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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
go away and seek some other abode. Do not expect anything here. Brother Pride, you should also depart now. Mother Deceit, you have nothing to do here. You may also leave. Brother Greed, please quit and go anywhere you like.”
Anger, pride, deceit and greed remain active only during the time when we are not wakeful. Once we have become wakeful. they disperse. They are like burglers who enter a house while the owner is sleeping. They run away as soon as he is awake.
Spiritual experiences change the course of life, and turn it towards bliss. Sāmāyika is an exhelerating experience. It is an enlightened experience. It is bliss. The self-experience, the more the sāmāyika and vice versa. Experience of the self and experience of things other than the self are mutually opposite experiences. They can not go together. Two parallel lines never meet. Only an enlightened person says, “I am performing sāmāyika.” There can be no sāmāyika without enlightenment.
Awakening and torpidity punctuate human life continuously, one after the other. It is therefore, necessary to ask how enlightenment can be made lasting. How can a spark be changed into a permanent glow of light ? Will power and a release of mental energy stabilize enlightenment? What we need above all is atonement. Atonement is the first and foremost prerequisite of the feeling of equality. The spiritual traveller travels towards the unknown. The path on which he travels is a path never known by him before. The ideal he wants to achieve is an ideal he has never realized before. The direction towards which he is travelling is a direction unknown to him. He therefore, needs a support and a guide. Compasses guide the ships on the high seas. spiritual traveller also needs a compass. The practitioner, before he puts his foot on the path he wants to walk on, prays for atonement and says, "O Lord ! I present myself to you. I want atonement with you so that my journey may be successful.”
The practitioner performs sāmāyika by keeping the Lord as a witness. He wants to im bibe the highest spiritual force. There is no use accepting an unatoned person as a guide for such a peron is bound to mislead him into indiscipline. The
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