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look after their personal needs and they get caught up and they get very engrossed
with this kind of worldly life do you mean we vilify the horrible people how dare you
you can't help it you see Humanity has to go undergo this process of you know
just resorting themselves out in the family circumstances and sorting their own personal
you know requirements but then you see what will happen is if the stirring up
is from it has to come from within it by the way I don't think it's just external gurus you think
studying has to come from within then the guru will appear and the study is
from inside something is not right I'm just sorting myself out on short term basis when
I look after my personal needs I want a long term resolution when the stirring comes from
within you're looking for a long-term sorting yourself on a long term basis
then the stirring will then allow you to make room make time for kind of making spiritual
progress and how do you do that two two things I would suggest again and again one is this is
my mentor Ram krishna's teaching he said first of all make sure you develop the right company
you make things minor thing it's not minor you see we get caught up with all these kind of companions
who are talking about nothing but worldly Affairs and if you're kind of mixing up with them you you
cannot rise your raise your level of awareness to something higher so you can also kind of kind of
following the same thing that they are worrying in so your company is very important because no
no I'm aloof I don't get caught up oh you get caught up everybody gets caught up something
that you kind of interact with some other human ways to interact with their characteristics will
definitely hit you so develop good company be very watchful about the company you keep keep company
or people who are talking higher principles higher ideals and this American lady who says something
nice I forget her name she said when you meet somebody ordinary conversation will talk about
uh individuals see this man go see bone this bike will run away they talk about individuals
it's the lowest lowest level of interaction the slightly higher level of interactions where when
you meet somebody they're talking about not some individuals you know vilifying whatever they're
talking about events see what's happening but now oh this is this is the condition of the the
global warming they talk about events rather than individuals it's a little higher the Third Kind
of individual should link up with are people not talk about individuals not about events but of
aspirations higher aspirations maybe it's all you know it may be art or music or philosophy so these
are the third level so if you kind of you know link up with people who could hire respiration
spiritually oriented aspirations you are in good company because they'll rub off on you as well and
lift you as well that's one thing the second thing my mentor taught is you'll be a householder from
time to time take stock of your life we don't get that chance just as you said we live very frenzied
lifestyle from time to time you'll get a chance to take a back seat go into solitude no family nobody
and spend a day half a day thinking about you how far you progress spiritually for yourself yourself
this taking stock of your own progress and spirituality will never enhance your ability to
progress further because oh dear last whole last year went I've done nothing so this kind of taking
stock of your own life in solitude is second thing that you should can aspire to so these are the two
kind of simple you know techniques that has been promoted by my mentors sriram Krishna foreign
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