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You are the background of all your emotions and passions. Feeling is

the one word to

denote all these. It means that feeling is their general background;

and so it must be

the Absolute, called `rasa'. Likewise, knowing is the background of

all thoughts.

A man's thirst to know and to be happy proceeds from his real nature.

He is happiness

and knowledge. Knowing and feeling in their secondary senses may have

an

object; but in their correct sense, they can have no object at all.

Because that which goes into the make of all feelings, and always

remains as their

background, is what is called `rasa'. We use the word `feeling' to

denote particular

feelings such as anger, pride, etc. We use the one word `feeling' to

denote all feelings.

So, feeling is the common background of all feelings. This pure

feeling is called

`rasa'. It is the right Absolute.

Likewise, thoughts and perceptions are one when viewed as knowing,

because

knowing has to be present in all thoughts and perceptions. That again

is the `I'-

principle, and that is pure Consciousness.

Similarly, all objects are one when viewed as existence. Atmananda