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THE LIBERATION FROM BONDAGE
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moving he would just move, without thinking, ogling and uttering a word His body and mind would present a perfect merger
While eating he would simply eat without perceiving the taste or thinking or speaking
Disposing of the essential necessities, he would stay as his true self One can be oneself by devoting exclusively to the action of the present, moment. To be his true self the Lord canalised his entire consciousness towards the self Mind, thought subtle thought, senses, feelings all flowed to the self-same end
REALISATION OF THE PURUSHAKAR OF ANTHROPOMORPHIC SELF
The self is not an object of sight How then do we witness it? The dilemma is a perennial one and the Lord must have faced it as we do today He realised that the self pervades the entire body There is no cell in it that is not permeated with consciousness Purusha is all-pervaded with self Hence the Lord sought to realise the self in the form of purusha He witnessed self in every part of the body It went a longway in purging the body-consciousness
The mind thrives on attachment Dispassion enables it to shrink to the nucleus of its essence The Lord by means of dispassion, stopping the influx of karmic matter, spiritual practices and chaste perception, directed the stream of mind to merge into the ocean of consciousness
