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2/Meditation and Enlightenment: Chandr Prabh
Ganga has originated. Originality lies in Gangotri from where the Ganga has originated, and is going on proceeding towards Gangasagar. Gangotri is but the root, and the rest is making mountain of the mole-hill. These are the xerox copies of an original copy. Positives are many, but their negative is only one.
Life has two paths: The person has to either spread himself outwards, or make himself return within his own self. These are the only two routes to be followed by any human being. The journey of outside-the journey of expansion is also not any dangerous journey. For a person, the journey of the external can also be very fine, and the journey of the internal can be harmful too. If anyone wants to expand himself, well let him do so. But he should not stop after spreading himself only to his family and to the locality he lives in. The person who spreads himself only to his family and his locality is putting shackles of attachment in his legs with his own hands, and the person who goes on spreading himself upto eternity, he realizes the greatness of the Supreme soul. Such a person is abandoning himself in the waves of eternity and is also spreading himself. There is neither attachment nor infatuation. There is only the extension and expanse of the waves of the soul. A person gets drowned just where he gets enchained in the waves of the heart. A person who allows his boat to sail in the waves of the soul, expands himself there. If any person expands himself upto eternity in course of his outward journey, then there is no loss. Do go on expanding yourself upto eternity, upto the last extreme of the cosmos, and then when you commence the journey to return within, even those few steps would be excellent. The expansion outward should be upto eternity, and the editing within should be upto zero. Meditation when you are alone, and love when you are in company. If you accomplish both simultaneously, monkhood would be achieved in the domestic life itself.
Whenever you find yourself lonely in the house, get immersed in your own self, forget the world, the family. Get so much immersed in your own self that the supreme space becomes incarnate, you get entry into the supreme life. When you find
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