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Common Meditational States of Mind Bliss
that you will not have it for curiosity or for display. But knowledge that is required for the work that you do is automatically made available. This is where the scriptures and other literature have misled us to presume that we will know everything, though perhaps the mistake is in our thinking than what they have written. So the thought that "probably the mystical insight may succeed in grasping the whole at once and for ever conveys to me at least nothing that is specific and is only a figment of imagination. Knowledge is, always for some work. Knowledge about everything every minute is only a wild imagination of no use to anyone at any point of time
Laya
Laya Avastha has no meaning if we are not in tune with Him and His purposes. The imaginative descriptions of the state of Laya resorted to by poets and philosophers have practically no meaning. Without annihilation of ego (which is of various shades) laya even in the lowest knot is not possible. I consider and I think I made it explicit many times that knot 1 (including 1a) is the toughest of all and to think we have moved out of it may be only the result 224