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The Four Levels of Brahman’s Subtlety #161
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As nondual Reality reveals more and more of Itself to the limited but expanding human mind, it becomes clear that Consciousness holds within its vast regions some stellar and stunning atmospheres that can only be fathomed by the most elevated and masterful of realized beings. Sublime titles and scriptural slokas indicating these overlapping divisions are to be found on this dharma chart, to aid the human mind in comprehending a little of its own pure and pristine Awareness.
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