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AN EXPOSITION OF THE MASTERS ARTICLE ON GITA
clarification of the same point. When one has practically attained that state, he begins to feel the same all through. This is in fact the actual state of realization. Not the Ultimate realization. Great stress is laid on the Gita upon nishkama karma or desire less action. One may go on saying like that forever, still it may never crop up within him unless he adopts the means and practices it for its achievement. This is in fact a kind of layavasta (state of merging) without which the vision of the Virat as displayed to Arjuna, could never be possible though proper capacity and advanced insight on the part of the abhyasi are also essential for the purpose. Now why I said that realization is not the Ultimate is based on this sentence. This is in fact a kind of layavasta. It is not the ultimate Brahma laya. The mistake is that of the typist to put the capital R instead of small r. We realize certain things at several levels. Each one is realization which takes us to the next step. Each layavasta is a preceding thing or disturbing condition for the higher state. This
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