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Pravin Kumar
Age: 61 Zodiac: 
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:24 am |
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This is one way to look at things. It is possible that you also might have been sent away from each door that night, and that you might have felt angry all night. You might have felt so much hatred, so much anger towrds those people that perhaps you might not have noticed the flowers blossoming in the cherry tree and you would not have seen the moon rising, let alone experienced a feeling of gratitude. You would not have experienced any of these things.
There is anothe way to relate to life -- and that is when you are filed with gratitude for everything in life. And you must remember that during these three days, feel gratitude for everything. Feel gratitude for what you receive and don't be bothered about what you don't receive. This is the basis of gratitude. It is on this base that carefreeeness and simplicity are born inside you.
To summarize, I would like to say that in these three days you will relentlessly try to go inside, to meditate and to enter into silence. On this journey, a very firm resolve is needed. The conscious mind where all the thought processes take place is only a small part; the rest of the mind is still deeper If we were to divide the mind into tenparts, the conscious mind would be only one part, the other nine parts are the unconscious mind. Our thinking and reasoning take place in only one part, but the rest of the brain is not aware of this. The rest of the brain has no sense of it. When we make a conscious resolutin to meditate, to enter into samadhi, ultimate bliss, the major part of our brain remains ignorant of this resolution. This unconscious part of our brain remains ignorant of this resolution. This unconscious part will not support us in this resolution. But if we don't get support from it we cannot succeed. To get support, a determined, conscious effort is needed. I will now explain how to make this conscious effort.
When you wake up, let it be with determination, and at night when you go to bed, when you lie down on your bed, think over your resolution for five minutes and repeat it to yourself as you go to sleep.
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