Page 312 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

The individual pralaya proceeds only up to the point of dropping the rings completely. One continues to remain individuated and nearmost the Centre or God, getting directions from it for its own being or bliss or what ever that condition may be, since it is indescribable.How the souls which are free get their directions from the Centre is transcendental to man's ways of communication. It can be communicated only to those who reach such a high condition of crossing all the rings, and who are swimming in the Centre, after going beyond the central region. The picture of the individual thus can be visualized as in the diagram given in the book "Reality at Dawn" (p.25 first edition) reproduced here on page 294.
The description of each one of the rings is not given. Sri Ram Chandra says that most saints consider themselves to have been emancipated if they travel or cross over 1 1/2 Circles (the state of liberation lies between the second and third circle ibid., p.24). These five circles are the circles of Maya. Thus it is clear that most persons are even outside the circles of maya, and the travel in abhyasa takes its rise from the outermost of mayaic circles, and as one travels backwards and upwards one feels the sense of liberation increasing, so much so when one passes the second circle one feels almost liberated and beings to proclaim his liberated state. But this liberation itself is Maya for one senses power (another meaning of Maya), and liberation is a sense of power over lower forms of existence. But this is illusory power because it is not the ultimate goal, and one must discard power in order to be really free. The rings, thus, are finally to be crossed, and one should attain the state of Nothingness in order to be called truly a realized soul.
The categories of the several schools or darsanas do not fall into this kind of description. These twenty three circles or rings cannot be equated with the 23 tattvas of the Samkhya or Yoga schools. They seem to be the results of a New Vision.
The Rings themselves cannot even be considered to be like the concentric circles developing out from the Centre owing to the initial latent motion, or vibration called Thought or Manas, through this may be somewhat nearer the truth. Ksobh, or Vibration of Thought or First Mind, does in fact take this route towards the grossest manifestation of the more distant circles. The more distant from the Centre, the more gross is the element, and the nearer