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the second knot. It happens here more. Atma is different from body. You have got antahkarana, you must separate yourself from the antahkarana. So, all the ills we talk about in the earlier stage, the ills of the world, good and evil all that, they are all related to antahkarana and not to the atma. That awareness must be passed through first, passed through in the earlier stages. When we go through that, evil and good don’t have meaning, we move on further, atmadarsana happens, and we really do not get attached to this. Then you are happy with yourself but it does not mean the antahkarana is not groaning, it is groaning.
The body also should be respected, it is not to be condemned. It has to be maintained well. Even Antahkarana has to be maintained, antahkarana is hidden, nothing to do with me. Sakshi is experience, that is atmanandam. After atmadarsanamu only atmanandamu comes. Once you know your nature, you are happy with it. In atmadarsanamu there is still a question of the body being used as an instrument by the soul for divine work but in atmanandamu service is not there, it is on its own. It is the state that comes after this,
not before this. It is not atmanandamu first, then service 216
































































































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