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out the flower. This is knowledge. Now it alights on the flower and starts sucking from it. There is no more of flying around, there is no more of humming. There is only this intoxicated oneness with the flower. This is character.
Let us consider this from another point of view:
I am His
Vision
I am Yours- Knowledge
I am You
Character
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In the first stage the aspirant has not yet seen the Supreme Soul. But faith has been aroused in him from what he has heard. He says, therefore: "I am His". He puts himself in the first person and God in the third person. He has not seen Him, but has heard about Him.
Then comes the second stage. In the first there was only vision; to that, knowledge is now added. He has seen God. God is before him and therefore he says: "I am Yours." He is in the first person and God is in the second person. He has come nearer to God.
“I am You”—this is the third stage. The man himself and the Supreme Soul are on the same status. He has a firm belief that he has within himself all the
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