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and not in the center. But when you say, "I have light within me I have inherent live energy of conviction, I have the power to remove the revenge and bitterness of all the years in my realization; I can do it!", that is called samyag darshana. And when you are convinced of your awareness, you are able to do it.
The mind seeks temporary relief and solutions to the problems. To get a permanent solution, to go to the root of all the problems, comes only from right understanding, right guidance, deep faith in oneself. To have faith in oneself is not easy. For that we must direct our energy inside, towards our self. And we are not accustomed to that. We are in the habit of directing our energy outside towards something or someone else.
To work on ourself, we put faith in ourself, we come closer to ourself. We take responsibility for ourself to make what we want of this life. For that we need constant awareness. The experience of our center starts from here. From the moment this insight is experienced, one knows how to deal with the world of matter, the world at large. Then one knows not to cover the consciousness with anything which does not lead in the direction of evolution. When anything causes devolution, immediately the consciousness becomes aware of it, and stops this downward process. It recognizes that this is not the nature of consciousness.
As soon as one knows the nature of Self, then one sees that reality does not go against that nature. In
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