Sunday, October 11, 2015

Memo to buddhi

O buddhi, constantly assess your spiritual progress. Do you see everyone and everything as God at all times? Everything as the One and its Power to be Many at all times? Have you conquered the senses and the desire for sense objects? Have you given up all thoughts? Has even the slightest desire for the guNas vanished and have you become guNAtIta? Have you conquered deha vAsanA and aham vAsanA? Until then don't talk about your accomplishments. Be highly skeptical of your own spiritual  accomplishments and attainments, but never flag in your practice. Even if you feel you've reached level 4 say, assume you are at 3 or even 2. But keep steadfast in your practice. The mark of your accomplishment is steadfastness in practice and no other siddhi. If you pitch yourself low, you have nowhere lower to fall. If you place yourself high it is easy to fall. No one can foretell the vagaries of Destiny, but humility is unfailing as a virtue.

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