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yourself: “Let me use my extra sense, my inner sense, my wisdom and intelligence to turn every event into joy, into understanding, into creativity." It is a challenge. Take it up. Try only for a year and see. The wisdom of pragna will dawn upon you.
This extra sense requires constant use to make it work properly. If you break a hand and it is in plaster for a month, when the cast is removed and you try to stretch your hand, you will not be able to do so. Your hand has become useless. To bring it back to proper working order, you have to massage and exercise it every day for several days. Then the hand will do things for you. In the same way, people who do not use this extra sense will find it has become numb. In fact, for most people, it is so numb that they do not think they possess it. They say, “The masters have it, but we don't." They accept that they are lesser mortals and try and make do without it. I call this spiritual bankruptcy-not to realize, understand and feel the inner intelligence which is the essence of this universe.
Great teachers do not take pleasure in people worshipping them; they are not on this earth to respond to flattery. Words of praise mean nothing to them. They exist to show mankind that pragna is the birthright of each soul, that we all have this strength inside, that we have to exercise it. It may take some time and patience. If you use your broken hand too quickly and try to force it, you may break it again and be back where you started. You bring it into action slowly and gradually. We must treat this inner energy in the same way.
In the morning and in the evening, put aside some time to be alone for a while. The journey to the unknown
