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THE WAY OF LIFE
you gave us enlightenment which is like Amritha or nectar. Gods, goddesses, Devenidra, human beings, animals, birds and all jivas listen to your sermon and understand it in their respective languages. You give protection to all those creatures that seek your refuge. When they seek refuge at your feet, they are totally freed from all sorrows, all physical and psychic ailments and all anguish. You are an inconceivable gem of excellence and grace. You are like a boat that can take jivas across the ocean of worldly life. On Lord! You can see the entire Universe and all the millions of occurrences in it by means of your omniscience and supreme vision". This is called the contemplation of the Kaivalyavastha or the enlightened state. If you cannot utter these words spontaneously you must learn them by repetition and utter them while contemplating on the Lord's enlightened state.
THE ROOPATHITHAVASTHA - THE FORMLESS OR THE TRANSCENDENTAL STATE
The fourth state of the Lord is the Roopathithavastha or the formless state. By means of the destruction of the eight kinds of Karmas, the soul becomes formless or bodiless. You should contemplate on such a perfect, fully awakened and liberated soul. You must contemplate on that state which you call Moksha or Nirvana. "Oh Paramatma, you are absolutely perfect, awakened and liberated. You have become the bodiless one. You need not again at any time be born; you need not enter a physical frame and you need not experience death. You have achieved your highest objective. You are now experiencing supreme bliss and supreme felicity by virtue of infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite spiritual heroism and your victory over inner enemies. Now you can see all objects in this universe both mutable and immutable; both in their original form and in their modified form. You can at once visualize and know all the changes of the original form taking place through the past, the present and the future. You are completely away from the Samsar; yet you are infinitely compassionate. Oh Lord, you ennoble and elevate those people who meditate upon you."
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