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Practice and Efficacy of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
rectification. If we do not rectify ourselves now, there is always a next life.
So attachment and consequent possessiveness is the main problem. How to get rid of attachment is the main question. If we close our eyes and start meditating irrespective of the idea given, the mind does not stay, it starts wandering about on various issues related to the physical self and in some instances to the Adhi Daivika i.e. some gods whom we have accepted earlier. The adhyatmika is made secondary as the one which gives support to both the above. Rarely does one start thinking about others in the family but usually never about somebody else in society.
If we take the heart like this – heart as the place of feeling and mind as the place of processing sensory inputs we understand better. Thus the heart is the plane which takes care of the feelings concerned with the self, physiological needs, physical drives, emotional needs, social needs and this is the plane to which the energy from our mind flows. All this is due to the attachment.
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