Book Title: Essentials of Samadhishataka
Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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________________ 70 Essentials of Bahiratma. the illusoriness, and should attain the higher stage we call Antaratma and without detaining there oneself one should aspire and adore very profoundly and acutely to reach the Paramatma stage, the third and last step on the evolutionary ladder. To become Paramatma the Antaratma is the immediate pervious stage which should be very carefulty and consistently used for the attainment of the higher stage. When one is at the Antaratma stage all temptations, passions must be subdued by temperance, restraint and abstinence of whatever is prohibited or forsaken, and then and there happiness arises. It is the well planned and consistently arranged Antaratma that strives hard to reach from darkness to luminosity, ignorance to know ledge, known to unknown, determinate to indeterminate. Antaratma is a stage of practice and until and unless one assumes and adopts the stage of practice one cannot reach the perfect or fulfledged stage. To work successfully

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