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operation of "diving" is performed by spirit alone? But then spirit has no source whatsoever, being a simple substance! The writer of solution No. II understands this clearly (see p. 70.).
Probably what you mean is that every soul becomes what you call. the all-pervading Absolute during the hours of deep-sleep every night? But that would be tantamount to saying that every soul obtains Final Liberation every night and after some six hours re-enters the body, which is in too violent a conflict with the doctrine of karma and transmigration of souls to be true.
Lastly, it is difficult to understand what you mean by the expression the bliss of the everlasting glory'? In your conception of Final Liberation, which, in your own words, means only "a complete dissolution of personality and separateness into one Absolute, Adwaita" (p. 329), there is no room for such a thing as bliss.
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16. I had better give you my 16. We can only hope that it idea of bliss : if you read the is a case of misprint, and not a following passage at the top of deliberate statement on your part, p. 361 of the Dream Problem you when you say that a child is in would understand what I mean the state of bliss ananda) and by bliss:
desireless (nirvasnic), though it
is difficult to see how misprinting “A new-born infant and a could have occurred on such an puran gnani (he whose knowledge extensive scale. In case our sugis perfect] are apparently the gestion about a misprint be not same, but in the one ignorance acceptable to you, it would be and in the other knowledge interesting to know in which parpredominates. Both are in the ticular state of the infantine state of bliss (ananda), fearless existence may an infant be re(nirbhe), desiretess (nirvasnic) garded as blissful and desireless and so forth; but in the case of whether when it is “cross "and the infant, the instinct has to peevish, or when crying for milk, undergo a change or evolution a toy, or anything else ?
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