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Practice and Efficacy of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
and mental, and they come from the outer world or external world and also from higher powers or forces which are cosmic. Whatever they are, they all get removed by this incoming descent or interpenetrating flow of the Waves of Bliss Ocean of the Master. This suddhi or purification leads to the clear and calm dhyana, meditation-cum- concentration.
A deep consideration of the manner of meditation is necessary. What exactly does meditation do? Is it merely a linking up of oneself with the object or goal, or is it also the experience of the feeling that one is slowly being lifted up to that object? There is no doubt that one does experience the coming into oneself of the object in the form of waves of bliss (anandalahiri) which is followed by the ascent of oneself to the centre of the ocean of bliss. This is very much like the description of certain fishes which go upstream counter to the flow of the stream.
Now it is necessary to enter into this a little more carefully. We can see that when anything flows
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