The Purpose of Birth and Death

Author : Sri Rama

Scribe : S.N. Tavaria

Dedication

God, in His infinite mercy, guided me through one of his advanced sons who
had also struggled hard. He introduced himself to me as Sri Rama. He was
instrumental in inspiring in me a deep and unshakable love for the Divine
Soul. Under his guidance I slowly progressed; under his guidance is this
book written. If it contains anything sensible, God be praised that my
mind could finally grasp what he explained. If the reader finds anything
not sensible, know that my grasp did not rise to his explanation or that I
must have added something of my own. I make no claims to anything and
expect nothing. If this book serves any purpose, I shall feel happy that
the struggles of more than a few decades have found solace with a few.

This book is dedicated to that Great Soul who guided me -- I, so unworthy.

My homage to Sri Rama, my guide and my shield in this life and in all
eternity. I can only bow my head to Sri Rama and say, "I have esteemed thy
words more than my necessary food." If we can only be what he was,
certainly God could be wonderful!

Foreword

On this planet we find that many species, some even very wild, are
threatened with extinction, and some of us have indeed put up admirable
efforts to save them. Also on this planet, the `human being' is now
threatened with extinction when we see the death of decency, laughter,
love, concern, duty, joy, upright dealing, respect and care for the aged,
and other such characteristics of the human being. This has left behind
only `man and woman', the animals in human form with ever-increasing
intellect who are daily becoming more vicious than the wildest animals!

The pity is that regarding this vital extinction of the human being we do
not seem to be perturbed! But we are afraid that this man and woman will
destroy the world and themselves by misuse of nuclear devices. I would
say let this happen, for what is the use of saving this man and woman,
the animals in human form.

The enormous sums of money in astronomical figures that are spent by

hundreds of nations for the sole purpose of destruction, when millions
starve, millions die for want of care and medicine, millions are homeless
and destitute, and millions more become abnormal and/or sub-normal -- all
this can be the making of only man and woman, for human beings cannot ever
think and work along such lines! I quote from William Arkle's beautiful
book, The Geography of Consciousness: "The burden and sadness which comes
with the knowledge of how far we have wandered from the potential joy and
value of living ..."

Can we put in brave efforts to save whatever is left of the human being?
To that end is this book written. If this man and woman can once again
become the human being, it is then worthwhile; no efforts should be spared
to save them. All humanity is sick and needs healing.

What makes the difference between a human being and man and woman? It
is the misuse of the thinking instrument over a long period of time.
This, in turn, has completely replaced the correct, natural, rhythmic
breathing by a completely wrong breathing, because thinking and breathing
are interlinked. It has also brought on this planet many very dangerous
diseases. So it is our purpose and concern to point out how both,
incorrect breathing and incorrect use of the thinking instrument, can be
set right if taken up on a war-footing. If the world at large takes it up
seriously, we will yet turn the corner and once again this man and woman
can be transformed into the proper human being.

And then, even the most powerful nuclear device will be in safe hands and
such knowledge will only be used for the benefit of mankind. Today, those
who have no nuclear weapons can only philosophize. The scores of pockets
of armed confrontations will stop, for human beings will decide what is
right and that it should be established, not what is to one's gain and for
one's well-being alone. No amount of efforts otherwise by the United
Nations and world conferences for peace, or preaching and religions, will
ever help, for man and woman will leave far behind in numbers the human
being who will soon be extinct at this rate.

"All the shastras are meant only to make ... man retrace his steps to the
original source. He need not gain anything new. He must only give up his
false ideas and useless accretions."

I have done my duty. I have even put on paper the thoughts (once passed on
by `word of mouth') that may earn for me ridicule -- but when duty
demands, should anything deter? The die is cast and this book is written,
perhaps for the ultimate good of the man and woman who will yet become the
human being. Let God grant this prayer!
Bibliography

The subject that is presented here in this book would hardly appeal to the
modern reader if I were to present in old-style, orthodox language. I have
therefore adopted a particular way of presenting my thoughts in a language
that differs from the style and language of both the orthodox writers as
well as that of the modern writers, who use high-sounding words and
phrases that, I am afraid, confuse more than enlighten the reader. So,
between the gropings of the ancient, orthodox writers and those of the
modern writers on this subject, I have tried to present my thoughts in my
own language and style, which the reader may find not only simple but too
simple.

(On this subject, till today, a lot of wisdom and understanding was, and
is, communicated by `word of mouth' rather than the written word.)

I have quoted both from many modern writers and from old and orthodox
writers. Not that I agree with them, but in this particular exercise of
presentation I feel the reader will be greatly benefited and the purpose
of this book is to benefit the reader in more than one way. My sincere
acknowledgments to the following writers and their books:

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Contents

Introduction
1. Our Assumption: Do We Understand Creation and Existence?

2. Tapah -- Divine Wholeness, and the Beginning of Creation

3. Janah -- The Universe of Divine Fragmentations

4. Mahah -- The Major Ring-Pass-Not

5. Existence Begins ... Some Aspects of Existence

6. Svahah--Bhuvah--Bhuh -- The Universes of Existence

7. Return to the Source -- The Journey Back Home

8. Conscious Death and Conscious Birth

9. The Technique of Correct Thinking -- Preparation for Higher Steps of

 Scientific Yoga

10. Man, the Human Being, is both Computerized Organism and Transcendence
Itself

11. Practices

12. Pratyahara -- The Most Important Step

13. Dharna--Dhyana--Samadhi

14. The Sum and Substance of our Understanding of the Text

Appendices:

1. The Rearranged Sutras

2. Are We a Synthetic Humanity Created by an Advanced Humanity?
3. The Intensity Charts
4. Diagrams and Charts

Introduction

The Divine Wholeness, the Absolute Manifest, Nothingness, Emptiness, the

Void, are all synonymous, for we would not be able to trace any colour,
light, sound, texture, feel, movement, thought or concept therein. It is
and forever It Is. Nothing else matters, nothing else exists; and yet,
when our dimensions unfold by stages, we experience a whole spectrum of
Existence besides the pin-point of our experience of the things around us
and of this world, the seen universe. Yet all that is thus experienced is
not worth experiencing! That does not mean we should not experience the
whole spectrum of Existence. We have to; and, as a final experience, know
that all such experience is of the subtle and yet more subtle brain, manas
and buddhi. Why do we have to? Because once from Void is Exile entered
into, then the whole spectrum of Exile is to be experienced -- that is the
law!

Our Home and Inherent Nature is Void. As long as we experience the

subtlest aspects of the spectrum of Existence, we are in Exile. To be
aware that we are in Exile as an experience (and not only as a mental
concept) is the moment of return to the source, the Void.

The Divine Wholeness, from which all Existence flows down, is the source
of all that exists. Yet all that exists is not different from all that
does not exist, but the former is said to be maya and the latter is said
to be the Reality. Such are the unwise thoughts of the mindless many! But
we need body, mind and senses to experience all that exists and we need no
body, mind and senses to experience all that does not exist. For all that
does not exist is forever Is, while all that exists ceases to exist at
some point in time and becomes the non-existent, so do the shastras say.

Between these two -- all that does not exist and all that does exist -- is
born memory, which creates desire; for when from Void is Exile entered
into, whether willingly or forced (by an angry God!), memory and its
sister, desire, are born as a natural consequence to the coverings of
body, mind and senses. Memory and desire, like any pair of opposites,
serve two purposes: (1) they make us hold on to Exile fondly, and many
there be who are content to live so; and (2) they also make us turn away
from Exile resolutely to seek the Void, but few there be who seek it.

It ought not to be so, because the Void is our Inherent Nature and as such
needs no unwanted coverings of body, mind and senses, nor the help of
memory and desires. The poet has said truly about the computerized
organism, our body/brain system: "Dust thou art, to dust thou returnest."
This brings the natural thought to mind as to why we discard our inherent
way of the Void to seek Exile, to be covered over with dust, and then
return this dust to dust and seek the Void again! So, in turn, we then
yearn to discard this state of Exile to return to the source, our Home,
the Void. Night seems to seek the day, or perhaps the day seeks the night,
and in this unending sequence of Void and Exile, what or who seeks whom,
who can say? If we cannot fathom the simple question, `What came first,
the chicken or the egg?', who can answer whether Void follows Exile or
Exile follows Void, and so who can say whether we die because we are born
or that we are born because we have died before? The eternal drama,
endless as it is, what point are we at and what part do we play therein?

Would you not like to know this firsthand? That is what this book tries to
explain. Religions and philosophies have tried to explain but very
superfluously. We simply believe whatever is said and follow the rites,
customs and ceremonies of the faith we are born into, without questioning
why -- knowing fully well, and in spite of knowing fully well, that all
the scriptures all over the world have been tampered with many times over
and they say not today what they once said. Can not each one of us,
rather, experience firsthand the Exile and the Void? If so, then we need
not hug any faith mindlessly and unnecessarily create conflicts which we
have witnessed and are still witnessing.

This book tries to show the way to understand Exile firsthand -- for he
who understands Exile will know the Void! But it calls for much moral
courage to discard all that we have learnt, all that the religions and
philosophies of the world have to say. That is what the Buddha demanded
when he said, "Bhikshu, empty the boat!" Your boat is your storehouse of
memory, all that you know and believe is your memory. To discard and
destroy all memory is to discard and destroy all desires too, and so is to
become more innocent than a new-born baby, for it too is born with a load
of memory.

Will you begin from the beginning? This means that at no stage will your
thought or memory seek and compare what you have learnt or believed in at
some point of time in the past, at least so long as you are reading this
book? If you do not look back and do not fondly seek your memory -- for
memory is the only thing most dear to us -- you will soon know and
experience Exile, and Exile will convince you of your Inherent Nature that
is Void. Void has no memory and so no desires, for Void has no existence
or the sequence of Existence, from gross to subtle and from subtle to
still more subtle. Exile creates memory and the experience of Exile makes
us turn away from memory. And do not the shastras call memory `sanskaras',
or roots? We thus enter our Inherent Nature, the Void, when all sanskaras,
our roots, are dissolved.

"There was a time when the body was uncreate; once the illusory mind was
not. But when uncreate body met illusory mind, you, I and the Universe
were create!"
"When once again the uncreate body and the illusory mind will be no more,
you, I and the Universe will cease to be!"

Chapter 1

Our Assumption : Do We Understand Creation And Existence ?

"Om, Bhuh--Bhuvah--Svahah
tat savitur varenyam;
bhargo devasya dhimahi
dhiyo yo nah prachodayat."
(The Divine Mother Gayatri or the Divine Wholeness -- the Absolute Manifest)

"Thou, Absolute Manifest, Reality, Divine Wholeness,

Thou hast unfolded and lifted veil after veil for my realization;
Thou art Infinite, I am but infinitesimally Thy Divine Fragment.
Nothing more remains for me but to merge in Thee and become one with Thee;
Gratefully and blissfully I bow before Thee, henceforth no more talk of
Thee and me."
"At first an aspirant feels his mind is tumbling like a waterfall;
In mid-course, like the Ganges it flows on slow and gentle;
In the end, it is a great vast ocean, where the Lights of Son and Mother
merge in one."

"Manifestation is mind; and so is Voidness too.

Enlightenment is mind; and so is blindness too."

"Whoever clings to mind sees not the truth of what is beyond mind.
Whoever strives to practise Dharma finds not the truth of beyond-practice.
To know what is beyond both mind and practice,
one should cut cleanly through the roots of the mind and stare naked.
One should thus break away from all distinctions and remain at ease."

"Talk as much philosophy as you please, worship as many gods as you like,
observe all ceremonies, sing devoted songs and praises of any number of
deities, liberation never comes, even at the end of a hundred kalpas,
without realization of the oneness of Self."

"I am as all these men

Who cry upon their gods and are not heard
Or are not heeded; yet, there must be aid.
Perchance the gods have need of help themselves!
I would not let one cry
Whom I could save! How can it be that Brahma
Would make a World and would keep it miserable?
Since He is all-powerful, He leaves it so, He is not good,
And if not powerful, He is not God!"

"I must dare to speak the Truth, when Truth is my theme."

Bhuh--Bhuvah--Svahah comprise the total Universe of Existence. "There is

Self and not-Self and the relation between the two." What is the relation
-- know this and be free! Mind: is it a means to bondage or a means to
final release? What is the difference between mind and brain -- know this
and be free! Have you ever tried to know? Would you like to know?
Seriously ... sincerely?

We, as an intelligent humanity, have to experience many mental shocks yet.

The first one we received was on just emerging from the Dark Ages, when we
found that we, on our planet Earth, are not at the centre of the universe
as we can see from our telescopes. We found later that the Earth, together
with the solar system, was more difficult to locate in our galaxy, the
Milky Way, than is a needle in a haystack! Now we know that our galaxy
would be even more difficult to locate if we could draw one consolidated
chart of the 15 billion galaxies! Who, though, could draw it and how many
would believe this figure? But have we learnt our lesson: are we not prone
again to consider that we are `the only' in Existence, since we cannot
find any other humanity anywhere else?

But as we advance intellectually, increase our scientific experience, make

greater technical progress, and become more complete biologically (which
we are not at present), we shall meet with more and more and greater
mental shocks. Even our brain is not half fully developed at present,
though you may not perhaps believe it!

The Seen Universe -- Bhuh

This visible universe that is accessible to our physical senses, we call

Bhuh, about which we are not yet sure whether it will continue expanding
or ultimately recontract or follow some other scenario. Our senses reel at
its stupendous vastness, or are we victims of optical illusions due to
outer space being so rarefied that we do not notice interstellar mirages
of unspeakable finesse and beauty? Is it that reflection, refraction and
penetration of light, glares, superwaves, and other such varied causes
create super mirages, of which today we may either have no knowledge or,
in our technical ignorance, believe that they are not possible. But we
have to live and learn.

Even with larger and larger telescopes to penetrate, we have not yet seen
the end of this seen universe. Here we feel lies hidden a great mirage.
Ultimately, the knowable and seen universe ought not to exceed 15,000
million galaxies, but it will take a long time before new instruments will
be able to chart out areas that are duplicated and triplicated with subtle
give-away signs and points which, when studied, will provide the coming
mental shock that will totally revise many misconceptions of astrophysics.
And no sooner shall we come out of such a shock than we shall be on the
verge of receiving another -- clues will lead to unmistakable signs of the
vital and more subtle universe, the unseen universe, a minuscule fraction
(much, much less than 1%) of which, we may say, is, from an angle,
reflected to appear to us as the seen universe.

The shastras and scriptures put the limit of the seen universe to Bhuh as
an immeasurable vastness, with its duplicating and triplicating mirages
which alter and distort as to show something different of the same vast
areas. Hence is created an illusion, for what appears is not a true
reflection as in a desert, but a merging of parts and reflection of parts
of different areas to present a substantially vast area which appears new
and uncharted, sometimes with different shades of colour added. There are
also galaxies that have ceased to exist long ago but whose light we
receive now in picture form. Besides, there are vast giant clouds of
gases, measurable in light years, which are sometimes opaque, sometimes
inert and sometimes highly inflammable. All are capable, in their own
inherent and intricate manner, of creating mirages and could sometimes
conceal immensely vast areas from our vision all together. All these
effects present many bewilderingly new areas which are not actually
independently existing. In the distant future, science will develop a
method to check on these super mirages and then we shall not only know but
be spellbound and dumbfounded as to what unreasonable theories we will
have developed by then.

For a diver floating on his back halfway down in the ocean, there are
planes and areas all around him, i.e. on the same level, and further away
too, above and below him also; but even the Pacific Ocean at its deepest
may be only seven or eight miles deep. As compared to this, our solar
system floats in our galaxy which is a few thousand light years deep, with
the result that we have planes and areas all round us and also `virtually'
above and below us. `Above' and `below' do not mean simply over our heads
and under our feet in space as we are floating (for that would only mean
the same level), but virtually too a few thousand years deep in time in
all directions all around us. And our galaxy, one of the 15 billion, is
itself, like a diver in mid-ocean, floating somewhere with a few million
galaxies all around it, on the same level, and millions more above and
below it virtually too, with interstellar space in between -- fathomless
and immeasurable. We have no conception about the attributes of this
so-called space, or what tricks it can play, for this space is vibrant,
living substance and not just empty space.

This vastness of Bhuh is in seven gradations, or what we term sub-stages,

and science will find `matter' of distinct grades. Yet when other grades
of `matter' that are not yet known will come to be known, physics will
have to take a full about turn. Why? Because we who find ourselves in
sub-stage 4 in Bhuh are placed in the universe in such a position that 50%
of the matter of the seen universe does not come within our scope of
observation and study, viz. matter of sub-stages 1 and 2, and 6 and 7 of
Bhuh.

The Unseen Universe -- Bhuvah

Beyond the vastness of Bhuh, our seen universe, extends the subtle and
unseen, semi-real-looking universe which we call Bhuvah --
interpenetrating our seen universe, very subtle, transparent and pliable,
with its laws so different as to prove white as black and yellow as red!
Very confounding, highly instructive, fascinating, turning us into
blundering fools, this super vastness known to the shastras as Bhuvah,
when explored and tabulated by science, will be so bewildering that
science will not be sure of making a statement!

But that day is far, far away. This subtle universe of Bhuvah, like the
subtle astral body, needs investigation. The astral body is now being
subject to some observations in many advanced countries and, who knows,
some day the subtle universe may also claim our attention. Some
fragmentary information has reached us as to how science in some developed
countries is trying to prove as fact the presence of the subtle body, the
astral or molecular body, cojoined to the physical or cellular human
body. We are informed that Russian scientists, a group of biologists,
biochemists and biophysicists, are conducting experiments on `bio-plasma'
near the Soviet Space Centre. They have noted a silent, high frequency
discharge not seen by the average human eye. They have evidence of some
energy, substance or form in all living things -- some sort of body,
invisible, luminous, and penetrating our physical body. Through their
instruments they can now see this double body. This energy is a `body',
well-arranged and with a distinctive shape, a whole, unified organism in
itself, acting as a unit and having its own electromagnetic field, and
inside the body are processes taking place. Every physical organ and
tissue of the human physical body has this double.

We do not know how authentic is this information. This report is not of a

recent date and we presume a lot more progress must have been made by now.
We shall not be surprised, therefore, if, with further progress, some
observation is made of the subtle astral universe, unseen by the average
eye or through the normal telescope. But how many times will our solar
system go round the star Sirius before we are through knowing a part of
our known and seen universe, Bhuh, one cannot tell! Perhaps the binary
star Sirius will merge its bright and dark orbs to emerge as one! So who
can tell when science will step up her study and come to know this
semi-real-looking subtle universe, Bhuvah? And it does not matter what the
shastras and scriptures say -- we are talking here of hard-core,
authenticated science. It will require unmistakable proofs, with one
Einstein proving another Einstein wrong just as Newton has been dethroned
by Einstein.

The unseen, subtle, semi-real universe of Bhuvah also extends through

seven gradations, or what we have termed sub-stages, stretching further
out into the even subtler and still finer type of the unseen universe
encompassing and interpenetrating the seen universe Bhuh. Matter extends
from the rarest found in our seen universe Bhuh, which is as the grossest
to begin with in Bhuvah, proceeds to rare and rarer yet in this semi-real
universe of Bhuvah, and extends to become finer still beyond any possible
conjecture or calculation. For beyond Bhuvah is even subtler and even
vaster another universe!
The Super Universe -- Svahah

This super universe, interpenetrating both the seen Bhuh and the unseen
Bhuvah universes, the shastras and scriptures call Svahah. So the
semi-real universe Bhuvah has given way to the vaster near-real universe
of Svahah, of subtle thoughts and concepts, which is also matter of rarest
seen and unseen light, where sound is seen and light vibrations are heard
-- but it is still not the real universe!

Imagine a long stick, with one end as Bhuh, the seen universe, and the
second section as the semi-real universe of Bhuvah. The stick continues
with the next section identified as the near-real, yet not quite real,
universe of Svahah. As we pass further along it, the stick suddenly seems
to disappear, and so some claim that it does not exist, though proper
study would certainly reveal that this stick is very much there, and is
and will always be there. We may, if we so desire, name this stick
`matter'. Yet we say that no such substance like `matter' -- as we know it
-- exists! This is the contradiction, but all is contradiction in
Existence, study and experience of which will lead us from gross to
subtle, from seen to unseen, from matter to spirit. These seeming
contradictions are resolved when we shall know and experience firsthand.
But if we keep using words to express the inexpressible, this can be the
only result.

This universe of Svahah, after its seven gradations or sub-stages, fades

away or passes into the supposed-to-be real universe. That universe is
said to be more real than Svahah! But inbetween this universe of Svahah
and the supposed-to-be real universe is the Ring-pass-not encompassing all
the previously stated three universes of Bhuh, Bhuvah and Svahah.

Bhuh is the grossest, physical, cellular universe; Bhuvah is subtle,

astral, atomic/molecular; and Svahah is the yet more subtle, mental,
electronic universe. One vaster than the other, one more subtle than the
other. And finally this Ring-pass-not -- Mahah-kala in the shastras --
like a huge Chinese dragon with its tail in its mouth, encompassing within
itself all these three universes, the finer interpenetrating and
supporting the subtle and the subtle interpenetrating and supporting the
grosser. Each of these universes have their appropriate laws that differ
widely from each other so that laws operating on the subtlest electronic
planes appear to negate those on lower planes, or rather their working
appears as miracles in the grosser universe.

