The Pathless PathHis teaching

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  1. The Pathless Path
  2. The Goal of Human Life
  3. Turn to Reality
  4. The Change Must Be Within
  5. Religion is a Matter of Experience
  6. The Touch of Saints and Guru’s Grace
  7. The Divine Name as the Ladder
  8. Faith and Surrender
  9. Hints on Sadhana
  10. Meditation
  11. Samadhi
  12. After Reaching the Height
  13. The Attributes of Man Endowed with Cosmic Vision
  14. Inner Voice
  15. Jivanmukta
  16. Recapitulation
  17. The Path of God-Realisation
  18. One Universal God
  19. Conclusion of “Gita-Sandesh”

The Change Must Be Within

Mere external renunciation is not only not necessary but is not the way.

A man may bring about any change in his external life and environment with a view to gain the inner peace but the solid experience of thousands, who are wandering on the face of the earth in search of suitable environment to attain such a peace, is that they have failed to do so, because the change must be within – in the inner vision.

“Seek within – know thyself”, these secret and sublime hints come to us wafting from the breath of Rishis through the dust of ages.

Moksha is not conditioned by any particular external situation or circumstances. Moksha is the realisation of immortality by the removal of ignorance through the attainment of divine knowledge. It is primarily a change in our internal consciousness and vision. A man, who was placed in a certain situation in the days of his ignorance, may still continue to remain in the same situation even after he has attained divine knowledge.

Sannyas is not a thing which another can impose on you, or initiate you into. Sannyas does not mean shaving the head or donning the orange robes. It signifies a state of internal renunciation of craving for the transitory things of the world. Mere change of dress and appearance without mental detachment is of no use whatsoever.

The root evil is attachment which has sprung from the seed called desire – the criminal cause of ignorance. The eradication of desire and attachment means liberation.

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