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Overcome Habitual Thoughts

All sorts of habitual thoughts, concerning the body, the dress, the food, and so on, must
be overcome through the Atma-Chintana, or reflection on the Nature of the divine Self within
one’s own Heart. This is an uphill work. It demands patient, incessant practice and inner spiritual
strength.
Srutis emphatically declare: “This Atman cannot be obtained by weak persons.” Sincere
aspirants dedicate their whole being to contemplation of the Eternal, having withdrawn their
affection from the world of sense-objects.
Those who have destroyed the Vasanas and host of habitual thoughts will enjoy their final
beatitude in the Brahmic seat, replete with trust, quiescence and equality. They will have equal
vision over all. This mischievous and powerful mind generates all pains and all fears, all sorts of
diversities, heterogeneity, distinctions and dualities and destroys all noble, spiritual wealth. Slay
this troublesome mind.
When the seen and the sight merge into one another in the seer, then is the experience of
Ananda (bliss). This is Turiya state. Then one sees the illimitable Jnana, Atman only everywhere.
All sorts of distinctions and dualities vanish now entirely.
Thoughts of attraction, and thoughts of repulsion, likes and dislikes, Raga-Dvesha are
annihilated in toto. Then the sage will not be conscious of the existence of the body, though
working in it. He will never lose his control even amidst the many illusions of the world, like a
woman who performs her household duties whilst her mind is engrossed in her paramour at a
distance. The sage will always centre his mind on Brahman.
May you always be performing only those virtuous actions that will help you in the
attainment of Jnana, without any thought of worldly prosperity in the future. May you live
drowned in the ocean of Brahmic Delight, in a state of full illumination, having destroyed all
dualities, distinctions and differences!