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possible to have knowledge, otherwise not. The heart is generally drowned or absorbed in the activities of the gross body, losing the knowledge of its own reality.
Practice or Sadhana is that remedy which does not allow unawareness in Sushupti. Just as the mind thinks and acts in connection with the affairs of the gross body, and retains its knowledge, so also, if it can think and act tasting at the same time the bliss of sushupti or the soul (Atma), it is possible to achieve the state of awareness even there. The practice of this is the first step of upasana.
What is this ‘we’ of ours? It is our heart. But when we have called this heart as the subtle body, the inner structure or inner body, how can the gross body know things and have experiences? The fact is that the region of subtle clouds of Maya is spinning below the self or Reality. Assuming the form of a whorl, it absorbs the reflection of Reality in itself. This peculiar, state of grossness or frozen-ness is the state of peace, which is the beginning, middle and the final stage of consciousness or spirituality. It is perfect and is in the seed form.
The currents that start and flow from this form a region (circle) after some distance. They settle in the form of a bulb, and are designated as the Brahmanda and Parabrahmanda regions. A drop of the reflection of the original condition is found, forming three bodies; of Brahman namely the causal, the subtle and the gross.
That reflected part which is Reality dwells in three bodies, which are then called Hiranyagarbha, Antaryami or Avyakrit, and Virat.
i. That part which dwells in the whorl is Hiranyagarbha.
ii. That which dwells in the Para Brahmanda Mandal is the Antaryami or