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feel. Is it numb or have you grown? it’s a question of viveka. You know that you have grown then you know that you have grown, otherwise you know it is something else physiologically.
So when you grow into the Brahmanda sarira, these concepts become much better and discriminative intelligence becomes refined and that leads us to the next stage you have got one of dependency, which you have experienced in knot 3 gets reflected here as prapanna - prapanna gati. Bhakthi leads to prapanna gati 3rd and the 8th knot approximately always go together. The finer shades of these things come to you when you practice but then from that state onwards we move on to the next stage where you feel that you are the Lord. You feel so much in tune with the Master that you start thinking that you are the Master Himself, that’s what we call a prabhu gati and then further on you move. You come to know that you are not the Master, you come to know that you have got the same qualities, isvara gunas you seem to be having, that means you are able to move around the universe in the astral plane, feel everything there. Now here that is the basic trouble, traditionally people who have felt it have always fallen they left their yoga because they thought they are equal to God. They behaved funnily also, 5th knot onwards they behaved funnily, various people have fallen at various levels. The reason for falling is, you feel that you have got the same powers but you do not understand the restraint that is required. A man who is more powerful has to have more restraint. He can’t use it, he is not supposed to use it indiscriminately according to his whims and fancies. When he does it, a Ravanasura would be there or some other asura would be there, but they seem to be inevitably accompanying. The system gives you a protection; the Master uses your powers as if it is His own, for His purposes but you are kept oblivious, unconscious, unaware of what is happening to you. This is the greatest protection in the system that you are not allowed to have any knowledge of any one of your capacities. That is the best way by which any Master can protect us lest we fall. That would be the worst thing that can ever happen to us, having gone considerably to fall again. You know, the more you go the fall will be much steeper. You really sink, a man in the first step will only lose 6 inches perhaps for the step, a fellow who went on the top of the staircase if he falls he falls straight down breaking his bones and you know what has happened in the case of those two great jaya vijayas who were protecting the vaikunta.

































































































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