Page 57 - Liberal Exposition of Pranahuti Aided Meditation
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Now because of this nature of mind to be at calm whenever Divine or Divine attributes are given to it as food - the prathyahara being Divinity or Divine food it is at calm. When it is having something else it is disturbed but if you have got thoughts of God or Godliness, let me add that also, thought of the Master and Masterliness, if you have got these two, do not think it is a disturbed meditation. You need not have no thought condition, even if you have a condition of a thought related to Divine you should consider yourself having an undisturbed meditation. Only thing is you have not slipped to the no thought condition, you are still maintaining the duality between you and God. You are different from God, so long as this concept is there you will feel God and Godly attributes coming to your mind. When this particular differentiation is lost what happens is you get into a thoughtless condition. Now this condition of a thoughtless condition arises only when you forget God Himself, please note it, not only you forget yourself, you forget yourself in favour of the Divine in the beginning, and you forget God also, then you come to no thought condition. Those who have expressed this no thought condition, are people who had responded to the Pranahuti and immediately were able to go above at least for a few seconds. This is only a taste of things, sadhana alone will improve it.
Now, having said it let us come to the practical aspect of Pranahuti. Who does what? you sit before a person or you sit as a gathering, the person is supposed to offer pranahuti to you. The question whether it is pertinent or proper for a person to interfere at all is answered by saying so long as he has no selfishness or self motive or importance, so long as he doesn’t have it, there is nothing wrong about it. Most of us live in our boundary, we consider our sarira to be our self, we do not think anything more than this. This restriction of oneself to the body i.e. sarira and thinking that it is the atma is possible only when we are still under the grip of the body i.e. the five tatvas, the pancha bhutas are still controlling you and therefore you are saying that I am only this. This is the anatma, we know that this body has not been of the same shape when I was born, it has changed over a period of time, it has never been the same, it has never been permanent, it is also decaying, one day it will go. In spite of this I hold onto this as if it is myself. A person who does adhyatmika sadhana comes to understand this is something that is changing, there is something that is me who is not changing - the consciousness is not changing and that is the atma and this is the anatma. Atmanaatma viveka is fundamental to any

































































































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