Some conditions of Spiritual Enlightenment
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If a person possessed by an evil spirit becomes conscious that he is so possessed, the evil spirit at once leaves him.
Similarly the Jiva which is possessed by the evil spirit of Maya, on realising that he is so
possessed, becomes at once free from it.
He alone enters the Kingdom of Heaven who is not a thief of his own thought.
In other words,
guilelessness and simple faith are the roads to that Kingdom.
A person once said:
"The innate nature of substance can never be changed."
Another retorted,
"When fire enters charcoal it destroys its innate blackness."
So when the mind is burnt by the fire of
Knowledge, its innate nature too is destroyed, and it ceases to be a snare.
- Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna. 488-490.
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