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permeates this world and guides its destiny.

The question, therefore, arises is that if God is total
perfection and He resides within us then why are we not
perfect. The reason is that we are not even aware of our
soul. Our involvement today is more with the surface life
which is governed by three levels of consciousness — the
mental, emotional and the physical. We have a mind which
observes, thinks, analyses, remembers and is the best in-
strument available to us today on which we rely heavily.
Secondly, we live on an emotional level and it is through
the heart that we feel emotions such as love, hate, envy
etc. Lastly, there is the physical consciousness which gov-
erns the body. To most of us the body is perhaps the most
important thing. This is something which all our five senses
are aware of — touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing. We are
so involved in these three levels that we are completely
unaware most of the time of our soul which lives within us
and is not reachable by the five senses. Because we are not
aware of the Spirit within we are cut off from perfection
and that is why our lives are so imperfect. It is because
of this reason that since time immemorial effort is being
made to find our soul, unite with it, so that our lives can
become perfect.

Living at these levels of consciousness we find that
our lives are full of friction and struggle. There is no peace
in any relationship - individual, community or nations. The
reason is that the mind, the emotional being and the body
are not in harmony with each other. Mind pulls in one
direction, the heart in another and the body has its own

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