All these three universes together comprise `Existence'. The three

together are also designated as the `domain of mind', because in all these
three universes pervades a subtle `gentle substance', most pliable,
supremely intelligent and all-knowing as far as Existence is concerned.
This substance is Universal Divine Mind, or Chittie. When we use the word
`mind' or `universal mind', we do not project or presume a giant mind; we
mean thereby a subtle gentle substance that is unique in Existence and is
beyond our imagination and conception. This Universal Divine Mind,
however, is not `Cosmic Consciousness', though it reflects some of the
latter's properties like being all-pervading and all-knowing -- but only
within Existence and not beyond! Rather like the moon reflecting the light
of the Sun and giving us an impression that it has light of its own;
Universal Divine Mind, like the moon, has no light of its own.

Due to great and continuous drop in vibrations, this Universal Divine

Mind, after the seven sub-stages or gradations of Svahah, the most subtle
of the three universes, becomes less subtle and less knowing in Bhuvah and
is then known as `mula-prakriti', which has been translated as `primordial
matter'. Both descriptions are not really correct. And after seven further
sub-stages or gradations in the less subtle universe, Bhuvah, this
substance becomes further less subtle and further less knowing, and is
known as `prakriti', translated as `matter', in the seen universe Bhuh.
Neither description is again really correct. This rapid and continuous
drop in vibrations continues in Bhuh till the grossest point `nadir' is
ultimately reached where it becomes nearly inanimate, reaching near-zero
awareness. Yet all throughout it is the same subtle gentle substance known
as Universal Divine Mind. In our seen universe, these facets of the same
gentle substance are termed `inert matter'.

There is a little confusion in the minds of all human beings as to what

actually is `matter'. We shall state later that Divinity, one of the vital
principles, in its grossest forms or planes of Existence, combines with
the grossest aspects of Universal Divine Mind, and the mixture of these
two `substances' gives rise to what is actually matter. So actually,
nothing like `matter', as science understands it, exists. It is the
Universal Divine Mind, the gentle substance in all its myriad
modifications and changes, and the super sensitive first vital principle
Divinity, in all its myriad modifications and changes -- these two couple
together in all their possible permutations and combinations to form a
substance for our existence which we mistakenly and simplistically call
`matter'. The former becomes the substance for body, mind and senses, and
free will; the latter, Divinity, is a substance for the planes of
Existence and all `conditionings' in myriad upon myriad areas far-flung
and scattered in the vast expanse of Existence.

To understand this more clearly, let us term the gentle substance of

Universal Divine Mind as buddhi -- most pliable, all-pervading, and
all-knowing in the vast domain of mind that is Existence. Still, depending
on the universe in which an individual exists and functions must the terms
buddhi, manas, or brain be used appropriately for Universal Divine Mind.
Let us term the gentle substance of Divinity in all its modifications and
changes as prakriti, though, depending on the sub-stage of the universe
whose planes and conditionings it constitutes must the terms mahat,
mula-prakriti, or prakriti be used appropriately for Divinity. And the
two, Universal Divine Mind and Divinity, combine together to form
so-called matter. In other words, when we use terms like `buddhi' or
`mind', and `prakriti' or `matter', it is to be properly understood that
whether it is gross or subtle, it is a mixture of the same gentle
substances we find in the beginning of Existence and which is
all-pervading in the three universes, found as gross or subtle in
different areas or conditionings. Whenever and wherever this mixture of
gentle substances crystallizes, it is considered as `inert matter', though
actually such inert matter is nowhere to be found.

Now Universal Divine Mind flows through, or penetrates, and makes all
thinking instruments work, and they work to the extent of the possibility
of their individual development. The product of their working is termed
thinking and is so varied as to be confusing. If Universal Divine Mind
were not to flow through them, the thinking instruments would not
function. Think of electricity flowing through various electrical
appliances and making each operate as per its basic structure, so that
some give heat and some cool, others produce sound or pictures, etc.
Besides, the same type of appliance, like all radios or all television
sets, will also give different performances as per their inherent
individual structure. In all the universes, individual structure is
paramount and gives results accordingly. That is why Universal Divine Mind
(Chittie), when it is the individual's mind (chitta), is termed buddhi in
Svahah, manas in Bhuvah and brain in Bhuh, the respective thinking
instruments in the three universes.

But when the shastras and scriptures say `prakriti evolved into Manas'
and, conversely, `Manas resolved into prakriti', it definitely conveys the
thought that Manas, i.e. Universal Divine Mind (as used here), and
prakriti, i.e. so-called matter, are not the same, however close at times
they seem to be. Could they be identical?

Just as for any agent introduced into an engine, the exhausted substance
is different, so the inflowing Manas (Universal Divine Mind) that flows
through each individual thinking instrument comes out as contaminated
thought forms transformed into desires. It is also some kind of matter,
but of another form, that has ceased to be the inflowing Manas or
Universal Divine Mind! "If to this mind one adds or subtracts anything, it
is then not the ordinary mind (the Universal Divine Mind) but the
so-called mind-object." The ability to let this inflowing Universal Divine
Mind flow in and flow out as Manas, i.e. "to let the ordinary mind remain
in its own natural state," is the final aim and end of Existence for an
individual in this Bhuh universe. Can this be done? How can it be done?
The clean mind of Buddha, they say, is this state. There are practices in
scientific yoga that prepare one for this state, but not the yoga
prevalent all over the world today, including in India.

We have also noted that the shastras dismiss all the three universes of
Existence as maya, illusory and unreal, where there is only misery, pain,
frustration and doubt (especially in the physical, cellular universe
Bhuh). They are to be avoided, and if we are able to do so, we have then
earned eternal salvation, eternal release from pain and misery. And yet,
not finding equivalent life anywhere except on our planet Earth, once
again our Earth and our humanity have become the centre of Existence for
us. Again, not finding any other form with life and intelligence, we
consider our human form too as the supreme form, so much so that we think
it is in the image of `God'! Can we not be less egotistic! As long as we
shall continue to repeat this error of considering our Earth and our
humanity as `unique' -- in other words, if we take ourselves as the centre
of Existence, the base and ground for our research and study -- we shall
be thrust by God and Nature repeatedly into the dark ages.

The one cardinal error that is committed all over the world is that we
start all our research and arrive at all our deductions taking the
conditioning on our Earth as ground and base to begin with, and then go
backwards into the past or forward into the future on our time-scale, i.e.
in earth years, which on a cosmic time-scale would not go beyond a few
moments, so that the profoundness of our knowledge, whether scientific or
otherwise, cannot be even skindeep!

But how is one to reconcile to the fact that in this seen, gross,
cellular, physical universe, with its seven gradations or sub-stages in
all its vastness, there are prevalent millions of other conditionings for
intelligent life to survive, of which we find one on our planet Earth.
That there are millions of such societies of humanities in far-flung areas
in innumerable conditionings! True, it remains to be proved. And what is
more, in all these seven sub-stages, each an immeasurable, vast area and
each an eternity of time (or timelessness), these different societies of
humanity, that would look so different in conditionings so entirely
different as to be unbelievable from our limited view point, are yet
living and thriving! In our isolation, therefore, this seems to us to be
unbelievable, confounding, a fiction of the mind. The shastras and
scriptures do not dismiss these facts as fiction, but consider these
societies, which on a cosmic scale may be a little ahead or a little
behind us, as humanities and dismiss them along with us as maya, illusory
and unreal (in the sense of transitoriness), home of pain, misery and
frustration. But let us leave the interpretations of the shastras and
scriptures aside for a while.

We say that these gradations of Bhuh have to be lived, to be studied, to

be experienced, and then to be transcended `consciously' -- that is the
final release! Consciously to study, know and then supersede, or go
beyond, any conditioning -- this is the `purpose'; and only when the
purpose is fulfilled is real mukti, or final release, earned, not by pious
motives nor by shunning and running away from what life has to offer. And
who, indeed, can run away, and where to and how far?

To follow consciously means to know and experience and then to `outgrow'

and `transcend' these conditionings, thus fulfilling the purpose of life
and Existence. To welcome such conditionings, to penetrate them, to be
able to `live' consciously if desired and to `leave behind' consciously if
so desired, should be the aim. This is mukti or final release! Do you
agree with our definition? Perhaps you do, perhaps you do not! Mukti is to
be understood as release from a particular conditioning of existence, not
from total Existence. Not to be forced into birth nor snatched out of life
into so-called death should be the way of life. To be born consciously if
so desired and to leave consciously the cellular body and this universe
Bhuh shall be the ultimate of life. This is what is ordained by God and
Nature to be the status and stature of a human being in the cellular
universe Bhuh.

There are two scientific ways, either one or both of which have to be
followed consciously. (1) Science and technology are slowly moving from
one fact to another, extending over seven eternities of timelessness,
stretching over seven vistas or sub-stages of Bhuh and then of Bhuvah. (2)
Scientific yoga makes the same possible in a fraction of the time taken by
the first method. Not yoga as practised now all over the world including
India, but by penetrating eternity and moving vertically through time. We
shall come to the practices and techniques with preliminary and ancillary
methods later. In the shastras is an anecdote depicting these two methods,
involving Ganesha and Kartik, the two of them following the two different
methods as stated above.

Instead, we cry over what we go through, evolve senseless theories, and to

support them invent still more absurd rites, ceremonies and prayers, sing
meaningless songs and bhajans, weave meaningless stories about our love,
our miseries and our limitations. "Our sweetest songs are those that tell
of saddest thoughts." It seems to be a universal malady! Rather, the
purpose of life and birth is to know, to experience and to consciously
fathom what it is all about, to come to conclusion scientifically by
following certain procedures and methods. Which of the two ways would you
choose? Do you have a choice?
Just as the cure of a disease is to be effected by reaching to the source,
otherwise it falls short of being a real remedy, so for our knowledge and
understanding to be real, they should reach the source, the root of the
trouble we are experiencing. But in doing so we must first learn the
extent of our explorations, data accumulation, laws operative, and
interpretations of all these by much repeated experimentation and guidance
from `past masters'.

We have noted that all these three universes of Bhuh, Bhuvah and Svahah
are enclosed and bound within the Ring-pass-not. What does it really mean?
These three universes together, to use human language, form the fertilized
ovum, within which we unconsciously keep moving, indefinitely, ever
repeating, repeating and repeating. "If I examine my past life honestly, I
see enacted there my tendency towards repetition."

A movie is a series of fast-moving, nearly-same picture frames; it is the

rapid movement that gives so-called continuity to the personalities
portrayed therein. If we will be convinced that each life that we live is
but a day in the eternal life of an individual, then millions of such
fast-moving nearly-same picture frames, each a `life', will portray the
entire life of an individual from Svahah to Bhuh upto nadir. You seem to
be skeptical, yet interested to know if that can be proved!

Just as there are innumerable societies of humanities in the seen physical

universe of Bhuh, so also are there innumerable societies of humanities in
the other two subtle and more subtle universes of Bhuvah and Svahah. The
shastras and scriptures call such societies by other names -- devas and
asuras, angels, etc. Some consider such conditionings as graded heavens or
hells where our ancestors rest and wait for us, perhaps! When will such
primitive thinking stop?

Now, in each conditioning, i.e. on each planet, innumerable possibilities

are open, and much more than them are the probabilities that may or may
not be possibilities. Each such planet with a society of humanity in each
different conditioning feels that many possibilities are given while a lot
more probabilities are not possible. It is not easy to understand this if
all our thinking is based on a single arbitrary conditioning that happens
to exist on our planet Earth. So all these societies of humanity,
individually and in a haphazard manner, unaware of the whole pattern and
of the totality of possibilities, grope in utter ignorance all the time,
like us on this planet Earth. Their supports, as also in our case, are a
little bit of shastras and scriptures here and a little light of science
there! Are these supports adequate to help and guide any society and lead
from darkness to light? We think they are very meagre indeed!
Some individuals from all these human societies have entered the
Ring-pass-not through sincere efforts at scientific yoga practices
available from the dim past under the unfailing guidance of great masters.
Such scientific yoga practices cannot be restricted exclusively to our
Earth and to our society of humanity only. Please be sure of this fact!

This Ring-pass-not, known as the Mahah region or Mahah-kala, is not a

universe as are the three universes within; instead it is an enormity and
is far too subtle, even more so than Svahah universe, and there are no
humanities there in the sense that we find societies of humanities in the
three universes. Its purpose is so different that it is better to
understand it in proper sequence. "Things do exist apart from the mind,
but it may still be argued that they do not exist independent of the act
of cognizing." This quotation is very apt for the Ring-pass-not. And what
is beyond it is so different from what is within its bounds that we shall
need chapters to understand. For what is beyond it is free from mind,
body, senses and free will! But to know and understand that such
conditions are prevalent will need our minds and the act of cognizing to
be aware of such conditions. Would you like to know what is beyond the
Ring-pass-not?

"But now,
Thou Builder of the Tabernacle -- Thou!
I know thee! Never shalt thou build again
These walls of pain.
Nor raise the Roof Tree of Deceits, nor lay
Fresh Rafters on the Clay!
Broken Thy house is, and the Ridge-pole split!
Delusion fashioned it!
Safe pass I thence -- Deliverance to obtain."

Beyond the Ring-pass-not is the Universe of Reality, but with this

difference that it is one of the nearest stages to Reality, for in this
universe of peace and tranquility, the one and only Reality is known but
is not experienced yet! Here, the word `Reality' should not conjure up the
idea of illusory -- never make this mistake.

All the advanced individuals of all the societies of humanity who are able
to go beyond the Ring-pass-not enter this Universe which is completely
different from the earlier three universes. That is why all the three
universes within the Ring-pass-not are considered as lokas, maya,
illusory. "The three bodies (physical, astral and mental of Bhuh, Bhuvah
and Svahah, respectively) are not regarded as principal and so, in a
cosmic sense, the three planes (universes) are regarded as non-existing
and illusory." But we maintain that by no stretch of imagination can one
say that beyond the Ring-pass-not is Reality and within its bounds is
illusion or is illusory, for we are still moving along the length of the
same `stick' we talked about earlier. Unfortunately, all our shastras and
scriptures orient thus and suitably describe it as such and we fondly and
piously believe in this fiction of Reality and illusion. This is a
tragedy!

This Universe, an enormity beyond the Ring-pass-not, is the Janah

Universe, more real than the earlier three universes we have noted so far
and nearest to Reality. We may say that this is the `double zero'
electronic universe (relative to Existence), meaning that we have no
conception of a humanity that has no body and is beyond mind, i.e. needs
no `thinking instrument' as the other societies of humanity in the other
three universes need, is free from all limitations, needs neither sense
organs or senses, qualities or sex, food or sleep, nor life to live or
awareness to understand. This is the unique humanity -- but not different
from us!

Here we would like to quote a few wanderings of great minds, for they
express some such similar thoughts.

"If we stop regarding creation as a whole, but regard it as some things

created, our minds perceive the universe as a space-time where things
appear and disappear, integrate and disintegrate."
"All gradations that appear are not gradations of vital principle, but
only of its manifestations."
"Duality and dualism must not be confused. The universe implies
conciliated duality, but this is not dualism."
"Yet all is divine equally in time and space and in relation to the point
in the evolution of the whole."
"The entire man is in his being -- the three worlds."
"In the permanence of the cosmos are laws which are incomprehensible on
certain planes."
"All heavenly men differ and so will the evolution that forms cells in
their bodies differ likewise. In all schemes on some globes, human beings
or self-conscious units are to be found; conditions of life, form and
environment may differ, but the human hierarchy works in all schemes."
"It means that on some globes in every scheme human units will be found,
either prior to physical incarnation (conditioning), between different
rounds, cycles, manvantaras or between various root-races or sub-races."
"No so-called matter exists anywhere in the universe. All forms are built
up of infinitesimal lives."
"Matter becomes rare or dense according to the thoughts of a consciousness
active therein."
"The Universe is in fact but a large aggregate of stages of
consciousness."
"We live unconsciously in this mighty consciousness in which everything is
eternally present."
"All units in manifestation on a plane have to discard the vehicle through
which they function, before they can pass on to the subtler levels."
"Truth must be wrought out in the texture of daily living before new
truths can safely be imparted."
"There is a greater mystery than this, viz. ourselves being the Reality,
we seek to gain Reality. We think that there is some thing hiding the
Reality and that must be destroyed before Reality is gained. It is
ridiculous. A day will dawn when you will yourself laugh at your past
efforts." Keep this quotation in mind.
"Liberation is nothing new that is acquired."
"Those who do not perceive the truth, think in terms of samsara and
nirvana."
"Avidya, hideous hag, whose footsteps left the midnight darker."
"The people most separated from God are the ascetics with their
asceticism, the devotees by their devotion and the knowers by their
knowledge."

Now taking a different source: "Shiva loved Parvati deeply. He once lifted
her and merged her into Himself, and formed the entity Ardhnarishvara
(half-body of Shiva the man and half-body of Parvati the woman)." A
reference to sexlessness, or a conditioning prior to sex-differentiation.

To quote from another tradition:

"Men would have gone naked upon the Earth, for the Celestial
interpenetrated the exterior and was its garments: and he (Adam) moved in
great beauty, joy and pleasure, with child like heart. He would have
drunken and eaten magically, not in the body as now... He had no sleep in
him, night was to him as the day: for he saw with glorious eyes by means
of his own light; the interior man, interior eye, saw across the
exterior..."
"Before he ate of the tree of knowledge, Adam was all spirit and wore
angelic clothing. This is why he was worthy to eat the fruits of paradise
which are the fruits of the soul."
"Adam was both Man and Woman and yet neither one nor the other but a
virgin, full of chastity and modesty and purity, such was the image of
God, he had in himself the two principles of fire and light.
"If God had created him (Adam) in the terrestrial life, perishable,
miserable, naked, sick, bestial and painful, He would not have introduced
him into Paradise."

Adam, we feel, means a humanity at a certain high stage and Paradise

refers to a universe far more advanced than the three universes we have
noted so far, all pointing to Janah Universe. This Janah Universe is the
first to be created, or to take shape, and the Janah-type humanity is the
first to come into being and to begin as humanity, but not as we conceive
it -- not merely one single Adam and one single Eve. It is this humanity
that travels down the cycles of Existence. Perhaps "Aisha" of Madam
Blavatsky.

All that the scriptures and shastras want to say is that a humanity much
different from what we find today was first created in a Universe which
was free from want, limitations, pain, misery, sickness, diseases and
death. In other words, this Janah Universe is Paradise! And Paradise is a
way of expressing a particular conditioning so very different from the one
we find ourselves in these days and which we aim at. With great eloquence,
it seems, these great minds are groping to express and in so doing point
to a Universe and to a humanity, but of a totally different type from
ours. There is much truth in it.

Earlier we had said that we must go to the source to find a remedy for a
disease; we also said that one cardinal error we must not commit is to
consider the conditioning of our planet Earth and the lives existing here
as the base and ground for research and study. In the scriptures this is
often depicted as follows. We are shown the picture of a tree upside down,
meaning inquiry should begin from source, and the source of our subject is
also high up, not our Earth, nor, for that matter, our seen universe Bhuh
to begin with. The source is Janah and beyond, and so, for answers to all
questions, our journey should begin from the opposite direction. It is the
Ashwattha tree of life and being whose destruction alone leads to
immortality. It is said in the Bhagavad Geeta that it grows with its roots
above and its branches below; its boughs are the hiranyagarbha, its
branches are the ahamkaras which lead to error, its small branches are the
senses and the five tan mantras, and the gross elements are hidden in the
twigs.

Beyond the Janah Universe of Reality is Tapah, Divine Wholeness or Nature.

This is Reality Manifest, for Reality by itself is unseen, unknowable,
beyond all conceptions; Reality can not be Itself and yet exist -- It
always is! Hence the first and original contradiction -- Reality and
Reality Manifested. Both, by conception, cannot be one and the same and
yet are one and the same thing! Dear reader, are you aware that we are
still traveling along the same `stick' we talked about earlier? Never lose
sight of this fact.

All the universes, from grossest to rarest and most subtle, all Existence
and all Creation, are contained in Tapah, Divine Wholeness. But we do not
call Tapah a universe for it would lead to misconception and much
confusion, so we prefer to keep separate each universe and in spite of the
fact that one interpenetrates the other and Tapah contains all, yet we
like to keep Tapah by itself, alone -- The Divine Wholeness. Wholeness
does not necessarily mean without parts, e.g. the human body is a
wholeness, a miniature universe with innumerable parts, yet is not
multiplicity but a conciliated multiplicity acting as one whole.

Some incorrectly consider Tapah, Divine Wholeness, as primordial matter or

mula-prakriti. But Tapah is much beyond anything we know of! We have to
clear a lot of such misconceptions and misunderstandings from our minds,
e.g. the Trinity aspect; only then will the mind be able to grasp facts.
There is nothing like Brahma--Vishnu--Shiva and the host of legends
surrounding them, nor the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost or, for that
matter, any other aspect of the Trinity. Forget the Trinity -- it is a
myth, a mere hallucination, a fabrication created and perpetuated by the
ancient human mind!

Beyond Tapah is Satyam, the Absolute, beyond all sense of godhead! And
beyond Satyam, the Absolute, is Param Satyam, the Absolute Absolute! It is
no use trying to understand what it means when we say Param Satyam or the
Absolute Absolute. Yet, in the Geeta the difference is expressed
beautifully: "In Truth, therefore, there is the Eternal Unmanifest (Param
Satyam or the Absolute Absolute) which is beyond and above the Unmanifest
Spirit of Creation (Satyam the Absolute) which is never destroyed when all
else perishes at the close of cosmic day." And further, the Geeta also
explains Divine Wholeness or Nature (but not as understood currently on
our planet) thus in chapter 9: "With the help of Nature (Divine
Wholeness), again and again I (Satyam) pour forth the whole multitude of
beings." "Under My (Satyam's) guidance, Nature produces all things movable
and immovable."

