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  ================================================================================================================== Sunday 21, June 2026. 07:50. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Objects of Sense - 3. Post-20. ======================================================================================================= I have already given the definition of the universal. The universal does not necessarily mean the Supreme or the Absolute Universal. Even a tendency towards it can be regarded as a universal, just as a student studying in the third standard is called a student undergoing education, and an Oxford post-graduate is also undergoing education. Whatever be the class in which we are reading, we are regarded as undergoing education. Likewise, we are moving towards the universal even if we have taken only half a step, or even less than that. Badrinath is 160 miles from here, but even if we take one step in that direction, it is a movement...

  ======================================================================================================= Tuesday 26, May 2026. 20:30. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Objects of Sense - 2. Post-19. ======================================================================================================= We can only say, in the language of the Upanishads, that this fall ended in a sort of makeshift between the condition into which the consciousness fell and the longing which it cherished in its own self. It is like the League of Nations. Internally we are at war with one another, but we sit at a single table and talk on world peace. The League of Nations failed. It never worked well, and it does not exist any more. Likewise, consciousness had no other alternative than to reconcile itself with the fall, at the same time not forgetting that it is impossible for it to continue in that fallen condition. We are in a prison, and we cannot escape ...

  ======================================================================================================= Saturday 02, May 2026. 06:25. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Objects of Sense - 1. Post-18. ======================================================================================================== Spiritual life is the intensive and systematic disentanglement of oneself from the clutches of unspiritual forces, all which arise from what we call the consciousness of externality. This is what is called Vritra, to whom I made reference yesterday from the Mahabharata. The consciousness of externality is the consciousness of space, time and objectivity. It is this that is harassing us every day—night and day, from birth to death. This is also called the trouble arising from sense perception, due to which we say the senses have to be controlled, and so on. The senses, their activity, the outward projection of the mind, the consciousness o...

======================================================================================================= Wednesday 08, April  2026, 18:45. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 3: Being Utterly Spiritual in Our Aspirations: 4. Post-17. ======================================================================================================= We go into our rooms or hide ourselves in caves due to fear from society. Why do we fear society so much? Sometimes when the inner forces, urges, passions, desires, are very violent—when they become uncontrollable—we may plunge into the midst of society, not with an intention of conquering these urges, but to forget them. There are people who, when they get very angry, go for a long walk. Well, it is one of the ways of forgetting the trouble that is in our head. But that is not a solution, because we have not found out why we have got angry. Or somebody has insulted us in public, and we cannot bear it. We get fed up, take a ticke...