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amazing phenomenon. When the temperature reaches a point in the vicinity of absolute zero, suddenly, matter loses all its physical resistance. This miracle of near-zero point in physics has, as it were, its identical twin in spiritual world too.
Through one's spiritual endeavor (sadhna), when one manages to dissolve the l'existence or awareness of selfhood completely, one attains an egoless state, where his actions fail to provoke the proverbial karmic reaction. In other words, he transcends the barrier of karmic compulsion; karmic bondages can no longer hold him prisoner in their clutches. The archaic walls holding his innate joy, intuitive knowledge and eternal bliss locked within, now disintegrate. The phenomenon of reaction-free action during egoless state, the exception that only serves to prove the over-all validity of karmic rule, is the discovery of those enlightened explorers of the inner world who have established the ground-rules governing man's inner nature.
Triumph over the inner nature :
Science is striving to gain control over the elements in external world of objects while spiritualists' aim is mastery over emotions. The victory over nature externally is tantalisingly spectacular but mastery over the inner nature is the supreme attainment of all. Having learnt the laws of Nature that govern all matter from atomic particles to planetary bodies, to engineer an atomic explosion or to undertake lunar expedition may be a thrilling experience but to attain self-realisation by transcending mind and ego and rising above passions, cravings and emotional upheavals and thus entering into deep samadhi state is by far the most ecstatic and exciting experience.
The aspirant out to conquer instinctual desires has no option but to follow the trail of self-realisation as shown by the enlightened masters. Many thinkers among scientists today have begun to accept this truth.
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