Page 5 - Efficacy of Raja Yoga

Salient features of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
should refer to all thought-processes starting from buddhi, ahamkara, manas, sense-organs culminating in the motor organs also, for all have to be reversed or led to nivrtti. It is then that they really are made to be one with the original thought. Thus the force of thought is to be used to stop the flow of thought downward towards grossness. It is undoubtedly a serious question whether the thought as citta is used for the purpose of restraining itself. That is not the case, and what happens is that another force has to restrain it from going on its downward movement. It is this force that is said to be of the same nature as that of citta but in its refined form or superfine form which is to be used for the purpose of restraining the modifications of the citta.
Shri Ram Chandraji has shown that the original thought (which he calls Manas), with which the later formations of it including obviously the citta are identical in a sense but which have to be shown to be inversions of it, is to be used for controlling them. This power of Superfine Thought cannot be
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