The exercise of meditation is an organized mental movement to produce certain effects in the soul.
In questions related to love and enlightenment, this exercise leads to lofty feelings and considerable experiences so far unknown.
Renunciation leads naturally to contemplation. One cannot define Renunciation itself. There is void between perfect state and ascetic state, and a continuous Renunciation of the soul should fill this void.
In the beginning of his path, the soul is too much busy with his troubles and sorrows, and that is why worldly evils are to him just a mere consideration to which he sticks by attachment or sympathy.
You talk, you think and you feel always in dualistic terms, and life is unity. You should not understand this unity as only one thing, but as an organic totality, indivisible and simple in itself, and composed as attribute.
Simple knowledge is a state of unity and similarity between subject and object. This unity cannot be achieved through an active state of your mind, which is always dual. Knowledge or rational understanding is dual always.
A prayer cannot be complete and total if our whole being is not devoted to it. When we say “whole being”, this does not mean an intense sensible flight, but a being as a whole.
The “GOLDEN TEMPLE”. To reach the Temple of the soul, we need to undergo innumerable difficulties related to inner activities. You reach the purity of the soul as you conquer the peak of a mount; you remain there some moment, and later you come back to the valley.
Faith is the intimate recognition by the human being of the identity of his essence with the Divine Mother. Faith may influence a man more or less advantageously, but this is dependent upon the thickness of veils surrounding him.
A man that seeks God can become, by his own freewill, a machine automatically moved by the apparent purpose of achieving this end. It is sufficient for him to replace his first love with routine –love that someday will make him realize the sacrament of his first Vow.
In the way of life of present men, all things are prepared for living externalized and wasting energies. Most men do not have or follow any rule of life; on the contrary, they act and exist in an improvised way, compulsively pressed by their need for meeting their anguishing desires.