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Friday, January 8, 2010
Mind attains that for which it strives
Sage Vasishtha:
When this mind confidently engages in self-effort, then it is beyond the reach of sorrow. Whenever it strives, then and there it surely finds the fruition of its striving. When the mind dwells constantly on what is pure, it is immune to the effects of curses. The body may fall into fire or mire, but the mind experiences only that which it contemplates.
Mental and physical illness, as well as curses and 'evil-eye' do not touch the mind that is devoted to the self, any more than a lotus flower can split a rock into two by falling on it. Hence, one should endeavor with the mind to make the mind take to the pure path, with the self make the self tread the path of purity. By intense contemplation it can bring about radical change within itself, to heal itself of the defective vision in which illusions were perceived as real.
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