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entire path and know all the intricacies regarding the knots and their unfolding without causing any harm to the disciple. The practice of Hathayoga can not take one beyond Ajna chakra and it entails the growth of ego which bars the further approach of the person.
The Master further characterizes the state of Realization as one in which the state of ‘is-ness’ or existence is not felt. This can be called the negative description of the state. The drop having merged in the ocean can not be cognizant of its individuality. And by the same token as long as cognizance of the separateness between the soul and God is there, it is not the final state. In fact that feeling of separateness and the idea that it can carry on independently is the first covering which leads to the accumulation of further coverings and the alienation of the soul from God. That is the primal ignorance.
The Master also gives a positive description of the state of Realization in which the soul develops an unfailing or special will. This derives from the oneness with God achieved at this stage and the omnipotence of God’s will is reflected in the realized soul. This exercise of the will by the soul is not to achieve its own ends as such a thing as self and ownership ideas have been transcended long back during its evolution. It receives the commands directly from the Base and executes the same to fulfill the divine mandate without any preferences or prejudices of its own. As has been pointed out earlier, the humanity is all but extinct existing in traces and the being is filled up through and through with divinity expressing only That and That alone in action for the ultimate good of the universe as desired by the Divine. It thus becomes the perfect instrument in the hands of God for the expression and actualization of His will.
Miracles as Index of Realization
It is apt to consider here the position taken by the Master regarding miracles, which are quite erroneously held to be the criteria for saints or yogis of great attainments in the spiritual field by many lay persons and even sadhakas ignorant of the real state of affairs (Ref. SS p 187). A rajayogi endowed with the power of transmission can no doubt display miracles but he never likes to do so since that will be derogatory to his pious position. Citing the example of Jesus Christ who displayed miracles all his life but was ultimately betrayed by one amongst the twelve disciples he got, Master shows that miracles are of no account at all. It was not the miracles displayed by Christ but his noble teachings which won him such a large following subsequently. It is therefore better and in our ultimate interest for us to fix our eyes upon Reality rather than upon miracles which are undoubtedly petty affairs and can be displayed by persons of inferior attainments and common talents. Most of the time it is a deliberate fraud played by dexterous gurus upon credulous people to entrap