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PIND DESH
through ‘Summarisation’ at the subtle, subtler and subtlest levels.
The various knots located in the physical frame have almost the same characteristics but each one has something of the whole more preponderantly. That is, for example, the point of Fire has Earth, Water, Air and Ether also, but Fire is predominant.
The five knots of pind desh in which the 1st one has two sub-knots are all related in some way or the other with the elements. The five elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether are all well known as constituents of the physical world in philosophy. There exists a controversy among the disciples of Sri Ramchandraji that there are six knots in pind desh and not five. This confusion seems to have emanated from the careless proof reading of the first edition of, “Towards Infinity”. The master makes it clear elsewhere and more so in his book, “Silence speaks” in the article, “Stages of Progress” that there are only five knots in the Pind desh. To quote, “We proceed methodically, awakening the various
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