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SRI RAMCHANDRA’S RAJAYOGA – THE NEW DARSANA
giving some object for attention (pratyahara). However, he does not insist that the light should be seen and experienced unlike the Ashtanga Yoga. Further, it is only a suggestion and there is no insistence of the presence of the object.
He states that the technique he gives, though quite simple, is often beyond common grasp, since it adheres closely to the absolute Reality and proceeds along subtlest lines. It prescribes meditation on the heart, supposing the presence of Divine light there. But the abhyasi is directed not to try to see the light in any form or shape. If he does so, the light, if per chance appears to his view, will not be the real one but a projection of his mind. (This we may note, is what we are advised traditionally.) An abhyasi is, however, advised to take it in the form of mere supposition. In that case, it will be the subtlest, and we shall thereby be meditating upon the subtlest. Every saint has used the word light and he says since that is the only expression best suited for the purpose, he also used the same concept. He expresses also his apprehension that the idea of light creates certain complications, because when we think of light the idea of luminosity becomes predominant and one starts thinking it to be
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