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There are three stages:

First is illumination,

Next is liberation,

Then realisation.

There is no big gap

Between illumination and liberation —

Once you are illumined,

Then liberation comes.

But there is a great gap

Between illumination

And realisation —

Sleepless, breathless realisation. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 50, Agni Press, 2009
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