MENTAL FRAME

Mental Frame ~ 35 ~ divested of all their might? How powerful man thinks himself to be, but how weak he is in reality. The thinking and the circumstances of the society in which a person moves, are conditioning factors in his particular mental framework (shakilah). He thinks under the influence of his own society and forms his opinions accordingly. But the only right viewpoint is that which is so according to the Knowledge of God. Any viewpoint which takes no account of divine knowledge is bound to be wrong. It is on the point of right thinking that man is being tested. What man has to do is break out of the mental framework, which has been acquired under the influence of his environment, so that he may see things as they are in effect, with the divine eye. Those who remain enclosed in their mental shell very soon go astray, whereas those who venture to emerge from it in order to seek the divine truth are the ones who are rightly guided.