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dha, Paramātman, Niranjan (pure), and the like. The following s'loka is especially recommended :
एकोऽहं निरमलः शुद्धो ज्ञान दर्शन लक्षणः
शेषा मे बाहिरा भावा सर्वे संयोग लक्षणः This is to the effect that I am One; I am free from impurities ; I am divine; I am pure ; I am invested with the attributes of knowledge and perception; all else is outside me ; is not me; and is the product of karmas. In this way should one meditate on one's own Self. As the power of steady meditation increases, a time comes when there is a coalescence of the subject and the object of contemplation, when he who contemplates finds himself merged jo the being whom he contemplates upon ; when the apparent is absorbed in the real. The Lover and the Beloved here become one ; the devotee now realises bis oneness with his God (Atman Dharma, pp. 27-29). What is meant is the merger of the potential in the ideal, the stamping of the purified substance of being with the impress of Divinity, the transformation of the jivâtman into Paramåtman, i.e., God. This is termed entering into life, and is a process so full of life and joy that those who have experienced its thrilling ecstacy even for the brief space of a second have been filled with it,
Such, briefly, is the description of meditation which is the most potent means of self-realisation, • The remaining two items, namely, purification and tapas have already been sufficiently dealt with in these lectures. But it is well to know that purification and
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