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individual develops the capacity to expand and the feeling of greatness enters into ones’ consciousness. But this awareness of the Self is also to be renounced in preference to the devotion to the Divine. The awareness of Self then fades out and the awareness of the Divine only ensues.
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Even here devotion generally leads to the chosen concept of God entertained by the individual and he starts enjoying this state of devotion also in varied ways. The individual develops the capacity for soaring high leaving attachment to the physical plane. In this state he develops the state of dignity of being and venerableness, generally attributed to Mahatmas. But, the individual becomes restless when that particular form of the Divine he has chosen, is questioned or otherwise sought to be withdrawn from him. This attachment to the Divinity (in form and name) also has to be renounced and then we march on to the next stage.
Without renouncing the particular notions of God no one can move further in the path of spirituality. This has been in most cases the ultimate state of devotion. But one in the path of spirituality knows that there is a
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