Self-Realisation Is Beyond the Reach of Those Attached to Sense Pleasures
Ordinarily there is in us such an awful identification with our body and our senses and passions that we just brush aside God. Whenever there is skepticism with reference to the Divine, there is some inordinate clinging to the self and to the senses and their objects because of which God is pushed out. So long as the individual is full of sense-enjoyment, desire for possession, of egoism and vanity, God has no place in his life. The Divine is pushed away by our creature-consciousness. If the mind becomes perfectly free from desires and passions, one realizes the Divine then and there. So if we do not realize God, if we do not even get a glimpse of the Truth, we need not ask why it is so. We should know that in the conscious and in the subconscious mind there are still strong desires in us, and we should first rid ourselves of these obstructions. So long as we allow them to remain, the question of realizing the Divine does not even arise.
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