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conscious mind he is busy with the external work while his subconscious mind is busy with Divine thoughts at the same time. He is all the while in samadhi though apparently he is busy with the worldly work. The Master says that very little remains to be done after a person enters into the state permanently. Thus we find the Master giving the idea that samadhi is not a state of consciousness, that is one of absorbency during meditation but is a state that endures during the day and is something that is to be had all the time irrespective of the functions we are discharging throughout our life. It is not an isolated great moment to be had and into which we dive now and then and come back later to this otherwise gross dirty wakeful life out of sheer necessity (Ref. SRRY New Darsana BP V1).
Rationale for heart as the centre of meditation
Master gives the reason for choosing heart as the centre for meditation. The heart is the pumping station of blood to all parts of the body. Purity is infused into all the chakras and plexuses in the entire system by meditating at the heart on the divine light or the light without luminosity with divinity at the bottom. As a result the solidity due to one’s own thoughts and actions accumulated on the various spiritual centers begins to melt away and this effect is felt almost from the very first day. This facilitates abhyasi’s travel in the higher realms of consciousness. Heart is the only place where the connecting link between the animate and inanimate is felt clearly. During the pauses between heart beats we are almost inanimate if not absolutely. We may take the inactive aspect as corresponding to the backing or substratum of divinity behind all activity or manifestation. The rhythmic pulsations of the heart are the manifest action of the root force, which is behind the animate expression of all life. Further the heart is said to be the field for the action of the mind and it is the instrument by which we develop the discriminative faculty. This could be also called conscience or the voice of God. Master talks about the heart signal which tells us whether the thing referred to it is right or wrong. The decision comes always from the heart. He says that if after one decides on the course of action and looks to the condition of the heart and finds it to be tranquil and calm then he can conclude that it is the right decision. For this to happen the heart shall be kept always in a condition of purity, one must be devoid of egoistic feelings and the heart shall be full of feelings of dependence and submissiveness to the divine. The case has to be put up before the Master dwelling in the heart in a mood of supplicancy accompanied by a readiness to implement any direction that issues from the heart as coming from the Divine Master as a command. There must not be any prior expectancy dictating the nature of the outcome of the decision.
The purpose of resorting to meditation is to gather the scattered rays of the