Page 69 - Basic Writings of Sriramchandra

THE NATURAL PATH
I am opening today the greatest wonder of our system of Raja Yoga. Very few people could realise the efficacy of this system. We think of one thing and one alone - the super-human nature. We call It either Guru (Master) or the object of concentration1. We have but one thought and that of a certain personality super-human in form; and very soon we find ourselves attached to the form so much that other things begin to look secondary. We attach importance to one and the same thing. If we pump out water straight into a channel it will flow by its own force to some extent and at the same time with the help of the machinery attached at the end of the butt. Similarly we proceed in the channel of Almighty with the thread of thought, attaching our will-force at its butt end, i.e., from the starting point. The will - force comes from the individual mind which makes our way clear. We keep the
1 The process of taking the Master as an object of concentration is no doubt very efficacious, but only when the Master is really one of the highest calibre, merged in the Infinite, or transformed as Nature personified. If it is otherwise the effect produced upon the abhyasi will be the reverse and highly detrimental to his ultimate purpose).
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