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LECTURE FOUR
SYNOPSIS
* One who knows the nature of doubt knows the whole world. One who does not know the nature of doubt does not know anything about the world.
*The aspirant for emancipation should break the chain of attachments and aversions with the help of enlightenment. *Such an aspirant is said to have crossed the ocean of life and to have become free and detached.
*By hearing or knowing or by chance some point of consciousness begins to expand and the first ray of existence bursts forth.
*The first ray of undefiled consciousness - clarity of vision. * The second ray of undefiled consciousness-experience of happiness and light.
*The third ray of undefiled consciousness-constancy of the experience of happiness-manifestation of everlasting
enlightenment.
*The fourth ray of undefiled consciousness- acquisition of the original source of happiness-acquisition of the original source of everlasting illumination.
* Knowledge of the distinction between individuality and existence leading to the transformation of the individual.
* Formerly the two in pleasure and sorrow appeared to be pleasing but now only happiness attracts me.
* Sometimes I felt pleasure and at other times sorrow due to the effects of past actions, but now I feel indifferent to both.
* Formerly I felt consciousness at times only, but now I am possessed perpetually by consciousness only.
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