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he says yes. He doesn't see that there is any antagonism in life. He affirms. He says yes to his body, he says yes to his mind, he says yes to everybody, he says yes to the total existence. The ultimate flowering happens when you can say a categorical yes, with no conditions. Suddenly the ego falls; it cannot stand. It needs the props of no. The negative attitude creates ego. The positive attitude -- the ego drops, and then the being is pure.
Sanskrit has two words for "I" -- ahankar and asmita. It is difficult to translate. ahankar is the wrong sense of "I" which comes from saying no. asmita is the right sense of "I" which comes from saying yes. Both are "I". One is impure: no is the impurity. You negate, destroy. No is destructive, a very subtle destruction. Never use it. Drop it as much as you can. Whenever you are alert, don't use it. Try to find a roundabout way. Even if you have to say it, say it in such a way that it has the appearance of yes. By and by you will become attuned, and you will feel such a purity coming to you through yes.
Then asmita: asmita is egoless ego. No feeling of "I" against anybody. Just feeling oneself without putting against anybody. Just feeling your total loneliness, and the total loneliness, the purest of states. "I am" -- when we say "I" is ahankar; "am" is asmita, just the feeling of am-ness with no "I" to it, just feeling the existence, the being Yes is beautiful, no is ugly.
IN ASAMPRAJNATA SAMADHI, THERE IS A CESSATION OF ALL MENTAL ACTIVITY, AND THE MIND ONLY RETAINS UNMANIFESTED IMPRESSIONS.
Samprajnata samadhi is the first step. Right reasoning, right reflection, a state of bliss, a glimpse of bliss, and a feeling of am-ness -- pure simple existence without any ego in it -- this leads to asamprajnata samadhi. First is a purity; second is a disappearance because even the purest is impure because it is there. "In is wrong; "am" is also wrong -- better than "I", but a higher possibility is there when "am" also disappears -- not only ahankar, but asmita also. You are impure; then you become pure. But if you start feeling that "I am pure," purity itself has become impurity. That too has
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