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Date Posted: 10:34:50 12/04/05 Sun
Author: ketch - 17 Sep 2005
Subject: Re: Man calls off search for Self after 38 yrs
In reply to: d - 16 Sep 2005 's message, "Re: Man calls off search for Self after 38 yrs" on 10:31:17 12/04/05 Sun


M: There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible.


M: You can do nothing to bring it about, but you can avoid creating obstacles.

This is an interesting perspective, and one which some sages like to repeat. In yoga however, there certainly are different stages of self-realization. It is not an all or nothing experience which may suddenly occur without warning. In the early stages the yogi experiences minor raptures, deepening peace and bliss in meditation etc.

Yoga is a gradual step by step path. In kriya yoga we work firstly to realise the astral body with the movement of prana etc. Then the causal, with the flows of finer energies. There are different stages which various yogi's may have reached on the journey to the infinite, and definate steps taken to bring this about.

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