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Getting to SANCTUM
To get to
SANCTUM, the pilgrim first has to get to (indeed, become) a sanctuary. Any
sanctuary (i.e. an unit of identity) will do. Her
pilgrimage takes her to her sanctuary. SANCTUM
happens when she (now a saint, i.e. a whole person) steps into the midst of
her sanctuary, that is to say, when she lets go of the sanctuary wall, i.e.
her identity. If an object
remains in her (or any) sanctuary, for instance, the Kaaba stone in Kaaba
building at Mecca (and which is an idol left over from pre-Islamic days), the
stones in the shrines at Badrinath and Kedernath, any religious image or
idol, the relics of a saint, a holy book and so on, then that object diverts
her to a different sanctuary, thereby blocking (or serving to block) the pilgrim
from achieving SANCTUM. Consequently,
the pilgrim must remove the object (i.e. the idol as either virtual or actual
goal) in the midst of her (or any) sanctuary so that the latter is completely
empty. Only then should she let her self go.
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