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agitationattentionfactor“Third Eye”closed.causal bodyfig. 5The evolved soul’s attention looks into the heart 119 of the Subtle Bodytriangle where it perceives the Self. (fig.6 ) This fusing of the attentionfactors 120 of the three inner centers creates a lazer-like ray of meditativeattention that is often called the "eye of wisdom" or the "third eye." Oddlyenough, this inward seeing, precise as it is, does not prevent simultaneousperception of the outer objects.attentioninwardsubtle bodystilled“Third Eye”openvasanaspurifiedfig.6119 Where the three centers intersect or overlap, the source of their consciousness.120 Often called yoga. Yoga means to join or yoke.92
The "opening" of the inner eye can be consciously effected through theculture of the Subtle Body known as purification of mind or sadhana, 121which redirects the attention factor by removal of waves in the mindsubstance.122 Practice of sadhana coincides with the evolution of the innervision through many lives.“The soul purified in the firekindled by hearingshines like gold.”(65)The fire of knowledge kindled by hearing the truth causes the fierylight of Consciousness to blaze in the mind and purify it until it "shines likegold.""The sun of Self knowledge,rises in the sky of the Heartand destroys the darkness of ignorance.Pervading and sustaining all,its shining makes everything shine."(66)"The one freed of temporallimitations through worship of the Self becomesthe all-pervading all-knowing blissful Selfand attains Immortality."(67)121 Sanskrit for “means of attainment.”122 Chitta93
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SELF-KNOWLEDGE"I am composing this
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REMOVING THE WALLIf happiness or un
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"Action cannot remove ignorancefor
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lowing blissful cosmic experiences,
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Something tells me this knowledge s
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ody.We aren’t our feelings and em
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The belief that I am a waker comes
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If I’m the sleeper ego, the bliss
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itself out and disappears back into
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imaginations; ego, filled with self
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The next few days saw many experien
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here, however, the subtle part, the
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state manifests as awareness and ac
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At this point in the text the “No
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time when it was appropriate? Greed
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Simply knowing that everything is a
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in the light of the Self.”(19)Tho
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ationalized or self-validating cred
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through which the Enlightened Being
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