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subtle force‖ (Showers of Divine Grace
page 43.)
 We may try to describe the condition of
subtlety as a state of mind where one experiences deep calm with no emotions, but as one tries go deeper into it or try to sustain it by one‘s effort then the condition pushes out the person, as it is a subtle force, and one gets various thoughts which suggest to him that he needs further purification. The extent of inner purification enables a person to get absorbed in the condition for a longer time. If the feeling of the awareness of the Other than the self during this condition the abhyasi calls it as expansion. In a state of expansion also the aspirant feels the vibrations are of low frequency and awareness of flow is not also felt many times. This is in contrast to the other deep experiences where one finds the meditation intense and one‘s attention is sustained on the object of meditation giving no scope to distracting thoughts and the abhyasi finds many a time benumbed. The intensity of the force is
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