Page 7 - Introduction to Prananhuti Aided Meditation

to earth on the auspicious day of Basant Panchami 4965 saka era or 02-02-1873 A.D.
This great personality (Lalaji Maharaj) revived the ancient method of spiritual training said to have been invented by a rishi, who lived seventy two generations earlier to king Dasaratha. Sri Lalaji Maharaj brought about modifications in the system of Raja Yoga to meet the requirements of current times to enable man, to pursue the path towards the Supreme Reality (God or Ultimate) amidst all the anxieties and tensions of the present day living.
Modified Rajayoga
His most illustrious successor the Supreme Personality, Rev. Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur (U.P.) also known as Babuji Maharaj perfected the method of modified Raja Yoga to help man while leading a grihastha life attain highest degree of spirituality. The reference here to Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj is a matter of minimum etiquette. The modified system of Raja Yoga is known as Sri Ramchandras' Raja yoga.
However the system would be better understood as PAM (Pranahuti Aided Meditation) as the efficacy of the method has no bearing on the faith or otherwise in the Master. Development of faith in the Master is a matter of time as the person practicing the system systematically develops in spiritual life. The system is not a personality cult though we profusely thank Master for having bestowed the system to mankind.
The Principle
According to Pujya Babuji Maharaj, all this world, individual and cosmic arose out of the Original Stir (Kshob) and this is the nature of thought. This subtlest thought as power has become grosser and grosser till it evolved into cosmic world (Brahmanda) and the individuated worlds of beings (Pinda). Thought has thus become gross world of matter. A series of twists and turns or inversions of the original flow have attended this descending process of thought.
These inversions lead to the situation where, that which was lower becomes higher and vice versa. These inversions in turn lead to the formation of knots or grandhis at each one of the stages of decent of Thought. These knots are the various bonds of existence.