He who by gradual
development has acquired knowledge and been progressively enlightened, he, as
you say, is established in vritti jnana.
Words, arguments, language,
and the like, are of the mind; whereas in the state that has just been referred
to, there, language has no place. This body respects whatever anyone may say,
because each person’s point of view depends on the particular stairway by which
he ascends.
Whatever idea may be held -
be it on a high or low level - it is all the same, so far as this body is
concerned.
For this reason, whether
anyone is of the opinion that the body can or cannot exist without or advances
a theory from whatever point of view, everything is right on its own plane.
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| Anandamayi Ma |
Even the essence of the
things of this world cannot be spoken about; but the essence of Transcendental
Being is something far more remote. Then, there is also what is known as
‘merging’.
But from that into which one is said to have merged, a yogi may
be able to extricate one again; this also is a possibility mentioned by you
people, is it not? Yet in the state of which this body tells, there it is not
so - and ‘not so’ does not express it either.
By reasoning and discrimination,
one may arrive at the conclusion that a small portion of the mind remains so
long as physical existence continues. But this body speaks of a state where there is not even the possibility of a trace of the mind.
