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( 29 ) Om, Sohan, Arhun, Siddha Paramátman (God), Niranjan (pure), and the like. The following sloka will also be found to be highly helpful in this connection :
एकोऽहं निरमलः शुद्धो ज्ञान हर्शन लक्षणः शेषा मे बाहिरा भावा सर्वे संयोग लक्षणः ॥
This is to the effect that I am one ; I am free from impurities; I am divine; I am pure; I am invested with the attributes of knowledge and perception; all else is outside me; is not me; and is the product of karmas. In this way, one should meditate on one's own self. As the power of steady meditation increases, a time comes when there is a coalescence of the subject and object of contemplation, when he who contemplates finds himself merged in the being whom he contemplates upon; the apparent is absorbed in the Real. The lover and the beloved here become one; the devotee now realises his oneness with his God. This dissolution of the personal in the Real, of the temporary in the eternal, as it might be termed, is a process so full of life and joy that those, who have experienced its thrilling ecstasy, even for the brief space of a second, have been “ filled" with it. This is what is known as entering into life; and he who does so, necessarily perceives nothing
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