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Who gains this Vision?
“period of practice”. Hence at his third stage, the one who has been already convinced of an ideal and has become devoted to it now makes honest attempts to live it. In the initial period of practice the young man is found to live this new life of his discovered ideal, only when he is not called upon to vigorously deny and totally contradict his own old ways of living. Whenever convenient-whenever the temptation is not strong enough to challenge his intellect he is not upon to make any extraordinary sacrifice at all such intervals, he lives his own convictions.
The more he lives what he knows to be true and what he is devoted to, the more he experiences in them an ampler joy, a greater satisfaction, a fuller sense of fulfilment. Naturally, he is won over by the tremendous charm of the true way of life.
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Thus comes the fourth and the last stage, “whose consummation is That”. Hereafter such a man finds it impossible to go back to his old ways of life and continuously lives the life of his deeper convictions and his nobler values