In the oldest, perhaps, of the many scriptures, the Rig Veda, is also this
thought hidden:
"Who knows the secret? Who proclaimed it here?
The gods themselves came later into being.
The most high Seer, that is in highest Heaven, (Satyam, the Absolute)
He knows it, or perchance, even He knows not. (Param Satyam, or the
Absolute Absolute!)"

The best way is to begin from the source, down the cycles, and see what
light it can then throw in answering some pertinent questions. The gods
are not Reality, godhead is not Reality, the Trinity aspect is a myth and
fiction. So we shall begin as under:

Reality the Absolute:

1. Param Satyam, the Absolute Absolute -- who knows about "That";
reaching down via the steps Madhyama Satyam and the three vital, divine
principles to
1. Satyam, the Absolute -- who presumes to know even "That";
then to
2. Tapah, Divine Wholeness or Nature -- Reality Manifest, that contains
all and can create;
and now evolves
3. Janah Universe -- Home of the original celestial humanity,
which we call the Divine Fragments of the Divine Wholeness. (Tapah with
Janah Universe is Creation.)

Now evolves Existence (considered illusory):

4. The major Ring-pass-not -- the Great Divide, the Mahah region of
akashic records, where all thoughts and memory lie in a giant deep freeze.
5. The most subtle universe, electronic or mental -- Svahah.
(a) The minor ring-pass-not acting as a barrier between this and the next
universe.
6. The subtle-glamorous, fascinating universe, molecular or astral --
Bhuvah.
(b) The minor ring-pass-not acting as a barrier between this and the next
universe.
7. The gross, seen universe, cellular or physical -- Bhuh.

All the three universes of Existence have seven sub-stages each. Like a
giant wheel, Existence revolves from Svahah to Bhuh thus reaching the
grossest point nadir, and then turns upwards from nadir to reach zenith in
Svahah again. But such whirlings of the wheel have been endless. How long
must we hug its spokes of pain, misery, illness and death? There is a way
out from this self-imposed bondage to eternal freedom by right of birth,
i.e. by being born not as a human being as we know, but being the Divine
Fragment!

Chapter 2

Tapah --- Divine Wholeness , and the Beginning of Creation

From Param Satyam via Madhyama Satyam to Satyam and Tapah

We shall refer to Satyam in passing and then continue our understanding of

Tapah, the Divine Wholeness.

So we begin at the beginning, if there be a beginning that ever can be

known or searched for and found. But as a hypothetical case, we begin at
Param (or Poorna) Satyam, the Absolute Absolute -- the beginning and the
end of everything conceivable, yet remaining forever beginningless and
endless!
The untold vibrational force is allowed to recede or fall, or become less,
over eternities in a part of Itself, i.e. of Param Satyam. In this part,
which is itself a vastness that is immeasurable, unfathomable and endless,
is now the stage of Madhyama Satyam. But `creation' of any sort is yet not
possible. So in a part of Itself, i.e. of Madhyama Satyam, which too is a
vastness that is immeasurable, unfathomable and endless, the vibrational
force, still being immensely powerful, is further allowed to recede or
fall or become less over eternities and is now the state of Satyam, the
Absolute. But creation of any sort is still not possible. Each stage,
whether of Param Satyam or of Madhyama Satyam or of Satyam, is a force
field of the utmost magnitude of vibrational force, and is not known to us
and will never be known to us, for all instruments would disintegrate from
a distance before approaching.

These unique force fields are composed of three vital and divine
principles: (1) Divinity, (2) Cosmic Consciousness and (3) Divine Will.
These divine principles have the ability to increase or decrease their
vibrational force over eternities from near infinity to near zero, i.e.
reach nearly the point of no-return, and then bounce back over eternities
to infinity. In doing so, through their vital structure and spectrum and
inherent design, they can, by myriad upon myriad combinations and
permutations, create any number of conditionings and assume countless
shapes and forms of creatures with life and awareness.

The shapes and forms of creatures come into being and pass out of being,
i.e. show signs of transitoriness and mortality, but the three principles
as essence remain unchanging, timeless, immortal and inexhaustible. Satyam
is the state of `High Rhythm and Balance' of the three principles, but for
evolvement of Tapah, Divine Wholeness or Reality Manifest, it is
maintained as a state of `Rhythm and Balance', a `conditioning' in a part
within Satyam to make future Creation possible. And this part itself --
Tapah, Divine Wholeness -- is immeasurable, endless and unfathomable.

We are no wiser for having written this, for no mind was ever present to
know and understand. But a mighty unbroken link remains for ever and ever!
Param Satyam to Madhyama Satyam to Satyam may sound mere words, but
they
do mean that in the vastness of Param Satyam there are stages of
vibrational force fields deliberately created for Creation and later for
Existence to survive. Each such force field is unique and will remain
unknowable to us; all force fields flow from and into one another and
maintain a continuity that is never broken.

To prevent unnecessary and meaningless stress and strain on human

understanding we shall go directly to Tapah, Divine Wholeness, where
begins Creation. We think that whatever we have said about Satyam to Param
Satyam is enough, for volumes and volumes will not make our understanding
any clearer.

Divine Wholeness is sort of a unique force field and so is the Creation

within it. In Divine Wholeness, everything is in flux or perpetual
rhythmic motion. It is beyond any stage of godhead from a human point of
view, beyond any personal aspect of God, and terms like He, Father, or any
other name, may not be applied. Tapah, Divine Wholeness, is "Om Tat Sat",
for it is Satyam, the Absolute -- Truth -- but `manifested'. It is now
left to Divine Wholeness to bring forth Creation, and later Existence,
from within its womb (to use human language), for It is Reality Manifest
and so can `create'. This Divine Wholeness, the ultimate Mother of
Creation and later of Existence, is addressed by us as `Gayatri Ma'. The
japa normally addressed to Her is not to Her original, divine state as
above, but in her much later condition of holding within Herself all
Existence, i.e. the three universes Bhuh, Bhuvah and Svahah. This again is
but human language -- Tapah, Divine Wholeness, like Satyam, is "That" or
"Om Tat Sat".

Hence the `stick' we talked about earlier in the first chapter, which you
may term `matter' -- its first section is Bhuh, the second is Bhuvah, the
third is Svahah, the fourth is Mahah, the fifth is Janah, the sixth is
Tapah, and further still is Satyam to Param Satyam. So where is matter and
where is spirit (or anti-matter), and so what is material and what is
divine?

But it is natural for a human mind to grasp only in fragments, for it is

impossible for it, in its limited range of understanding, to grasp the
entire vastness of the spectrum. The best of human minds cannot visualize
the whole of humanity as it is on this little planet Earth and picture it
changing minute by minute all over the Earth as some human beings die and
some are born, even excluding the teeming other types of life. Our Earth
is insignificant, equally insignificant is our solar system, and more so
is our galaxy in the vast physical/cellular universe Bhuh, the smallest of
all the universes. How, then, can a human mind grasp Divine Wholeness?
Each fragment can be so very different that human understanding, to
appreciate and understand, had necessarily to evolve a human language in
trying to define the myriad upon myriad fragments. If human understanding
can realize that these fragments form one undivided whole -- Tapah, the
Divine Wholeness -- then all talk of matter and spirit, material and
spiritual, subtle and gross, will disappear from human vocabulary!

But you may ask, why are we differentiating Creation from Existence? There
is no need to and there is actually no difference, but this we shall
understand only at a later stage. However, as Creation takes a very
substantial turn in its texture and structure at a particular stage, a
`critical point', so to understand that better it is advisable to
differentiate the two stages before and after the critical point. That is
why we call all that precedes the critical point as `Creation' and all
that follows after the critical point as `Existence', but all is a
continuation of the same unbroken stick we have been talking about. There
is no reason to believe that whatever precedes the critical point is
divine and eternal and whatever follows it is transitory and material. In
the different areas of different force fields, the conditionings are
totally different, but at no stage is there a break or separation or
discontinuity.

Due to different operations of different force fields, some things and

areas become visible that were not so and some that were visible become
invisible; some are of short duration and some are of long or extremely
long duration. Duration brings into operation the laws of cycles, for in
Divine Wholeness all is in perpetual rhythmic motion, i.e. everything is
in a constant state of flux, or continuous change. This creates a
situation where some things and beings become visible while others pass
away. This phenomenon has tremendously impressed the human brain which
has
evolved theories, philosophies, songs, rites and ceremonies around it, and
has termed this appearing and disappearing as `birth' and `death'. Being
unable to grasp `wholeness' and seeing only fragments, the human mind has
very naturally evolved many wrong ideas about birth and death, aspects
which remain most profound for us even today.

Satyam is a state of Nothingness or Emptiness and yet `something' comes

out of It, viz. Tapah or Divine Wholeness! And Divine Wholeness, in
keeping with Creation and Existence, also generates fragments. So Divine
Wholeness, being in that state of Rhythm and Balance, is able to bring
forth `something' as if from `Nothingness' or `Emptiness'. This state of
Rhythm and Balance gradually changes by gradations to chaos due to
continuous fall in vibrational force. So the cause of everything in
Existence is Divine Wholeness, but beyond is Satyam. If we do not
understand this arising and passing away of everything into and from
Nothingness or Emptiness, we shall understand nothing. Also, if we are not
convinced that a `fragment' -- a `drop' or `spec' -- of the original force
field is within us, we shall never understand Creation.

The state of Rhythm and Balance of the three vital, divine principles that
brings about the state of Divine Wholeness would appear to mortal eyes (if
seen) as inky darkness, i.e. darkness rolling on darkness, for mortal eyes
are able to see and mortal brains are able to understand only that which
is within a very narrow spectrum, and what is not seen or understood
beyond this spectrum, we mortals believe does not exist! Only deeper
understanding and vaster spectrum will reveal some day. It means that if
our spectrum is wide enough, and with it our understanding is equally deep
and vast, we can see and understand Divine Wholeness, and find that at no
stage is there any duality in spite of enormous multiplicity and
continuous change.

Since the three vital, divine principles weave all Creation and Existence,
all that we see and experience as life and existence has its base or
foundation in the inherent design, structure and spectrum of their various
permutations and combinations. Seeing this multitude of bewildering facts,
the human brain, naturally in bewilderment, uses language to differentiate
all of them, with words like light and darkness, good and evil, ignorance
and knowledge, and a host of the pairs of opposites.

Now as the eternities roll and the vibrations keep falling rapidly and
constantly at an enormous rate during all those seven eternities, this
Unique Original Force Field (Tapah) generates seven rays in its `pregnant
state' (to use human language for human minds). Herein begin the laws of
three and seven. The three vital principles evolve seven rays, which later
become seven vital energies in Existence, where the three universes
prevail, each having seven sub-stages. These seven rays are:

(1) The positive (active or affirming) or constructive ray of Divinity,

the first vital, divine principle.
(2) The negative (passive or denying) or destructive ray of Divinity, the
first vital, divine principle.
(3) The positive (active or affirming) or wisdom ray of Cosmic
Consciousness, the second vital, divine principle.
(4) The negative (passive or denying) or ignorance ray of Cosmic
Consciousness, the second vital, divine principle.
(5) The positive (active or affirming) or possible ray of Divine Will, the
third vital, divine principle.
(6) The negative (passive or denying) or impossible ray of Divine Will,
the third vital divine principle.
(7) Neutral ray from Satyam, The Absolute, interpenetrating Tapah as a ray
-- very useful, pliable, reconciling, it pervades all Creation and later
Existence. It is the inherent, built-in check to prevent degeneration from
going on for ever and ever, which would then have no possibility of ever
taking the return journey to source. A great safeguard automatically
prevailing.

This seventh ray is not activated unnecessarily at any time but is

introduced only as a necessary safeguard. As for those who cry for divine
intervention, saying, "With God everything is possible!" this attitude is
unbecoming. If we are to be an adult humanity, this absolutely child-like
attitude must leave us. In this ordered Existence, wherein all is based on
immaculate laws, such ideas are alien.
The seven rays, rising and filling all of Divine Wholeness, pulsate in all
directions in Tapah and in doing so mingle and remingle and cross each
other, between two and seven of them combining in all permutations and
combinations, thus preparing ground and support for the universes of the
future. They have an extremely high rate of vibrations and are the
original source of para-nada, or nada-brahma, the resonance or soundless
sound created by them, its seven notes forming one super sensitive
para-nada of immense intensity and resonance. This takes place when the
vibrational force reaches a certain pitch at the end of the sixth
sub-stage of Tapah.

And at the end of the sixth sub-stage and the beginning of the seventh,
Tapah is ready to create fragmentations profusely. Para-nada can survive
only at these high vibrational tones, for in areas of lower vibrations it
would destroy and disintegrate everything. At this stage in Tapah, its
very birth and presence is the cause of fragmentation. In order to start
Creation, Tapah has necessarily to create fragmentations, and by creating
para-nada It brings about within a part of itself countless fragmentations
of four types -- the first four types of Divine Fragments or celestial
humanities!

By the end of the sixth and also at the beginning of the seventh
sub-stage, Tapah expresses an impulse to manifest profusely. A very
sublime and subtle impulse activates and stirs as eternities roll by and
inner pulsations result in Creation -- imperceptibly at first, full of
infinite possibilities for gradual realization and concretization. Satyam
has ordained thus! At the end of the sixth sub-stage, there is an
incessant pull seeking from within, expressing itself in subtle and rare
worlds with varieties of myriad upon myriad formations -- and (1) immense
or immeasurable, and (2) large fragmentations start flowing from Tapah
into Janah Universe. Divine Wholeness is Divine Satyam, It is everything
and yet is Emptiness and Nothingness -- but now billions upon billions of
fragments flow from Tapah to Janah Universe. And in the beginning of the
seventh sub-stage, (3) small fragments also begin to flow from Tapah into
Janah Universe.

Perhaps Madam Blavatsky had in her mind this state of Tapah, at the end of
the seventh eternity (each sub-stage being an eternity), when she states:
"The hour had not yet struck ... the Universe was yet concealed in the
Divine Thought and the Divine Bosom ... The last vibration of the seventh
eternity thrills through infinitude. The Mother swells, expanding from
within without, like the bud of a lotus." She, of course, uses a human and
poetic language, for in Divine Wholeness there can be no place for
`thought', however divine, for there is yet no `substance' like mind
created.
Divine Wholeness is the proper state of the three vital, divine principles
in a particular combination and permutation of vibrational force. If this
force is exceeded, no Creation is possible. As this force recedes, or
becomes less, Creation, from subtle to less subtle, and Existence, from
subtle to gross, come into being as per a divine blueprint. What is not
within this blueprint will never be, that which is shall never cease to
be! Divine Wholeness maintains this proper state within a very wide
spectrum: at the highest end of the spectrum is Divine Wholeness --
Itself, Alone; near the lower end of the spectrum is found para-nada; and
at the other end of the spectrum is Janah Universe with myriad upon myriad
of four types of Divine Fragments or celestial humanities. But all within
this spectrum is Creation and is vibrant, eternal and immortal, as Divine
Wholeness is. Once the vibrational force falls below this spectrum's
minimum, a sudden change takes place, just as water forms into ice below a
specific temperature. This is the critical point -- when Existence comes
into being. All that exists within such Existence seems to be mortal and
transitory, but by no stretch of imagination can we describe the former as
real and the latter as maya or illusory.

Existence is a play of Purusha, meaning all four types of fragments of the

higher spectrum, with the fragments of the next, lower spectrum, where the
vibrational force has dropped considerably below the minimum of the higher
spectrum, i.e. below the critical point. But mortal language describes the
fragments of the higher spectrum as `Spirit' and those of the lower
spectrum as `matter', and thus creates confusion worst confounded. Such
confusion is understandable, for it is ignorance to consider fragments of
the former spectrum as immortal and fragments of the latter as mortal,
since at no stage is there discontinuity. It so happens that the former
spectrum comprises Divine Wholeness and Janah Universe with its four
humanities and the latter spectrum consists of all living creatures of
Bhuh, Bhuvah and Svahah. Divine Wholeness is the godhead in Creation and
Universal Divine Mind is the godhead in Existence! "The Supreme Spirit
dwells inwardly in the transcendent plane and outwardly in the phenomenal
plane, and there is a perfect harmony of the two planes." Though we find
groping, wandering and rumbling of great minds to express this, yet words
remain words when used to express the inexpressible.

But we must first understand the subtle, yet extremely vital and great
difference between Creation and Existence. One who grasps this idea is
free from all bondage for all time. The two seem to be identical yet are
poles apart, but like all poles have some factors in common. "There is
Self and not-Self and the relation between the two," referring here to the
two types of fragments, of the higher and the lower spectrum. For as long
as the dual ideas of God and the devil persist, so long the oneness and
omniscient power of God, the One without a second, the Supreme, the
Absolute, Satyam -- "That" -- will never be understood.

Para-nada prevails only in Creation. By itself, if it does not lose, or is

not made to drop, its vibrational force immediately it is produced, it
would prevent any future Existence from taking shape for in its resounding
notes nothing with lesser vibrations can exist. India is aware of raga
Deepak, which, if sung correctly, can burn the singer to cinders. So also,
the presence of para-nada can just disintegrate everything around it of
lesser vibrations. Some mistakenly say that it is the supreme cause of all
Creation and future Existence, but that cannot be so, for para-nada did
not exist before Divine Wholeness or prior to the sixth sub-stage of
Tapah. At this stage and at the beginning of the seventh sub-stage, its
intensity matches that of Tapah, and also at this stage and not earlier
fragmentations take place for the sake of Creation. For the sake of
Existence, the high intensity of para-nada is fractured a little later at
the critical point successively into three other nadas -- pashyanti,
madhyama and vaikheri -- so that fragments of lower vibrational tone can
exist.

This high intensity of Tapah at the end of its last sub-stage continues
throughout in the first (and only) universe that is created, viz. the
Universe of Janah. So para-nada, too, prevails in Janah Universe of
Creation, which is only an extension of Tapah; in fact, Tapah and Janah
together comprise Creation. Janah Universe remains unabated, unchanged and
continues for eternities, and in so doing maintains the inky blackness of
Tapah (from our point of view).

Tapah now flows endlessly into Janah, the one universe of Creation, as
immense and large fragments of this Unique Original Force Field; billions
on billions seem to flow into Janah Universe, seemingly like a mighty
gushing ocean of flames and fire, yet unseen, for no flame or fire can
exist here within these intense vibrations. Were the oceans on our Earth
to be emptied in a few `moments', such a flow would seem a mere trickle
beside this mighty flow. However enormous and immeasurable the flow of
these immense and large fragments from Tapah to Janah Universe be, Tapah
does not seem to shrink nor grow less in size or in intensity. Its
immensity and wholeness remain unaffected like an overflowing lake. On the
other hand, Janah Universe does not seem to overflow, nor even to become
overcrowded, for in Janah, which is but the extension of Tapah, are vast
areas of `space'.

In Janah Universe, correspondingly, the immense fragments and the large

fragments flow during the beginning of the first sub-stage, followed at
the beginning of the second sub-stage by small fragments, and at the end
of the second sub-stage by (4) `finite' fragments or `flares', as we shall
see. In many cases, the immense, or immeasurable, fragments further
create, by self-willing, large and small fragments within themselves in
the second and third sub-stages, respectively, of Janah Universe.

Nearing the end of the second sub-stage in Janah Universe, something else
happens in Tapah at this concurrent stage. On cosmic scale in Tapah
itself, flares rise up from the calm, unmoving surface of Tapah. In its
seventh sub-stage towards the end, Divine Wholeness is now a heaving,
stirring ocean of flares of high intensity, which shoot up from the
surface (like flares from the surface of our Sun, but incomparably larger,
for the Sun is too tiny in comparison to Tapah). These flares are not
characterized by heat, light and other such possibilities which are far
too gross to occur at such intensive rates of vibrations. From our present
human view-point, these flares are not visible -- all is still inky
blackness; but for humanities in Janah Universe everything is so lively
and beyond our conception!

Prior to these stages in Tapah and Janah, these flares of intensity used
to fall back onto the surface of Tapah. Now as the vibrations keep falling
rapidly and constantly, they remain suspended over the surface of Tapah,
and as they do so, an outline or edge, nebulous yet, forms around each.
So, towards the end of the second sub-stage of Janah Universe, and at
concurrent stage in Tapah, these `finite' fragments or flares flow in
billions upon billions from Tapah into Janah Universe, to join the other
three types of fragmentations that earlier flowed into Janah Universe.
Each of these fragmentations of each type is a `Wholeness' complete and is
a Divine Fragment of the Unique Original Force Field of Divine Wholeness.
There is absolutely no difference except for size.

So we find that by the end of the second sub-stage in Janah Universe, all
four types of fragmentations have flowed in from Tapah: (1) the immense,
or immeasurable, and (2) the large fragments at the beginning of the first
sub-stage; (3) the small fragments at the beginning of the second
sub-stage; and (4) the finite fragments, or flares, at the end of the
second sub-stage. These finite fragments are very insignificant in
comparison to the other three in size though not in intensity, which is
why we designate them as `finite', though they would still be incomparably
larger than the largest flares of the sun!

Here, in passing, we may mention that were the Sun to cool to the
temperature of our Earth, its size may not be appreciably greater than the
Earth's current dimensions; or if the Earth were to heat up to the
temperature of the Sun, it may display a giant size comparable to that of
the Sun. And if the physical/cellular were to reach the molecular or the
electronic stage, the size assumed would be stupendous, perhaps the size
of a galaxy. In the molecular or the electronic universes, we ourselves
would be unrecognizable! So size and speed, grossness and subtleness,
visibility and mobility, are all relative. If conditionings change, our
conceptions change, our grasp and our understanding will change, and our
world will change. There is no external power or superiority, no miracle
taking place and so no need of prayer, for nothing is outside of us or is
able to do anything to us, but we are in too primitive a stage of
evolution at present to accept this fact or to understand it. We prefer,
instead, to call ourselves sinners, slaves and servants, from carrying
such past memory patterns very vividly within us in our minds even today.

