Gem's from Bhagavan: Self-Realization

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The following extract from a letter of the poet Tennyson to B.P.Blood was

read out in Bhagavan's presence: '.... a kind of waking trance I have

frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has

generally come upon me through repeating my own name two or three times to

myself, silently, till all at once, as it were out of the intensity of

consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve

and fade away into boundless being; and this not a confused state but the

clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the

weirdest, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable

impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction

but the only true life.'

 

Bhagavan said, 'That state is called abidance in the Self.'

 

(Gems from Bhagavan, selected by A. Devaraja Mudaliar)