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MORE ON THE NATURE OF KNOTS
total silence before the Lord are the conditions one goes through. All devotion finally means there is a difference between the individual and the goal. This is sought to be sewn with love of various types, service of different kinds. When one merges into this condition there is only dumbness. This further develops into the realisation gained earlier in the state of insufficiency. The insufficiency felt here is so absolute that we tend to feel that surrender to the Divine is only way.
This leads to the fourth knot which in fact spiritually is an inversion of the nature of the second knot. The progress in this region is assisted by our practicing the commandments 6 and 7. The inseparable relationship with others and the divine is understood when the feelings of fraternity matures. Master stated that surrender is complete only when surrender to all beings is there. The inseparable relationship is not any exclusive privilege of some but is the relationship that is abiding in all that exists. All are forms of divinity. This is where the lessons of ahimsa and Karuna or compassion are learnt. The self thus goes through the process of purification by
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