The four types of fragments stated above are part and parcel of the same
Unique Original Force Field, Divine Wholeness, and are the four types of
celestial humanities. This original series of four types of celestial
humanities, though interrelated, serves four different purposes. Each
fragment, even the finite, is `whole', complete and independent,
self-being and self-sufficient; each needs nothing, not air, food, sleep,
`mind' or `life' or `awareness', nor anything else; each perpetuates
without procreating for there is neither sex nor body; each is immortal
and indestructible.

We call each such fragment of the four types a `Divine Fragment' or, as
in the Geeta, `Spirit' or `Self'. These four types of celestial humanities
comprise the Janah Universe of Creation. "There is Self and not-Self and
the relation between the two." So far the `not-Self' part is not attached
to Self or Spirit -- it will be attached eternities later after the
critical point.

We use the symbol `Xo' to denote an infinitude in number such that a few
added to or taken away from it makes no difference, so large a number it
is. So we now have:

1. Xo immense fragments: these are the first type of celestial humanity,

but in our days and acknowledging only their `outer coverings' in our
universe, we (mistakenly and without understanding) denote them as
galaxies, or a society of galaxies.

2. Xo large fragments: these are the second type of celestial humanity,

but in our days and acknowledging only their `outer coverings' in our
universe, we (mistakenly and without understanding) denote them as suns
and stars, or a society of suns and stars.

3. Xo small fragments: these are the third type of celestial humanity, but
in our days and acknowledging only their `outer coverings' in our
universe, we (mistakenly and without understanding) denote them as
planets, or a society of planets.

4. Xo finite fragments (or flares): these are the fourth type of celestial
humanity, but in our days and acknowledging only their physical forms in
our universe, we (mistakenly and without understanding) denote them as
human beings, or a society of human beings, spread out in all the three
universes.

To recapitulate what has been said upto now, Divine Wholeness is the ocean
of cosmic prana (vibrations) unending. This is the state of the three
vital, divine principles released by Satyam -- eternal, immortal and
self-being in the state of High Rhythm and Balance. The Divine Fragments
of all four types are fragments of this state of Rhythm and Balance,
equally eternal, immortal and self-being. This is Creation as Satyam, the
Absolute, ordained, and shall always remain so.

Existence is the play of Purusha with prakriti, i.e. the play of the vital
divine principles, now devolved from the state of High Rhythm and Balance
to the myriad shades and stages down the cycles of Existence, and of
Universal Divine Mind, the `gentle substance' generated in Creation by the
interaction between these three divine principles and which undergoes
fragmentation in Existence, also in its myriad shades and stages down the
cycles of Existence. This Existence is withdrawn in parts periodically
and freshly projected in parts periodically, like human beings being born
continuously and dying continuously in this world of ours, so that
Existence seems to be for all eternity. So too, like a river, Existence
appears to be the same, yet at no time is either Existence or the river
the same anywhere at any given time.

Yet the Unmanifest, Satyam the Absolute, contains Divine Wholeness and is
in and contains every part and point of Creation and later of Existence,
for what can be outside of "That", Satyam the Absolute! This point is to
be properly understood. But Tapah, by the end of its seventh sub-stage,
flows endlessly as infinite fragments, and each such immeasurably large
fragment is a `Wholeness' -- the Many from the One. And yet, this
self-willed fragmentation or division is not multiplicity for they are all
linked to Divine Wholeness, each can merge with and re-emerge from each
other and with and from Divine Wholeness so that there is no multiplicity
or sense of separateness. This important aspect, oneness in spite of
fragmentation, belongs to Creation only and not to Existence. There is no
`substance' like Universal Divine Mind created as yet in Creation.

Chapter 3

Janah --- The Universe of Divine Fragmentations

It is impossible in a work like this to trace the involution and evolution
of all the four types of celestial humanities or Divine Fragments. So we
shall trace here the involution, or downward cycles, of the finite Divine
Fragments only and not of the other three types. Consider a hypothetical
case: An infinite number Xo of such four types of societies of Divine
Fragments are far-flung in Xo different `conditionings' in Creation, and
later in the three universes of Existence (besides also remaining in Janah
Universe -- this last point will be discussed later).

Janah Universe of fragmentations, we have said, is but the extension of

Tapah, Divine Wholeness, with all four types of Divine Fragments included.
Its vastness is incomprehensible to our minds. Nothing that can be said
about Janah and Tapah can be seen or felt or comprehended, nor the
infinitely powerful vibrations felt or sensed; and mercifully so, for if
we were to feel them and not be shielded from their effects, we would be
instantly disintegrated from any distance.

In Janah Universe all is inky blackness (from our point of view)! For
sub-stage after sub-stage, each an infinity of time or timelessness, the
vibrations of extremely high intensity keep falling rapidly and
constantly. This lowering of vibrations rapidly and constantly, or raising
them constantly and rapidly, is the master key given to Tapah by Satyam,
the Absolute. If one were to have this key and know how to operate it, one
could be God Almighty!

In Janah Universe that is Creation, everything is possible! Where

everything is ordained, there is and can be no misery, uncertainty, doubt,
chance, accident, infirmity of any kind, old age, disease or death --
because all four types of Divine Fragments are in being as per Divine Will
and not as per mind, senses and free will. So they do not act as we do in
our grossest and seen universe Bhuh or, for that matter, as other
humanities do in Bhuvah and Svahah.

At the end of the second sub-stage in Janah Universe, all the four types
of humanities in different societies are scattered in the vastness of
Janah Universe, beings in Creation in different areas with different
conditionings which create astounding effects on the outer coverings. But
due to their inherent, divine possibilities and inherent Cosmic
Consciousness, all of them are in contact and communication with each
other -- they are all Divine Fragments with instantaneous movement,
self-propelling at infinite speeds, with the ability to merge with and
re-emerge from one another, and in and from Divine Wholeness. So there is
no sense of multiplicity or separateness as we understand, nor any sense
of being alone or isolated, receiving no reply from anywhere, as we feel
in our days in our physical universe, as if shipwrecked on a distant
island and living like Robinson Crusoe! This merging and re-emerging is
not the outcome of any `desire', for there is yet no ground (viz. `mind')
for desire; it is an inherent ability like the ability of the waters of
the oceans to merge, separate and remerge.

And with each Divine Fragment having inherent, instantaneous motion, there
is no sense of space and time as we experience either. For unless mind is,
such measurements do not come into consideration. Mind needs body, which
slows down movement, and then there is registration of events and hence of
time and space.

Now the inherent movements at exceedingly high speeds and the inner, high,
vibrational force of all the Divine Fragments, especially of the large and
the immense fragments, create a secondary force field. We designate this
new force field created in Janah as the `first secondary force field', but
the difference between this and the primary Unique Original Force Field is
like night is to day. This force field generated in Janah Universe serves
as ground and base for creating a superb `gentle substance' which is in
the stage of development during all the sub-stages of Janah and will be
ready and of great use eternities later, in Existence. The force field
also results in many other effects which will be sensed in the lower next,
or following, universe as causes. (The force field that science talks of
and which we encounter in our seen and gross universe Bhuh is actually the
a much remoter and weaker secondary, or derivative, of this first
secondary force field.)

So upto now, there is Tapah, Divine Wholeness, with the vital, divine
principles and with fragmentations and conditionings equally profuse for
future development in the vast expanse of Janah Universe, a continuation
of Divine Wholeness, Tapah. Creation, in a subtle way, has begun, as also
the future Existence. In spite of profuse fragmentation, the unity of
Divine Wholeness is never reduced to multiplicity as we know in our
Universe. The freedom to merge and re-emerge continues to be
characteristic and this makes all the difference. There is no sense of
separateness; there is no `I' and `mine', nor `you' and `they' -- all is
One. The whole strand and structure of being is so different that any one
from Existence would never be able to grasp the true facts (unless one
were to make repeated visits to Creation, and that too under expert
guidance). What is more, one has to leave behind body, mind and senses,
for they are not granted entry into Janah Universe -- they would
disintegrate were they to enter!

The finer always interpenetrates the grosser. Though Tapah and Janah are
far too subtle and rare, yet before Satyam, the Absolute, are grosser in
comparison. So Satyam is around and interpenetrates Tapah and Janah
Universe, like water-in-sponge, and the so-called space (though there is
yet no sense of space) in which Tapah and Janah Universe float will always
be Satyam. Space can never be empty, for no empty space can exist where
everything is forever in constant motion. Besides, empty space negates the
all-pervading, omnipresent aspect of Satyam. So empty space is
unthinkable, an impossibility. Space and Satyam are, to us, synonymous in
all universes.

Satyam as inky black space, understandably unfathomable, supporting all,

in which both Creation and Existence float, is so very sensitive, fine and
rarefied, that even the most subtle and the most rarefied in all the
universes of Creation and Existence are never obstructed; let alone
obstructing, space is not even `felt' by anything or anyone. In our gross,
seen universe, even light is not slowed down appreciably by the vacuum of
space. This inky blackness of space can be seen even today in our gross
universe, though what we see is the so-called blue sky through our whitish
grey atmosphere, a natural effect of colour combinations on our eyes. And
yet another aspect of this super sensitive Satyam as space is that any
movement, thought or action anywhere in any one of the universes, whether
in Creation or in Existence, is known and felt and recorded everywhere in
this sensitive film called space. Space will hardly ever be understood
even in the future by the most advanced science.

The finite Divine Fragments (human beings) are allotted by societies to

small Divine Fragments (planets); the small Divine Fragments have affinity
and relationship with the large Divine Fragments (stars and suns); and
both the small and the large Divine Fragments have affinity and
relationship with the immense, or immeasurable, Divine Fragments
(galaxies). However, in the three universes, especially in the gross,
physical universe Bhuh, this relationship and affinity is much reduced as
to be imperceptible, but it is never dropped nor does it totally cease. In
our ignorance and in our present primitive state, we think it does not
exist at all. Even we are skeptical at such thoughts and do not believe
so. Do you also think so, dear reader?

When we give the status of humanity to the societies of planets, suns and
stars, and galaxies, it may seem like fiction today, but science itself
will trace super intelligence and consciousness in our Earth and in our
Sun. So unique shall it be, so much will come to light and will be so
surprising, that we shall find our intelligence so crude and primitive,
that we shall be shocked and will bow our heads. This day for science is
not far off!

The reason for all the misunderstandings, is the outer coverings, or

bodies, which are so bewilderingly different in size and shape. Further,
there being no communication of any sort with the three other types of
celestial humanities, as also with the other societies of human beings
far-flung in the Universe, we believe our Earth to be a rare, perhaps
unique, `life-bearing' planet and us human beings to be the only
`self-conscious' beings. But it could so happen that in a region of
2000-5000 cubic light years, there could sometimes be no second
life-bearing planet. For our present, primitive science such distances are
so enormous that it is out of the question for us to find `life'
elsewhere, at least for sometime, unless we develop some really faster
speeds. And so, once again, we make ourselves more important and have
become the focus and centre of the universe.

We in our gross, seen universe Bhuh see planets, suns and stars, and
galaxies as mere orbs rotating and revolving, blindly perhaps; we even
question their purpose or need and have evolved imaginative theories from
our observations of them. Perhaps, we think, our kind and loving God, in
His infinite mercy and love, wants us to be constantly entertained by a
great display of intense light effects, a super disco perhaps! And, maybe,
by their infinite size and movements, He wants to impress us and subdue us
into awe and into silent submission!

But the irony of it all is that it is we who create our `God' or our
`gods', and that too in our own image. When will we ever see sense? That
we, who are so foolish and so impotent, are actually ourselves the finite
Divine Fragments, immensely forceful, if only we can be our true `Self'.
Believe it or not, accept it or not, these facts will not change if not
accepted, neither will they cease to be facts. What today appears to be
so much fiction, one day science itself will confirm these facts, and till
then our solace will be, "You are not yet blessed, if the multitude does
not laugh at you."

Each finite Divine Fragment pulsates, has tremendously high and powerful
vibrations, and these divine pulsations are in harmony with the pulsations
of Divine Wholeness and are held within Satyam the Absolute. This link,
this rhythm, is never broken in all Creation, nor in Existence. But we in
our present sorry state feel we are isolated, uncared for, left to
ourselves, no one heeds us or replies to us. Therefore to do anything
possible, we must take care of ourselves, with our minds and our
intelligence, with our precious knowledge and our progressive science, in
which we have our only safeguards and without which we cannot expect to
find our way. The size of our ego increases daily. A case of the blind
leading the blind!

We can only say that if we all can receive `Divine Grace' for a few
moments and see the grand array of the living, pulsating, super conscious
Universe, both seen and unseen, and each Divine Fragment of all the four
types as a `living whole' with infinite purpose and power, we would be
transfixed for all time to come. If only we could know what our meagre
intelligence and self-awareness is in comparison to that of the Sun or our
Earth, we would be ashamed!

As stated earlier, the 7 rays generated in Tapah cross each other and
mingle and remingle and so form fixed points or, in layman's language,
plexuses or junctions or cross-roads. In Janah Universe too, these
original seven rays remain as rays with duplicating fixed points.
(Eternities later, in Existence, they appear as seven major, vital
energies.) There are 21 major and 28 minor fixed points such as these, 49
principal or fundamental points in all, from each of which emerges a
resultant force, or forces, whose intensity and potency depends on how
many of the seven rays meet at the given point. If four or five of the
seven rays meet, it is a minor fixed point; if six or seven rays meet they
form a major fixed point. If less than four meet, they cannot create a
fixed point (even relatively).

What we know as force, even in its form as directed energy, is mere

impotent substance, activated by causes beyond in the more subtle, next
higher universe. When forces from many directions meet at a point and
reach equilibrium, they create a relative balance and rhythm and a certain
steadiness. Such points are supposed to be stationary or fixed points
(relatively), i.e. they maintain their configuration or make-up, even if
moving with some velocity in the vastness of the Universe. They produce
immense power and intensity, electromagnetically and gravitationally,
besides other varied effects.

Physics today reduces everything to a common denominator, e.g. all mass to

energy. But we suggest the common denominator instead be vibrational tone,
or intensity of vibrations, for it will be found to be more fundamental
and easier for calculation. Energy itself has a vibrational tone, or
intensity, which can stand rigid formulae.

In Tapah and Janah Universe, Creation has been profuse with fragmentations
of four types, yet no other kingdom is developed besides these four types
of humanities or Divine Fragments. That is, the mineral, vegetable or
plant, and lower life or animal kingdoms are not developed in Creation,
for these kingdoms cannot survive under the high vibrational tones
prevalent there. Yet in our gross universe, we find these kingdoms
preceding the coming of man on Earth! Is this now understandable?

Though the vibrations keep falling constantly and with tremendous rapidity
down the eternities in Janah Universe, Satyam the Absolute remains calm
and unchanging. The outlines or edges of all Divine Fragments of all four
types slowly develop, yet are at first too rare, subtle and nebulous. But
as they become more and more pronounced, each finite Divine Fragment
develops a `vesture' around itself, like tight-fitting skin on our bodies.
So far in Janah Universe we are still far beyond the domain of mind, body,
senses and free will -- none of these are yet existing.

In the beginning of the seventh sub-stage of Janah, the Divine Fragments

experience a sort of subtle grossness which was never experienced before.
Such subtle grossness, from our point of view, would be absolute freedom,
but in comparison with the extreme freedom of the Divine Fragments this
was indeed the beginning of some sort of grossness. The vesture,
tight-fitting like skin on the physical body, yet nebulous, extremely
flexible and pliable, is around each finite Divine Fragment and acts like
a sort of constraint that obstructs the clear light and emanations of the
Divine Fragments penetrating it. Due to its resistance, it creates a
`glow', not a glow of the type we understand but unseen by us, yet
unmistakably a huge glow. If we could see the energy emanations of the Sun
in all directions from deep space, that would give some vague idea of it.
Those who have seen this glow have mistakenly called it `soul' or `divine
grace' or `darshan'.

There is yet no light, colour, sound, language, or mind, even in the most
subtle form, for these characteristics are too crude and gross to survive
in Janah Universe of extremely high vibrations. The finite Divine
Fragments function under Divine Will and Cosmic Consciousness, but the
state in all the seven sub-stages, i.e. for seven eternities, is one of
`sameness', ever the same sameness over eternities, and is bound to be
`dull' even though extremely peaceful, tranquil and blissful.

This is not `felt' as desire or feeling, for desires or feelings and mind
are not yet formed, but as a sort of `wondering' whether a change, some
change, is possible, whether something other than this state, `something
else', is possible! It is not desired but is a sort of wondering developed
by most of the finite Divine Fragments. Very few finite Divine Fragments
have not experienced this by now, the last, seventh sub-stage of Janah
Universe. This wondering attitude lasts for a long time or period. So
sensitive is this Janah Universe with Tapah, Divine Wholeness, that this
wondering is registered and translated by Divine Wholeness as `something
is missing'. Measures are adopted by Divine Wholeness or Nature, so that
the finite Divine Fragments who have developed this wondering acquire, as
a result, some grossness of the vesture in this last sub-stage as
mentioned earlier. Divine Wholeness had known and expected this
possibility and so had thought of a gentle substance which was being
developed in Janah Universe over eternities for use later in Existence.

There is yet no possibility of any cause and effect because the law of
causation is not developed, for there is yet no mind and in its absence,
ignorance, or avidya, is not generated. So, in Janah no causation is
necessary, for these are consequences of mind action and cannot function
in the absence of mind. There is yet no question of anyone being
misguided, for Divine Fragments are Cosmic Consciousness and all function
according to Divine Will only. There is no reason for considering any
trespass, nor is karma or dharma involved yet. Neither the devil nor the
serpent, neither Mara nor Menaka, can be in Paradise, i.e. Janah Universe.
How can Satan or the serpent enter and whose mind can be contaminated, for
Divine Fragments are Cosmic Consciousness, i.e. fragments of pure
Transcendence only! All these are fairy tales of the shastras and
scriptures introduced by priests and scholars later on.

There is, as yet, only inky blackness (from our point of view) because
Divine Fragments need no illumination -- they have their own Janah
Universe which is presenting a panorama so beautiful that it is beyond our
wildest imagination. But we can never be aware of that as we would see it
as inky blackness only. To us this Janah Universe and the Janah celestial
humanity, the finite fragments, would be highest heaven. If only we could
reach this state and live there! But how can human beings with mind, body
and senses ever set foot there?

Creation has reached its last sub-stage -- it has so far revolved around
only what was ordained, and all is well for whatever is ordained is bliss,
peace, free from misery, death, disease, uncertainty, frustration,
limitation, suffering and doubt. This can go on and on forever, except
that a critical point is reached -- the `sameness' that is experienced.

Divine Wholeness now places before, or offers, these finite Divine

Fragments a unique possibility of `self-willed existence' of infinite
possibilities of realization, whereby to live in any manner possible, so
that they may not wonder about the sameness that they had wondered about
in the last sub-stages of Janah Universe, an eternity in itself. Those
Divine Fragments that had developed this wondering about sameness accepted
this new offer to experience, but those who had not developed this
wondering refused the new experience and preferred to remain in Janah
Universe as Divine Fragments only for all time to come. Those who accepted
the new offer and possibility were given body, mind, senses and free will,
on the condition that unless all possibilities and conditionings have been
experienced no step should be taken to return to the source, to Janah
Universe of Creation, which is their celestial home by right of being
Divine Fragments.

The three indestructible vital, divine impulses released by Satyam

willingly spin from a state of Absolute Rhythm and Balance and slowly
reach the state of near total imbalance and non-rhythm, so that all
conditionings of Existence are made possible. But who would there be to
experience such myriad conditions? Their sacrifice, then, would be in
vain. But now it seems that millions of finite Divine Fragments are
willing to try the new experiment though it is not compulsory.
So these finite Divine Fragments (together, of course, with the three
other types of Divine Fragments, viz. the small, the large and the
immense) therefore accepted the offer by Divine Wholeness, Nature, and
decided to spin through the myriad conditionings and then spin back to the
original state they had before this offer was given and accepted. But once
accepted, the whole game of Existence is to be completed as per the rules
and no return to the source, or Home, is permitted until it is finished.
And to make it possible, the three divine impulses spin to near zero and
then spin back to their original condition or state, like the Divine
Fragments who willingly accepted this game.

Those Divine Fragments who did not accept this novel idea of self-willed
possibilities, however interesting it could be, made all efforts to go
back to the higher sub-stages of Janah Universe so that the subtle
grossness they were experiencing of late in the last sub-stage be removed.
But a majority of Divine Fragments accepted the new offer and
possibilities and agreed to all the rules of the new game called
`Existence', offered by Divine Wholeness to the Divine Fragments to remove
the dullness experienced due to sameness in all the eternities of Janah
Universe. This is difficulty of language in expressing the wondering.

Perhaps the Sankhya philosophy of Sage Kapila is based on these number of

Divine Fragments (Purushas) who decided to stay on as Divine Fragments
only in Janah Universe for all time to come and work as volunteers when
needed in Existence to help the plan of Tapah in this immeasurably vast
project. That is, those Divine Fragments who refused the offer would look
after various laws operative, various circumstances brought about by
unwise use of free will, misdirected forces and energies, and set them
right again, etc. They would help correct deficiencies caused anywhere in
Existence that may threaten survival due to extreme use of free will. In
short, they would help the plan and purpose of Existence and are
responsible for corrections at myriad places, which to us will always
remain as something which cannot be accounted for, for which we will have
no plausible explanation or law of nature. This has given rise to the
belief in `grace and prayers' in Existence and has created the spineless
attitude of asking for and expecting divine intervention.

