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Want to come out of Problems?

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God and the world can termed as opposites. When God is the subject, world becomes the object or when God is divine, the world is thoroughly mundane. In fact there exists only these two realities, God and World, where God is spiritual and the world is material. God and the world can never go hand in hand just like night cannot approach day. Either day has to make way for night or the other way round. Both cannot be experienced together. Thus, only one has significance for man. Similarly, one practicing spirituality a sadhaka must be extremely conscious of the illusory world around. He must never give up his spiritual discipline at any cost. Every material circumstance is the projection of the mundane mind which is the weapon used by Maya devi to deviate one from the goal. One must be steadfast and realize that God is the master and the world, (which includes us) is the servant. Just like: The man outside the well can only help the one who is stuck inside it.... Only God, who i...

Faith: The policy of Spirituality

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Faith is the most important quality for a spiritual aspirant. This is because its very meaning  is dicey. Faith means having no personal existence or in other words,  complete dependence. The very policy of spirituality is to forsake oneself. The 'self' in this context refers to the false identification to the body and mind. In the material platform, we are recognized by our name which can be changed, possessions which can be lost or the body which can perish. In this very world we have no permanence. We cannot find permanence in the minds of people nor our body can be maintained to the extent of achieving permanence. Everything in this material platform changes with time, place and circumstances. The past becomes ancient and after a point is forgotten. This is the case with all tenses of time. Everything changes with the wheel of time. But however, there is something that remains constantly, because of which one comes to the conclusion of - impermanence in this world. T...