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tation, when the single-pointed mental-rays of the individual have been turned completely inwards to re-cognise the Self within, the world of perceptions gets lifted in the experience just as the world of the dream naturally rolls away from the waker's comprehension. We percieve the pluralistic world from the levels of the body, from the plains of the mind and from the peaks of the intellect. With the body and through the body we recognise the waking-stateworld of forms and names outside ourselves; with the mind, we perceive a world of feelings, emotions, sentiments and throbbings; and from the peaks of the intellect, we recognise and experience our world of ideas which has never a declared boundary.
On transcending our identifications with the body, mind and intellect, our worlds reporting to us through the sense-organs, mind and intellect get themselves absorbed, as it were, into what remains in us the Pure Self or the Truth. On waking from a dream it cannot be said to have rolled away into some other point of time and place, but we will have to accept in our own experience that the dreamer in us rose as a result of our own complete forgetfulness of our nature as the waker or the deep-sleeper! On waking, the dream is considered to have vanished'; similarly, on awakening ourselves to the full Spiritual Consciousness, through achieved spiritual God-hood, the world of change and finitude is experienced as totally 'vanished'.
Without coming to this state of tolal Self-realisation experienced at least for a moment in our life, there is no liberation possible from the instinctive weaknesses that one suffers in one's own false identifications. This is the way shown in our Scriptures. This is the path by which the endless team of perfect men have gained their goal of Life in the past. And in our own times, many a noble soul has come to enjoy the fulfilment of the mission of their life, walking the very same path and reaching the very same Goal!!
Lip-Vedanta has never helped any one to come to any perfection. Mere discussions, idle repetitions, boisterous
