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it, he was almost startled and stopped the transmission.
Now I relate here the effect of that transmission. I found that for several days. He was seated in every pore of my being and in every particle of my body. It continued for some time. This is a highly developed stage which the saints crave for. It shows the full absorbency in the Master.
[15-8-1931, A.B. I, Pg. 28-29]
“During meditation another change in my inner feeling was that the idea of God seemed to be lost to me, yielding place to that of my Master, and Master alone. To me there was no God but my Master. I went on with it regardless of all other things, till I reached the level expressed by my Master in the following words in a dream when he left the mortal frame: “I become ‘Thee’ and Thou ‘I’. Now none can say that I am other than thee or that thou are other than me”.
[15-8-1931, A.B. I, Pg. 28-29]
Living Dead
“ Death: - I used in my book “ Efficacy of Raja Yoga “ a term ‘living dead’. This is the condition felt when a man becomes absorbed in absorbency – Phanaya Phana.
These conditions can best be explained in a negative way. I give my view in the worldly way. When the impressions of the past become very active, then Nature brings death as a Pause for rest, so that one may be fresh in the next life to undergo the results of action. Now we come to the spiritual standard of life. Here death means the oblivious state of mind, which rejects all that is there. As to how it happens, I am giving you my own view. The tendency of the mind is that it ejects what it gets. That is why man feels the rush of thoughts all the time. Thoughts are like the dust, which flies with the air, but constructs no building because they have no power in them. When you give them power, they become strong like the mound of white ants. Everybody has got life but we have to seek for life in life, which ultimately merges in its own essence.
We forget the rest in the cradle when we grow old. Similarly when we are highly advanced in spirituality, we enter into the new restful state, the state which we cannot conceive of, because the idea of rest is there; and when the idea of rest comes into the mind we begin to remember cot and pillow and it becomes almost