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a yogi must receive knowledge of how to serve the
Lord personally so that the veil of brilliant spiritual
light emanating from the Lord’s body can be lifted
thus permitting the yogi to see the smiling face of
the Lord.

The Mayavadi yogis and philosophers claim they can
become one with God by completely renouncing
the material world and meditating on the spiritual
effulgence or Brahman. They attempt to annihilate
their individual identity so that they can merge into
the impersonal Brahman thus becoming one with
God. To support their claims, they use an example
of a bubble of air underwater that appears to have
an individual existence. But, when it reaches the
surface of the water, it bursts into the totality of air
and loses its individual identity. They maintain that
the individuality of the bubble of air underwater is
temporary and illusory because when it reaches the
surface it becomes one with great expanse of air.
Similarly, the Mayavadis deny their own individuality
as illusory and meditate on the impersonal Brahman
effulgence so that they can merge into it. They may
achieve this difficult goal for a period of time, but
they will certainly fall down to the material world as
soon as they experience the slightest desire. Their

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