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The Noose Around Our Necks (Part Three)

Peace, goodness, happiness and virtue are not objectives that can be achieved by the action of desire. While we may certainly desire happiness and peace, such blessings can never be won by motivated action. They blossom of their own accord when the conditions are appropriate. These conditions have always been non-interference and non-resistance. As Maharaj […]

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The Noose Around Our Necks (Part Two)

The reason why resistance to evil fails to overcome evil, but merely entrenches it, is because it seeks to impose change from without. People cannot be compelled to change their nature. They can, however, be impelled to do so, when they have come to see the error of their ways. The idea that the world […]

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The Noose Around Our Necks (Part One)

We are all victims of mistaken identity. We know that we exist. And we all share a sense of identity which manifests inside of us as a feeling of “I am”. We believe that this “I am” sensation originates within our physical bodies, and that our minds are the products of our brains, and that […]

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