reveal itself to the being? Only when, deep within, thoughts limiting the material life begin replacing ideas of expanding it. It does not matter whether one is a familyperson; the noble thoughts will guide one to the right path.
Bharat Chakravartin was returning from the conquest of the six continents bursting with an inflated ego. Complacent in his vanity he arrived at the Rishabhakuta mountain. It is said that all Emperors visited this place as a custom, after their victory
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