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I am the Soul
663 he took leave. Here the Gurudev is a self-realised sage. The natural ability of becoming immersed in the true form of atma is manifest in him. Therefore, the moment the speech stopped, the body too stabilised, and all three yogas merged with the feeling of the atma, naturally going into a trance. Kabir has said
HET! ES HAT sit...
The jiva attains such a state that if it is sitting in a state of transaction, it will conduct its transactional duties, but the moment it is free from this duty, it will slide into the transcendental stage. Such a state is the true form of the jiva. Attaining such a state is the progressive state of the devoted pursuit of a sadhaka. Gurudev stabilised in such a state of trance.
Brothers! This state is not attainable by all so very easily. I recollect, last year we were at Tirupur for Chaturmas. It was a very quiet and attractive place with great solitude. Ideal atmosphere for sadhana. There, just as I hold the session of meditation - “I am the Soul - here after the discourse, we used to meditate. After the discourse I began with the session. On the dais, my revered Adhyatma Yogini Bapji was seated. She stabilised in her meditation. The session was on for about ten minutes. We finished, but the revered Bapji was still in the trance. Along with the shravaks - shravikas, I waited for almost fifteen minutes. I waited so that after she came out of the trance, I could chant the Mangalik and Pachchakkhan. But since she was still in a trance, I had to complete the ritual. All the shravaks went away. That day we had visitors from Kolhapur. All sat there in absolute silence. The local brothers came again. They bowed before revered Bapji and went away. Later, almost another hour passed before she came out of her trance. She did not even know that the ritual of Mangalik had got over and that people had already left. Upon completion of the meditation, her face was beaming with a glow and happiness.
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