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PRANAHUTI
Sri Ram Chandraji Maharaj does not advocate the control of breath. He strikes at the root and says prana is not breath but is the life energy which is essentially of the nature of consciousness. The kingly thing in man is thought and that is the prana in human context and this shall be used to reach the goal. The nature of the ultimate is consciousness and is essentially thought substance. Hence he advocates control of mind through the assistance taken from the ultimate psychic energy. It is thought that is common between Man and the Ultimate. This characteristic of man is what distinguishes him from all other forms of divine expression. Rev. Babuji states that the real meaning of the expression that “man is made in the image of God” is this commonality between the two. However, this was meant to mean that God is of the nature of Man and therefore we have granted Him limbs and form and tried to visualize Him in our own form and granted Him name. Not content with one type of form and structure we have granted Him all possible forms and structure. We have projected ourselves with our own ideas, so many images have come, so many idols were made and we are worshiping them, but the truth is ‘thought’ is the onething that is common between Him and us.
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