But it should be noted, and this is of vital importance, that the coming
of the Divine Fragments out of Creation, out of Janah Universe of peace
and tranquility and happiness, into the universes of Existence, where
they would experience limitations at first and much more restrictions
later, is by way of free choice only. A choice they could have refused, as
hundreds of thousands amongst them did refuse, though billions willingly
accepted this novel idea as a game to be played out in all seriousness. If
this thought is disregarded, then no solution is possible to the ills and
miseries we find ourselves experiencing.

None of them succumbed to any temptation, none was driven away by an angry
God from a supposed-to-be heaven, a God who could not forgive His own
Creation for eating the fruit of knowledge! There is neither Satan
existing nor evil, for how could evil or the devil exist in Creation? This
figment of the invention of the devil to explain away the evil prevalent
should be thrown overboard as too primitive an aspect; it has plagued all
faiths and there is no need to go by such outdated ideas of an age dead
and long gone by. (It is strange that we say faiths when we talk of
different religions, for normally faith is without conviction or actual
experience. But one who has experienced needs no faith, for one is then
guided by conviction. All we want to explain to our readers is to come out
of this state of faith into the real, of conviction and experience.)

So Divine Wholeness, Tapah, projects a universe created out of the new

substance, the gentle substance, the product generated in Janah Universe
due to interaction of the Unique Original Force Field with the first
secondary force field. This gentle substance is so sensitive, so pliable,
that the merest of wishing can create, i.e. make it take shape
accordingly. It was developed exclusively for the Universe of Existence --
extremely intelligent, with its own super awareness and intuition, in fact
all-knowing as far as the complex of three universes comprising Existence,
viz. Bhuh, Bhuvah and Svahah, are concerned. Divine Wholeness, Tapah,
first creates the most subtle of the three universes that comprise
Existence, one that would nearly challenge the beauty, grandeur and
panorama of Janah Universe of Creation. But it only proves in the long run
to be a super giant mirage and, but for the sake of the game that is
accepted, the finite Divine Fragments who willingly entered this Existence
would have returned to Janah Universe.

But what is Existence? "Thereafter rose desire in the beginning (of

Existence). Desire, the primal germ of Manas (Universal Divine Mind).
Sages who searched with their heart's thoughts (not mind!) discovered the
Existence's kinship in the non-existent (Creation)." Existence itself is
an immeasurable expanse in which are far-flung and scattered Xo
conditionings, all so very different, and placed amongst these universes
are societies of finite Divine Fragments. Compared to their state in Janah
Universe, this gentle substance, however superfine, is gross, and their
absolute freedom of Janah Universe is now over.

This super gentle substance is Universal Divine Mind, the second secondary
force field. From this super substance, along with the millions of phases
of Divinity, are created the planes of Existence and the various
conditionings prevalent in myriad areas in all the three universes of
Existence, as well as body, mind, senses and free will of each
`individual'. In all this it is aided by the two other vital, divine
impulses, Cosmic Consciousness and Divine Will, functioning in Existence.

Universal Divine Mind is all-pervading in all the three universes of

Existence, becoming grosser from one universe to another, along with
Divinity also becoming grosser from one universe to another. Divinity,
Cosmic Consciousness and Divine Will together form the planes of Existence
and bodies, i.e. the Xo conditionings in far-flung Xo areas, and Universal
Divine Mind is the individual's mind, thinking instrument, senses and free
will. It is important to know the difference and to understand the play
between these two factors, viz. the myriad aspects of Universal Divine
Mind with that of the myriad aspects of Divinity, to which are added the
myriad aspects of Cosmic Consciousness together with the myriad aspects of
Divine Will. All these together result in the myriad states and
conditionings that we experience during Existence as life and existence
down the cycles of involution. If one can separate each of these four
aspects and `consciously' experience each separately, the web of life is
destroyed and enlightenment follows. This is shown in Sage Patanjali's
Yoga Sutra.

A detailed plan was kept ready and is now put into operation. To work
their way, each Divine Fragment is given a body, of electronic substance,
super sensitive and flexible, a thinking instrument called buddhi, mind,
senses and absolute free will, i.e. operation of self-willed Xo
possibilities are evolved, with probabilities far exceeding the
possibilities. All the probabilities are not operative in each area or
conditioning, i.e. with each society of finite Divine Fragments or
humanity. The result is that each society of finite Divine Fragments in
each conditioning will have only a share of such possibilities, but much
too much a larger share of probabilities that could or could not be
possibilities are left out. These probabilities are all spread out over Xo
conditionings or areas for Xo societies of humanities, with the result
that no one society will have all the possibilities and much will remain
unfulfilled.

`Free will' operative means `desires', a product of the mind, acting upon
all sorts of possibilities out of untold probabilities, which leaves out
much that could not be attained but still desired. Where all is
unpredictable, this unpredictability brings in suspense, this suspense
takes away the dullness or sameness and introduces interest and incentive,
which in Janah Universe with Cosmic Consciousness and Divine Will was
never indulged in!

So far we have talked of finite Divine Fragments only. Now that each such
finite Divine Fragment has been given a body, thinking instrument, mind,
senses and absolute free will, each Divine Fragment has now become a
personality or an entity -- each is now an `individual'. Henceforth, we
shall always use the term `individual', which will mean each finite Divine
Fragment with outer coverings of mind, body, thinking instrument, senses
and free will, because each Divine Fragment cannot now merge into and
re-emerge from each other, and from and into the Divine Wholeness.

But what is the price of the game? Will the finite Divine Fragments be
able to stand the conditionings? Or will Existence be so overpowering that
they, now as individuals, will forget their high state, their Original
Self and Original Home, Janah Universe? Will they lose their strength and
become weak and impotent? What now lies ahead of them? In what direction
and with what intensities will individuals move? How would their behaviour
shape? These are some of the interesting questions. We shall now trace
these individuals from the beginning of the domain of mind, i.e. from the
earliest sub-stage of Svahah to actualize, to the last, grossest sub-stage
of Bhuh, and then once again up the ascending cycles of evolution.

In each of the three universes of Existence, each Divine Fragment, now as

each individual, has differently textured body and differently structured
thinking instruments. In Svahah, the most subtle universe, the body is of
electronic substance and the thinking instrument is `buddhi'. In Bhuvah,
the next and less subtle universe, an additional body of molecular
substance is added and the thinking instrument is `manas'. In Bhuh, the
grossest and physical universe, the body is of cellular substance and the
thinking instrument is `brain'. So a fresh body, thinking instrument and
senses, a full set of appropriate texture, is given, one each for Svahah,
Bhuvah and Bhuh universes, to enable the individual to function in each
appropriate universe. These three sets are recognized in Buddhism as:

(1) Dharmakaya, i.e. mental or electronic body with buddhi;

(2) Sambhogakaya, i.e. astral or molecular body with manas;
(3) Nirmanakaya, i.e. physical or cellular body with brain.

These three kayas, or body systems, can enable a yogi, or master, to

function at will in any of the three universes by changing from one
body/brain system to another -- but this is done only for a purpose.
Correspondingly, the Xo conditionings or areas in Svahah are of electronic
substance, in Bhuvah of molecular substance, and in Bhuh of cellular
substance.

As vibrational tones drop rapidly and continuously down the sub-stages,

with each sub-stage an eternity, the conditionings and the bodies and
thinking instruments, even within one and the same sub-stage are entirely
different, say, at the beginning from what they can be at the end. And
from one substage to the next, they are impossible of being identified as
being of the same individual. It is the constant and rapid drop in
vibrational tone that plays the principal role in making things look so
different and unbelievable.

Individuals are transplanted from one conditioning to another -- this is

known as transmigration. The outer body has sex, and the individual that
is the finite Divine Fragment is encased sometimes in a male and sometimes
in a female outer body. The outer coverings are subject to decay and have
to be created again and again; the Divine Fragment is ever-existent.

The first law of Existence is denial of return to the source during

involution, i.e. every individual is forbidden from making any attempt to
return to the source. The second law of Existence makes it compulsory for
each individual to reach the grossest point in Existence, nadir, and then
return to the source, of course keeping in mind the various laws prevalent
and operative there when nadir is reached. For in Existence are cycles and
periods operative!

Having accepted the rules of the game of Existence, each Divine Fragment
passed through an outer layer encircling Existence known as the Great
Divide or the Ring-pass-not -- the Mahah region with all the akashic
records. It is verily a lakshman-rekha in reverse, i.e. those inside
cannot get outside! This great deep freeze is also in seven sub-stages and
contains all the memory records. The Divine Fragments, as individuals,
first enter sub-stage 7, the highest sub-stage of Svahah universe; when
they enter thus for the first time (a hypothetical case), they are
momentarily dazed from the effects of their sojourn through the
Ring-pass-not for they are not now what they were in Janah Universe!

Some adepts and mahayogis of all countries in the past have conceived of
one changeless consciousness or Divine Spirit as the ultimate Reality, the
only source and sustainer of all orders of temporal and phenomenal
existence of the cosmic system of all living, organic beings and matter,
gross or subtle. Based on their various interpretations came a theory
which tends to divorce our normal life experiences and happenings of the
body and senses as necessarily imperfect, limited and temporary; the
`other state' is celebrated as unconditioned, unlimited, blissful, free
from misery and impermanence, but which no one today has any experience of
as the real and which, it is said, is unobtainable in Existence even after
death.

What is the state of perfect happiness? A life in which there should be no

imperfection, no sense of bondage or limitation, no want, no fear, no
sense of dependence, and no death. This sounds very much like the Janah
Universe experience! But over eternities, this sameness tends to be dull
and uninteresting! Is it not? Some even today say that if there are no
problems and difficulties in life, life would be impossible and
meaningless.

Now the point is that it would be understandable to cry our hearts out if
we have been serving a `sentence' in Existence for doing something wrong,
and yearn for a peaceful place to escape from such conditionings. It
would also be understandable if, going by so-called gospel, we had been
thrown out of Janah Universe of Creation, the peaceful state of highest
heaven, by an angry `God' for committing some sin, which, too, we have not
committed at all. It is high time we came out of all these child-like
ideas. On the contrary, the Divine Fragments have, with their eyes open,
willingly and smilingly, accepted to step out of Janah Universe of
Creation and enter Existence with all the conditions attendant thereon,
i.e. accepting all the rules of the game of Existence, both at the
beginning and on reaching nadir. They have further agreed to all the terms
and conditions of the game -- then why all this crying and wailing?

There is no `sin' involved nor `disobedience', no wrong has been committed

to deserve punishment of any sort, no senseless `God' in an angry mood has
thrown us down here in Existence and lives Himself alone in highest heaven
in peaceful surroundings for ever and ever. There is no need of prayers,
no need to ask for `intervention', no need to cry and wail. The only need
is to understand the correct position with a cool mind and work our way
out sensibly from the supermaze we are in. It is possible and also not at
all difficult.

The Divine Fragment can never die, can never be unhappy, and so enjoys the
game of Existence even if it is not worth the candle! Let us coolly and
calmly understand what it is all about and how we should go about it.
Because a few thousands of persons say something and repeat it like
tape-recorders ought not to make it correct; such lies do not become truth
or gospel truth or a conviction to depend upon. Remember that religions
are known as faiths, for they do not stand on facts. The truth is and was
that no prophet told us clearly, for it would not have been believed if
they had said so -- and we are sure that even now you are not ready to
believe what we say! But then, how long are you going to remain in
darkness about this truth? How long will you hide behind this foolish
piousness, this false religiosity?

Very few adepts and mahayogis, in their periods of deep mediation, reach
this high state, Janah Universe of Creation, and when they return to the
physical level tend to dismiss this physical state, the seen universe, and
call it untrue, illusory and temporary. True it is -- this transitoriness,
this misery, this illusory life -- to a certain extent; yet it is not a
complete and correct statement, nor have they stated what the truth is --
the real facts, not theories. The point is, under what conditions have we
all accepted -- that changes the entire complexion of the whole situation!
When thousands of visits take place consciously under a great guide, a
Transcendental Teacher, the experience is different. More on this will be
said later in the chapter on practices.

In the absence of this understanding, our awareness, our misery, our

finite life is, therefore, naturally a longing for and an aiming at that
distant, all-inclusive life of Janah Universe of Creation, the highest
heaven from our point of view. So we are all only living under a fear of
punishment or in hope, both for an after-life that remains substantiated,
a promise held out that is never fulfilled because no truth is given out
or understood and no correct methods and ways are shown. A case of the
blind being lead by the blind.

We forget that the Janah state was and is our state by right! That
all-inclusive life we are aiming at and crying for is not a gift or reward
from a merciful God. No paradise is lost and no son of God has to suffer
to regain it, nor is any son of God required to atone for our sins to get
us entry back into that state of highest heaven, but ours by right of
being Divine Fragments to enter at any time. If we but fulfil a few
requirements, and the requirements are not the so-called prayers and
ceremonies, nor all the theories of karma and dharma, nor any guilt
complex.

This wrong impression is conveyed by great minds all over the world, but
to know the Truth the mind is not required; indeed, greater the mind,
greater the untruth it will find! Do not take this game too seriously and
in the way described to you. It is true, some people cannot play even a
game of chess or cards or horse-racing without going through mental and
emotional tortures, but all such attitudes are uncalled for. It seems to
be our nature not to play any game with a smile; if it were not so, then
why all this wailing and crying, these mountains of books with all such
nonsense written in them!

Locked up or encased as we are in this ignorance and limitations, and in

spite of difficulty of language, we try to describe Reality, but all we
can do is assume or presume to do so. Naturally we construct Reality as
distinct from and the opposite of whatever we actually experience, that it
should be separate and distinct from Existence. But in doing so, do we not
limit the Limitless? Do we not actually limit the Reality? Can
deliberately creating such contradictions help us? Is there any need to
accept such thoughts? It all serves only to make our present state more
miserable without at the same time offering any concrete, constructive way
out.

Is there any need to live with various denials? With long, serious, sad
faces? And is there any consolation in repeating `Buddha said this' and
`Christ said that'? Our religions only misguide us, our philosophy and
theology take us up the wrong roads, because they have been tampered with,
all the sign-boards have been changed, and we keep going round in circles
miserably.

Wake up, smile, you are each the Divine Fragment! You have each
consciously accepted not only to play this game of Existence but at every
birth you as the Divine Fragment yourself strictly supervise whether the
fresh body and the events to come are as in accord with coded or recorded
patterns. Then why all this utter nonsense all around? When shall we ever
have the courage to say, "By God! I will play this game to the end,
manfully and with a smile." So this game of Existence, which we have
accepted with all its limitations and all its accompanying rules, let us
play it out sportingly to a finish. It is not something out of reach for
us, something that we cannot know or obtain.

From our physical state, some few advanced individuals have reached the
outskirts of Janah Universe by transcending the various stages of
Existence. When they have returned to normal life, they have
misrepresented and misguided us -- not purposely or knowingly, but the
reason is obvious: because they have not understood the new and vaster
dimensions. The trouble is that, for such transcendental experiences,
starting from our three-dimensional world Bhuh, we have to pass Bhuvah
universe which is four-dimensional, and then Svahah universe which is
five-dimensional. Janah Universe, further, is six-dimensional, and unless,
as stated earlier, thousands of visits are undertaken consciously under a
Transcendental Teacher, there will be confusion, misunderstanding and
misrepresentation. We can easily call black as white and red as blue, and
so these persons, when they express and when we interpret what they mean
through their expressions, are unknowingly misleading us and so do more
harm than good by their premature utterances. No true seeker dares to open
his mouth and whatever is so far written in any language is either
commercial or a hasty, misleading glimpse of the transcendental state
totally misunderstood and misinterpreted. But now humanity is arriving at
maturity and truth has to be disclosed.

On this path of experience, the first requisite is a clear unspoilt mind,

free from all notions, from wrong thinking, and of all worldly knowledge.
Also free from all influence of church, temple, mosque and synagogue, free
from all scriptures and shastras, not even influenced by science. No
pre-conceived idea is required -- "Bhikshu, empty the boat!" If we are
ready and worthy of knowing higher truths we shall come across them;
nothing can keep them away from us. But remember to `empty the boat' -- no
instructions are given to keep this or throw that away, just empty the
boat completely!
No one can come face to face with the `Truth'. Those who dare to ask "What
is God or Reality?" should be ready to receive shocks after shocks that
numb the mind and ultimately disintegrate it and leave one `naked' and
`exposed' to equally `naked truth'. Such who dare may try! But for those
who wish to piously believe in `heaven and hell', `sin and punishment',
`prayers and rites', `shastras and scriptures', those who dare not throw
over board `all and everything', for them are these lines not written.
Beware, this is not a state of atheism, but one of fresh receptivity.
Again we say, rise and be free!

In the Geeta, Arjuna, after being blessed with divine sight by Lord
Krishna, is able to see only a part of the unseen universe wherein he sees
the destiny of the warriors gathered to fight. Magnificent though the
celestial grandeur be, Arjuna has not seen beyond the domain of mind, for
he has asked with his mind and therefore cannot go beyond. This point is
very clear in the Geeta and is to be properly understood. In chapter 11,
Arjuna says, and mark his words: "I long now to have a vision of Thy
Divine Form, O Thou Most High! If Thou thinkest that it can be made
possible for me to see it, show me, O Lord of Lords! Thine own Eternal
Self."

In the Geeta, chapter 11 is titled "The Cosmic Vision"; remember, a vision

is not beyond Existence, the domain of mind! This does not mean that Lord
Krishna is not able or willing to show Arjuna what is beyond, but Arjuna
has never gone beyond the physical aspect of Lord Krishna in his devotion.
The attitude of the devotee or disciple is of prime importance. Based on
what and how Arjuna asks, listen to what Lord Krishna says: "Behold, O
Arjuna! My celestial forms, by hundreds and thousands, various in kind, in
colour and in shape. Behold thou the Powers of Nature..."

What Arjuna sees (refer to chapters 12-13 later) are the yogis who have
reached high states in dhyana. There are millions of such advanced
individuals from all societies of humanity from far-flung areas and
conditionings on various sub-stages of Bhuh, Bhuvah and also Svahah. "I
see in Thee the powers of Nature, the various creatures of the world, the
Progenitor on his lotus-throne, the Sages and the shining angels." "Alone
Thou fillest all the quarters of the earth (Bhuh), sky (Bhuvah) and Heaven
(Svahah), and the regions between."

Form, shape, colour, all point to the domain of mind only. Existence
itself, even in its grossest aspects, is the proof of the powers of
Nature! This vital difference between Creation and Existence, and the
purpose of Existence, has to be made explicitly clear. But we have not yet
entered Existence, we are still in Janah Universe but about to depart and
pass through the great deep freeze (Mahah-kala).
But then Lord Krishna once again gives Arjuna the supreme choice though
Arjuna does not realize it because he is not yet prepared: "Here, in Me
living as one, O Arjuna! behold the whole universe, movable and immovable,
and anything else that thou wouldst see." "Here, in Me, as one, the whole
universe, movable and immovable, ..." -- what an offer!! To merge in Lord
Krishna, to become one that very moment and experience both Creation and
Existence! What an offer! But poor Arjuna missed this grandest of all
opportunities! Since time, light, colour and sound dimensions are so
different, Arjuna is perplexed, confused and even afraid of what he
beholds and requests Lord Krishna to assume the human form he was so
accustomed to see: "Seeing Thee in Thy gentle human form, my Lord, I am
myself again, calm once more." (Perhaps in that case the Geeta would have
remained unexpressed further, and with it the Mahabharata.)

To recapitulate, we have noted so far that in Janah Universe of Creation,

maximum fragmentations of four types have occurred and maximum
conditionings in terms of areas far-flung were made available. And by the
last sub-stage of Janah, Xo finite Divine Fragments (i.e. societies of
human beings as we understand) feel a `wondering' as if something else
could be. Hence the offer by Divine Wholeness to the Divine Fragments of a
self-willed existence with ultimate and innumerable possibilities. This
offer, along with all the rules of the game of Existence, was accepted by
a vast majority of the Divine Fragments. Divine Wholeness launches this
unique Existence that seemed so much more interesting than the peace,
tranquility and immortality of Janah Universe of Creation, and so Xo
varied conditionings are developed in Xo areas in the vast expanse of
Existence, to begin with in Svahah.

To make the whole idea fool-proof, the first step was to crystallize the
outline of all the Divine Fragments. This crystallization we call the
vesture, tight-fitting like skin on a body. Due to constant and rapid drop
in vibrations, this vesture becomes grosser and grosser towards the end of
the last (seventh) sub-stage of Janah. The immediate result is that, for
the first time now, all the Divine Fragments find that they can no more
merge into and re-emerge from each other, and into and from Divine
Wholeness, which had been possible so far. So dawns on them also, for the
first time, the idea of separateness or multiplicity, that `I am' is
separate from `you are', just as they are about to enter Existence.

We have no conception of this vesture. It gives resistance to the

pulsations of the Divine Fragments and thus creates a `glow', not as we
understand but decidedly a glow. So pliable is it that Divine Fragments
can change to any shape and size, yet this limitation is felt in
comparison to their absolute freedom earlier. For the first time now, they
experience a sort of constraint and limitation, for indeed, though most
flexible and pliable, the vesture prevents them from freely merging and
re-emerging, a freedom totally lost even though their experience of
Existence has not begun yet. "Coming events cast their shadows
beforehand."

