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PATH OF GRACE
Samkhya and yoga systems it is known as the dance of Purusha and Prakriti.
When the desire to be in a state of balance or peace, the glimpses of which is had due to its awareness as stated above, we can say that the stage of Viveka or discriminative learning or Jnana Avastha has started. Jnana in spirituality would essentially mean the capacity to distinguish between what is temporary and what is permanent, what is real and what is unreal. The Real knowledge at this stage would be of two types, i) to know that there is nothing that is permanent in this world and everything is transitory and is in a state of flux or change and ii) behind all this change there is something deep in the core of everything, object and person, that is permanent and changeless. At this stage the knowledge that there is nothing whatsoever other than the Consciousness of the Master dawns on the abhyasi to some extent. As the condition of this knot gets imbibed into the aspirant and as he owns up that condition the total truth of the, "Isavasyam idam sarvam yat kinchit jagatyaam jagat" is known. The statement of Lord Krishna,
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