ELIMINATING THE VICES
We began to descend from our spiritual heights when we started
using the body in the wrong way. We are souls, and we began the
cycle of birth and rebirth through physical bodies. Eventually we
began to use the body for vice and, from that time onwards, a lot of
rubbish began to accumulate in the soul. This is how we lost our
peace, happiness, love, purity. All the negative things, which have
affected us in this lifetime and those gone by, have penetrated
deeply within the soul. It is nothing ordinary to eliminate them all.
We start by eliminating the obvious vices; dependencies such as
tobacco, alcohol, lust. But the real effort is in removing the subtle
vices, like ego. The subtle vices do not allow us to feel we
belong to God.