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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
innumerable sub-points, the detailed description of which is not of much consequence and their difference is beyond words to explain. In short now the blissful conditions of the sphere of the soul are being unveiled unto us. We get acquainted with characteristic features of the region and by continued meditation we secure our merging into it. The first covering is now removed and we begin to sense the fragrance of the Soul and similar visions appear within and without. Unless we have attained full realisation of this state we cannot claim to have acquired knowledge at all. If we try to develop it by the force of concentration it will only be sham. The extraordinary mental visions will no doubt come to view but since they have resulted from the exercise of thought-power they will only serve as a bondage to keep us ensnared so tightly that it shall almost be impossible to extricate ourselves from it. A true aspirant is he who adopts the right course and the right procedure from the beginning to the end.
This second knot covers the entire sphere of the soul. It comprises innumerable sub-points appearing in the form of layers, settled round one after the other and which we have all to get over in order to emerge out of the region. Anyhow we now exert ourselves to get out and arrive at the next stage by the help of the divine grace. Now our entry into the next sphere of divine enlightenment justifies our claim to have become jnani or knower up to that extent.
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