Page 101 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

A deep consideration of the manner of meditation is necessary. What exactly does meditation do? Is it merely a linking up of oneself with the object or goal, or is it also the experience of the feeling that one is slowly being lifted up to that object? There is no doubt that one does experience the coming into oneself of the object in the form of waves of bliss (anandalahiri) which is followed by the ascent of oneself to the centre of the ocean of bliss. This is very much like the description of certain fishes which go upstream counter to the flow of the stream.
Now it is necessary to enter into this a little more carefully. We can see that when anything flows down it is seen to twist itself in a wavy manner. Liquids twist as they flow down. Waves of light and energy flow in a wavy manner. Describing this we can say that things when they move or flow have the nature of twisting or inverting. This is also called serpentine. The top becomes the bottom, the right becomes the left and upper becomes the lower and vice versa. This principle is called the principle of invertendo by Shri Ram Chandraji. It is known as anatrope by Plato. Topsyturveydom is the natural result of this flowing downwards of everything or movement as such. Upto a particular point this is tolerable but as these inversions continue to pile up distortion and grossening of the same occur. Indeed at one stage the limit of flow having been reached there is solidification and thus the physical is solidification wherein the flow has become stopped except in a very little sense. The changelessness of matter or the physical is not quite correct expression however, for, as Shri Ram Chandraji states it: "Changelessness is a divine characteristic. In man this changelessness is a divine characteristic running parallel with the Highest. If it is proportionately similar, he must then be having it in a lower degree (in comparison with the Highest). The inversion itself becomes divine if parallelity is removed and that is the abhyas in the Sri Ramchandra's Raja Yoga". Meditation thus attempts to remove this parallelity and that is by awakening this gross changelessness into its Ultimate condition of changelessness.
But this is done by a series of inversions which will restore the original condition in its subtle condition. The upward ascent has to be made by the same process of reversing the inversions. Each one of the points at which the inversion happened is a point of change, and it is known as a knot or