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BRAHMAND MANDAL
according to the level of the abhyasi’s approach. According to the view taken up in this book, it is a spiritual state which develops in the course of our march towards the Ultimate. At every point there is some consciousness of this feeling in some form or the other. It goes on growing finer and finer as one advances towards higher levels. There are generally three phases of it. At the lowest level it appears in the form of feeling ‘I’m Brahman’ (i.e. inseparateness). Next it turns into the feeling of ‘All is Brahman’ which conveys a sense of Universal inseparateness. Last of all it assumes the form of the feeling of ‘All from Brahman’ which conveys a sense of extinction of every view.”
The Great Master in his Autobiography states that “... when the meditation grows deeper and the thought begins to start one’s upward march one comes to point where one feels ‘I am the power myself’. It happens when Surat comes in contact with glimpses of the Divine. It loses its own character and gains the Divine one; there one starts to feel ‘I am Brahman’. I give the meaning of Surat in this way. When thought comes in contact with the soul, a
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