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Their parents off course will want their child's parole or mukti.

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If this state of _mukti_ were annihilation of individual consciousness it would hardly be an incentive to do good deeds, except that good deeds in themselves bring happiness, but if the bringing of happiness did not also bring with it a larger consciousness, it would not be true happiness, but merely a _condition_, and conditions are always subject to change.

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This means that the individual consciousness is becoming broadened, deepened, enlarged; and this enlargement makes it possible to show that the happiness of each one, means the happiness of all, and that no one human life can reach the goal of freedom and eternal life (_mukti_, which can mean nothing less than godhood) unless he does so by some one of the many paths of selflessness.

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When we come, as we will, in succeeding chapters of this book, to a review of the experiences of those who have attained cosmic consciousness (mukti) we will find that, in each instance, there has come

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Thus it will be seen, that according to the reports offered us by this wise man, that which men call learning guarantees no power regarding that area of consciousness which brings Illumination -- liberation from enchantment, of the senses -- _mukti_.

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We learn that Sri Ramakrishna was a man comparatively unlettered, and yet his insight was so marvelous, his consciousness so exalted that the most learned pundits honored and respected him as one who had attained unto the goal of all effort -- liberation, _mukti_, while to many persons throughout

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But since all souls possess a spark of the divine essence of Brahman (The Absolute), _mukti_ may be attained by earnest seeking, and thus immortality be _realized_.

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The realization of _mukti_, i.e., the power of the _atman_ to transcend the physical, is thus expressed by Solomon, clearly indicating that he had found liberation:

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This side of the story of man's evolution in consciousness is not however a part of our present work, and we will therefore leave it, for a brief consideration of the successive steps in attainment of consciousness, leading through devious paths, and through millions of relative time called years, into the present state of man's consciousness which in so many instances presages the oncoming of that state, called liberation, or illumination -- mukti.

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The thought of India, is however, one of ceaseless repudiation of all that is external, and the Hindu conception of _mukti_, or cosmic consciousness, differs in many respects from that reported by the Illumined in other countries, even while all reports have many emotions in common.

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