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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
of universal love, a human love at first, a divine love afterwards. Secondly, to be one in bliss with all the world-play and banish from the soul the sorrow and fear, the hunger and pain of the darkened mental being. Thirdly, to get that power of the bliss-freedom in which all the conflicting principles of our being shall be unified in their absolute values. So that all evil shall per force become good, the Universal beauty of the All-beautiful take possession, every darkness be converted into a pregnant glory of the light and the discords which the mind creates between Truth and Good and Beauty, Power and Love and Knowledge disappear on their eternal summit of Unity". This is the ideal Samatā, the supreme mystery, the highest secret, simple to itself, however difficult and complex to our mental conceptions. It is the free infinity of the self-delight of Sachchidananda.
The ideal Samatā is gradually attained by passing through various stages. In the beginning a man should try to realise the four Bhāvanās of Love, Joy, Compassion, and Disattachment. Then he over his senses. should try to get complete control The third means is Atmavihāra (Self-introspection), i. e., finding out the true nature of Soul. This means the realising of Jiva being altogether distinct from Ajiva, the transitory nature of passions and of the worldly life, inevitability of death and the necessity of learning the true knowledge by paying due respect to the elders and the preceptor. When, after deep meditation, prolonged thinking and conti
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