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 counsel the meditation at the nasikagra or bhru-madhya. According to revered Babuji, the meditation is most efficacious when it is made on the heart, wherein alone the transmission is made, and also because it is said to be the place of the Isvara in the human body (Isvarah sarvabhutanam hrddese tisthati). The meditation is an effortless observation of the inflow of the Divine force or prana from the Divine Master or the preceptor who is a siddha in this regard. A siddha is not one who is possessed of all the miraculous powers which come to every practicant when he performs samyama (concentric control) over the element or plane or time or space etc. A siddhi is the attainment of the goal; here the goal of yoga-kriya is attainment of the Union with the Ultimate Reality. Thus meditation on the heart leads to the natural power of concentration when one begins to perceive the flow of the Divine prana within oneself.
A fourth point is that the prana introduced into the system by the process of transmission also cleans and loosens the entire system of all tied up conditions. The Guru has to clean the adhara of all dirt (perceived astrally as black spots) and make them leave the system. This leads to the feeling of lightness and clearness and calmness. The second process is that it also prevents the entry into the system of all dirt and heavy thought of the lower level. The purification (shuddhi) of the system is attained with the help of this transmission to which must wholly surrender oneself. Lightness, detensioning of the entire system of mind, the loosening of the knots of attachment, viveka, vairagya, uparati, titiksa and sraddha naturally result and one gets established in the sattvaika buddhi, which is characterized by jnana, sakti, vairagya and isvaratva. One begins to grow into the condition of the Guru, the Divine.
The Yoga-sutras hardly mention any knots (granthis) and the sat-chakra theory is not mentioned in it. The Tantras, however, speak about it. The Upanishads also mention the hrdaya-granthi (the knot of the heart) which has more often been interpreted symbolically as referring to the attachment or desire for objects of sense and pleasure. Babuji affirms that there are knots, which are really batteries of power, or brackets which have been useful in the materialization and grossening of the force and led to solid condition. These have to be now reversed in their functions and help us to become more subtle and receptive to the Divine force and lead to nivrtti-the
































































































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