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“We Are and We are Not as also We are Not and We Are”
Master in his speech ̳Love Him who loves all‘ dealing with the real nature of existence and being, in a spiritual manner makes the remark ̳ We are and we are not‘ as also ̳we are not and we are‘ as the concluding part of a sentence after the apparently enigmatic statement that ―It means Life without life‖. This message comes after the Master gives the injunction that ―If we want to go into Non-self then we will have to annihilate ̳to be‘ in thought and will come to ̳not to be‘ in its real sense. This infact is also described by him elsewhere using the traditional term ̳Jeevan Mukta‘ or Living liberated. I am inclined to tell a story I heard long time back about why the Jiva ever thought of leaving the Origin or Home.
There once was a soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul and so was anxious for experience. It found that it is all light and pure consciousness. Yet all the knowing of it and all the
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