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Vol. 8, Health and Order of Body and Mind
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Self-Control
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The Control of the Spirit
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Vol. 8, Health and Order of Body and Mind
Self-Control
The Control of the Spirit
A complete realization of the spiritual plane is difficult for everybody, and only an earnest mureed arrives at this stage through perseverance in the control of breath under the guidance of a Murshid, when all the senses can be opened or closed at will. The vision he sees and the phenomena he experiences there are unknown to the average man. This state is incredible to those who have received a worldly knowledge, but have not followed the mystic way.
Only he can control the self, making it rise above the physical plane, who loses himself in the phenomenon of the abstract plane. The mureed, holding this phenomenon in his meditation, becomes so absorbed in it that in the end neither he nor the phenomenon remain, but only the consciousness of being.
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