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disinterestedness in everything other than God or the Goal through the development undergone in the knots 1 and 1b, and having developed love for the Master, a feeling of relief from the oppressive bondage of attachments is experienced. The annamaya kosa, which is the first sheath, is loosened here and Rev. Babuji writing about the condition in this knot says, ‘The first covering is now removed and we begin to sense the fragrance of the Soul and similar visions appear within and without’. Of the five Kosas that bind consciousness to existence the most powerful one is the annamaya kosa, which takes care of every conceivable physical and physiological need. Liberation from it is really liberation in almost every sense. The first two knots of consciousness have a certain amount of dense or heavy feeling. All feelings there are highly emotional in either the positive or negative sense. Heaviness is their characteristic. Compared to that state of consciousness, here in knot 2 there is lightness of feeling both in case of attachment to the divine, or detachment to the mundane existence.
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