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Q: What are the hindrances to the realization of Reality?

M: Memory, chiefly, plus habits of thought and accumulated tendencies.

Q: How can we get rid of these hindrances?

M: Discover the Self through meditation, by tracing every thought back to its origin which is the mind. Never allow thought to continue. If it does, it will be unending; take it back to its source which is mind, and they (thoughts and mind) will die of inaction, for the mind only exists 'by thought; take away thought and there is no mind. 

As each doubt and depression arises, ask yourself, 'Who is it that doubts? Who is it that is depressed?' Tear everything away until there is nothing but the source left. 

Live only in the present. Realization is already here. The state free from thoughts is the one real state. 

There is no such action as realization. Is there anyone who is not realizing the Self? Does anyone deny their existence? Because we admit our existence, how is it that we do not know our Self? 

It is thoughts that separate us from our happiness. How do we know that we exist? If you say it is because of the world around us, then how do you know that you existed in sleep?

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