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PATH OF GRACE
Master continues saying that “When you proceed onwards you feel that something other than your body is the doer of the things. This is the second stage of egoism. Here the vision of a person passes on from the physical body to something inward or finer. Different people identify according to their own thoughts and beliefs. Some feel that soul is doing all actions and the body acting only like a machine or a tool...” The characteristic of the second ring of Egoism is this identification with the ‘soul’ whose nature neither the person nor any one is capable to explain. As I have several times stated there is nothing as an entity called ‘soul’ and it is only a conglomerate. Most of the time it is considered as “Conscience”. By a peculiar capacity to create ‘ a faculty’ with an ‘entity’ which is purely a figment of imagination. But this illusion and identification with that illusion is the characteristic of this second ring of egoism. All assessment of the individual as well as others in the aspect of so called ‘character and conduct’ is a bias or prejudice this faculty makes and most of the time is the basis for inter personal conflicts.
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