Vivekachoodamani : ( 05/05/2013. )

27/10/2018 If a person has gained an intuitive glimpse of the Reality even for a brief *moment, samsaara – the perception and persecutions of the ever-changing *phenomenal world – is destroyed, root and branch. The *root is the non-apprehension of Reality (avidya). ‘Ending samsaara along with its root’ means, when *Truth is apprehended, non-apprehension of *Reality vanishes and the consequent misapprehensions depart from the *bosom of a man of true God-realisation. The qualities of self-restraint, self-control, *purity and so on, can bear *fruit only when they are in an individual who has a complete sense of detachment born out of *discrimination and a burning *aspiration to surmount the limitations of his mortal *existence. ***

0710/2018 Contemplate upon the Self, ‘with great care’– Meaning slowly (savadhanam). You cannot force open a bud and make it a *flower. It must take its own *time. A forcibly opened up flower will not have real *beauty or true fragrance. Never hurry up. Let it take its own time. All that we have to do is to put ourselves on the rails, on the right track, running in the right *direction. We shall reach in time our coveted *destination. Therefore, very very carefully and slowly, may you gain a state of inner *peace, fully abiding in the *Self. ***