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THE ESSENCE OF RAJA YOGA
be known as ‘SAHAJ MARG'. The system now followed in the Mission presents an easy and natural path for the attainment of the Ultimate. The greatest impediment in the path is the unregulated action of the senses which have gone out of control. For this, the method of suppression or strangulation hitherto advised under older systems are not of much avail. Really it is not suppression or strangulation that solves our difficulties but the proper regulation of their actions. The Sahaj Marg does not advise those cruder methods which are hardly practicable in the routine life of man. Under the Sahaj Marg system of spiritual training the action of senses is regulated in a natural way so as to bring them to their original state, i.e. just as it was when we assumed the human form for the first time. Not only this but the lower vritties which are working independently are subjected to the control of higher centres of superconsciousness. Hence their perverse action is stopped and the higher centres, in their turn, come under the charge of the divine centres and in this way the whole system begins to get divinised.
Further the five Vikaras (impediments) known as Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha and Ahankara so commonly talked about in the religious books as
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