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REMARKABLY CONVENIENT

Allan Y. Cohen

 
Some people feel uncomfortable with the concept of dependence on a guru, but the existence of God-consciousness in human form is remarkably convenient for the aspirant. To love and relate to the impersonal aspect of God — God the infinite, beyond time and space, without form and attributes — is very difficult. Meditating on infinity might bend the aspirant's mind and little else. But when the infinite aspects of God are personalized in the Perfect Master or Avatar, then the mind and heart has a focus, a symbol that contains the whole.

 

THE MASTERY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, p. 72
1977 © Ira G. Deitrick

               

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