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truthful, as most just, as most unselfish and so on. Even to feel oneself as devoted or a Bhakta or lover of God is to encourage the feeling of egoism. Subtle indeed is the way of egoism. This is possibly revealed when we think that we pass from our little body-consciousness to the Mind- consciousness wherein we feel the sense of universality. We know reason is said to be universal, whereas sensation is said to be personal or particular; similarly, the Mind is said to be universal and the body is said to be particular and personal. In a similar way there is a feeling of universality in Mind but it is a universality which is subtle egoism that is the essence of the lower gross manifestation of it. Shri Ram Chandraji has clearly indicated the fact that freedom from egoism even of the subtlest kind is found, where the aura of divine consciousness is not in any sense modified by the ups and downs of fortune, as was the case with Saint Kabir.
The subtle rings of egoism show also the eleven siddhis that are exhibited by those who have reached these regions. They are not, however, the Ultimate state because they are yet limitations to the experience of the Ultimate, though they are verily exceedingly marvellous states.
Most probably we must also state that the Vasus, Rudras (Dhruvas) and Adityas who represent fathers, grand-fathers and great-grand-fathers of our pitrs and their spouses as seen in the tarpana-kanda (oblation offerings to the ancestors) also are said to be denizens of this region but yet not of the utterly liberated, from the world of maya or rings of maya. Shri Ram Chandraji has given the account of Vasus, and Dhruvas as men, who have been entrusted with the workings of the Nature in the various spheres and that they have developed spiritually.
He who goes beyond enters into the Region of the Ultimate.
Elaborating a little more about the levels of egoism we can state that egoism is a subjective factor whereas Maya is objective. So much so we can either consider that all maya is due to egoism or we can consider egoism to be a subtler kind of maya. This is because maya is having its essence in egoism.
Shri Ram Chandraji speaks about three levels of egoism, the first is with reference to the body. We may call it, perhaps, body-egoism. Materialists hold that even mental processes are to be interpreted in terms of bodily