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you are as balanced as the sky. It is nakedness. The earth is decorated, the sky is naked. That is the state of mind you have got, that is the experience. So, atmadarsanam means you become one with that type of feeling. In that state of atmadarsanam, you know you are really nothing.
The prasantata felt before is what we have got here at the fifth knot. In the second knot we know that we are all inseperably related to the Divine. That is the nature of your self. You are inseperably connected with Him, you are dependent upon Him and you are an instrument of the Divine, all these three things come there. That particular awareness that we had at the second becomes full here. While we know that we are one with the Divine in expansion, we also know that we are instruments of the Divine.
If the mirror is the atma, it should reflect the God within me. That is why Andal goes on polishing the mirror, not to look at her face, but to look at God’s face. She is looking into the mirror and the mirror is what we see. The mirror represents Lord Krishna. She will not see her face there, she sees the face of only Lord Krishna. When I
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