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Creative control (Sublimation): Selfless service

While meditation on the personal and impersonal aspects of God requires withdrawal of consciousness into the sanctuary of […]

Creative control (Sublimation):  In Meditation no new sanskaras are formed and old ones are dispersed

 

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Meditation is deep and constant concentration upon an ideal object. In such concentration upon an ideal object, the person is […]

“All worship returns to me”

 

Christ knew he would be crucified and felt it. He was all bliss. His suffering was universal, but alongside, he was on all […]

Creative control: Sublimation diverts the mental energy locked up in old sanskaras

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Spiritual progress is thus characterized by the dual aspect of renouncing the false values of […]

Creative control (sublimation): The process – Replacing lower values with higher is a process of readjustment

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The mind, becoming accustomed to certain habits of thought and response, does not find it easy to adjust itself to […]

Creative control (sublimation): The process – Replacing lower values with higher values

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However, if control is purely mechanical and aimless, it defeats its own purpose, which is to make possible the free and […]

Creative control (Sublimation): The need

Control of the habitual tendencies of the mind is much more difficult than control of physical actions. The fleeting and evasive thoughts and desires […]

Keep your mind always towards the goal

 

Questioner: I am trying to realize the greater things in life, but find it extremely difficult to reconcile myself with the surroundings, which […]

A clean, open, receptive heart

 

Questioner: The East is mystical, the West practical.

Baba: The practical mind of the West and the mystical mind of the East must […]

The role of duality

 

Questioner: If God is in everything, why is this evil prevalent in the world…this sort of “disproportion”?

 

Baba: God is One, Infinite, […]