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PARABRAHMAND MANDAL
brilliance, the Para Brahmand is characteristically non-self awareness and it is exclusive attention or orientation to the Divine. The process of expansion of self which commences right from the point of atman reaches its full expression in Brahmand and the process of self-negation which commenced in the 4th knot in Pind desh attains its finer state with the beginning of Para Brahmand and this self- negation or fana reaches its pinnacle by the time the aspirant reaches the stage of consciousness of the Mind region.
The region of this knot starts just above 3 finger width above the Trikuti almost abutting the point of Saraswathi referred to above. (Figure 14) From now onwards the impression of the self or the atman in the thought process ceases and everything carries with it a tinge of the Divine touch. Each and everything is perceived as the Godly expression and reverence to all develops automatically without of course the emotional tinge. The great Master says from here the contact with Bhuma starts. This is the beginning of life in the Brighter world in the real sense of the term and the soul is reborn. The cradle
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