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Reality at Dawn - Spiritual Training
remembrance of God all the while. Inner vibrations in the heart soon begin to be felt by the aspirant. This is the beginning of the spiritual state known as Shabda or Ajapa. It develops automatically as we proceed along the right path under proper guidance. Certain people, who practise Japa outwardly for a long time, sometimes find that even during sleep they go on with Japa as usual. This they misunderstand as Ajapa or Shabda. It is not really so. By constant practice, their heart and tongue become habituated to it and the action continues even when they are in sleep or otherwise unconscious. It, however, stops if they give up the practice for some time. This is only by the force of the habit and is not the actual state of Ajapa. TheconditionofAjaparightlybelievedtobeahigh spiritual achievement acquired after years of hard labour, is only a matter of weeks or rather days, through right training by the process of transmission. The vibrations thus created remain for some time located in the heart after which they gradually develop over to other Chakras and finally to every particle of the body. It is then known as Anhad. The method to be pursued as recommended in our Mission is meditation under efficient guidance, which is by far the most useful, and probably the only means of securing complete success.
Generally people complain of numerous ideas creeping into their mind at the time of meditation. They think that they have failed in their practice unless they
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