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Namah Transforming the Asuras within us

We must keep the yearning in us alive, as that If I go closer I will see I am run by unconscious
is the portion of the Divine that will guide us thought-patterns and behavioural-patterns.
towards ultimate union. I don’t even know why I react in the way I
do, to a particular situation. I have no clue.
We must not stop listening to the very faint voice Most part of my life, I don’t even care to give
within us, which says, “Yes, you are worth it.” it attention! Why am I reacting in this and
this way in that particular situation? Who
There is no time to waste. We must give is forcing me? What is this force that makes
ourselves back to the Divine spark within me do things, which I later don’t like? Do I
and create a life divine. have any control over it? Or am I just a dumb
puppet of the tendencies of the past? Or is
Finding the Asuras within and turning there a greater destiny awaiting me?
them to the Divine
So the number one task is to become conscious
So the four Asuras or anti-divine powers came of my own movements within, so that I can
into existence, after being separated from transform the Asura of unconsciousness to the
their Origin, the Divine/ the Supreme: Divine Light, towards its own origin, which
is Consciousness.
• Consciousness became the Asura of Uncon-
sciousness Second, do I see Suffering in my life? Why is
• Bliss became the Asura of Suffering it there? Why am I so used or habituated to
• Truth became the Asura of Falsehood suffering? Why don’t I say ‘No’ to it? What in
• and Life became the Asura of Death. me creates suffering in the very first place? Is
suffering my only destiny? If it was my true
Now, this story is happening at many levels nature, I must feel comfortable with suffering;
at the same time. We will be focusing on the but I don’t! There must be a higher destiny
level most practically important to our own that awaits me! Now, this suffering has to
life. For if I am unable to see the four Asuras find its divine Origin too. Suffering has to
in me, then this story is not utilisable by me at turn completely to the Divine within. Only
all, in my journey towards the Divine Origin. then we get learning out of the suffering and
So, we need a willingness to look at our lives turn to the Divine through the suffering, so
with sincerity. We need to look with the same that suffering then becomes unnecessary.
attention and the same mind that we use to The only purpose of suffering was to show
govern our regular lives. Just let us begin to me, ‘This is not your true nature, the life that
look at our own life, in the wake of these four you are living.’ Once I use suffering to turn
Asuric powers: myself to the Divine, the need for suffering
disappears as I have now realised my Origin,
• Do I see Unconsciousness in my life? in the Divine.
• Do I see Suffering in my life?
• Do I see Falsehood in my life? Third, Falsehood. Can I locate falsehood in
• Do I see Death in my life? my own life? Because if I cannot, then this
story of Creation will do me no good, and

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