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We all have infinite power inside, but these particles form a covering and limit our power. Negative karmas bind us like iron shackles; they are difficult to break. Positive vibrations hold us lightly like a golden chain; they are easy to break when the time comes. In the meantime, they take us to our destination by filling us with love instead of ill will, with appreciation instead of jealousy, with compassion instead of callousness, and with awareness instead of imbalance.
Now how can we remove the particles before they bind us? The first principle is samvara or stop. You stop any negative thoughts even before they start, or at least before they can gather any momentum. Otherwise, there is a downgoing movement which ends in some abyss, we don't know where. The second principle is nirjara which means evaporate, drop down, shed down. If, you have not become aware of a negative thought until ten or twenty minutes later, or the next day, and if you have already allowed it to settle in your consciousness, then you get rid of the particles which have accumulated by nirjara.
You say to yourself: "I want to free myself from that event. If I keep that thought in me, then I am
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