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enabled to move on to the next sub knot closely connected with this one.
In cases where the condition of this knot is overwhelming it results in the aspirant becoming an Avadhoot. Master ensures that none following his path will get into this position from which generally return to the path is difficult. An avadoot, Master states, is one who is in a state of ecstasy and does not want to leave the condition, and thereby closes once and for all further progress. While this condition is generally held as very high and perhaps justifiably, from a different angle of yoga, Master recognizes this as a mere aberration which happens to the sadhakas occasionally and immediately lifts him out of that condition of total engrossedness.
The feeling at this point is one of Divine touch in every object of the world. This awareness of Divine presence in animate and inanimate objects leads to high-pitched emotion, which is a form of God intoxication. It would be of interest to note that the famous Isa Upanishad starts with this feeling and proceeds further. That is the awareness of the
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