If I seek you outside then who is in me? Am I saying that the God inside me is less than the god outside? So, if I start my search outside then who in me is actually talking right now? If I say you exist outside in some other world or in this world somewhere outside, maybe in a temple or may be in some special place. Then who is in me right now? Your journey only ends when you become convinced that the god, the Devi is inside me. That is where I have to start my journey.
The absence of all the negative emotions marks the presence of love. If that negativity, those emotions we hold in our heart, if they disappear, we will feel in love naturally. Similarly, when it comes to searching god or feeling god or feeling the presence of that oneness. It is those things we hold on to for example, the grudges, resentment and guilty. We have grudges against somebody, we resent some people in some way or other and sometimes we are guilty of what we did ourselves. Then other auxiliary emotions like jealousy, envy, anger and hatred stem from these three core negative emotions.
Listen to this insightful discourse by Om Swami on self-purification.
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