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GUNASTHANAS be and of the proper means of its realisation, Here the harmony that is introduced is not partial or unstable as in the previous stages but is complete and it effects its end and works out itself with complete naturalness and spontaniety.
Thus to generalise further we may say that of these four stages, the first is charac. terised by indiscrimination or caprice, freedom without restraint, the second and third by voluntary and much strained regulation at the expense of the so-called freedom, and the fourth by the coincidence of freedom and regulation. And as each person shines forth in its true light, he becomes one with itself, as he passes from the preceding stages to those succeeding, reconciling now some warring inconsistencies, satisfying some haunting claim and getting rid of some gnawing uneasiness, and thus stands forth in greater vigour, keeping clear of all enfeebling defects ; because to the lower stages some hesitation and cowardice, some sort of indecision and indiscrimination forever cling. Another thought which occupied the 625
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