Page 215 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

Really it is this freedom that is sought in all ambition and in the attaining of objects and experiences including spiritual experiences. Regardless of what is attained or experienced one remains inside the mind and continues to search.
Masters have a knack of confronting this problem. They make the mind find its futility. They literally through their methods block the activity of the mind. Our Master has asked us to meditate on Divine Light without luminosity. This is an impossible concept for the mind and it is forced to stare at this idea. In doing so he has blocked the way of the mind for the seeker and left open the way to freedom. Further by assisting the seeker through Pranahuti which informs the nature of pure and unalloyed consciousness he opened the path to freedom. In real spiritual training the mind has to be made silent and put to rest. Master therefore called himself a 'silencer'. This method of course will not be sweet candy and persons who less courageous are likely to "fly off" to try another system even as the 'bee' tries to fly through other windowpanes.
For an individual the way to freedom is silence and in that silence the window of the mind disappears. This is what happens when we
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