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Brahmanda, is discerned as rising from the heart. The heart is the physiological centre of flow of blood to all organs. Its contents, or constituents determine the health or ill-health of men. Men suffer from all sorts of pressure, or lack of it, at the heart and are in mortal agony. He who would cure the man must cure his heart. The heart is the place of the cittavrtti (mind-modifications) or the lower mind, even as the stomach is the seat of the lower mind along with the genital organs or the muladharasvadhisthana, which is said to be the seat of Kundalini. The heart is to be regulated or subdued and calmed, and this can be done either by suppressing all thoughts by force of practice and restraints as prescribed by some of the schools of self-control, or by concentration, or by introducing the higher consciousness of the Master into the heart - a sort of injection to restore the inner peace and balance. It is, in other words, the specific work of psychic therapy or treatment done by the competent Guru. In one sense it can be experienced even as physical process in transmission, and is not mere imagination - a kind of thought of a lower level leading to a hallucination. The transformation of the affective, or emotional, or feeling state is the first step of this experience of transmission of the supramental or superfine consciousness into the heart. The flow of this force all through the body later reveals the lightness and also immateriality of the body felt during meditations under this transmissional guidance. (Sri Ram Chandra writes:- "The heart is the field for the working of the mind and when samskaras descend for Bhoga, the process of bhoga starts at the heart appearing in the form of network. I did visualise it in clear form. The forehead is the place of citta. They are not identical. The vibrations start from citta-lake and come down to the point A of the heart. They are, therefrom, diverted towards the lower region of the heart as marked (L) in "Efficacy of Raja Yoga" and also towards the region of Atma (the 2nd point opposite to the heart). Generally the force of the vibrations is stronger in the left than in the right part (Atma region); the teacher in Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga makes the vibrations in the Atma region stronger than in the left side of the heart.")
It is through this process that one also resolves the dualism between motion and matter or even mind and matter. Further, it is with the help of this consciousness-force, which is also called "Thought", that one removes the material or dark obstructions or dross within the system, either by throwing