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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
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482. The majesty of the ocean of Supreme Brahman, replete with the current of the nectarlike Bliss of the Self, is verily impossible to express in speech, nor can it be conceived by the mind,-in an infinitesimal fraction of which my mind melted like a hailstone” getting merged in the ocean, and is nowsatisfied by that Essence of Bliss.
[ Infinitesimal fraction lit. a particle of the part of whose part. The Avyaktam or Unmanifest is, as it were, a part of Brahman (through Upadhi or superimposed limitations); the Suträtman or the Cosmic Mind is, again, part of that ; while the Virát or the Being who considers the whole extended universe as his body, is a fraction of this last. The bliss of this Viråt even is enough to dissolve the finite mind. Compare Sri Ramakrishna's parable of a ship that came near a magnetic rock and had all its bolts drawn out, so that it was reduced to its pristine condition.
2Hailstone &c.-The hailstones that accompany a shower of rain on the ocean quickly melt and become one with it.
Now-after return to the normal plane of consciousness. ]
क गतं केन वा नीतं कुत्र लीनमिदं जगत् ।
अधुनैव मया दृष्टं मास्ति किं महबद्भुतम् ॥ ४५३॥ 483. Where is the universe gone, by whom is it removed, and where is it merged ? It was just now seen by me, and has it ceased to exist? -It is passing strange !
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