"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Seven Planes to Liberation

Continued from here

The Master said:

Those who yet remain in the first three planes are practisers and not emancipated.

Brahmavids are those who have gone into the fourth plane; they are pure and liberated.

Those in the next three planes are respectively vara, varya and varishta, i.e., the eminent, the more eminent and the most eminent among the knowers of Brahman. I shall still further tell you the excellence of the planes of the enlightened. 

Those who have remained in the first three planes and died before they reached the fourth plane, go to the happy regions; then they reincarnated and gradually fain liberation. surely they do not go to the unedifying lower planes.

O son! the first plane itself is difficult to gain. This gained, liberation is as good as gained.

If they gain the first or second planes of enlightenment in this world, even mlecchas are as good as emancipated. By the holy feet of my master, this is true! Cursed be they that deny it! Doubt not the Vedas, common to all. Strictly following the indicated way, clearly realize 'I am Brahman'!

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