Page 99 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

clear, however, that we have to distinguish between concentration and meditation. The original distinction in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is between dharana and dhyana. They are the two stages of the increasing absorption in the Ultimate. Meditation is the natural manner of keeping one's attention on the Supreme Personality. During this period every abhyasi experiences the influx of lot of everyday thoughts and feelings. These have the nature of interfering with our constant attention, and effort seems to be demanded to check the influx of these wayward thoughts (called citta-vrttis), both from our past and from outside. The need to throw out all these thoughts is also felt seriously. Dejection seems to overtake most abhyasis. However, Shri Ram Chandraji has stated that these could be checked by the process of cleaning two points A and B located about the region of the heart.
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Two fingers from N (left nipple) and three fingers down is point A and two fingers further down is B.
Secondly, He has also stated that if there is real surrender or offering to the Master and one has placed oneself entirely at His disposal, depending upon Him as the only means, then these intrusions and influxes which are even referable to our past lives in the form of samskaras can be thrown out even at the very moment of their arising. The Buddhist Jhana teaches the necessity of checking influxes of these vrttis or mental modifications even as they arise. This requires the heightened awareness of arising of these subtle elements. This technique however is hardly successful. This