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પ્રકરણ. 1
SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
being to inquire into the principles of Truth (Tattvas). He makes a rapid progress towards Truth by controlling immoral and unnatural passions, emotions and feelings and thereby enjoying the happy currents of pure thoughts. His conduct being free from transgression and negligence becomes noble and sublime. The practice of Yama and Niyama is highly superior to that superficially observed in the first and second stages. He gets a powerful control over subreption, stains and passions and dislikes worldly enjoyment with strong repulsion. He remains still engaged in social and worldly concerns with his mind thoroughly fixed on the attainment of Truth ( Tattvas) like a chaste woman performing her household duties, but with her mind concentrated devotedly to her husband. Consequently the Karmic forces are rendered impotent to impede his advancing soul. In short, he focusses all his mental and spiritual force in the investigation of the cardinal principles leading to the realisation of Self (Sata-chit-ānandship). The mental abstraction must be so deep as to present the object even with absence vividly and at once. This development corresponds to the development of the Soul in the seventh stage of the Gunasthāṇ System.
Prabha Drashti.
The perceptive light resembles the brilliancy of the sun. Holy thought forms which were shaped in the imaginative mind begin to be actualised in the course of action based on right conduct. Being free from mental agonies and physical maladies owing to 421
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