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is this: Give up the external and through the internal or subjective state reach the supreme state. This contains a volume of meaning. The growth must be from within, all other sciences and outside influences are unly helps and auxiliaries. To give up the external is no easy thing.
There are four things difficult to obtain by the soul. Firt, buman condition. This took millions of years; Second, hearing the the truth. Truth speakers are few because there is usually soine personal end to gain. The majority of human beings are so engrossed with worldly airns that they have no time to listen to the truth; Third, Right faith in the truth. Many understand the truth who do not belive in it. They consider it reflects honor on them to doubt everything. Fourth, Practice of the truth. We must go step by step in this direction. There is only one way, and that is to do it, and it must be done by our own will. Nothing can compel us. The smallest seed of Spirit within us is always trying to unfold. Obstacles are self-created. We inust remove fhem by our own force.
In the history of a soul there is a critical point in the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desire and go forward. This done, progress is assured. A philosopher has used as an illustration of
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