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fried up by its force. It is the experience of every practicant in the system that he feels happiness and peace at least for some time during meditation. It is indeed a blessed condition to feel this peace and calmness almost effortlessly for it is known that people have left their homes, went to the forests for pursuing severe austerities and penance in the olden days for years together just to get a glimpse of this peace.
The mind is disciplined and is regulated automatically, the senses come under control and mastery over self is gained gradually as the practice is continued. Further on one finds himself swimming in everlasting peace and happiness. Everything ends here. There is no attachment with the world. To attain mastery over the self means getting mastery over nature. The Master says that Nature’s work comes within the bounds and limits of a person when the passage becomes clear, i.e., when the rings of ego are crossed and the individuality fades off into identity in the realms of the divine. At this stage the soul starts working automatically. This then is the logical culmination of the process which is based upon taking support from the central or root force in oneself.
Method of meditation in PAM
The method advised is to meditate on the heart thinking of the divine light there; the Master says that all the saints have advised meditation on light as described in the Upanishads and referred to above. God is subtle and light is the subtlest thing which can be used to symbolize God.
But there should not be any mental projection or imagination as to the form and shape of the light like the sun or candle light. It will then be artificial with undesirable results and one will be far away from Reality. The abhyasi is advised to proceed with a mere supposition of light with the thought of divinity at the bottom. What happens then is that we meditate on the subtlest object we have to attain. It is to be noted that the light to be meditated upon is without luminosity, the essential attribute associated with all perceptible light and constituting the very definition of light. The goal being suprasensual the sensory experience of seeing luminous light is not the state sought after. The Master has also revealed that the goal is neither light nor darkness but beyond both. The impossibility of thinking of light without luminosity makes the aspirant yield to the Divine Master and this paves the way for the descent of divine grace into the heart of the aspirant enabling his movement into divinity. The aspirants do have the experience of witnessing bright or glittering light in the early stages of sadhana. The Master says that this is due to the contact of matter (present in the heart as accumulated solidity) and the energy of the divine influx. It shows that energy has begun to work in the abhyasi’s system. Further on it is felt as cool moonshine. Different hues are seen either alone or