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limited themselves to the approach up to the Sahasrara, the higher approaches beyond being considered by them as inaccessible to the aspirant while with the body.
The Master has stated rather emphatically in His writings that the arousal of Kundalini is not necessary for the realization of the highest state and the power is automatically aroused in such a person for carrying out nature’s work as and when such a demand arises of him.
We have seen earlier that the knots are centres of force on the one hand and on the other they also prevent energy from flowing freely from above (higher and divine centres) to the heart. This is one of the main reasons why ordinary man feels remote and cut off from the Divine. Though this may be good in one sense that the heart is thereby preserved from tensions, yet in so far as they work as brakes the flow from above is impeded. When the free flow is restored through their loosening by the application of the power of Pranahuti by the trainer in PAM the heart gets its supply of spiritual energy and works to its fullest potentiality and capacity. The knots are also hidden powers and most siddhas tend to utilize these powers for the performance of supernormal feats, the so called miracles. Such dissipation of powers in the display of miracles at each knot not only prevents them from being used for the upward movement but is also suicidal for the aspirant’s progress on the path of spirituality. On the other hand in the yoga of SRRY, power in each knot is utilized for the upward movement till the final goal is reached. We may say that the power of the knots in the lower level is being utilized as successive rockets for going out into the vast spaces of one’s spiritual life.
The four conditions
The knots have to be first entered into and this is facilitated by the regular practice of PAM according to the instructions of the Great Master. The entry into the knots where various spiritual states are experienced can not be done without the whole surface being cleaned of dark sediments etc. which have collected over the knot. These specks or sediments and even firm slabs are to be removed by the application of the will of the trainer through transmission of the spiritual life force or Prana. The knot is gently opened up through transmission and with this the soul is enabled to move freely in the knot without in any way affecting the structure. When it is said that the soul is moving freely in the knot it is meant that the consciousness (the Chitcomponent of the soul-conglomerate) moves in that realm and has full awareness of the nature of the knot and the fact of purification of the knot is known when the characteristics of the knot is felt by the aspirant.
The Master talks about the four conditions felt in each one of the knots, namely: A) when the journey comes to a stage of nearing the entry into a knot