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march towards the Infinite Centre. The term may be taken to correspond to the ‘granthis’ or ‘plexuses’ of the different Yoga systems. The Master has also used the term ‘points’ in this work equivalently to denote ‘knots’ of which thirteen are the major ones and innumerable minor ones are to be encountered and their bhog gone through during the course of one’s march. It will be necessary for us to get some working idea of the nature of the knots before we pursue the discussion of the varied experiences or anubhavas the traveler enjoys when he journeys in and through them. The principal difference between the approach of the Master and that of the older Yoga schools is that the Yoga schools advocate the breaking or the piercing of the knots for moving upwards and onwards on the path of spiritual evolution while the Master proceeds by loosening them by the application of the power of Pranahuti for facilitating the spiritual progress of the aspirant. Cutting the knots would make for discontinuity whereas loosening them would enable the flow of the energy back to the Origin or Base thus harmonizing and balancing the entire existence and facilitate its divinization. One can visualize the manifestation as a spiraling out from the Centre of the thought energy constituting the Primary Stir and the involution as the processing of spiraling inwards going through the twenty three levels(or circles?) of being to the Ultimate Centre or God.
It is to be noted that the spiralling movement consists both of the circular movement and an axial or directed linear movement and does not involve the cutting of the circle for moving from one level to the next. The flow of the Original Thought energy down towards existence is characterized by twists and turns. These twists are the knots which are centres of the various powers of nature or expressions of divinity each of them having its own unique characteristics.
The flow of oil can be used as an illustration of the nature of flow of energy in the knots with the flow taking place within a bracket or a valve whose both ends are tightly gripped as if it were. This does not permit a free flow of the energy through the knot in either direction i.e. from the Centre down to the heart or from the heart up towards the Centre. The flow of thought-energy trapped within each knot is of a circulating or whirling nature keeping the aspirant enwrapped in it without allowing a free passage to the next one. Balancing the flow inside the knot is the task of the abhyasi and he is assisted by the trainer through Pranahuti in the process.
The thirteen major knots are distributed in the human frame portion, the forehead and the back of the head in the following manner: five in the chest portion, five more in the forehead portion and the last three in the back of the head (see Path of Grace for detailed diagrammatic representation). The first































































































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