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BALANCED EXISTENCE AND STAGES OF PROGRESS
an experience of expansion as well. Your body will never expand. It will be what it is. It is what you experience in the heart. One does say “I have grown up and down, my width has gone this much and my height has gone this much”. We have got enough number of film producers who are capable of depicting such picture for us and we have borrowed them. Please throw them off.
The next state is Brahmand, you cease to be controlled by these forms. These forms are not gone, they cease to control you. They are not annihilated. The higher we progress the less these thoughts tend to bother oneself. However one undergoes the same stages once again, the same viveka, vairagya, atma gnana, bhakti and surrender. Prapanna gati as we call it is a reflection of the third knot. The higher plane because whatever is there in macrocosm is there in microcosm and whatever is there in microcosm is there in macrocosm. This is a straight reflection of another five knots that takes us to sahasrara. As a matter of fact there are only six chakras as sadhana chakras. The seventh one is an anubhava charka. Sahasrara is
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