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it is possible to get to that condition and get the divine already working fine within us into action provided one is directly connected to the original condition.
The great Master who is established in the base or the ultimate ground and competent guides who are in tune with His consciousness have demonstrated this possibility in a large number of cases lifting the individual consciousness to the heights of cosmic and paracosmic consciousness and to regions lying even farther than these. The Master Himself is the finest example of a transformed and realized soul who was brought to that state in one lifetime by the grace of our Adiguru, Samartha Guru Lalaji Maharaj, who has graciously opened the doors to Pranahuti, the sole means for transformation of human consciousness into the Divine.
The state of the Centre is beyond thinking and motion. During the spiritual ascent the Jiva or moving consciousness is enabled to move by the loosening of the various knots. As it moves into the various realms of consciousness it goes through four stages, viz., nearing the condition, into the condition, embodiment of the condition and oneness with the condition prevailing at any particular knot.
Unless the knowledge is gained by identicality or oneness with the condition it is not empowered to move further. It is somewhat paradoxical to note that in the new school of Rajayogaknowledge is secured through forgetfulness and a feeling of ‘lost and gone’. According to the Master this happens at every stage of progress till the grace of the Guru of caliber transports one into the Central Region or the sphere of the Absolute. When the individual soul enters the Central region the individuality has practically vanished assuming the form of superfine identity and this continues as the soul commences swimming in the infinite ocean after crossing the rings of splendour all made possible by the work and grace of the Master who has crossed the entire distance and has established Himself at the highest state of spiritual approach. Such is the dynamics of the involution of the Jiva. It looks as if it were that the Jiva leaves the Brahman quite behind and reaches into the very bosom of the Absolute.
This can be understood when we realize that Brahman is only an intermediary state of the evolving and spreading Kshoba, or the superfine force responsible for the unfolding of the manifestation from the subtlest to the grossest levels. That state is already quite gross compared to the superfine state of the Centre. Brahman has its own activities covering the sphere of entire creation and is in a realm far superior to that of the bound Jiva. But still it is bound to its own sphere and is in a way subject to the laws of Nature pertaining to that plane. It is the enlightened Jiva which has freedom of movement, the opportunity to be