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enlarge my sense of spaciousness and extend hue and a light heart to all universally. I feel the reciprocity between me and all of life. On the fifth step, let the differences between 1 and 'Thou' dissolve. The expansion radiates outward infinitely Impurities in speech are remoued. The goddess of wisdom sits in my consciousness. On the sixth step, the last traces of dry mental desires and unclear motiues are cleared away. Now those thoughts which I think and those words which I utter shall ring with the truth of experience. The mind is now ready to open to highest consciousness.
I climb the seventh and last step. I feel purity. I feel clean, as if I have shed my skin, outer coverings and limitations. Now I am free to take a leap onto the lotus of perfection.
Now I am standing lightly upon the petals of the lotus. In the center of the huge lotus, I see a beautiful throne. Seeing it, my breaths are completely stilled and quiet. It is a throne of golden white light. It is vibrating with life. It is beckoning to me. It awaits me. It is my seat. It is the seat of the Arihanta, the Conqueror. I am the Conqueror. I deserve to take my seat there.
Now I move to take that seat. I am there. I am accepting my reality. I am revering my true quality. I am revealing what I am. I am in the ecstasy of myself. I carry that inner knowing whereuer I go. Now I am free. Nothing can bind me. Everything good in me is blossoming as the radiant heart of the lotus. I am this. I am Arihanta. I ami. I am that awareness.
Moving Messenger
Achārya Anand Sāgarsuriji was observing how Munishree was emanating the beautiful vibrations of special inner qualities. He saw him coming closer and closer to revealing his reality, and perceived what the young muni himself did not yet know, that his Enlightenment would become a cause for many thousands to come onto the path of Self-Realization. According to the law 148
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