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one after another. Increasing satisfaction, consequent on the cessation of the agitations of the points of doubt, is experienced by the thinker as these (the doubts) are destroyed one by one. In the end the complete coincidence between the teacher's word and one's own limited stock of knowledge is marked with the establishment of perfect harmony and the agitation-less state of the mind. This is supplemented by the pulsation of the emotion of true de-light which the soul now experiences for the first time, as the result of being lightened from the burdens with which it was overloaded and de-pressed. It now knows itself not to he a miserable perishable thing of matter, but a real God, Immortal, Omniscient, Blissful and Irresistible!
Once the seal of belief is placed on the teacher's word, new groups are formed in the mind, and old ones are destroyed. The impulses, too, are loosened from their roots in the longings of the flesh, and can never be the same again. The lower personality that used to be the centre and cynosure of attention, at all times and under all circumstances, in the pre-enlightenment days, now totters to its fall. Henceforth it can only exist as burnt up cordage. It is nevertheless still potent enough to lend the tinge of strong superstition to thought. The old mythological gods are now gone; but the mind is still not strong enough to withstand trouble; it immediately turns to the new Ideals for help when in distress,
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