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firmly connected to the Being beyond the stir is a must for effecting the yoga or connection leading to ultimate unison. Such an attainment is not secured by mere reading or philosophizing, but firm faith, devotion and confidence in the Master is needed for the success in the process.
Revered K.C.Varadachari points out that the aspirant must form the idea of his original condition and his rootedness in the base, the other pole of his being, for generating the required dynamics in the process of this inward evolution or transformation. The idea is a subtle force or an urge, which moves not only the individual but also the Lord compelling Him to take note of the devotee seeking union. In a way we may say that the aspirant also plays a role in making the Centre to yawn towards the circumference through his intense aspiration and restless seeking. This twofold process, the push from the aspirant, the result of his voluntary exertion and the attractive pull from the Divine make for the eventual attainment of the goal. The Lord is as much keen as the devotee for the union, rather more keen and even restless as perceived by men of God, to effect the union. He is merely waiting as if it were to see the arising of that ideational force or compulsive urge in the aspirant for getting back into the realms of the Ultimate, his long-forgotten homeland. We may note here that what we have termed as the feelings of the Lord are actually the empathetic and sympathetic feelings for a kindred soul, as arising in the loving heart of the human Master merged in the Highest towards a fellow being seeking the union with the Highest. This conclusion will be reached once we become aware of the Master’s statement that God the Highest has no mind for Himself.
The Master would like to emphasize the unique capacities of the human mind, which happens to be the only instrument for the utilization of the enormous power lying dormant in man. He says that the mind of man is Nature’s instrument, it is alive and active always, the principal reason for which is the fact that it is derived from and continuous with the Stir, the First Mind of God. It is quite different from the mind, if it can be called such, possessed by animals. Animals have a rudimentary mind, they are not self-aware, have no idea of the present, past or the future in the way humans can be aware of the same. They do not form impressions as they can not think. They have a wired nervous system so to speak which enables them to respond to environmental stimuli, find their food, the mate and a safe niche where they can rest without coming to harm from the hands of their predators. Nature has endowed all animals from the unicellular to the complex multi cellular versions such that they can survive and reproduce. We can say that the annamaya and pranamaya kosas are fairly well developed along with a barely emergent manomaya kosa in the higher animals such as the dog, elephant, horse and the cow and some members of these species do exhibit good memory and