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resplendent. With the guru as the helmsman, one crosses the subtle body and the ocean of Sansara [mundane existence] through the affinities of practice. That Vak [power of speech] which sprouts in Para, gives forth two leaves in Pasyanti, buds forth in Madhyama and blossoms in Vai khari-that Vak which has before been described, reaches the stage of the absorption of sound, reversing the above order, (vzz., beginning with Vaikhari,&c.). Whoever thinks that he who is the great lord of that Vak, who is the [undifferentiated] and who is the illuminator of that Vak is myself-whoever thinks thus, is never affected by words high or low [or good or bad]. The three [aspects of consciousness], Vishwa, Taijasa and Pragnya, the three Virat, Hiranyagarbha and Eswara in the universe, the egg of the universe, the egg of man and the seven worlds-all these int urn are absorbed in Pratyagatma through the absorption of their respective upadhis (vehicles). The egg being heated by the fire of Gyana (wisdom), is absorbed with its Karana (cause) into Paramatma (universal self). Then it becomes one with Paramatma. It is then neither unsteadiness nor depth, neither light nor darkness, neither describable nor distinguishable. Sat (Beness) alone remains. One should think of Atma as being within the body like a light in a vessel. Atma is of the dimensions of a thumb, is a light without smoke and without form, is shining within the body and is undifferentiated and immutable.
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