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reach the higher levels, we are now carried by a surge of boundless energy.
Our thoughts accelerate rapidly. Thousands and thousands of thinking hours become compressed to mere seconds, to mere flashes of mental images. Thinking and intuition merge into one. Towering consequences build on each other in our mind, but with a precise grasp on reality as clear as never before.
As we rapidly comprehend more and more of reality, we recognize limiting circumstances and instantly remove our bonds to them. We dissolve all attachments that impede our upward path, leaving parts of reality that kept us confined before.
Within minutes we reach dimensions of consciousness never experienced before and entirely unimaginable on the lower levels. Yet surprisingly enough, - the higher we go, the more natural and comfortable we handle the features of our consciousness that now unfold.
We reach this second phase as soon as we relinquish our attachment to familiar, but obstructing mechanisms of action.
The second phase of level seven offers us two paths for further progress: 1) The suspension of karma. On this path most our remaining karma recedes into a latent, inactive state. Since up to gunasthana eleven inactive karma does not obstruct progress, this enables us to experience the character of the higher stages. The path leads via level 8, 9 and 10 to level 11, from where we go back to the seventh level. The ascent beyond level 11 is
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