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MELODY OF SILENCE
desh. It is only then we come to know little by little about our true self. It is the wisdom of our tradition that states ‘that it is but few who hear about the self, fewer still dedicate their lives to its Realization. Wonderful is the one who speaks about the self; rare are they who make it the supreme goal of their lives.’(Katha Upanishad). The journey in the pind desh can be considered as an extension of the journey we have had in the knot 1 and 1a when we struggled to come out of attachments of various kinds.
The knot 2 where lessons of dependency and interdependency are learnt matures and after pind desh we start understanding our real nature. It is for this reason that knot 2 has been considered to grant us Atma jnana or the knot itself called Atman point. But the seeds at knot 2 come to fruition only after we enter the Brahmand. Realisation is realisation of our true nature of being a thinking and growing being (Brahman) and not just thinking and moving being (atman). This Realisation of our nature as a growing being metamorphoses itself when the awareness of
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