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104. ఆ􏰀ామ్నంద (Atmananda)
At this stage the person feels liberated from the shackles of body and mind and also understands the Universal self and then serves others.
At this stage there is awareness of individual self and also one is happy, contended, peaceful and liberated from all thing. It is a feeling of liberation, he is not liberated. There is awareness in Atmanandamu. You know the atma is there, that is a samprajnata. It is not asamprajnata. In atmanandamu, you are aware of your individual self, contented, peaceful, liberated from all these things, there are no attachments.
Contentment, happiness, all these are connected the antahkarana, not the atma. Even when we have cancer, we can be happy. He was definitely in atmanandamu. Enormous torture he used to go through, from a physical point of view but he was not disturbed. He was able to have a sakshi consciousness. The awareness that the body and the soul are different which is the beginning of viveka, gets into a pinnacle state here. It happens even in 215