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reveal itself, it will enrich your soul abundantly. It is a treasure that can free you forever by carrying you to the state of Liberation; but if you have not awakened that treasure, you will continue to wander from birth to birth.
People exist as wanderers and beggars as long as they lack suf cient wealth for their basic needs. When they acquire wealth, however, they settle down and enjoy the security of a home. Similarly, the soul remains a wanderer as long as it does not have spiritual wealth. When it acquires that Divine treasure, it ceases to be a wanderer and enjoys the Bliss of the Self, one’s Spiritual Home.
As long as your heart is lled with impressions of cruelty and gross indifference towards the miseries of others, you cannot enshrine God within it. Let your heart melt with the gentle rays of mercy and compassion, so that you may take ight from the prison of your personality and commune with the Universal Self!
VI. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
In this Beatitude, Christ promises the highest attainment of God-realization through puri cation of the heart, which in Yogic terminology is referred to as chitta shuddhi. Each religious tradition glori es this