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Silence Speaks
made to cross these stages up to the final limit of perfection by the transmitted power of the Master if only he co-operates with him in the true sense. But commonly if the condition is brought into full swing all at once, there is the danger of his nerves and muscles being shattered. Under Sahaj Marg system this process has been made quite safe involving no physical risk to the abhyasi, and this is one of the greatest innovations of our great master. This process is applied to the abhyasi in a very gentle way, so that the condition transmitted to him comes to his conscious knowledge after some time when its unfoldment begins to come into effect. In that case his apparent condition seems to be somewhat different from that of one who has attained it by regular stages, but in both cases the abhyasi shall definitely be free from birth and death.
Coming to my point again, when the vrittis have thus been reduced to nothing or negatived or, in other words, have acquired a transcendent state, it is then a lower grade state of brahmagati. When this is attained, the veil gets torn off and we enter the next inner sphere beyond it. Our attention is
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