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THE NATURE OF KARMIC BONDS
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tivities are so perfectly in harmony with the main thrust of the universe that more energy is generated than is needed for the action itself.
We get a notion of this mechanism when we work on projects that inspire us intensely. Though the work might be mentally and physically exhausting, our inspiration fuels us far beyond our usual limits. - How much more energetic will we feel when we get close to freedom from all karmic limitations.
Even in less advanced stages of development it can happen that sleep and deep sleep will cease temporarily and we experience insight how higher levels of reality feel like. This type of 'waking sleep' usually happens while we rest at night. It is typically felt as vibrant wakefulness of the mind while the body stays in a state of deep rest. The experience is agreeable. In the beginning we might mistake it for sleeplessness since we do not feel the accustomed oblivion of dream or deep sleep and our consciousness does not blank out of our body. Yet in the morning we feel totally rested though we were aware all during the time this state lasted.
Because of these characteristics we can easily distinguish 'waking sleep' from sleeplessness. Sleeplessness originates in a continued overtaxing of the psychic and physical senses caused by the pursuit of erroneous concepts, error etc.
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