How to Develop the Self and the Spirit

There's three stages in the vidanta approach. You can't just have experience without understanding or understanding without experience. Development is essentially the practice of developing the self, whilst spiritual development is actually the ending of self. So say you want to move beyond an identification with the kind of acquired layers of self. It has to be strong enough to leave. There has to be enough self esteem in order to walk away from that relationship that you have with that part of your mind. This is a twofold process - empowerment and realization.

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