"An Ashram is a doorway into Eternity.
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When we build a house, we live in it and when we have an ashram, we also try to live in it as much as we can. An ashram is nothing more than a house where we try to live in accordance with principles to sustain inner growth, inner evolution. People often confuse an ashram with some sort of arcane environment where there can be no smiling and no laughter, no good food, only cold floors, prickly blankets. That went out with the dodo. We are here neither to suffer nor to enjoy. We are here to live under circumstances made available to us.
My Master used to say that Ashrams are not built of brick and mud but of the blood of hearts. An Ashram is a sacred edifice. And every heart must bleed before such an edifice can be built properly. I remember Babuji telling me that Lalaji used to call an Ashram, "A doorway into Eternity." So I hope this ashram will be such a doorway that abhyasis will find it possible to slip from this life into the next life with ease, with facility and without having to undergo all the old tortures of body and mind that the ancient ones had to undergo.
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