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some times shudder, when evil thoughts enter your mind. This is a sign of your spiritual progress. You will be much tormented when you think of your evil actions committed in the past. This is the sign of your spiritual upheaval. Your body will quiver when ever a wrong thought urges you to do the same act through force of habit. Continue your meditation with full vigour and earnestness. All memories of evil actions etc will die by themselves. Then you will be established in perfect purity and peace.
The old evil thoughts try to attack you revengefully and with redoubled force at the time, when you try to raise good, divine thoughts, There is a law of resistance in nature. The evil thought assert and say "O man ! do not be cruel you have allowed us to stay in your mental factory from time immemorial. We have to every right to abide here, we will not vacate our abode.” Do not be discouraged. Go on with your practice of meditation regualrly. At last these evil thoughts will be thinned out and die out.
The very fact that you feel uneasy now when an evil thought comes to the surface of the mind during meditation, indicates that you are growing in spirituality.
Remember ! worldly people judge a man by his
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