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pushing it upwards. They do not go that way. The easier way, as it has been found by him and as it was understood by some of the Vedantins, was to rouse it from the heart and connect it to the Brahma-randhra. Then from that it will flow out and downwards and correct your whole system. You become more and more moral. As it was stated by an eminent yogi, Sri Aurobindo, the downward movement of the mind has created all these disastrous tendencies which you call kama and krodha. In fact, our own people constantly recite 'kamoha karshit, manyural karshit'. They are not ours, they are Nature's, and I am not responsible for their working! That is why every type of exertion to control these two forces only represses them, and brings them out in worse shapes. That is why Master has stated that yours is not to touch those centres but to go upward, and these things naturally come under control.
Now this is a very great discovery. They are helpful in evolution but they are not helpful in involution. And the pathway of descent down the hill is more easy by jumping down, but the pathway up the hill is different, and ought to be different. It must be a type of spiral. Any man who has constructed a road up a mountain knows that the twists and turns by which he ascends to the height is the easiest way to go up, though the shortest way may be, as in Tuglak's kingdom, or as in logic, to put a straight line between the two and go there, as the funicular railway system tries to do. Now we don't want to try that job because human nature is not intended for such experiments. On the contrary the pathway of knowledge, merely taken, does not lead you anywhere. Every knowledge needs a practice - a kriya - and the kriya that we have to do is the prayer. The second thing is to meditate, by which we mean to receive the Ultimate consciousness by way of transmission into you. And when it begins its work, your goal is reached in the shortest possible time. And not only that, all the benefits that are said to accrue form the Tantrik sadhana of the Shat-chakra-nirupana are got in an easier, more natural, and less disastrous way. Human nature has now the possibility of becoming Divine with the Divine's help. Human effort, I do feel, is necessary; but a human effort that resists the Divine movement is not likely to meet with success. Let, then, human effort coincides more and more with the Divine way of ascent. That is why it has been possible for Shri Ram Chandraji in the short span of a dozen years to reveal the central possibility of the method of Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga, which is to help