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Salient features of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
down it is seen to twist itself in a wavy manner. Liquids twist as they flow down. Waves of light and energy flow in a wavy manner. Describing this we can say that things when they move or flow have the nature of twisting or inverting. This is also called serpentine. The top becomes the bottom, the right becomes the left and upper becomes the lower and vice versa. This principle is called the principle of invertendo by Shri Ram Chandraji. It is known as anatrope by Plato. Topsyturveydom is the natural result of this flowing downwards of everything or movement as such. Up to a particular point this is tolerable but as these inversions continue to pile up distortion and grossening of the same occur. Indeed at one stage the limit of flow having been reached there is solidification and thus the physical is solidification wherein the flow has become stopped except in a very little sense. The changelessness of matter or the physical is not quite correct expression however, for, as Shri Ram Chandraji states it: “Change-lessness is a divine characteristic. In man this changelessness is a divine characteristic
running parallel with the Highest. If it is
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