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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM VOL 5
from self-delusion march onward and enter the third plane.
The merging into the third plane is called the annihilation of the apparent. Here the aspirant loses all consciousness of his body and his world. In our system we do not go through the coma state at all consciously and the helping hand of the Master keeps us conscious all through and here our Vairagya gets fulfilled. Here the awareness of the universal presence of the divine is felt very acutely and the intimacy with it leads to ecstatic states temporarily.
The next structure to fall is the individuality and is the first encounter with freedom or swarajya. The aspirant experiences a peculiar state of consciousness that seems to have all the power. Master at this stage protects us totally by making us oblivious of our capacity and there by avoiding any fall in our state. The aspirant is never spiritually safe, and his reversion is always possible until he has successfully crossed the fourth plane and arrived at the fifth one. There is no way that we can think of in
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