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the best time for meditation as it will considerably help in the attainment of Laya-Avastha, which we are all seeking with the ultimate reality beyond time. The times that we know as the Sandhyas are, of course, relative to the sun, the earth and perhaps the moon also, and finally our own time as determined by our waking and sleeping hours. In a sense this is spoken of by the Prashnopanisad which describes the day times and night times *but it does not clearly indicate the Sandhyas as important. However, the most important hours for meditation are the cooling hours of the night - both at the time of going to bed and at the time before sunrise. These are naturally helpful and we utilise the natural time for meditation for our purposes. The times follow the laws of influence of external heat.
It must be clearly noted that in this Natural way of union with the ultimate reality which is our goal, the transcendence of even the levels of existence or sat or truth and consciousness is aimed at.
A brief restatement of the important mystic law of invertendo or the law of inversion can be given to illustrate how the mystic or yogi aims at the tam (that) stage beyond the sat (satya or truth). It is the stage beyond philosophy from which philosophy springs, it is the basis of real experience which makes for the judgements of sat. Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj has stated clearly that we all think of the three gunas sattva, rajas and tamas as being placed in a particular order. Tamas is the lowest, which means inertia, very much similar to the stage of inconscient things, rajas is activity and motion and passion, whereas sattva is the acme of harmony, light and so on. This is the order of the phenomenal life. We all seek to attain sattva which will help us to know truth. The yogi going beyond the nature sees that these three gunas are but reflections so to speak of the highest nature and in this reflection we find that sattva or Satya is the nearest and lowest whereas tamas or tam is the highest and is what we have to reach. Rajas is what remains in the middle always. It is in fact the common point. It has the nature of activity in the lower and consciousness at the higher. That is why consciousness mediates between peace of attainment and perfection which is unchanging, and truth which is constantly being modified by further experience and is also a test of existence.