Page 361 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Now this is a condition where, when our abhyasis sit for meditation and are lost in that condition, even at a slightest utterance from the Preceptor they come back to the normal state. They are aware, they are not asleep! This peculiar experience of the Prajna is easily had in a normal way almost within a few weeks of the beginning of this method. And then, what do you discover of experiences? Well, you have, as you pass through these experiences of the inner light, what you call the sense of travelling to higher planes of consciousness. And this, again, has been charted out in a novel way by Sri Ram Chandraji Maharaj. It is not something that you find in any work so far published. All that you get from the other works is an arousing of the Kundalini and passing it through the so-called Sushumna that is said to be in the spinal cord, the vertebral column, and taking it through the six chakras till it goes to the sahasrara at the crown of the head. This is the Tantrik version. The Upanishadic version, on the other hand, tells you that there is the sushumna rising from the heart or that particular nadi that takes you to the Brahma-randhra and far beyond.
Our Master Sri Ram Chandraji puts it very clearly then that it is from the heart that we shall have to go to the crown of the head, not from the sacral plexus to the crown of the head. It is a fundamental difference in approach. So, what is opened up in this is the pathway to liberation. A thousand nadis set out from the heart but there is only one nadi that takes you to the crown of the head, the Brahma-randhra. And some of us who have had the experience of the Brahma-randhra know that it is not only a way of exit for the individual soul to infinity, but it is the way of entry of the Divine into the very heart of Being into the heart.
Now this is a confirmation of the Chandogya and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishads. This experience, then, takes us almost to the Cosmic Consciousness, what you may call the Brahmanda consciousness. You are made almost to feel that you are a citizen of a vaster world; not only this physical world but the astral worlds are opened up, and of course these are all astral experiences because they are non-mental and non-sensory. If you want to say that they are higher-mental and higher-sensory I might be able to accept it, but they are certainly not of the physical order. When we go to that level of consciousness we are aware of a new dimension to our personality. There only a sense of the I-ness persists, and the body-