We also noted the `gentle substance' that was being developed in Janah
Universe during the entire duration of its seven eternities by the
interaction of the primary Unique Original Force Field with the first
secondary force field, for use in Existence. This substance -- Universal
Divine Mind -- could not exist in Creation due to the immensely high
vibrations prevalent. It is not primordial matter or mula-prakriti, as
some philosophers and shastras wrongly name it, for only after another
seven eternities, and after a great and constant drop in vibrations over
those eternities, will primordial matter result in the next and less
subtle universe, Bhuvah. The entry into Existence is entry first into
Svahah universe, sub-stage 7. The vesture and the Great Divide, the
Ring-pass-not, are created directly from the substance of the primary
force field and is much superior to the gentle substance created for the
most subtle universe of Existence, Svahah. This great difference in
vibrations also prevents the gentle substance from crossing over to
re-enter Creation.

To make possible all permutations and combinations of exercising `free

will', unique Xo patterns of all possibilities and probabilities are
introduced and scattered all over the entire expanse of Existence.
Naturally, in any one conditioning or area in any of the three universes
of Existence, large gaps are left out like a jigsaw puzzle, thus inducing
free will to operate, mind to desire and desires to multiply, and certain
laws operative in cycles and vibrational tones make these desires
practically impossible of attainment to a large extent.

A more interesting and more amusing, tantalizing and annoying game cannot
be had anywhere and the Divine Fragments are going to have a full dose of
it soon to drive away the sameness and dullness experienced by them in
their Janah Universe. In this entertainment, on so much grander a scale
than Hollywood's best productions and better than Shakespeare's or
Kalidas's pen, are the practical realities enacted, that bring tears to
some, make some dance with joy, others suffer excruciating pain and some
are so held as if suspended in midair that we cannot visualize what all
can happen. But all care is taken to avoid chaos and confusion in the
management of this big show business! We human beings, in creating our
dramas and shows, only take small and stray incidents from actual
happenings that take place in actual life all around us.
Chapter 4

Mahah --- The Major Ring--Pass--Not

We have said earlier that between Existence and Creation is a vast region,
vaster than all Existence with its three universes. This is the
Ring-pass-not, the Mahah-kala region of substance very superior to the
`gentle substance' pervading Existence, even in Svahah itself, but much
less subtle than Janah Universe of Creation. In it are installed a number
of `causal bodies' -- these are not bodies in the sense of a regular body,
but receptacles rather, one for each Divine Fragment that willingly
accepted the game of Existence and prepared to leave Janah Universe to
begin Exile. Nor is each an ordinary receptacle, for it is made of the
same substance as the Ring-pass-not and is nearly as indestructible and
eternal! In each of these receptacles pulsate three seed atoms, which are
also nearly as eternal, and which we call super micro recording monitors,
one each for the individual's entire existence in each of the three
universes of Existence.

In the beginning -- a hypothetical beginning of Existence -- the gross,

cellular universe Bhuh is in pattern stage only; the next subtle,
molecular universe Bhuvah is in nebulous state and preparing for
actualization; and the most subtle, electronic universe Svahah is in
actual existence. In Xo varied conditionings in the vast expanse of
Svahah, far-flung and totally isolated from each other, the first series
of societies of humanity enter, again stated hypothetically. Actually, all
Existence has been in existence from time without beginning and will exist
for time without end. In all that we say or do, let us always remember the
wise saying, "One can never cross the same river twice," because a part of
Existence is constantly withdrawn and a part constantly projected. Here we
are tracing the first ever coming into existence of Existence, as if such
a beginning can ever be traced!

Divine Wholeness is fully conscious of what can happen and what to expect,
and all provision has been made in a master plan. Care has been taken of
the most unpredictable possibilities and probabilities, and of
impossibilities that can become possibilities, in all the Xo varied
conditionings in all the three universes, to enable each `individual',
i.e. each Divine Fragment in Existence, to experience Existence! To make
all this more bewildering, the vibrational tones keep falling constantly
and rapidly in each universe from sub-stage to sub-stage and
energy/matter changes so much as not to be recognizable as the same thing
one eternity earlier or later. Laws equally flexible and changing to suit
changing circumstances and situations suitable to each plane and to each
sub-stage of Existence in each of the three universes are evolved and put
into functioning.

The Ring-pass-not is the Great Divide between Creation and Existence. On

one hand is Janah Universe, Home of the Divine Fragments, the four
celestial societies of humanity, which are without body, mind, senses and
free will, and needing neither `life' itself to live nor `awareness' to
understand; on the other hand are the three universes of Existence,
wherein each Divine Fragment consciously descends to play the game of
Existence. In between is a mighty expanse where mind and memory lie frozen
as if in a deep freeze -- the Mahah region.

A completely different type of region, an enormity in size, encompassing

all the three universes of Existence. It is neither like Creation nor like
Existence; it is by itself, unique, like a giant Chinese dragon with its
tail in its mouth! A region that plays the most important part in `human'
affairs, i.e. the affairs of all the societies of humanities in all the
three universes through all their sub-stages. It has, however, nothing to
do with Creation, for it is specifically brought into being for the sake
of Existence -- to be the Cape Kennedy launching-pad type of region for
all humanities in Existence. The whole game of Existence is directed by
Nature, Divine Wholeness, from this region.

There are two lesser rings-pass-not, one between the universes Svahah and
Bhuvah and the other between Bhuvah and Bhuh, but they are mere divides
that isolate one universe from another. This major Ring-pass-not, the
Mahah region holding all akashic records, is unique by itself. One who can
understand this region can understand Existence itself!

This region exerts a tremendous, numbing, crushing pressure, in comparison

with which the pressure at the bottom of the deepest ocean is but a
trifle. When each Divine Fragment passes through the Ring-pass-not to
enter Existence for the first time, for a very short time interval it is
not possible for It to be in a state of Cosmic Consciousness, so intense
is the pressure there and in Svahah universe which is closest to the
Ring-pass-not. Though very short, this period still prevents the Divine
Fragment, now as an individual in Svahah universe, from clear grasp about
higher aspects of Creation, Divine Wholeness or God, and even about the
Divine Fragment itself, which is now encased within the first electronic
body of Svahah. Divine Wholeness has brought about this action
deliberately! And during this momentary interval when the Divine Fragment
is `dazed' and takes some little time to recover from this effect, the
body, thinking instrument (buddhi in Svahah) and senses of each individual
take the functioning of day-to-day living in their hands. And the strange,
inexplicable effects of the intense pressure result in the Divine
Fragments accepting the new conditioning as if it were their place in
Existence.
Note that only the first descent through the Ring-pass-not, here
considered hypothetically, has this particular effect, and not
subsequently, for by now the Divine Fragments have been to and returned
from the Ring-pass-not millions of times, as will be explained later.

Universal Divine Mind, the all-pervading gentle substance in Existence, is

the godhead in Svahah universe. It is the personal `God' in all Existence,
taking whatever shape the devotee would think of. It flows through each
individual's thinking instrument, buddhi, and acts like a catalyst,
endowing body and mind with their own awareness. In Creation, Divine
Fragments are pure Cosmic Consciousness; in Existence all functioning is
of mind and its attributes. Existence in all its planes, together with
body, mind, senses and free will, can only express through awareness. Yet
this awareness can seem very impressive indeed because we know not
Consciousness, but at no stage can it ever approach Cosmic Consciousness.
A million tons of awareness cannot equal an iota of Cosmic Consciousness!
This fundamental point should be grasped first. So the word
`consciousness' may not be used in context with anything existing in
Existence. Words in our vocabulary like `conscious', `unconscious',
`sub-conscious', `super-conscious', `self-conscious' or `semi-conscious'
are more appropriately understood as referring to different shades and
aspects of awareness only. Only Divine Fragments are Cosmic Consciousness,
though each is a fragment, but `whole', of Divine Wholeness.

In the Geeta, chapter 2, the Divine Fragments encased in bodies are

described thus: "The material bodies which this eternal Spirit (the Divine
Fragment) inhabits are all finite." "Weapons cleave It not, fire burns It
not, water drenches It not, and wind dries It not." So we use the term
`individual' henceforth for the `shadow', i.e. the body and mind. And in
place of Cosmic Consciousness, in Existence we deal with all grades of
awareness, and instead of the finite Divine Fragment we deal with an
individual having a body (or bodies), mind and thinking instruments of
different calibre, senses and free will. This major change is to be kept
in mind between Creation and Existence.

These Divine Fragments have a `built-in' capacity to find their way home,
like homing pigeons, but Divine Wholeness has prohibited this urge from
being expressed in any manner and it is denied at all stages till the
grossest point, nadir, in the seen, cellular universe is reached, a point
nearly touching the point of no return in Existence. This is the first law
of Existence, the fundamental rule of the game. Otherwise, it would be
easy for the Divine Fragments to return home, to Janah Universe in
Creation, after the first taste of Svahah universe. Svahah universe is
too gross and limited and nowhere near or comparable to Janah Universe of
Creation with its marked characteristics like absolute ableness, the
capacity to merge with and re-emerge from, and so unity with, Divine
Wholeness, and absence of any sense of `I am' and `you are'. But then, in
that case, the game of Existence would remain unplayed!

Now to the purpose of the Ring-pass-not. There are many other functions of
this region, but the following four are cardinal and most vital of all.

(1) First and foremost, it defeats all endeavours to bypass it. Its
fundamental purpose is to function as a non-return area for all Divine
Fragments of all four types. Nothing that is encompassed by this major
Ring-pass-not can take the journey back home to the source. This major
purpose the region Mahah fulfils, totally and faithfully, till that which
is in Existence reaches nadir.

(2) The second purpose, we have seen, is to create such paralyzing

pressure on the Divine Fragments when descending through it for the first
time from Creation into Existence (a hypothetical consideration) that
their original state and source recedes from their consciousness for some
time, and they, now as individuals, are able to perceive only what is
within the bounds of the Ring-pass-not. This state lasts for a minuscule
time only but proves disastrous, for during this short period the first
prana intake in Svahah starts, this being actually the first breath of the
Divine Fragment in a body; so buddhi, the thinking instrument, takes
charge of the situation and does not give up its hold and the Divine
Fragment simply accepts the role of a `witness'.

(3) The third purpose is to give full cooperation to Universal Divine

Mind, the godhead in Svahah, as it flows through the new body's thinking
instrument, buddhi, of each individual -- making it restless, always
wanting something but vaguely, and always such wants remaining beyond
achieving. The buddhi of each individual in Svahah universe works rapidly,
not knowing whether it is right or wrong, for there is yet no tradition of
right or wrong.

(4) The fourth purpose, and very important function, of this major
Ring-pass-not is to act as a region of complete records of each
individual, over eternities of each individual interacting with one
another, whatever the relationship. Hence the Mahah region is the
storehouse of all akashic records of all individuals, societies, nations
and civilizations of all humanities in all conditionings far-flung in all
the three universes. To maintain such records a simple method is laid out,
details of which are given later in this chapter.

With Existence begin many problems and these problems multiply as the
downward journey continues for the Divine Fragments. They form the vital
aspects of Existence. The Ring-pass-not, encompassing the entire
Existence, creates: (1) unpredictability, (2) incompleteness, or
limitations of all sorts, (3) awareness in place of Consciousness, and
(4) inequality of many sorts and types.

(1) The first aspect of Existence is unpredictability -- nothing here,

is certain, i.e. ordained and possible, unlike in Creation where each as
Divine Fragment was in being obedient to Divine Will. Now the same Divine
Fragment has become an individual, a personality or ego, with so-called
self-willed existence and with extreme operation of free will. Also,
in place of the all-wise Cosmic Consciousness there is now mere awareness
of the mind and body, at first very impressive indeed, but too
insignificant and undependable a power and possibility to rely upon, what
with lowering vibrations that drop constantly and at a rapid rate that
makes subsequent births more difficult. Every sub-stage that follows
restricts an arc of Truth from being cognized and understood; to that
extent avidya, or ignorance, sets in and the possibilities for error keep
increasing. Such error possibilities are mistermed `sins'; they are bound
to arise but are no sin.

(2) The second cardinal aspect of Existence is incompleteness or

limitations. Xo possibilities and probabilities are spread out far-flung
in the universes of Existence, so in each single conditioning or area
available to each society of humanity very limited possibilities are
obtainable and unlimited probabilities to be fulfilled are left out,
leaving much unfulfilled. So a state of want arises leading to desires,
and with desires to endeavour, to competition and so to frustration,
because a very large majority of the time the desires are not possible to
attain!

The first aspect of unpredictability, from its inherent condition, creates

doubt, hope, fear, despair, prayer and religion. The second aspect of
limitation or incompleteness, from its inherent condition, further creates
endeavour, greed, competition, selfishness, accumulation, desires, a sense
of possessiveness and a sense of finiteness, leading to philosophy and
theology. Herein enters the vague idea of an imagined region, free from
such unpredictability, finiteness and limitation, where all desires are
possible of fulfillment -- a region of so-called heaven! And those who
deserve much more restrictions, according to the thinking of that period,
are supposedly pushed into a region of so-called hell, where there are
greater limitations after the so-called death of the body. The first birth
of religious theories, already in the very earliest sub-stages of Svahah!

The ideas of heaven and hell, prayers, rites and ceremonies, theology and
philosophy, and so-called religions are not of our world and our time --
they started with Existence, in the first universe Svahah in the very
earliest sub-stages. And we still carry some of these very, very ancient
memory patterns. So we revolve the same ideas round and round in our
minds; nothing new do we create, we spin the same old yarn! Language may
differ, areas and conditionings may differ, societies of humanity may
differ, but these ideas are basic to all societies of human beings spread
out in all the Xo conditionings far-flung in the three universes of
Existence. We should not pride ourselves on claiming such ideas because
they spring from very dim and ancient past and we are but one of the
societies that have come down the cycles of eternities. We did harbour
such thoughts before and, if we harbour such thoughts today, it is because
we have deeply ingrained such memory patterns of our past! We have to be
free from our ancient, primitive past -- "Bhikshu, empty the boat!"

All our present-day philosophies and religions are as old as these ancient
cycles -- they are not founded by the Vedas but repeated in them, not
founded by the Christ or the Buddha but repeated by them. It is external
repetition from which we must tear ourselves away! That which was good
then for an infant humanity cannot be good now -- nay, positively harmful
to a growing humanity that is approaching adulthood! But we mistakenly
think it is of such recent origin, because three to four thousand years
ago seems very ancient to us, but as many million years is not even
ancient on the cosmic clock. Nothing is new, everything with us has
repeated and will keep repeating with us, like fashions, e.g. the skirt
going up and then coming down again, the beard being clean shaven and then
reappearing. Because all is only `memory patterns'; till such time as we
work out and `destroy' and `disintegrate' these many ancient memory
patterns, we cannot escape from their tyranny. "Bhikshu, empty the boat!"
-- it is worth repeating many times to remind you, dear reader.

(3) The third aspect of Existence is shades of awareness only -- Cosmic

Consciousness of Tapah and Janah Universe, and also of all four types of
Divine Fragments, is no more available in Existence; in its place
`awareness', however impressive, is the best possible substitute
available, the product and quality of Universal Divine Mind. We have noted
that right from the very beginning of Svahah's first sub-stage, the
thinking instrument, buddhi, starts functioning with its intuition, the
highest aspect of awareness of Universal Divine Mind, and the individual
proceeds to live by the guidance of this buddhi in Svahah. The Divine
Fragment encased within, with its unique Cosmic Consciousness, is
disregarded, for buddhi's attitude is, `What is the need? Do I not know
and understand what is best for me?' So the very impressive awareness
continues, thinking it is not necessary to consult the encased Divine
Fragment. This terrible mistake continues till today! It is the major
mischief of Existence and unfortunately started with Existence itself.

This attitude persists through Svahah, and in Bhuvah, the next universe,
the thinking instrument, manas, of each individual also feels no need to
ask guidance and cooperation from the Divine Fragment -- so here too the
Divine Fragment is disregarded. This attitude persists through Bhuvah and
in Bhuh, the grossest and seen universe, the thinking instrument, the
brain, of each individual not only also feels no need to ask guidance but
is altogether skeptical whether something like Divine Fragment even
exists, for it is not able to see or feel the presence and in the absence
of any proofs to this effect firmly believes that `It' (the Divine
Fragment) does not exist. The brain doubts even the existence of the
other, subtler, body, i.e. the astral body.

So it follows that (1) in Svahah the guidance of the Divine Fragment is

not sought by buddhi, (2) in Bhuvah the guidance of the Divine Fragment is
not wanted by manas, and finally (3) in Bhuh the brain does not believe
that something like Divine Fragment even exists and so totally dismisses
the thought! These are the three sub-aspects of Existence.

The wisdom of the Divine Fragment is thus disregarded from the beginning
of Existence onward, i.e. from the subtlest point, zenith, in the most
subtle of the three universes, Svahah. We must note here that it suits
the plan of Existence that on the downward arc -- involution -- during the
cycles going down from Svahah to nadir, the grossest point in Existence,
the thinking instruments of each individual in all the three universes
(viz. buddhi, manas and brain) disregard the inner, encased Divine
Fragment. For in case they do not disregard It, and ask and receive guidance
from the Divine Fragment, they will then be guided correctly and the whole
purpose of Existence will be defeated. As long as they are disregarded,
the Divine Fragments would not like to enforce their guidance on the
thinking instruments -- having no scope to guide or make use of their
Cosmic Consciousness, they have, since the beginning of Existence,
therefore, remained as mere `spectator' or `witness', encased in whatever
body or bodies have been placed around them, and have calmly noted all
mental activities, the modifications of the mind, that have gone on and
on, and all that has continued birth after birth, from one universe to
another till the grossest point nadir in Bhuh universe is reached. They
have never interfered and are not responsible for any thought or action,
so karma for them does not arise at all!

Due to awareness and due to limitations grows the urge to know and to find
knowledge from `outside sources' to solve the many problems arising in
Existence ... never realizing that all Truth is within easy reach. But as
the organ of perception in all the three universes of Existence can only
look out and not within, there is hardly any possibility of finding the
Divine Fragment within. Only those who have looked within, but on the
upward arc, have made progress on the road of return to the source.

The mind, as `individual mind' (as part of Universal Divine Mind in

whatever gross state), has always thought itself as the `doer', `the
actor', and has taken the style of calling itself `I'. This individual
mind, from the excellent state of buddhi or `intuition', the awareness in
Svahah, degenerates into this `I' of manas in Bhuvah and further into
this `I' of the brain in Bhuh. Actually the brain in Bhuh is even itself
on many, or most, occasions not aware whether one part of itself is
agreeing or disagreeing with another part of itself. And by the fourth
sub-stage of Bhuh on the downward arc, the individual mind, or rather the
brain, divides itself into four distinct functional parts, viz. the (1)
intellectual, (2) emotional, (3) sex and (4) movement centres.

Each functional part acts more or less independently, the strongest being
sex and the weakest being movement. On almost all occasions, the
functional parts, emotions and sex, act together, and the movement
functional part joins them and cooperates to give all sorts of unnecessary
movements to the body and brain. So it gradually came about that by the
end of the fourth sub-stage of Bhuh on the downward arc, there existed a
firm alliance between three of the functional parts, viz. emotions, sex
and movement, and the other, the intellectual centre, was oft times in
direct antagonism to the first two, emotions and sex. And by the end of
this fourth sub-stage on the downward arc, this first functional part
found itself on the losing side in every struggle and so finally
surrendered, meaning that it no more made any attempt to fight!

So the two functional parts, emotions and sex, became predominant in the
absence of reasonable and equal resistance from the intellectual functional
part -- and real thinking ceased! This is the state of the human brain
even today, in the fourth sub-stage of Bhuh on the upward arc. Originally,
for the proper process of thinking, the intellectual functional part was
created equal to the other three functional parts taken together. By
proper practices it can be brought back to its original state of ratios --
Intellect:Emotions:Sex:Movement :: 5:2:2:1.

The thinking instrument ceased to be operative and so life from the end of
the fourth sub-stage of Bhuh onward on the downward arc became a mere
automatic reflex action. Human life was on a parallel with the animal life
and other lower life that was abundantly created in all the conditionings
far-flung in Bhuh universe. Hence the many apparent likenesses in
characteristics, the many apparent links (though never existing) between
human beings and lower life, the many ill-conceived dogmas and theories of
human beings being also born as animals or some type of lower life were
wrongly built up. This is thus the ultimate state of awareness, awareness
that reaches nearly the zero point at nadir in Bhuh from the excellent
state of buddhi or intuition as it started in Svahah. These shades of
awareness are explained in greater detail later in chapter 6.
(4) Finally, the last aspect of Existence is inequality, of many sorts and
types. How is it brought about? We have seen that the third cardinal
aspect of Existence creates further desires for knowledge, and with
knowledge is born its sister, ignorance. So knowledge is given the
importance it does not deserve, for who can tell that this knowledge can
take us through and beyond the awesome, crushing pressure of the
Ring-pass-not. Is there any type of knowledge that can do this?

This thirst for knowledge differs with each individual and also depends on
the efforts and endeavours put in by each individual. These are bound to
be different in each individual case, with the result that the inequality
is first of knowledge and this in turn becomes the seed of all other
types of inequalities, i.e. a series of inequalities of mind, body, and
senses, leading to material, emotional, mental and intellectual
inequities. No Marx or Lenin can restore an equality as the socialists and
communists dream of, for equality once disturbed would take eternities
upon eternities to slowly even out, and even then not completely in
Existence -- perhaps by the last sub-stages of Svahah on the upward arc of
evolution.

