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do feel the heart-beat and sometimes we do not. But suppose we take up the point where the beats are, I believe it is where you find the functions of the pumping takes place and you have the awareness of how it is working in the system. Other systems try to tell us, especially the Bhagavad Gita is quoted in this connection as stating that you should concentrate at the Nasagra or between the eyebrows. Some other people also speak of concentrating on the Naval Centre. But the Master says that concentration or meditation on the naval centre means nothing at all, except that it complicates tension, whereas the concentration on the Broomadhya, otherwise called Trikuti, requires great effort on your part; and surely in this system, the work of the Master is very important. The work of the Master is to introduce the Pranahuti into the heart. Can he do it at other points in the body? Yes. He can. But then, without the purification of the mind, which is usually seated in the heart, you cannot do anything with the whole organism.
Firstly, we have set up a series of habits of mind and the roaming of the mind is also a habit of the mind, which has been developed by us. It is not its usual nature. It is not natural
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