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The Yoga of inner stimulation or ignition, or ujjivana (upward living), is therefore effected by the connection, which the Yogin makes with this ultimate or primal vibration (spandana) or Kshobha. Self-ignition is rather difficult and, in a sense, impossible. It can be done only by that primal being or Reality itself, or by one who has been charged with this duty of igniting others-the Guru. Such a Guru is indeed Godhead-luminous and all knowing about the ways of the initial and final vibrations, and the paths of inner ascent.
Thus, Yoga starts with the transmission of the central force into the being or heart of the individual seeker. The original dhyana cannot begin unless this transmission is the force behind it; other kinds of dhyana are effortful mentations, despite the fact of their being conscious attempts to focus oneself on the goal, which is not defined. The transmission by the Guru into the heart of the seeker makes the seeker become aware of the true goal of reality, which begins to uncover itself. In Zen and other schools, the conscious awareness, either of discarding all ideation's or of aiming at Zero or nihil or pure ideationlessness, leads to strains on the system, and liberation becomes impossible. Even in the so-called Fourth Way of Gurdjieff-Ouspensky, the consciousness is sought to be intensified and uplifted to the highest center, and freed from the exclusiveness of the lower or other three ways. The attempt to lift consciousness to a higher, or even the highest, level beyond the three lower levels is undoubtedly necessary; the only question is whether that consciousness is not different from our own ordinary consciousness.
The highest consciousness which perhaps is about as unconscious as the sleep condition is such because it is unmediated consciousness, and is experienced as vibrations which might internally stimulate experience of sounds, lights, feelings, or sensations. In all these experiences, however, the inner certainty is that it is something not imagined by oneself, or consciously sought after, or in some sense constantly mediated upon; so that they do not become hallucinatory projections from oneself for one's own satisfaction.
Usually, dreams are considered to be wish fulfillment. They may be due to other reasons as well. Modern psycho-analysts consider that certain kinds of