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and continuity of practice are the conditions of success in sādhanā.
The fourth achievement of sādhana is the capacity for searching solutions of our problems in our own self. The more we look within, the more do we become detached from the world outside us. Politics is the art of perceiving others. Spiritual exertion is the art of perceiving the self. Politicians hold others to be responsible for our evils. A successful politician saves his own skin by throwing all sorts of blames on his opponents. The spiritualist, on the other hand, is one who holds himself responsible for all sorts of evils. He would never point out the evils in others. Self-perception negates perceiving others. The spiritual practitioner always depends on
s own internal resources. Ignorance of our own spiritual powers compels us to seek external resources. If we knew this we will never go astray.
Whenever we become a prey to inactivity, laziness and infatuation, we should begin to concentrate on the centres of perception in our body. By doing so we will come to feel refreshed in a very short time. The means of getting rid of ignorance, infatuation, add inactivity and laziness lie within ourselves. We need not seek them in the external world. Sit in an easy posture and concentrate on the red colour like that of the rising sun in the centres of perception in your body. Within ten minutes you will feel refreshed and active.
Mental excitement can be subdued by concentrating on the orange colour in the knowledge centres for ten minutes.
One can get rid of all kinds of sex desires by concentration on the light centres situated in the middle of the forehead and by making the breath touch the throat.
These are some of the means of concentrating the mind on the centres of consciousness. The solution of all our problems lies within us.
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