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There is also another possibility. The bundle of waves moving might interlace, and thus we can have complexity within the knot. Thus many think it is necessary and inevitable to cut these knots rather than help their loosening so that the knots cannot become so tightened as to interfere with the free flow of energy. The interruption of the force from flowing easily down to the very end is one of the other causes that makes for loss of awareness and consciousness, and the consequent feeling of misery and enfeeblement, leading to death.
The knots, then, are to be carefully loosened so that the primal current may be enabled to flow freely from the Centre to the periphery thought all the concentric rings of evolution of the body.
Thus he presents a picture of the body other than what we have been given, even in the scriptures.
There are any number of knots, but Sri Ram Chandra gives an account of only fourteen knots. The crossing of each one of the knots, according to him, in the return march to the centre, gives us experiences of subtler and subtler kinds. Our consciousness becomes superfine, and increasingly so as the Centre is reached. The change from one knot to another is marked, and so also man's awareness of the universe around him.
The first step is the attainment of santi, which is the loss of forward process. This is the knot of Cit and acit, which are interwoven here. It appears that there is an general law that the poison and its medicine are very near each other. In fact, in homeopathy, the potentised condition of poison is the poisons cure, on the basis of similimum. When we begin to experience this mixed condition, we try to go beyond it. So one has to move upward to the awareness.
The second knot is that of jnana or knowledge. One experiences facility at the beginning, then takes on the knowledge of that place or knot called technically sarupyata (which is as it were the attainment of immanent are intuitive knowledge of the knot) and then become one with it (laya).
The third knot is said to be the seat of Atma. Here we perceive the light of the Atman. This may be called the seat of the atma. With this we cross over