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Transmission - 2
The method of initiation into the spiritual life has been stated in Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga to be transmission of the spiritual energy in order to (1) give impetus to the seeking aspiration of the abhyasi and (2) to bring about a change in the very nature of the mind and its modifications. The ordinary concept of mind-control almost tries to put an end to the modifications, and this is done by damming its movements by will-force, or by abolishing it by force of the will, so as to arrive at a blank mental state. Both these are difficult because both would entail the abolition of the mind itself, which lives only by its modifications. An alternative suggestion has been proposed, to substitute good or desirable thoughts in the place of evil thoughts, or cultivate assiduously the contrary-point of view (prati-paksa bhavanam). Even this is shown only to create a tension of the mind; a mind divided against itself, and there takes place an artificial dialectic.
More useful, perhaps, is the method by which one gels beyond the mind itself to a condition where the dialectic will not create a continuous tension. In fact, in our modern terminology, the yoga of mind-control cittavrtti- nirodha, is a cold-war condition, a tension of the opposites waiting for the tilting on one side or the other. But if awareness is to be defined only as the awareness of tension, then this is a condition, which has to be transcended. One aims at inner peace, and these methods do not help us at all. But nirodha after all may not mean checking the mental modifications but reversing the process-instead of going outward, it is helped to go inward and transcended its own duality and dialectic. This cannot be done by ones own efforts except under great crises or shocks. It can be done with the help of the transmission that reverses the movements of the mind. The force or current of superconsciousness introduced into the heart, which is the seat of citta, reverses the trend of movement of the citta towards the objects and imaginations of the universe around. In fact the citta or particularised manas moves in the orbit of objects and sensory data, and the emotional needs of the body and physiological needs too. Thus there is hardly any moment when the mind, as citta, is not in modification, taking the shape of the objects and things it desires. The transmission of the Guru at the heart reverses this outward movement and we find that, automatically, these