Page 61 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

and obstacles which we have created between the Highest State and ourselves, thanks to lifelong attachment to 'wishes', desires and other extraneous things.
Briefly the Master has sketched how we have descended by three steps. Firstly there was that Highest State of Calm (this, of course, is the true bliss-transcendent state). This is the Highest Reality and essence. The creation starts with essence descending and due to this descent we have the heat generated during this process. This gathers particles which have the essence, however, as the nucleus, but forming rings round it. Those drops or droplets gather together and form circles and circles, and forming into rivers finally become like an ocean of heat. The samsara sagara or the ocean of samsara thus forms with extreme heat outside, though the inward Calm Essence is present.
The outer rings with heat thus give us the experience of suffering and loss of calm. The search for calmness or peace of mind thus is set up. It is true that many persons think that this heat of the outer is the world of joys or ananda, but as we have said it is but the inversion of the Highest Bliss. It is necessary to reinvert the whole being. This is done by piercing through the outer shells or rings and arriving at the central nucleus of Calm Essence within. This is what the Master does when the prayer is offered. Thus almost immediately after the prayer we have the experience of the inward calm in this Marga because the Master without any ado removes the obstacles that are in the form of many activities around particles that form the rings. This is the first step of the initiation.
The Master says the prayer implies the relationship of Master and servant. The servant fully relies on the power of the Master who is established in the Highest State and is absorbed in It always. The servanthood (dasya) implies that he permits himself to be used as the Master likes, that is for the purpose of not getting service from him, but for the purpose of raising his person to the Highest condition. It has been said that once the individual surrenders himself to the Highest, the Highest then trains the servant for freedom and Divine work. At the beginning the individual is called a servant who is in training for his own good, to achieve the calm and the state of utter freedom in God. The yoga is the Master's. Indeed it is well-known that our Master