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persists. In our meditations we do struggle to overcome the obstructions which it may be better to express as  ̳knock outs‘ that come from unawareness. It is one of our prejudices to consider unawareness as unreality or untruth. In such a case our deep sleep will be an unreality and that is ridiculous. But deep sleep does not give the knowledge that the fourth state gives during meditation. This fourth state intimates us the knowledge that all is simple and pure spirituality. The need to go beyond the state of deep sleep or unawareness may be expressed as the struggle between spirit and matter. Matter in this context is to be taken as the net result of unawareness. Humanity has attempted mastery over sloth or matter in many ways, but in the final analysis it always meant mastery over sloth, inertia and untruth in us, personally.
Admittedly many aspirants resort to means and methods that they learnt from books or other elders and some times there earlier Guru. As they say  ̳habits die hard‘. We should realise our notions of our true nature borrowed from various sources have to be given up and discover our own reality through our anubhava. But this is possible only when we discover our
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