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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
and beneficiary. As the Master has expressed elsewhere the person fully established in the condition of Tam (Total ignorance) looks like a statue (Sruti V2 p415) ( carrying on with activities of varied type as required for the occasion fully oblivious to his own existence (most of the time for now and then he does descend to states breathing duality as dictated by the demand of humanity) and in such a way that there is no awareness before the action nor during the execution and nor even after its completion. The Master compares the condition of the yogi established in the condition of Tam or Complete Ignorance with the condition of the infant baby, which is not aware of itself and its actions. (Imperience Beckons p5) Everything is automatic even as God’s workings are automatic with no idea of how or by whom it is done.(ERY 53 &54)
The notion of identity or who ‘we are’ is so crucial or so it seems for our very existence as described in the case of a socially eminent person who lost his Identity card and consequently his very identity hence for all practical purposes dead or without life! (Pretense BP V4 p2)
All of us are very meticulous in constructing our identities or personalities made up of our educational qualifications, the groups to which we belong, status economic, religious, social and spiritual included and are indeed shell-shocked when the carefully built up identities collapse like a pack of cards or washed away like sand castles by rushing waves of Time, the great Teacher.
We may say that the feeling ‘we are and yet we are not’ arises as an imperience during our meditations. We all imperience the state of ‘no-mind’ fairly often during meditation and at other times during our states of remembrance when the sense of ‘self’ disappears along with thoughts of any kind. The illusory nature of the ego
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