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12. Contemplation is necessary for progress on the path.
13 What is the difference between your process and mine when we both try to avoid rúga (attachment) and doesha (aversion)?
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different forms of life. Meditation and contemplation do not certainly mean day-dreaming. Contemplate, if you can, in agreement with truth; but if you cannot, then don't contemplate at all. Nature can never actually and permanently accept a false suggestion, however forcibly given. One cannot make oneself a dog actually and permanently by auto or hetero suggestion; neither can one render that unconscious whose very nature is consciousness
12. Yes, but not day-dreaming. Our idea of contemplation has nothing in common with the dreamy state of consciousness you try to force on yourself. Contemplation for us means a process which augments the purity of consciousness, finally making it omniscient.
13. You should know that the effect can never be the same where the causes are different. You avoid raga and dveshu for things of this world to be free to enjoy your own mental creations, but we give them up to remove the impurities of our soul. Your case resembles that of Prof. Macran's Roman convict whose indifference to his convict's life only arose from his greater attachment for the beautiful wife and family of his dreams whom he was "so anxious to meet."
This is clearly raga which is a cause of bondage. In our case there are no dreams and visions to be attached to. We do not give up one thing to fall in love with another. The difference between the results, yours and
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