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free of all the impositions and challenges of relating to others and thus we get liberated. An equally funny rider to this is once we are enlightened we will know everything that is there on the surface of the earth and perhaps heaven also. When one becomes Infinite, after all, everything would just be part of our real Self, they would contend.
But unfortunately that is only bookish knowledge and wild imagination parading as philosophy or wisdom. In life which is a relative plane, otherness leaps forward to claim its dues from anyone who is deeply and authentically bringing the infinite identity to life. And it becomes our duty to relate to others as a relative self (a part of our being) where we do not know who the other is in any perfect sense. Realisation is not an awareness of our big infinite Self who is supposedly free of such mundane obligations; it is our commitment to understand and empathize the other that gives meaning and relevance to realisation of our true nature. It is only then we can consider ourselves as living upto the expectations of the Divine, as Master often urges us to‖.
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