This, therefore, leads to and generates the great fires of greed, hate,
cunning and possessiveness; in pursuit of these goals, use of unfair and
even foul means to accomplish and to get equal or even with the other are
adopted. These thoughts, motives and acts create damaging mind patterns
and such are recorded in the super micro recording monitors in the
receptacles in the Mahah region; the super micro transmitting monitors
implanted in the thinking instrument of each individual faithfully
transmit to them continuously all the time.

All this is absent in Creation, and very naturally so, because Cosmic
Consciousness is same in all, and each one is magnificently complete and
can merge into and re-emerge from one another and Divine Wholeness. There
is, thus, not even the sense of separateness, of `I am' and `you are',
`this is mine' and `that is yours', leading to complications. Nothing is
wanting and so peace and tranquility prevail all over Creation, including
Janah Universe.

Let us, therefore, recapitulate (A) the four cardinal aspects of Existence:
(1) unpredictability; (2) incompleteness, or limitations of all sorts; (3)
aspects or shades of awareness in place of Cosmic Consciousness; and (4)
inequalities of all sorts. Let us also note (B) the three cardinal
sub-aspects: (1) in Svahah the wisdom and truth of the Divine Fragment is
not sought; (2) in Bhuvah the wisdom and truth of the Divine Fragment is
ignored; and (3) in Bhuh the wisdom and truth of the Divine Fragment, even
Its very existence and the possibility of communicating, is not believed
in.
This nucleus of mischief, viz. (A) plus (B), starting from the beginning
of Svahah and increasing with every sub-stage in each of the universes,
adds up to an infinitude of ignorance. It is able to generate mountains of
mischief, sub-stage after sub-stage, and goes on multiplying. The sum
total of mischief is ignorance, or avidya! It is the cause of all wrong
acts. Such wrong acts are due to a certain vibrational tone which makes an
individual helpless and forces that individual to act in a particular
manner many times even against his or her will. But, traditionally, the
shastras and scriptures call it `sin'. There is no sin ever committed by
anyone, but a wrong act due to ignorance plus the structure of mind,
thinking instrument and emotional energy developed within the human
system.

The root cause of this entire nucleus of mischief, (A) plus (B), can be
traced to the descent of the Divine Fragments from Creation into Existence
for the first time across the unbearable pressure of the major
Ring-pass-not, the Great Divide. The pressure and the paralyzing effects
on the encased Divine Fragments (at the time of descent when they have a
vesture around and are not in their original free state) is enormous, and
before they can recover from this effect in their first `life', i.e. birth
as an individual in Svahah universe, the thinking instrument, buddhi or
intuition, and the electronic, mental body of Svahah have already
begun their `life', i.e. to function as per the intelligence and awareness
of the thinking instrument buddhi. So they found no reason or need to
consult or ask help from the Divine Fragment, that was temporarily in a
numbed state, though for some little time only, and so carried on, and
when the Divine Fragments were normal again they were ignored and no help
was sought even then.

This piece of diplomacy of Existence perpetrated on the Divine Fragments

thus gave the thinking instruments a chance and confidence to be
self-reliant. The Divine Fragments, instead of establishing their right
and superiority, kept quiet (like a king under an aggressive Prime
Minister) and allowed buddhi to carry on with all the activities of daily
life. Thus entered also `egoism', the first to enter and the last to exit,
or never to leave at all, the primal product of mind, and the taste of
power and superiority of this egoism takes on the style of calling itself,
i.e. the personality, `I'. It started sounding its first note right from
the beginning of Svahah and has never ceased from that moment till today.
It likes to hear its own voice.

The gentle substance generated specially for Existence, what we know as

the Universal Divine Mind, makes possible through its own inherent qualities
only peculiar types of behaviour patterns. All Divine Fragments are
innocent of any act performed, for they have no part to play, but the
instruments -- the body, the individual mind, the thinking instrument and
senses -- play around from one sub-stage to another, and with continuous
and rapid drop in vibrations become contaminated more and more. The result
is restrictions, separateness, grossness, increasingly clouded so-called
thinking, and avidya or ignorance. The wisdom of the Divine Fragment is
replaced by various increasingly cruder states of awareness, from
intuition to intelligence to cunning and finally to stupidity, and even
this increases till near-zero awareness is reached at nadir. All these
consequences, impossible to count up, Divine Wholeness has laid down in a
foolproof plan to account for, and this whole plan was getting ready as
Janah Universe was spinning from the first to the seventh sub-stage.

All four types of Divine Fragments are Cosmic Consciousness personified

but are silent; as per the rules of the game, they have to allow all the
magic of Existence to have full sway. The steady and unceasing drop in
vibrations complicates matters, leading from the subtle to the gross, till
everything nearly reaches a point of no return, a point that could mean
total degeneration of Existence itself. "If the power of corruption
(degeneration) has no check, then by the very contagion of its nature, the
universe would be doomed" -- but for the seventh ray as stated earlier.

And if today we, or most of us, cry out, moan and are exasperated, it
shows how complete is the pressure of Existence. It would appear that it
has succeeded in making the Divine Fragments forget that they are not what
they have been and the power of Existence has indeed proved uniquely
disastrous. Does it not seem so? The Divine Fragments have come from afar,
their home is Janah Universe and beyond in Tapah, Divine Wholeness --
Nature at its source; but it seems that so totally have the Divine
Fragments lost their way and also their wits, that we, in our days, are
only impotent, servile, insignificant, ignorant creatures, and only the
descent of `grace' -- divine intervention -- alone can save us from the
horrible situation from which we see no way out. Does it not seem so? But
this is not true. These are the numbed effects shown by body, mind and
senses in desperate states, and not the reaction of Divine Fragments. It
is minds and bodies everywhere that are crying out.

Madam Blavatsky describes, in poetic language perhaps, the descent of the

finite Divine Fragments, the celestial humanity, from Creation into
Existence through the Great Divide, with this great difference that she
and the gospels make it out to be a great `mistake', a `sin', an `ignorant
step' on the part of the celestial humanity. We presume she calls this
celestial humanity "Aisha". "Attracted towards the dark abyss by desire
for knowledge, Aisha lets herself fall. She ceases to be pure soul (Divine
Fragment) living on the circle of generation. Her incarnations are
innumerable in bodies of denser and denser matter according to the
constellations she inhabits, she descends from world to world and forgets.
A dark veil covers her inner eye; obliterated is Divine Consciousness, but
a faint memory still clings within her. From this ray she is reborn, she
regenerates herself."

We, on the contrary, state that it is not so, that this step is taken by
the Divine Fragments, the celestial humanity, in full knowledge, willingly
and smilingly, in the name of the game of Existence accepting all the
rules of the game! This basic thought is to be properly understood: it is
a conscious and willing descent, and not a forced one, into Existence.
Divine Fragments, as celestial humanity, need no body, mind and senses;
they need no knowledge for they are Cosmic Consciousness personified;
they have no desires for they function by Divine Will. So they have
willingly and knowingly entered Existence and accepted all the rules of
the game of Existence.

There is no need for memory, there is no `fall', no paradise is lost, no

sin is committed, and there is no need for any sort of God or `Son of God'
to atone for the so-called original sin. The word `sin' is oppressive,
this one word is bondage for all societies of humanities -- it makes them
hypnotized slaves. None has committed this so-called original sin, not
even Adam and Eve, and neither have we, all these Divine Fragments. Our
inherent capacity to take the journey back home at any time is
ever-present, but for having accepted the rules of the game of Existence.
Relax, think clearly, wake up, and be free.

We have noted earlier that the interaction of the Unique Original Force
Field with the first secondary force field in Janah Universe during the
seven eternities or sub-stages generated the gentle substance we call the
Universal Divine Mind. This mind becomes grosser and grosser from one
universe of Existence to another and so with it does the individual mind.
The interaction of the first secondary force field with the second
secondary force field of Svahah generates a substance, very subtle and
useful, which we term mula-prakriti or `primordial matter'. This is the
substance available in Bhuvah, the second universe of Existence. The
result of the interaction of the second secondary force field with this
third secondary force field of Bhuvah creates a substance, varying from
subtle to gross and at times inert, which we call prakriti or `matter',
the substance available in Bhuh, the third universe of Existence. And all
these grades of Universal Divine Mind are coupled with innumerable shades
of Divinity, as noted earlier.

The fixed points we had noted in Janah Universe are also duplicated in
Svahah, triplicated in Bhuvah and repeated in Bhuh, in all 21 major and 28
minor fundamental points. Individually as well as jointly, they create
forces according to their inherent constitution or structure. What type of
forces do they create? The two kingdoms, the mineral and the plant or
vegetation, are the result of forces emanating from the 21 major fixed
points. In Svahah they are in pattern form only and in Bhuvah are found on
the small Divine Fragments (the societies of planets) in nebulous form in
myriad stages of development, creating unthinkably myriad different outer
coverings for the small divine Fragments. In the next universe Bhuvah, the
28 minor fixed points erupt and forces emanating from them lead to the
development of the third kingdom, that of `lesser' and `lower' lives --
animals, birds, fishes, insects, et al. -- nebulous at first and then in
profuse existence in Bhuh universe. Later in chapter 6, when we begin our
journey from Svahah on the downward arc, sub-stage by sub-stage, towards
grosser and grosser states, planes, bodies and awareness, we shall have to
understand the full purpose first of the major Ring-pass-not and then many
other aspects of these major and minor fundamental points.

We shall now trace the real purpose and primary function of the major
Ring-pass-not. We have noted that each Divine Fragment has been allotted a
receptacle, practically everlasting, and pulsating within this receptacle
are three permanent seed atoms. We term them as super micro recording
monitors, one each for the entire timelessness of the individual's entire
journey through each universe, i.e. one for the journey through Svahah,
one for Bhuvah and one for Bhuh, both on the downward and the upward
arc. They record only such very important motives, thoughts and actions
that an individual harbours with calculated, premeditated thought or
motive which would harm someone else, and harm greatly, and also the
characteristics thus developed by each individual. These super micro
recording monitors are able to record every modification, even the most
insignificant if needed, of every thinking instrument of the individual,
but that is not the rule nor the idea, for it is unnecessary to have such
elaborate records that will not serve any purpose.

Correspondingly, in each of the thinking instruments of the individual are

implanted super micro transmitting monitors. Thus, in the brain in Bhuh
are placed three super micro transmitting monitors; when in Bhuvah, in
manas are two micro transmitting monitors; and when in Svahah, in buddhi
is one super micro transmitting monitor. These monitors are able to
transmit every modification of the thinking principle, even the most
insignificant, but that not being the purpose only such very important
motives, thoughts and actions that an individual harbours with calculated,
premeditated thought or motive that would harm someone else, and harm
greatly, are transmitted to and registered in the super micro recording
monitors pulsating in the causal body. This link is continuous and always
maintained life after life.

These two, the super micro transmitting monitors freshly implanted at each
birth in each thinking instrument, buddhi, manas and the brain,
respectively, and the super micro recording monitors pulsating in the
causal body of each individual, one each for the mental body of Svahah,
the astral body of Bhuvah and the cellular body of Bhuh, between them
transmit and record all the important thoughts, motives and actions that
need be recorded as stated above. This may total to, say, 5% of total
wrong thinking; hence karma, if applicable, is applicable to this 5% only.
It follows that the three super micro recording monitors are the permanent
link of each individual and form the entire memory records of the
individual, down the cycles of involution and up the cycles of evolution.

In the first, mental or electronic universe, Svahah, the mental

body has to resist the immense intensity of the Divine Fragment encased
within and the unbearable pressure created by extreme proximity of the
Ring-pass-not. The body, being very subtle, yet living under pressure,
strain and frustration from not being able to satisfy all the desires
rapidly created by its thinking instrument, senses and utter free will,
gets exhausted, slowly degenerates, and finally `dies'. This forms one
`life' of the individual, the finite Divine Fragment encased in a mental
body and subsisting in Existence in Svahah universe. No doubt, in
comparison to our present, earthly life span, the life span of this mental
or electronic body in Svahah universe is immeasurably long.

With the death of the first mental body, the finite Divine Fragment is
unconfined, or `free'. Free to do what? Free to go back to Janah Universe,
Home, because of its natural built-in capacity and ability, a trait to
return to Creation, beyond the Ring-pass-not? But ... no! According to the
rules of the game of Existence this is prohibited, and it is for such an
eventuality, at every `death' of the body, that the causal body is
provided -- so that the Divine Fragment, now `disembodied', should find a
place of rest till the next birth. So at each so-called `death' of the
body the Divine Fragment of each individual returns to the allocated
causal body in the Ring-pass-not and rests therein till the time of next
`birth' is due as per the laws of cycles.

None of the recordings recorded in the super micro recording unit during
the downward cycles from the first sub-stage of Svahah to the last
sub-stage of Bhuh, till nadir is reached, are to be worked off. This is
also a rule of the game of Existence, the third law, with the result that
the bodies, thinking instruments, senses, and planes of Existence all
become grosser and grosser due to steady, constant and rapid drop in
vibrations. The working out, or making amends of all that is recorded,
would prevent such grossness from increasing and so is prohibited. In
short, all the rules are so adjusted as to disallow any effort on the part
of Divine Fragment to take the matter in hand, so the bodies and thinking
instruments get more and more degenerated because there is accumulation of
degeneration only and no possibility of working out and thus restoring the
subtlety and grace of the body and mind that must necessarily degenerate
sub-stage after sub-stage.

In accordance with the laws of cycles and the recordings in the recording
monitor in the causal body, the new body, thinking instrument and senses
are generated under supervision of the Divine Fragment, which is also at
that time in the causal body. And at the time of the next birth the Divine
Fragment joins the fresh mental body that will take a so-called fresh
birth and once again encase the Divine Fragment.

The fourth and last cardinal law of Existence states that it is necessary
for each individual to take Xo births and deaths in each universe of
Existence! Each repetition is a shade different, each time acquiring more
experience. This allows exhaustive experience of all the Xo conditionings
in Existence. The family tree we trace has no meaning. If the individual
were to trace his `own' family-tree, i.e. his successive births and deaths
in Svahah, it would be one unbroken chain. This entire chain, with each
life span in a mental body forming one link, would tell the story of that
individual in Svahah universe.

But as the vibrations keep dropping steadily and at a high rate, it makes
everything so much more gross, and as the wisdom of the Divine Fragment is
ignored, the individual lives by the awareness of the thinking instrument
which also grows dimmer and dimmer, and increasingly more mistakes come in
on the downward journey. This continues through all the seven sub-stages
of Svahah till the last sub-stage of Svahah is reached. Thus, nearly a
million births of the Divine Fragment as different individuals in
different mental bodies in different areas or conditionings of Svahah take
place. Each birth has been like a space-module, landing each time on some
planet and acquiring experience, but during each such landing the module
forgets the purpose of such landings and lives its own life there as if it
were its home.

Now the Divine Fragment descends further down the arc, also willingly and
consciously, into another less subtle and much grosser universe, Bhuvah,
the astral/molecular universe, and begins its journey in this most
glamorous universe where conditions are entirely different. In the
Ring-pass-not, in the causal body of each individual is added one more
super micro recording monitor for the astral/molecular body and it starts
functioning alongside the earlier super micro recording monitor of the
mental body of Svahah, to record the modifications of the second thinking
instrument, manas of Bhuvah. And, correspondingly, one more super micro
transmitting monitor is implanted freshly at each birth in the thinking
instrument manas. These two transmitting monitors are in constant
communication with the two recording monitors in the causal body. In Xo
varied conditionings in Xo areas scattered far-flung in Bhuvah universe,
so-much-so as to feel totally isolated, the Divine Fragment takes on
bodies and lives as an individual.

In Bhuvah universe, the Divine Fragment is now encased in two bodies, the
electronic body and now the molecular body also, unlike in Svahah where it
was encased only in a single electronic body. Bhuvah being the molecular
universe with molecular planes, the molecular body is the primary body and
the mental or electronic body is secondary on the downward arc. These two
bodies encasing the Divine Fragment are so cojoined as to appear as one
and the prison walls become increasingly thicker and freedom is enormously
restricted. Intuition of Svahah gives way to intelligence and to psychic
powers and abilities of a high order in Bhuvah.

These bodies now have a shorter life span, though still very long indeed
in comparison to our present life span. They also disintegrate, or die,
and the Divine Fragment, as disembodied entity, returns to the
Ring-pass-not and rests in the causal body allotted to each Divine
Fragment during the waiting period before fresh birth is once again due,
i.e. till fresh bodies are fabricated in accord with the laws of cycles
and the recordings in the super micro recording monitors under the
supervision of the Divine Fragment, for a new life and fresh experience.
So the repetition of such births and deaths in Bhuvah continues, sub-stage
after sub-stage, becoming progressively grosser and cruder due to constant
and rapid drop in vibrations.

Upon the last death in the last sub-stage of Bhuvah, the mental body
disintegrates and is not fabricated again for some eternities till
required again in the dim future on the upward arc. The last recordings in
the mental super micro recording monitor are completed, but the monitor
keeps pulsating eternally in the causal body until whenever needed again.
From these records, the mental body can be fabricated afresh as and when
needed on the upward arc, as explained later.

Now the Divine Fragments further descend, also willingly and consciously,
into the grossest universe, the seen, cellular universe Bhuh. Here each
Divine Fragment is now encased in a physical/cellular body, which is
primary, and a molecular body, which is secondary on the downward arc in
Bhuh. Note the change of bodies with the universe. These two bodies are
so cojoined as to appear as one, and the prison walls become thicker and
cruder and freedom is much more restricted. High intelligence and high
psychic ability in the earlier sub-stages give way to mere intelligence of
a high order, which too steadily becomes cruder and lesser, sub-stage
after sub-stage, till it reaches the craving of animals, the brain
demonstrates cunning, and then at nadir reaches stupidity or near zero
awareness.

In the Ring-pass-not, in the causal body of each individual is added and

now pulsates an additional third super micro recording monitor, now to
record all important modifications of the third thinking instrument, the
brain of Bhuh universe. And in this thinking instrument, the brain, of
each individual are now embedded three super micro transmitting monitors
at each birth. And these three transmitting monitors are in constant
communication with the three recording monitors in the causal body.

As the vibrations keep falling rapidly and at a constant high rate and as
bodies, minds, thinking instruments and senses, as well as the planes of
Existence become grosser and cruder, it happens that the two super micro
transmitting monitors of the mental and later of the astral slowly become
degenerated and non-functioning in the brain of the individual. This is so
in sub-stages 3-2-1 and 1-2-3 of Bhuh, on the downward and upward arcs
respectively. Gradually the prison walls become thicker to an almost
paralyzing degree, yet in sub-stages 7, 6 and 5 of Bhuh, both on the
descending and ascending arcs, the bodies and brain are far superior
compared to our present condition.

After the last death at the end of the fourth sub-stage in Bhuh, the
astral body is completely disintegrated and not fabricated again for some
eternities till required again in the future on the upward arc. The last
recordings are completed in the astral super micro recording monitor which
keeps pulsating eternally until whenever in the distant future the astral
body is required, whereupon it can be fabricated again from the
accumulated recordings.

Once again the endless repetition of births and deaths continues. Now as
the body is very gross, it is less able to stand the gross heaviness of
the outer coverings without and the great intensity of the Divine Fragment
from within. So aging is faster and the body withers and dies sooner. Down
the sub-stages the life span becomes shorter and shorter and the body
becomes smaller and smaller, till in the last sub-stage of Bhuh is reached
the grossest point nadir, very near the point of no return. In the
Ring-pass-not, in each causal body are the three micro recording monitors
holding all entered records of every individual of all the Xo societies of
human beings, far-flung in Xo areas or conditionings in all the three
universes. It is thus the store-house of all knowledge, coded and held as
the akashic records.

From the Yoga Sutra, III(18): "Knowledge of previous incarnations

becomes available when the power to see thought forms is acquired."
II(44): "Spiritual reading results in constant contact with the Self."

Nothing regarding Existence is concealed from the eyes and intelligence of

one who can reach this Mahah region, the Ring-pass-not, and explore it --
scientifically, methodically and seriously, with intent to understand what
this Existence is all about. But one can never reach this region with an
insincere attitude or out of inquisitiveness, only as a dedicated worker.
It is instructive but requires many life times of study, and one then
becomes at first a bodhisattva and later a Buddha, the All-knowing. But to
do so, from the three-dimensional universe Bhuh one has to traverse the
four-dimensional universe of Bhuvah and then go across the
five-dimensional universe of Svahah to reach this Ring-pass-not and study
the records. One is dumbfounded because nothing is understood at first,
for everything is coded in universal symbols (there being no language) and
the symbols are difficult to decipher. One has to develop the piercing
vision to scan through the super micro records, and there is every
possibility of misunderstanding. Only over many lives dedicated to this
purpose under an advanced guide is this possible -- and what better guide
than the inner Divine Fragment!

"A symbol is itself an expression of an idea and that idea has behind it,
in its turn, a purpose inconceivable as yet."
Yoga Sutra, I(42): "When the perceiver blends the word, the idea (or
meaning) and the object, this is called mental condition of judicial
reasoning."
I(43): "Perception without judicial reasoning (or intuition) is arrived at
when the (individual's) memory no longer holds control, the word and the
object are transcended and only the idea is present."
I(44): "The same two processes of concentration (objective and subjective)
with or without judicial action of the mind can be applied also to things
subtle."
I(41): "To him whose vrittis (modifications of the mind) are entirely
controlled, there eventuates a state of identity with and similarity to
that which is realized. The knower, the process of knowing and the field
of knowledge become one."

Study these quotations and much will be revealed as to the secrets of the
Ring-pass-not. Whilst it is possible to make these journeys, one
experiences a sense of freedom and exhilaration as one is allowed to pass
from lesser to greater freedom and from intelligence to intuition. And
when one returns to Bhuh or physical life, and into the conditioning one
had left earlier for this journey, then one suddenly feels the enormous
pressure, the thinking instrument and memory experience a numbness and
paralysis, and very often wrong interpretations result. Only repeated
visits under a great guide will help, preceded by prolonged practices.

