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ience). When delusion, ignorance and declination, dominate in one's life, then his 'I' becomes so insignificant that neither he awakes nor can he even do the function of awakening. Contrary to this when 'I' awakes, it becomes so gigantic that the whole Brahma or whole universe penetrates into it, i. e, this 'I' disintegrates itself, gets intermixed and united in all. He identifies himself with all and this is the highest stage of 'I', as also this alone is the final Evolution of an Equanimous life.
'I' of the worldly being lies so dormant that it is not less than a Herculean task to trace, awaken and activate it. Realization of this 'I' is also the realisation of Truth-realisation of the Supreme Soul. Every being addresses himself as 'l'. but he remains oblivious of its reality by planting it in wrong and false places, This is why he can-not easily explore his real 'I'. Being undulated by the anomaly born of circmstances, he is so much affected by the external surrounding that he does not have the instinct even to introspect and in absence of introspection, how can he perceive self (I) and realise it'.
First Know Self:
For the purpose of going ahead in the direction of experiencing 'I'. first of all it is indispensable to know the element of spirit. What is the difference between a human body which we call alive and the other instantaneously dead? Before one second a body which was alive, whose all senses and limbs were functioning and in whom the current of thoughts was overflowing, that one expired after one second either due to the cessation of heart beats or same other cause. Consciousness, instinct and activity all
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