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116/Meditation and Enlightenment: Chanbr Prabh
The sea of trance is not separate from life. There can be separation for a few moments between life and trance, but the footsteps of eternal separation cannot be heard. If a man is determined, and is dedicated to his commitments in all respects, then the boating of trance can take place even in the stormy ditches without any hindrance.
I have to attain, after all, what I really am. The attainment of that 'I' is but the opening of the gate of the supreme life. If even death occurs in the attainment of 'I', that would be the martyrdom embraced, for me. 'Arihant' is but my extreme and the death of 'arihant' is not the death, but the gala-festival of the supreme life. I am lighting such a lamp on the grave, which would give death-free light of life.
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We have to get across every boundary, every border, every After all, the boundless can be found only across the border. The encouragement given to one's own self to go across the borders is the monkhood of life. You have to expand yourself, extend your hand upto eternity. If you have become fed up with expansion, then bring back your own self to the super-space of life which is situated across the body, across the thought, across the mind.
The dissolution of the co-ordination with the body is experiencing body-lessness. To follow the 'maunvrata' (the Observance of silence) is the organisation of 'munittva' (sainthood) in life.
Crossing over the mind is but to get the signal for ascending the inner consciousness. 'I' am rather two steps ahead of even the mind. I have to rise up many ladders now.
The source of the soul is lying choked with the black rocks of the co-ordination of mind, speech and body. To remove these stones is the basis of the release of the source. It is necessary to discard the screens and remove the veils for viewing beauty.
'Hath Yoga' (form of Yoga which aims at attaining supernataral powers through torturing the body) is there to discipline the
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