Page 474 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Lake of the Cit or mind - which may be said to be in the Brahmanda region of the body corresponding with the cosmic mind or cosmic consciousness. This is of course the most important part of the journey sufficient for purposes of non-return to this life in ignorance. One who has gone upto that state has no rebirth. One may then continue his spiritual journey even after death without having to come down to the earth or the body of the human being. For most religions this attainment is enough. However this is not the goal. One has to go to the centre-beyond the Ksobh- for one yet remains within the region of the Mind.
The mind region is crossed with the help of the transmission of the Guru who guides the path and removes the obstacles till one is able to draw the primal force from the Ultimate or God. When one enters the region beyond the Mind, one steps into the glorious illuminated region of the ksobh and passes on towards that from which the ksobh arose. These are terrains or regions whose descriptions are beyond our language - though they are not beyond experience or anubhava. God is realised and one lives and moves and has his being in Him. Since God is infinity one has no end of being in Him. Sri Ramachandra speaks of these in his Towards Infinity. They are new presentations and may be said to have broken new ground in spiritual anubhava.
One passes beyond philosophy to religion, beyond religion to spirituality (mysticism), and beyond it to Reality as it is in Itself - in its Infinity,
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The self-realisation claimed by Sri Ramchandra's Rajyoga is the realisation of one's natural state in the Ultimate. All the knots brought about during the process of creation become loosened and there is the experience of the continuous presence and pervasion of the Infinite One is in tune with reality in its purest state.
Usually all religion, philosophy and spirituality are considered to be escapist phenomena- since the individuals following these paths seek to get out of the concrete and worldly activities. Disinterested action, detached