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Quest of the Highest Truth – Hint at the Fourth stage
O, Sadhu ! The one form pervades all
There is no difference between one drop and another: The sea and the drop are one
Sea in the drop and the sea as the drop,
This is the truth and none.
Behind the drop the sea extends,
The sea supports the drop.
To make the drop realize the ocean
Is all the Reality.
Conception crept up in the sea
That it is but a drop
Knowledge removed the misconception;
Difference never again will crop.
False is the delusion, false is the concept,
False are the affairs of the world.
When we know that all is false,
All the opposites end.
Brahman is free from opposite states, whereas the Jiva or individual soul lives in the contradictory states. This has the qualities of pulling and becoming tight whereas theBrahman is free from unrest as there is no feeling of happiness in Him. The individual soul, in its desire for life, craves for happiness and escapes sorrow.
Sorrow is the result of the individual soul being a part, and because it is desirous of happiness, it experien¬ces sorrow. There is wholeness, perfection and fullness in Brahman. He wants neither living (life) nor happi¬ness. Therefore, there is no sorrow for Him.
Knowledge is the state of imperfection. Wherever there is knowledge, there is















































































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