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The problem of living
MASTER – A CONDITION
For my self I can say that I do not feel the grace at all, though it is always there. I feel it only when I take up duality for some good reason, and that is mostly when I feel something tending to descend from the Divine. It is a peculiar state for which I do not find words to express.
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ADITYAVARNAM TAMASAH PARASTAT
I express the meaning of „adityavarnam tamasah parastat‟ according to my poor ability. In chapter 8, sloka 9 of the Bhagavad Gita the Lord has described the effulgent form of the Ultimate Reality, which is the object of all Upasana. This is also the point of all beginning, as the word Adi in Adityavarnam suggests. But beyond it lies the still finer region of Reality which the Lord has described in slokas 20 and 21 of the same chapter. This is the region beyond all beginning, where even Upasana, in the ordinarily comprehensible sense of the term, has come to an end. As it may be dangerous to speak of the end of Upasana before those who have
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