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I do not create Laya Avastha - I help ahbyasi to achieve it.
47.How do you differentiate between sleep and samadhi?
Sleep relates to matter, and samadhi to spirit.
1. Prayer is begging, meditation is having .
2. If meditation is devoid of the idea of Divine it will develop hypnotic powers and not subtleness. Sages say, 'Know thyself'. But I prefer to say, 'Forget thyself'.
3. I advise meditation on heart at the point where you feel beatings.
4. I use the word 'HEART' because it is the nucleus and creates the vibrant motion where to it is directed. This is the field for the mind to work and this is the instrument by which we develop the discriminative faculty. The subtle force works in this place for the descent of Divine energy. If somehow our thinking enjoins with it or we train it so that it may percolate the right thing and direct it towards Reality. The problem is solved.
5. For those who want to have atleast a peep into the Reality the proper method shall, in my opinion, be that which touches the inner core of the heart. The external means usually adopted for the purpose are really of no avail and do not lead one towards the goal.
6. Concentration in that sense relates to the condition of the physical mind at the conscious level, the activity of which is temporarily subdued by the application of the physical force. Practical examples offer sufficient proof to show that those having advanced with the condition thus developed become internally so gross and rigid that they turn wholly insusceptible to finer and subtler influence. Concentration effected by forceful suppression of thoughts leaves its weighty effect upon the mind.
7. We have set up a tiny creation of our own, in the form of our individual material existence, having layers after layers of grossness and opacity. What is to be done is to shatter off those layers of opacity one by one and assume the absolute state as we had at the time of creation. This is all the gist of the philosophy of our system 'Ramchandra's Rajayoga'. We are, so to say, to dissolve

























































































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