Page 307 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

waters of reality whose variegated colours are enchanting and pleasing. It is however the seat of purity mixed up with fascination. We go upward still, and come across the experience of the real life that is beyond these lights. The colourlessness of this condition shows that one has passed beyond the earth consciousness, the pinda-pradesa.
Sri Ram Chandra says that most persons feel that they have crossed the whole course of evolution, and have attained complete liberation, if they cross some of the points mentioned above. He has also intimated that there is no special necessity for passing through all these points to reach the cit- lake (point 6), for there is a direct link between the heart and the cit-lake. If one is capable he could take a flight to it (even like a bird, suka-path). But it appears that for a comprehending under-standing, it would be necessary to know the terrain of the heart region and it is also, in the long run more easy to ascend. At each point of ascent there is a new peace, a new ananda (pleasure), a new freedom (mukti). On this ascent one finds shackles falling off, like chains being removed, through the removal of one chain reveals the presence of others beneath it.
Sri Ram Chandra has also in his "Reality at Dawn" shown that the ascent of the soul takes several rings-about 23 Number (five and eleven, and seven)* before the free state is arrived at. But most saints seem to think that the getting rid of the first five rings is liberation. Even this is of course a very advanced state, but it only means that those who cross these need not come down to the physical being but could undertake their higher journey in the Mental plane, or the planes of psychic egoism or the astral journey leading to the ultimate. It is only when one reaches the Ultimate that one could be called truly liberated. Many are the wonders of this Heart Region. One who moves above from one ring to another, or from now point to another, could receive forces from the higher worlds or contact higher powers, which are displayed as siddhis or miracles. But the possession or attainment of these links and connections do not go far, not do they intimate liberation from the chains or the results of their exercise. It is only the supreme Master, or Guru, who could prevent the deviations and lead the aspirant to the higher regions without succumbing to these potentialities.