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[The Lord's Philosophy
be conceived by Speaking or hearing. The sweetness of sugar is known to him alone who tastes it.
Even though we are unable to experience clearly that condition of the soul we can attain it by following the way shown by great sages and a dim glimpse of it we can have after a few days of meditation and practice of the feelings of equality. These great men who are able to differentiate between the soul and body and are able to isolate it like milk from water, we think the soul as the essence of pure spirit, as devoid of all passions like love and hatred, like free God, alone become delivered Souls by concentrating themselves in this most enlightened condition of the soul. Those attain salvation who concentrate in the soul with practice of equanimity and are able to enjoy true Samadhi, ( true concentration with complete forgetting of the external world). The soul is formless, still those who plunge deep in the true spirit of the soul which is as clean as the pure Ganges water in the end are able to get complete concentration of the soul and enjoy eternal bliss. From times beginningless the karmas have enslaved the soul, have kept it under their thumb, have crushed, by their inhuman power, our senses, inclinations and power to control. what am I? How much power have I? Which is more beneficial for me this or the other world? What is more harmful? Is there really any body in this vast world whom I can call my own? Or is there none ? Why have I born in innumerable miseries ? Is there any way to be free from these miseries ? If any, what is it? In what way can I become really happy ?"--to these questions and in inducing one to act accordingly when the answer is got, these Karmas always raise impediments. To escape from
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