Page 482 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

condition is the business of a great teacher. It must be possible for one to bring the liberator into consciousness into the consciousness of the unliberated. The slave must certainly safely feel the presence of the emancipator and one who emancipates man from his past and from his bondage is a real emancipator. This forward looking spirituality, as I call it, rather than backward looking, religiosity has been provided by this new methodology devised by Sri Ramchandraji. He himself does not claim that it is altogether new in the history of the Universe. He states that this was an ancient method nearly 10,000 years ago. Well, you must believe there was civilisation 10,000 years ago and then, it was that a great Rishi of that time used to utilise this divine force and make people transform themselves into divine nature, that is into free beings. Somehow that technique was forgotten and what remained was the Raja Yoga practice that we are getting and have got from Patanjali and others. There have been several types of yogas - Hata Yoga, Laya Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Japa Yoga and then all the three modified in the systems of Gnan Yog. Bhakthi Yog, and Karma Yog. So there have been any number of yogas and latterly we have Tantric yogas called the Kundalini yogas which have attracted so many of our people and promised liberation by rousing of the Kundalini. But, how is this to be done? It was an arduous process and that was an obstinate way by which a man should persist by rousing up a force which he could not control. That is why at one stage, especially in the Raja Yoga of Patanjali it has been completely omitted. So Raja Yoga of Patanjali took up the real aspect namely that only the mind can be utilised for getting over its own bondage because MANAYEVA MANUSHYANAM KARANAM BANDHA MOKSHAYOH. Man's Mind is the cause of his bondage and mind should be made the means to his liberation. So, if mind is the cardinal principle in man, man is known as one who has a mind. We do not say the animals have a mind but perhaps we may say that animals have a mind namely an animal mind. Nothing in the world is without a mind. But man has that mind which distinguishes between the right and the wrong, that which binds and that which liberates. He has the discrimination to say that this thing will bind, this thing liberates. He can reason from causes to effects and finding that an effect comes from a particular act, he can either repeat the cause or negate the cause, in order to be emancipated from the effect or rather the evil effect. So, taking the mind as capable of discrimination as the means by which we can, not only make it move to the objects but restrain itself from