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in heart for they shall see God." So without chittasuddhi or purification of the heart nothing is possible. Now there are various means and disciplines whereby the heart can be purified. Of these the most preleminary for a mumukshin is to serve the sådhus, the monks. The most typical of these services is the services rendered to the monk engaged in Tapaausteiority. Performance of tapas may cover the period of even eighteen months and if a mumukshin serves a monk who is thus engaged in Tapas in such a manner as to see that nothing there takes place externally as to break the Tapas of the monk, he is said to be achieving the purification of the heart to a certain extent. The psychology underlying this is too obvious to require
any further elaboration. (iv) Sukshma Sampardya.--The more the
heart is purified the more the
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