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SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
work and also asked me to come by 4 a.m. the next day saying he finds me tired. Accordingly I reached his feet on 1st Feb. Not dealing with the peculiar attitudes of the volunteers in attendance there with the Master, I say that I was invited by the Master very affectionately and I sat by his cot. He asked to me to sit and I was in a very deep state of absorption almost immediately. I lost all awareness of the surroundings and found that a great stillness descending upon me. The world more appropriately the Universe with all its vastness appeared in a clear and transparent vision of unity and harmony. I found myself merged in a deep sense of peace in which I and all of creation are one in a mystical union with Master. A large space opened up. It would be as true to say that I expanded to encompass the whole of existence as it would be to say that I had totally disappeared. Eternity, which I had understood earlier as time without end, appeared as the absence of time. Everything was infused with life, including what until that moment, I had considered inanimate. The Universe was neither big nor small. It revealed itself as simply One beyond all relative
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