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when a great personality like Lord Sri Krishna, Swami Vivekananda or His Master Revered. Lalaji Maharaj changes the entire course of a man’s life. It is absolutely necessary for us to seek such a guide who can lift us to higher and higher stages in spirituality. The Master explains that the power behind such spiritual transformation isPranahuti or the power of transmission which works through the channels of pure mind. Pranahuti is offered through the power of will of a spiritually evolved person for the improvement of the spiritual condition of another person in the spirit of brotherhood and sacrifice as the Master has put it. The trainer in spirituality exerts his will for moulding the mind of the trainee so that it gets regulated abandoning its fickle ways.
Many ochre clad Swamijis for whom gurudom has become a profession complain that although their disciples listen to them with interest yet they remain as crooked as the tail of a dog. The Master says that the reason behind it is simply that either the swamiji does not exert his will or he has no power. They prescribe many laborious and brain taxing practices and leave their disciples to their own fates unmindful of their duties and responsibilities being conscious only of their right to teach. Neither the teacher knows the result of the practices nor the disciples exercise discrimination with the consequence that the disciples develop grossness and dullness of intellect while corruption, degradation and moral turpitude accrue to the gurus. Some skeptics may comment that the transformation is not really due to the process of transmission and the changes occurred in the person because he was desirous of changing. They may cite the case of Duryodhana of Mahabharata whose heart could not be transformed even by Lord Krishna, the avatar endowed with great yogic powers. They may argue the case of some body taking a worthless person or even a lifeless object as a guide and becoming a great saint. The Master dismisses the above arguments stating that these do not hinder us in trying to find out the Reality because God’s ways are mysterious.
The Master states that the power of transmission is a yogic attainment of a very high order by which the yogi can infuse by his will force the yogic energy or the Godly effulgence within any one and remove anything unwanted in him or detrimental to his spiritual progress. He can exercise this power not only on those assembled around him, but on those too who are away from him. The power can be utilized in any way or any time. One who has got command over this power can create temporarily or permanently a condition of mind which is far ahead of the existing condition of the mind of the abhyasi and which, otherwise, will require a lifetime of effort to be achieved. The Master cites again the examples of His Master and Swami Vivekananda who could change the entire nature of a man through the exercise of the power of Pranahuti over which they had complete command.