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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
Prajna almost gets established. Having come to this stage it is the development of the state of mind where we say everything is Thee and Thine (tava) and the consciousness of me and mine gets almost extinguished. The Ego of seperateness is almost abolished. It is at this state we also feel absolute ‘fearlessness’ (abhaya) and we start comprehending internally the meaning of the Lord Rama’s assurance that ‘sa krdeva prapannaya tava asmi iti yachate abham Sarva bhutebhyo dadami etad vrtam mama.” Ego being abolished we enter into the realm of abhaya. It is not only that; in fact we feel no conflict internally and no object or thing or person or being is felt as something that is fearful. The innocence of the child who does not distinguish between the tiger and the mother is something that is so intrinsically personal that I find no words to express. Some of the persons who saw me talking to the top level officers of the category of Chief Secretary to Govt and the Chief Ministers of the State have later remarked how could I talk to them straight and without any fear and I never understood their question. Not only that even with my dear Master there were occasions I had talked to Him several things that others would hesitate to even mutter and mumble. This fearlessness is one of the characteristics of the
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