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PATH OF GRACE
feeling was only vague and partial. Now that the realm of matter got transcended and the experience of death, awareness of the Brahm, and the breeze of power and ecstasy developed the Aspirant really enters into the state of Aham Brahmasmi and his mental trend so harmonizes with it as to keep the sense of experience alive always with him. This state leads him to think that every thing Divine in the world i.e. the Sun, Moon, rivers, mountains and stars are all his. Master says he felt that he was Rama and Krishna (the Avatars) and he felt no scruple to think so. This experience Aham Brahmasmi is considered in tradition as one of the high level achievements.
However, Master says “This is perhaps the most popular sign of the so called Jnani of today who goes about reciting mechanically similar phrases to impose upon others a show of achievement. It is not in fact the mere recitation of phrases that makes a Jnani but the actual merging in the state when it is arrived at internally. In strict sense it applies to an inner consciousness of the feeling of inseparableness with the Absolute,
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