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che whey and the butter, the oil and the oil-cake, the body and the soul, the conscious and the material, and the transient and the eternal.
By an actual experience, he knows the separate existence of the soul independent of the body. The benefit is a great achievement indeed.
Ability to Abandon (Vyutsarga Chetanā)
The fourth benefit that accrues is the ability to abandon, renounce and relinquish. This happens when the wisdom becomes mature. Then there is no hesitation or vacillation whether one is to relinquish his body or renounce sensual pleasures or abandon family and property. When the ability to abandon is well-advanced, one can relinquish anything at any time without demurring, because there is no attachment.
On attainment of vyutsarga chetanā, the practitioner clearly experiences the separateness of his real spiritual self from the body, "This is 'I'-my real self. Everything else is just an association and is alien. What does it matter whether I keep it or renounce it? I shall abandon all at the right time." Thus vyutsarga chetanā strengthens the ability to abandon.
And this precisely is our goal-our destination. As higher levels of consciousness are attained, as unessentials are renounced and one lives in chetanā par excellence, the spiritual self reveals itself and the turmoil subsides. The waves in the ocean of consciousness die down, and one day total tranquillity and calmness prevail. That is the state of consciousness, where the truth is realised and that is the highest and innermost desire of thousands and thousands.
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