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PATH OF GRACE
realized universal emptiness and all objects are spontaneously penetrated integrating the world and beyond, and contains all states of being within. If we lose the essence, there is nothing after all; if we however understand and play the function assigned by the divine, there is spiritual enlivenment.
In all the states we covered so far we discern an inversion of the condition obtaining in the previous knot in the next one. These inversions are many times automatic or they are willed by the trainer. No one can satisfactorily perform yatra in the next knot without the condition of the earlier knot gets inverted. The inversion at the 6th knot is a radical one as this is moving from the gross realm to the subtle one. Unless there is sufficient movement in the earlier knots and there is a state of balance or settled-ness or mergence in all the knots in the Pind desh the inversion here is difficult to happen and one lingers in the lower plane. In fact the maturity of the first and second knots is the deciding factor here. The cycle of conditions relating to Viveka, Vairagya, Swaswaroopa jnana, devotion and surrender get refined in the knots 6 to 10. There is
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