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→Aparārdha
The combination of the three lower members, mind, life & body, is called therefore aparārdha. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/17/the-isha-upanishad-1#p60</ref>
==Assimilation==
There has to be a period of assimilation. When the being is unconscious, the assimilation goes on behind the veil or below the surface and meanwhile the surface consciousness sees only dullness and the loss of what it had got; but when one is conscious, then one can see the assimilation going on and one sees that nothing is lost, it is only a quiet settling in of what has come down. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/experiences-and-realisations-v#p27</ref>
==Awakening==
There is a stage in the sadhana in which the inner being begins to awake. Often the first result is the condition made up of the following elements:
(1) A sort of witness attitude, in which the inner consciousness looks at all that happens as a spectator or observer, observing things but taking no active interest or pleasure in them.
(2) A state of neutral equanimity in which there is neither joy nor sorrow, only quietude.
(3) A sense of being something separate from all that happens, observing it but not part of it.
(4) An absence of attachment to things, people or events. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-detachment-and-the-witness-attitude#p15,p16,p17,p18,p19</ref>
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