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something which you are asked to do. It does it quietly, naturally. And may be it appears fantastic, it appears almost that I am speaking something in exaggerated language, but I may confess to this that slowly, imperceptibly, many of our abhyasis have changed for the better. And to them there is no effort to speak the truth; there is no effort to practice brahmacharya, or an effort even to love God; or effort for devotion. Knowledge comes naturally. Action comes naturally. We are established in the yoga of gnana and karma and bhakti in a natural way. And all the controls over the several portions of one's body also, I believe, if wanted, come naturally to us.
The Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga then takes us naturally to this point of a normal evolution of the human being to the most high spiritual stature by developing his moral virtues. Indeed Shri Ram Chandraji has prescribed, in his Ten Commandments, the practices which might be helpful for bringing about and preserving the force and effort which the Divine makes after the pranahuti has been given, or during the period during which it is regularly being given. These commandments are rather instructions, which he would like one to practice as a way of co-operation with him so that one's higher evolution may be made easy and swift. But even these instructions sometimes appear conventional to me, because one naturally becomes resigned to the will of the Master, and one does everything as if effortlessly. Occasions for one's choice of events as to how one has to do, and how not to do certain things become infrequent. Occasions for going wrong normally do not occur. It seems, as it were, that the Master is looking on all the time. And, therefore, you feel the omnipervasive presence of the Master with you. The Divine consciousness and Presence will be vouchsafed to you whether you are asleep or awake. It is a phenomenon, which I have experienced again and again. That is why I speak with a little amount of pride that it has been possible for me to experience these things which I felt were beyond my reach.
Many of the experiences recorded in some of the Upanishads get a confirmation, and you find that the system, which our Master has propounded, is sublime, simple, and very easy to practice by everybody. This is the normal method. The extra-normal or artificial methods are where you are asked to practice these things, and even if you practice them for twenty years and thirty years, yet we have got many people who will tell