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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
does not earn and often suffers losses makes his father disgusted with and enraged by him. His love for the son becomes suppressed by anger. This is because the father's mind is coditioned by the experience of pleasure and pain and loss and gain. If he has three sons and only one of them earns, he will be more attached to and affectionate to the earning son. He will disregard the other two and become averse to them.
The awareness of duality creates many problems which have no end, Power and knowledge when opposed by ignorance and passions often fail. If we desire to become free from grief and sorrows and other problems, we will have to put an end to the sense of duality.
No body likes perplexing problems. That is why he is eager to do away with the feeling of duality. There will be no end to grief and sorrows so far as duality continues Hence the need to get rid of them.
There is a natural inclination in man to look beyond meterial objects and pleasures they give. Those who live a life of poverty and want to remain unaware of this inclination; their energies are solely directed towards earning the material means of life. But those who have tasted material pleasures show an inclination to see beyond the material world. Pleasurable experiences are always followed by painful situations and unpleasant feelings. The more one acquires material amenities, the more does he realise that a sea of worries lies ahead. Hence bis search for lasting joys which can bear fruit only by a unity of experience.
Every body remains surrounded by an aura or a circle of light. This light is visible around material objects also. Every non-living object or gross body also emits rays of light. This is the principle on which photography works. A man even when he has left the place he had occupied can be photographed at the place he has left in absentia. If the light around men and objects were not there, the object or the man can not be photographed. We can not see the aura. However there is a method of perceiving it. Sit down in a dark room in which no ray of light can enter from outside and try to perceive your hand. You will not be able to perceive it, but you will certainly perceive a faint glow of light around it. If
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