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Towards Infinity - Knots- Granthis
self. Putting it another way I may say that for enjoying the fine fragrance of the sandal one has to go to the tree itself, but when he applies its paste on his forehead he gets close to it and enjoys it just in the same way. We are now at His portals and feel the cool breeze coming from within. The Master too starts sensing that one of His slaves is in wait for Him. Sameness also begins to develop to some extent though much is yet to be covered in respect of closeness. Here the function of Ishwar, in the sense of the Creator, ceases and the Ishwar has no access beyond. Onwards we begin to contact with the Bhuma - the Absolute and attain freedom from bondage. It is a place of rare approach. The air does not breathe there, rather the air at the place is of the type which is hardly attainable even after persistent labour, and practice, or we might as well say that the air transforms into its real essence which we have now to pass through. What is that essence? To call it as a vacuum may not be quite appropriate, to express it as the reflection of Bhuma may also not be exact, because all these are comparatively heavier. In all fairness it can only be said that the Bhuma is there and a conscious feeling of its existence is present in the heart, which determines that there is a certain eternal and universal existence towards which we have to move on. Then only we must understand that we have come up to the next knot.
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