Page 13 - Efficacy of Raja Yoga

Salient features of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
one may meditate on the personality who has attained the Ultimate condition, and who is capable of leading the meditator to that state. It can be an Avatar as Sri Krishna has stated about Himself or a special personality who has attained that state.
Shri Ram Chandra of Fatehgarh, the Master of Shri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, is said to be one who has that state and therefore fit to be meditated upon. Further, our mind being individual and gross needs one who is incarnate whilst yet being in the Ultimate for concrete meditation.
As Shri Ram Chandraji puts it “when we meditate on a living form, the form naturally remains in our view. When the attention gets fixed in it everything superfluous then gets out of sight. When one goes deep into it, it transforms and assumes the form of mere impression. Further on that too sinks into a subtle idea of his Greatness. The ‘jyoti’ experienced in the heart is a reflection of Reality ....”
Many abhyasis (practicers of meditation) have
found it difficult to keep the outer form of their
beloved Godhead before their meditation, whether it
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