In the jail a man receives food; the same air is inside the jail as outside, the same dirt is inside the jail as outside. Outside the jail, however, he experiences something he can never feel inside the jail. Inside the jail he was dependent; outside he is independent.
Similarly, your soul desires freedom. It doesn't want you to identify with the mask of maya, whether these come from mind or the intellect. It wants you to know it in its true form, to understand its original form. It is chafing in slavery to the mind, and it desires only freedom. This means that the thirst of our soul is not quenched from life to life. Until this soul acquires Knowledge, it remains thirsty. The saints talked about the sounds of the soul, not sounds of the mind or intelect. When the soul is awakened, a man dows not remain merely human but acquires divine quailites. Within you is hidden a yogi, a devotee, a meditator. The devotee in you is waiting to be awakened. That devotee is within everyone.
-SHRI SATPALJI MAHARAJ.
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