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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
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The Different Stages of Spiritual Development
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Every Person
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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
The Different Stages of Spiritual Development
Every Person
In sanskrit three distinct words are used: - Atma which means the soul or a soul, an individual, a person;
- Mahatma, a high soul, an illuminated being, a spiritual personality;
- Paramatma, the divine man, the self-realized person, the God-conscious soul.
As you have read in the Gayan, "If you only explore him, there is a lot in man," so man -- taken as every man -- has in the spiritual spheres a very wide scope of development, a scope of development that an ordinary mind cannot imagine. The term "divine man" has always been connected with man, and very few realize that it means "Godman". The reason is that certain religiously inclined people have separated so much from God that they have filled the gap between man and God with what they call religion, a faith that stands for ever as a dividing wall between God and man. To man all sins are attributed, and to God all purity. It is a good idea, but far from truth.
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