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when you are very devoted and loving. This happens in every case when you think the ritual of number is more important than the practice and realization of the presence of God before you even before you call Him.
Now if this prayer is properly performed, then with the deep sincerity and openness of heart, a transmission begins to enter into you almost at once. The most important thing according to our own practice, and even according to the real works on the subject of spiritual upliftment, show that, by and large, when the Divine force enters into you, whenever it is Divine, the senses come to a halt; and the mind almost loses interest in the objects which the senses bring to it. That is why this calmness settles in the mind, and gently settles in the whole body. This means, according to the technical definition given by the Upanishad-Mandukya-that we have passed from the state of Jagrat to a state of Swapna.
And from that state, in a deeper meditation, and waiting for the flow of Divine force within you, flowing throughout your system from top to toe, even as the blood that circulates in your organism, you will find that a deeper calm, almost an obliviousness to surroundings, occurs. You are not aware even that you are where you are, or that you are practising meditation at all. It so much simulates your deep sleep that it is called sushupti. The mind also has come to a halt then. What remains? It is stated that what remains is Prajna. What remains is just Prajna. This deep-sleep state is also comparable, as I mentioned yesterday, to the Samprajnata Samadhi of yoga. Because it is not sleep at all. It is a sleep in the infinite or Divine consciousness, where you have lost your way of being and your mind has ceased to function as an instrument of your needs, physical, motor, or sensory. It has turned inward. The senses that are usually turned outside, they come to a halt. The mind turns inward. Introspection, they say, begins, but there is no inspection. What do you inspect when everything has come to a halt? It is at that point in this system, by this transmission, that you begin to feel the presence of the flame in the heart, or the Jyoti-Antarjyotir ameyameyam-this inward light, the light that is Divine, that comes into you. The earlier two stages are, if you might just call them in that way, cleansing processes, which reveal the light that is within. A flame that has to grow vaster and spread through your entire organism.