Page 269 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3

UNADORNED GRACE
too inferior to the identity crisis through which we go through in sadhana and we come to a stage where the illusory ego is almost dissolved.
Master states that “Sometimes these things come and go but we should grasp them and make them permanent with us. From there you rise above.” The experience of becoming totally unknown to ourselves is one of the feelings during meditation and almost all those who practice the system have expressed the same. But we do not grasp that unknown status of ours and miss the message. It is this that I have been pleading for when I was asking the aspirants to own up the experience. Why is it that after experiencing the state of Void or Null during the meditation, we still keep an attitude of love toward God or Master? The obvious answer is that ‘I-consciousness’ persists. It disappears in the state of Samadhi or Void that we no doubt have, but it comes back. The ‘I’ never disappears on its own. It is the love for the Master or God that keeps us anchored in our path. However the goal does not require to be changed and our aim
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