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during these outbreaks, the constant and perfect pursuit of the Five Freedoms is not yet possible.
6 - The sixth level (pramatta virata) is our long desired break
through into tangible superior understanding. At the first unfolding of this stage we feel immersed in an intense vividness of the present never before experienced. Immense relief sweeps through our consciousness, dissolving all our orries and fears. We reach unknown heights of serenity, sovereignty and elation. It is as if an inner light has been switched on. - This breakthrough gives us the ultimate and solid confirmation that our path really leads to dimensions of consciousness entirely unimaginable on lower stages.
With liberating clarity we recognize how severely the thoughtand emotional patterns of our past and the expectations (and dreads) we project onto the future limit our perception of the present. The immediacy with which we recognize these deeprooted patterns enables us to consciously break free from their overshadowing influence.
One by one all concepts, emotions, preconceptions and prejudices that up to this moment locked our consciousness into narrow limits, fall off like superfluous crusts. The tight band of events we previously felt and thought was our only conceivable path, now appears like a confining tube in which our life ran from a restrictive past into an equally restricted future. Our awareness begins to perceive the world outside this tube.
6 It is easy to demonstrate how past emotions and their projection onto our future restrict the intensity of our present. - We all know the anxiety in the waiting room of a dentist when we expect a highly uncomfortable treatment. We anticipate the pain the doctor might possibly inflict, all our previous painful experiences in a dentist's chair frighteningly vivid before our mind.
This exclusive selective memory of painful moments of the past influences our anticipation of what the next hour might bring us so intensely that we hardly perceive the present. Distractedly we leaf through a magazine. Yet though our eyes are reading the words, we
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