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Exploring Consciousness
EXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS
My dear associates in the path,
1. We have been participating in the birthday celebrations of our beloved Master, Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur. We were sharing our understanding of the system in correct perspective.
2. One of the main contributions to the spiritual literature by the Great Master Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur is the delineation of various spiritual centres and sub-centres in the human frame in his book 'Towards infinity'. In this book he deals with essentially the nature of 13 spiritual centres or knots an aspirant has to travel through in spiritual enlivenment. In the book 'Efficacy of Raja yoga' he mentions three regions of consciousness called the heart region, mind region and central region. The ISRC tried to correlate the realms covered in these books. But before we consider the realms and the terms used therein it is necessary to fully appreciate the need for such a study.
3. Despite many feeling the need for a spiritual quest, it remains that materialistic reductionism is the dominant creed of our time. By materialistic reductionism, we mean models where it is taken for granted that a human being can be equated with his or her physical body: thought processes are the product of the brain, emotions can be manipulated through medication, psychological features
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