Page 144 - Wisdom Unfurled

submission to the will of the Master and is a stepping stone to the state of yielding. It is also a display of good etiquette on the part of the servant who wants to appear in the true colours before his Master.
The Master states clearly that one should not force or pressurize his mind in any way while doing the cleaning or meditation practices. One should not feel tired or exhausted after the practice. The practice of ‘B’ point meditation done before the morning meditation practice helps in ensuring mental purity and is highly effective in fixing one’s attention on the divine light in the heart during the meditation. It also checks the fickle tendencies of the mind and promotes absorbency in meditation.
Preliminaries to meditation
Posture, place, time and seat - the First Commandment
The logic behind the process of meditation and the manner in which it is to be done is discussed by the Master under this topic. When the thought of going back to the origin stirred up, man realizes the need to bring activity that has sprung up in him to a latent state as far as it is possible. This is because the sphere just above the Centre is one in which the motions have attained a state of latency or potentiality. All stimulus and activity are manifested and supported in the grosser regions by it. This is the sphere called the Central Region, the cause of all regions of manifestation following it. Thus for attaining a similar state of quiescence man has to produce a corresponding to it within him by suspending physical and superfluous mental activities engendered by the human will. This state of silence is pregnant with divine intentions and to achieve the state of oneness with it man has to renounce his personal egotistic agenda. In other words, the energy channeled into the line of humanity has to be reduced to the barest minimum.
The Master further reasons that just as the latent motion is grosser compared to the Absolute with which it is connected, the aspirant must take up something grosser for the purpose of attaining the desired ideal of Reality. That is he should create within himself the state of pralaya or the state of complete withdrawal of each of the outer layer of being into its preceding subtle layer, the immediate cause of the corresponding outer. It is a process of contraction even as manifestation is one of expansion reaching out progressively outwards. The contraction starts always from below and proceeds progressively upwards as one moves from the grosser state to the next finer state. This is done by folding his legs inwards as in the seated posture and also drawing in the shoulders and arms and joining them through the hands. Lord Krishna states in the Gita that the limbs should be drawn in to the maximum extent as in the case of the tortoise which draws all its limbs into its shell (BG- II- 58). This helps in checking the outgoing tendencies of