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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
addthatthefeelingofAhamBrahmasmi7 isexperienced at every knot on the point of contact of the body and the soul. But this experience becomes more vivid and real when this knot is arrived at and one’s mental trend so harmonises with it as to keep the sense of the experience alive in him. He feels that the heat and the light of the sun, the brightness and the cool effect of the moon and the glow of stars are all his. So much so if anyone talks about Rama, Krishna or other higher souls, he feels that it is a talk about himself and for this he feels no scruple. After continued experiences when the condition gets matured another mystery is unravelled. When we have become intensely attached to it or in other words, have merged the experiences too, our vision then turns upwards and
7 Aham brahmasmi - I am Brahman: — This is perhaps the most popular sign of the so-called jnani of today, who goes about reciting mechanically similar phrases to impose upon others a show of achievement. It is not in fact the mere recitation of phrases that makes a jnani but the actual merging in the state when it is arrived at internally. In strict sense it applies too an inner consciousness of the feeling of inseparableness with the Absolute, according to the level of the abhyasi’s approach. According to the view taken up in this book, it is a spiritual state, which develops in the course of our march towards the Ultimate. At every point or knot there is some consciousness of this feeling in some form or the other. It goes on growing finer and finer as one advances towards higher levels. There are generally three phases of it. At the lowest level it appears in the form of feeling, “I am Brahman” (i.e. inseparateness). Next it turns into the feeling of “All is Brahman” which conveys a sense of universal inseparateness. Last of all it assumes the form of the feeling of “All from Brahman” which conveys a sense of extinction of every view.
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