The Nature of the Mind : 11.1.

The highest power of knowing by the individual is in its intellect and that being a slave of the dual reality, it is implied, therefore, that the Jivatma, as it is, cannot realise Brahmam.

It has to divest itself of the clogging psychic becomings and stand up bold and unaided by the senses.

When the waves, ripples and bubbles, the rays and the ramifications are embraced as one being, the world becomes no world, the body is no body, relations are no relations and qualities are no qualities.

Since duality is not of the nature of Brahmam, it will not shine where there is duality.

Dual perception is a refusal to perceive Brahmam which is Oneness and since two contradictions cannot exist in the same nature, the experience of Brahmam becomes impossible in the pluralistic world.

When the sense of two-ness in being is overcome the perceiver and the perceived fuse into a single Unit and that is the realization of Brahmam.

Even in deep sleep duality does not appear but since duality is in a potential state there and is not destroyed, Brahman cannot be realised in the deep sleep state.

Unity attended with Consciousness is the Reality.

Glimpses of this state are experienced in selfless contemplation and activity of pure and spiritual determination.

The joy of self-abandonment cannot be compared with any joy derived from egoistic enjoyments.

Swami Krishnananda

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