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Practice and Efficacy of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
Shri Ram Chandraji has clearly stated that there are certain minimum assumptions: firstly, there is the Ultimate; secondly, that this Ultimate (which is also called Zero or Nothingness) is called Tam (or that, tat). It is not the tamas quality or the quality that makes for dullness, lethargy etc., that comes up later on as the element of inertia or inactivity in its gross form, which is perhaps the inversion of that. The Tam has beneath it a kind of invisible motion. This is the first Mind or Supermind of the Almighty. From this superconscious mind our own mind originates. When we take up our individual mind to this level of the First Mind, then we come close to the Centre or the Almighty.
The First Mind being arrived at one comes very close to the Centre and gains the experiences of plainness, simplicity and calmness.
The difficulty of worshipping the Ultimate is however there. The need to have a concrete Object rather than an immaterial Absolute is everywhere felt by meditators. It is indeed difficult to meditate on that. Therefore, Shri Ram Chandraji prescribes that
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