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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
the very first chapter of divine knowledge. From this point the sense of self-existence begins to dissolve and the more we probe into it the more we are successful in the negation of self. For further clarification of the condition of self at this stage I may cite the example of Hanuman, whose inner powers were awakened only when he was reminded of their presence in him. Otherwise he remained quite forgetful of them. But onwards still we have to go, passing through the usual states of merging and identicality at every point. When all these conditions get merged into the state of identicality, which in its turn reaches the merging point, we feel our happy approach to the next knot.
Tenth knot
When we reach this tenth knot the previous conditions change their phase. By now we become so much accustomed to supplication that we begin feeling His home to be ours. That is to say, we begin to sense a feeling of “Masterhood.” But this, not being an imposition, is the actual condition of the place which develops by the effect of our close proximity with the Lord and which must come to an abhyasi at this level. Just as on witnessing the gentle flow of a watery current one often begins to feel the dancing of the waves in his heart, so does an abhyasi at this stage feel and is inwardly prompted to revere his own
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