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![]() On the strength of God's love, God claims us as His very own.The video game industry has toyed with the idea of player decisions impacting the story and gameplay for quite a few years at this point. On the strength of our love, we dare say that God is ours. To conclude, our path of love is the path of inseparable oneness. As long as the earth consciousness is not fully realised, I will try to remain with my inner consciousness on earth to be of service to mankind. If I really love mankind, then I have to be with mankind and for that again, what I need is love. I have to touch it with my aspiration and concern. Similarly, earth is defective at a particular place. Unless we accept the earth-consciousness, how are we going to perfect it? If someone has some pain, I have to massage him. In our path of acceptance we have to know that the earth is far from perfection. Now, if humanity as a whole does not want to eat as it should, then what can this Spiritual Master do? 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The lowest has to feel his total oneness with the highest. The highest has to feel his total oneness with the lowest. In our path, the sense of identification is absolutely necessary. And who is God? It is the highest illumined part in us. Now, how can we bring the Truth out of its prison cell? Again, I have to say it is through Love. But unfortunately, we have kept the door shut and we are not allowing the Truth to come out. Here we don’t have to exercise our mind day in and day out to know what the Truth looks like. We feel that our path is easier, more effective in this sense: here we don’t have to read millions of books to know what the Truth is. ![]() That is why inside Love everything can grow. Again, inside Love all other divine qualities, such as Peace, Light and Bliss grow. And it is only God's Love that gives us fulfilment and the feeling of inseparable oneness. We think of God, pray to God and meditate on God because we need fulfilment, we need the feeling of inseparable oneness. Now, apart from having omniscience and omnipotence, God has a quality which transcends all His other divine qualities. We think of God as the Omniscient, as the Omnipotent. Whenever we think of God, we think of Him as something divine, vast and boundless. When we say our heart, we mean our spiritual heart, which is flooded with divine love. Our path is the path of the heart and inside the heart we see nothing but Love. From the heart, again, we can bring them to the mind, to the vital and to the physical proper. Now, from the soul we get these divine qualities inside the heart. The soul has everything - Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure. True, the consciousness of the soul permeates the entire body, but the actual location of the soul is inside the heart. 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The initiate training room is a large room that holds a shooting range, knife throwing targets, punching bags, and a wrestling mat. ![]() The chasm is the source of many suicides and though to jump off of the chasm is idiotic and cowardly, Eric sees the jump as heroic and brave, as shown when Al jumps after Tris refuses to forgive him for trying to throw her into the chasm himself. The pit is where the Chasm is located a large underground waterfall that flows into an underground river. ![]() The Pit is a large open cavern in the Dauntless compound and is the center of all Dauntless life. The room itself it a large room like cavern. The only way into this place is by jumping off of a building and into a dark hole where a big net lies at the bottom. The initiate entrance is the first place all incoming faction tansfers and Dauntless born see after the Choosing Ceremony. Physical Description The initiate entrance Their substance in the Choosing Ceremony are burning coals. Eric claims that initiates should be prepared to die for the faction, preferring much more dangerous tactics of training initiates - whereas Four will discretely go against Eric's methods - such as when he intentionally misses Tris in the knife-throwing range after Eric tells her to stand against the target. The last leaders of Dauntless, Eric and Max (Four or Tobias, is often seen as leader of the official Dauntless but is not until the second book when the Dauntless at Candor elect him, Tori Wu and Harrison), are often in dispute of how Dauntless should be lead. Members generally wear provocative or full black leather clothing (or other black materials), piercings, tattoos and are usually seen freerunning through the ruins of Chicago. However, the Dauntless leaders at the time of Tris's initiation were mainly aligned with the more extreme 'freedom from fear' subset, which called for more intense training methods. This subset is generally less extreme, and closer to what the faction originally was. Another subest believes in 'fear under control', or boldness, standing up and doing things in spite of fear. There are technically two 'subsets' of Dauntless, one believing in 'freedom from fear', or eradicating fear by performing more and more reckless acts. Dauntless leaders believe that preparation and facing one's own fears is key to overcoming cowardice, initiates, sixteen year olds who have chosen said faction at the yearly Choosing Ceremony, at Dauntless are worked to both physical and mental breaking points to achieve this. It was formed by a group of people who blamed fear and cowardice as the cause of problems that society faces, genetic impurity. They are the faction dedicated to courage, bravery, strength, intimidation, and fearlessness. "" - Tris explaining the factionsĭauntless is one of the five factions in the world of Divergent. 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