With Existence and with the Ring-pass-not begin many problems and these
problems multiply as the descending journey continues with cruder and
grosser conditionings for each individual.
Chapter 5

Existence Begins . . . Some Aspects of Existence

We begin by mentioning a special point regarding the other kingdoms in

Existence. In Janah Universe of Creation, the only creation is of the four
types of celestial humanities, but what is the situation in Existence? In
the last two sub-stages of Svahah, the first and most subtle universe to
come into existence, the mineral and the plant or vegetation kingdoms
take pattern form only. In the next, less subtle universe, Bhuvah, these
two kingdoms are in nebulous form and profusely cover the small Divine
Fragments, the societies of planets as we know them in our days from their
planetary orbs as outer coverings, which actualize profusely in the gross,
seen universe, Bhuh. But in Svahah, there is no development of any
so-called lower life -- the animal, bird, fish, reptile, insect and
other types of `lesser' lives are not found here, even in pattern form.
The vibrations are far too high for lesser lives to manifest in any
manner, for they prosper on lower vibrations in grosser conditionings
only.

But the most vital factor `life', how does it arise? Forms can take shape
but life must precede forms. The finite Divine Fragment, now as an
`individual', a personality or ego, does show presence of so-called life
in Existence. The seven rays in Tapah, Divine Wholeness, continue as
rays in passing through Janah Universe of Creation. But when passing
through the major Ring-pass-not, they are fractured, as is para-nada, and
are transformed into seven vital energies. These fundamental energies,
from which arise later all other types of energies, are as follows:

(1) The positive ray of Divinity becomes the energies of `life' and
`awareness' for the coverings of the finite Divine Fragments, now as
individuals, in all the three universes of Existence.

(3) The positive ray of Cosmic Consciousness becomes the energy of `the
essence of consciousness' in three grades for these individuals -- of
first grade in Svahah, of second grade in Bhuvah and of third grade in
Bhuh.

(5) The positive ray of Divine Will becomes the energy of `will' in three
grades for these individuals -- spiritual will in Svahah, intellectual
will in Bhuvah and neutral will in Bhuh, along with refined emotions in
Svahah, less refined in Bhuvah and crude, with sex energy, in Bhuh.

(7) The neutral, reconciling ray of Satyam, the Absolute, becomes the
sustaining `prana' of seven grades that fills the whole of Existence. It
is actually a life-boat or a life-jacket, either to a group of individuals
or to an individual, respectively, should anyone be really drowning in
Existence. It is also an `in-built' return to source in Existence, but
very rarely activated. This means that it becomes operative in Existence
at a stage where fresh push is essential: e.g. at nadir, when the wheel
has gone half way; then a little later on the upward arc, especially at
the beginning of sub-stage 4 in Bhuh where the astral body is once
again cojoined to the physical body; and yet later again in Bhuvah where
the mental body is cojoined to the astral body.

The Divine Fragments know how to make use of this ray, now as energy in
Existence, to bring about certain coordination and orderliness in
Existence, especially between the energies of life, of awareness, and the
seven grades of prana in all the universes. These energies are very
helpful in the grossest universe Bhuh and are found in rarefied and subtle
states in Svahah. Were they to be in that state in our gross, seen
universe Bhuh, they would not be known or detected by any instrument.

(2) The negative ray of Divinity becomes atomic/nuclear energy, using

fusion and fission processes. This energy creates and destroys with
consummate ease. It is very subtle in Svahah, but crude and destructive
in Bhuh, though it could be used constructively. Our planet Earth also
makes use of this energy on a really large scale in her ways of
reconstruction and destruction as per a plan.

(4) The negative ray of Cosmic Consciousness becomes energy that results
in deliberate damage, friction, crime, negative thoughts and concepts,
wherever it is found. It is profuse in Bhuh and Bhuvah, but less so in
Svahah. It is naturally the source of all evil in Existence and works like
the `devil' or `Satan' (but not as personified entities, as the shastras
or scriptures would say). Since this energy could not exist in Creation,
such effects are not possible in Janah Universe.

(6) The negative ray of Divine Will becomes the energies of `life' and
`awareness' for the lower kingdoms, viz. the animal, and the lower and
lesser lives. It is profuse in the gross, physical universe, Bhuh. This
energy (6) reflects and is reflected by energy (1), sharing a subtle
relationship, a sort of sensitive, reciprocal basis in the following
manner: those human beings as individuals in Bhuh who develop, harbour and
live by energies (2) and/or (4) more pronounced in their lives, have a
certain relationship with energy (6), i.e. with the lower life on all
planets, more profusely so in Bhuh. This important fact is also a point of
negative karma accumulated later by the small Divine Fragments, the
societies of planets.
The kingdoms of lower/lesser life are much more short-lived, i.e. they
have a narrower spectrum eternities-wise or sub-stages-wise, than the
mineral and the vegetation kingdoms. The only kingdom that stretches with
unbroken continuity right from beyond Svahah to Bhuh and back from Bhuh to
beyond Svahah is the human kingdom. Only in the late, lower sub-stages of
Svahah come the mineral and the vegetation kingdoms, and later still in
the late, lower sub-stages of Bhuvah come the lower life.

In the same manner, on the upward arc this lower life will once again
discontinue from the third sub-stage of Bhuvah onward. By the sixth and
seventh sub-stages of Bhuh, it will become nebulous, yet visible to
humanities in those sub-stages. By the first sub-stage of Bhuvah it will
be in pattern form only, to cease completely from the third sub-stage of
Bhuvah onward. Similarly, minerals and plants or vegetation, though having
a longer existence in comparison to the animal and lower life, will
continue in Bhuvah universe on the upward arc, slowly become nebulous
while still visible to humanities in Bhuvah, reach the pattern stage in
Svahah, and then disappear. Neither exists even in pattern form later than
these stages for they cannot exist under such high and intense vibrations.

So, though lower life appears to be superior in complexity and function to

minerals and vegetation, it is not so for the latter have started their
rounds much before lower life of all types started their rounds and,
correspondingly, will be extinct many rounds later, with each round or
sub-stage lasting an eternity. This subject is important to study and will
revolutionize human thinking.

The study of energies in subtle to less subtle and gross forms in Svahah,
Bhuvah and Bhuh universes, respectively, is a highly instructive subject
which will not only throw vital light in understanding Existence, but also
on the structure of matter in Bhuh universe, and will lead an individual
to the state, as Sage Patanjali puts it, of `spiritual reading'.

The vital seven energies, together with the sixth and seventh (the lowest)
grades of prana, are substance for all known matter in Bhuh universe, but
not all of it is within our humanity's scope of study. Of the total
knowable matter in Bhuh, we in this early fourth sub-stage of Bhuh on the
upward arc will be able to know only about 50%. The other 50% of types of
matter -- matter of sub-stages 1 and 2, and 6 and 7 of Bhuh -- are not
available for study in our part of the universe. These conditionings would
be altogether so different that for our type of humanity, and for all
other lives on our planet along with us, they would be fatal.

Deep down at the core, our planet Earth creates, brings to the surface and
throws into the atmosphere some energies for particular uses. Such
energies and gases are necessary, for various kingdoms are, from time to
time, withdrawn and/or profusely thrown into the soil or the atmosphere as
the planet thinks best. (Refer to the Earth's core chart.)

`Life' itself is an energy, `awareness' too is an energy, emotions and sex

are energies, and of the seven pranas we utilize only partially the
lowest four pranas in this Bhuh universe. These four grades of pranas play
some very vital roles with life energy, and hence with humanity also (as
individuals, not as Divine Fragments). They also participate with minerals
and vegetation, but only the sixth and seventh grades, the lowest,
participate with lower life of all types. On the upward arc, individuals
are free to make use of the higher, first three pranas and improve the use
of the lower four.

"Nothing can live eternally, but that which hath lived from all eternity."
To this category belong only the four types of Divine Fragments. The
existence of other kingdoms later in Existence originates due to special
reasons of consonance and affinity of natures or characteristics, i.e. due
to certain laws of vibrations that made their creation necessary and
brought them into Existence. None of these three lower kingdoms, however
lively and intelligent, have Divine Fragment within each of them! The one
and only being that is truly immortal and has an unbroken continuity,
whatever happens, are the Divine Fragments, the four types of celestial
humanities -- and yet we cry about our transitoriness!

The energies (2) and (4) are most rampant and deeply rooted in Bhuh. The
most primitive types of humanities in Bhuh, especially in sub-stages 3-2-1
on the descending arc and 1-2-3 and early 4 on the ascending arc, and the
lower life in Bhuh are most profuse during these stages also. Both
function very closely; so closely, in fact, that Darwin was tempted to
search for links between them, missing links as he called them! These
characteristics are also observable in the early fourth sub-stage of Bhuh.
But Darwin searched for links that never existed, nor exist today.
Nature's super mirages are so real-looking! Many, many eternities after
the advent of man in Existence as an individual must the first monkey have
come into existence! If we know this, it is enough. How then can we talk
of the descent of man which is being traced in this vulgar direction!

There is indeed a link with lower life but in a subtle way; it is

established later in the last two sub-stages of Bhuvah and continues
through Bhuh universe, between animal and lower life on one hand and human
beings in sub-stages 4-3-2-1 and 1-2-3-4 of Bhuh who are equally crude and
primitive. But it is a kind of parallel conditioning that acts as a
mirage. Mineral, plant and vegetable life have a deeper relationship with
small Divine Fragments, the societies of planets, and with animal and
lower life to a much lesser extent. And animal and lower life have closer
relationship with human beings, especially those who develop energies (2)
and (4).

Some writers have stressed the role of plants and vegetation as food
for animals, and animals as food for primitive humanity. But, as stated
earlier, if energies (2) and (4) are more pronounced in some human beings,
then some sort of relationship with energy (6) does exist. The
misunderstanding that animal food, through energy (6), creates energies
(2) and (4) is putting the cart before the horse. Much misunderstanding in
this sphere in the name of scriptures and shastras prevails; for instance,
advocating vegetarianism, etc., are all fads, because the energies that
matter, those that are helpful in psychic and spiritual development, are
not produced by food, by any sort of food.

The four types of celestial humanities, the Divine Fragments, are

interchangeable under special cases, but never human beings with lower
life or animal life. The stress laid by scriptures and shastras on human
beings and the animal or lower life kingdoms having a way of transposition
-- i.e. passing out of human life and living as animals or some form of
lower life -- is entirely wrong, misleading and harmful in thought.
Neither can lower life evolve, even after eternities, into the human
kingdom! That is trespass -- it is against the laid down cosmic and divine
laws, and would be like expecting oil and water to mix and remain mixed.

These two, the human kingdoms on one hand and the other kingdoms on the
other, are of two separate kinds that can never intermingle, even for a
short duration or under certain circumstances -- never! Under no karmic
debt, or by way of punishment, or any acute conditions, or evolution, is
this possible, for the law does not allow an animal or lower life in
Existence, without a Divine Fragment within, to be transposed with human
beings with Divine Fragments within. Even at nadir, the grossest point in
Bhuh, the individual, though animal-like in life, has a Divine Fragment
within, whilst the most beautiful and docile bird or animal has no Divine
Fragment within. Nature and God have done everything through laws
automatically functioning to prevent such an occurrence taking place.

To repeat so that this false idea, this much-rooted misunderstanding, may

be eradicated: that from all that has been stated earlier, showing the
absolute and total demarcation between finite Divine Fragments, i.e. human
beings in any universe, howsoever primitive (even having a tail), and the
other kingdoms that are evolved much later in Existence, there can be no
interchange, or the possibility of any other kind of link, between them at
all. (It is trespass and punishable by cosmic law should anyone be so
foolish as to use some psychic powers to demonstrate.)

This kingdom, the lower life or the animal kingdom, along with other
kingdoms, has been brought into existence, and very profusely, especially
in the seen, cellular universe Bhuh, on the downward and upward arcs, for
some near relationship of temperament and lower emotions, especially with
those human beings in whom energies (2) and (4) are predominant. However
much such human beings pretend to be cultured and kind outwardly, however
much animal lovers pretend love for the lower life, they are definitely
harbouring energies (2) or (4), or both. If not, they can never have an
`affinity' for any type of lower life. To take care of all life is our
duty, but to be a lover is altogether different. All these points need
further and deeper study; science will have to correct many
misunderstandings and throw new light on these subjects. It is also
simultaneously one of Nature's great mirages in Existence and will be
proved factual by science one day.

All four types of Divine Fragments have been for all eternity, i.e. from
Divine Wholeness and Creation through all of Existence, till once again
they regain their original state, the state of Wholeness. Nothing else is
ordained, howsoever profuse or subtle or powerful other forces and
kingdoms may appear to be, in any universe of Existence. It may seem at
times in Bhuh universe that insects and pests may threaten to displace
human beings, but what is not ordained is not possible, and what is
ordained is quite different from what appears on the surface and it is
always so. The mirages of Existence! Eventually, the positive rays and
such energies arising from them will destroy the effects of the negative
rays and the negative energies arising from them by the seventh sub-stage
of Bhuh to some extent and completely by the seventh sub-stage of Bhuvah.

All four types of Divine Fragments, the four original celestial

humanities, are equally everlasting and immortal. The so-called births and
deaths are but the births and deaths of their coverings only, the
conditionings only -- their bodies, minds and senses -- and each life span
is but a day in the whole eternal life of the individual in Existence and
of the Divine Fragment in Creation. The never-ending being, the divine
being, the Divine Fragment -- if only we can trace this and know!

Strange, is it not, that we have never even felt our own immortality! Each
individual as a finite Divine Fragment can trace his or her individuality
from all eternity -- and yet we talk of our silly family tree! Each Divine
Fragment as an individual has millions of births and deaths of the
covering bodies in each universe, but we still think of our parents,
brothers, sisters, etc., and not that as Divine Fragments we are one and
the same! Strange, too, that `one day' (which we know as our life span)
of this `eternal life' seems more important to us than our whole
immortality!

Our priests, our philosophers and our godmen, our scriptures and shastras
and religions are responsible for all the misunderstandings. This is all
due to the mischief caused by wrong interpretations given by some of our
hasty seers and spiritual persons, what with so much sung in songs and
told in story and music form and in our religions and faiths all over the
world. For God's sake, let this meaningless wailing stop! If it is mere
entertainment it is well and good, but it should not be taken seriously.

But why do we still wish to be dragged by all these? Can we not throw away
all these wrong misconceptions overboard and be completely free? "Bhikshu,
empty thy boat!" we would say now and again. For are we not the Divine
Fragments, finite though? We are all of the same substance, the Unique
Original Force Field, the Divine Wholeness. But, though indestructible and
immortal, somehow we prefer to cry about our finiteness, our
transitoriness, our miseries! Why? Why do we love our miserable state of
Existence so much that we do not think of our real Home? It is our minds
that keep us in this slavery!

`Life', we have noted earlier, is brought into being during Existence; it

started with the beginning of the first sub-stage of Svahah universe, for
there is and was no need of `life' in Creation. Divine Fragments need
nothing -- they are complete, whole in themselves, and need nothing
external to themselves, not any kind of help or dependence. They need
neither light for perception nor rays for penetration, neither air nor
prana, neither food nor drink nor sleep, and not even `life'. For whatever
needs `life' to live, dies; Divine Fragments alone need nothing whatsoever
external to themselves and that is why they are immortal. They can exist
in any conditionings in Existence, from the subtlest to the grossest, and
can live blissfully in Creation. But nothing else that is in Existence can
exist in Creation, firstly due to the high vibrations and, secondly,
because only the Divine Fragments (of all four types) are fragments of
Divine Wholeness, the Unique Original Force Field, something of which even
Universal Divine Mind has no conception!

The Divine Fragments, in whatever conditionings, however much restricted

and suffocating be their station in Existence (e.g. at nadir), are yet in
being only by their Divine Will, not by desires! Desires are of the mind,
body and senses, and have no bearing or link with Divine Fragments. They
are free from all laws of Existence and hence it is incorrect to expect
these Divine Fragments to either enjoy so-called heavens or suffer in
so-called hells. This clearly falsifies the prevalent theories of heaven
and hell and day of judgment, for nothing in Existence can touch them.
Very sadly, we forget our high inherent Being and unfortunately associate
ourselves with the outer coverings; as Sage Patanjali says in I(4): "Till
now (i.e. till yoga is accomplished) the inner man has identified himself
with his forms (the outer coverings) and with their active modifications."

It does seem so. But the outer forms and the modifications of the mind
(the thinking instrument) have never cared to hear, nor believed, that
there is an `inner spiritual Man', and if He is, felt no need to ask or
heed His advice. Supposing the Divine Fragment within us were to whisper
(which It does):
"Be still! be still! and know that I am God!
Acquaint thyself with Me and be at peace!
Yea, I am Spirit; in thy depths I dwell,
Art conscious of My presence, all is well."
Would you believe even today? And so it has always happened that we have
never cared to listen to this whisper. In the first place, whether this
inner spiritual Man is or is a fictitious belief only, the mind and brain
are not aware, nor do they care, nor are they convinced. A pity! The
physical brain and individual mind think they know so much and we have
placed them on a pedestal so high, so why should they care for the inner
spiritual Man, the Divine Fragment?

Before going further, at this stage our minds have to be absolutely clear
regarding the vital difference between Existence and Creation, between
body/mind/senses and Divine Fragments, which makes Existence with its
awareness of one kind and Divine Fragments with their Cosmic Consciousness
of another kind. Otherwise, we shall never understand the complications
later of Existence. This difference is vital and well-nigh unbridgeable,
and this essential misunderstanding is the basic ignorance which leads to
mountains of misunderstandings. We have never said that Existence is
illusory and Creation is Reality, but not to understand the vital and
basic difference between them is to understand nothing, for it would mean
that we have not yet come out of our ignorance. We have, therefore,
maintained that we are still proceeding along the same `stick of matter'
introduced in chapter 1. (Refer also to the Creation/Existence diagram.)

In Creation -- Divine Wholeness together with Janah Universe -- the three

vital, divine principles released by Satyam drop their infinitely high
vibrations to enable Divine Wholeness to create. From a state of Absolute
Rhythm and Balance -- Param Satyam -- these three indestructible
principles, Divinity, Cosmic Consciousness and Divine Will, reach a state
of High Rhythm and Balance -- Tapah, Divine Wholeness -- via Madhyama
Satyam and Satyam by dropping their high vibrational state over
eternities. Thus is the state of Nature or Reality Manifest reached! This
state of Divine Wholeness continues for eternities and in the seventh
sub-stage flows as (1) immense, (2) large, (3) small, and ultimately (4)
finite fragmentations into Janah Universe. These are the original four
types of celestial humanities. Even at this stage in Janah Universe, the
three principles are vital principles only and are in each Divine Fragment
of all four types in their own state of Rhythm and Balance. That is why
the Divine Fragments of each type are as divine as Divine Wholeness is and
why each of these four types of fragmentations can merge with and
re-emerge from one another and from Divine Wholeness. There is unity and
no multiplicity in spite of fragmentation, like water taken out of the
ocean and poured back into the ocean.

This is not the case in Existence, nor is it possible! In Existence, these

three vital principles separately play a supposedly inconspicuous role as
if they are not there at all, though actually only these three play all
the vital roles but unseen. The first vital principle, Divinity, in
cooperation with Universal Divine Mind, appears in a myriad shades as
outer coverings of all four types of celestial humanities. Terms like
mula-prakriti or primordial matter and, later, prakriti or matter appear
in the literature, but no valid explanation as to where this so-called
matter and primordial matter come from is provided. If this is not
clarified, one is in danger of dismissing matter as illusory. Nothing can
exist without an explanation -- for its existence there must be a reason
and a purpose.

The second vital principle, Cosmic Consciousness, in a myriad

fragmentations in all the four types of humanities, lies hidden and quiet,
covered over by the first principle (in its myriad shades as outer bodies
or coverings) and gives out not a whisper that it is there. Even when it
does whisper no one wants to hear! And with no one to know, it remains so
quietly that minds are skeptical as to its presence in all the three
universes, more so in Bhuh. The third vital principle, Divine Will, in a
myriad fragmentations in all the four types of humanities, also lies
hidden and quiet, covered over by the first principle (in its myriad
shades as outer bodies or coverings) and, like the second vital principle,
gives out not a whisper that it is there.

But the three vital principles together form support, ground and stage for
the subtle `gentle substance', Universal Divine Mind, generated during the
seven sub-stages of Janah Universe, to play its part. This Universal
Divine Mind is awareness personified -- it has all the grades of awareness
from intuition to stupidity -- and is the ruler of the three universes of
Existence; because of it all the universes are designated as `domain of
mind'. But it is not immortal and eternal like the three vital principles
-- without their support it cannot exist and hence neither can Existence.

When the shastras say that it (Existence) is all a play of Purusha with
prakriti, what do they mean? Are our minds clear as to its significance?
Such a play does not take place in Creation -- this play or drama takes
place in Existence only. To make it possible, Cosmic Consciousness
generates the energy of the essence of consciousness in three grades,
Divine Will generates the energy of will in three grades (what we term as
`free will'), and Divinity generates the energies of life and awareness as
well as, step by step, the other kingdoms with life. So much so that the
whole play looks so very real and fascinating, with suspense and
uncertainty and emotions added.

Hence the three vital principles create the mirages of Existence where
mind has full sway, and in its (Mind's) free flowing as individual mind
itself gets so thoroughly confused as to cry out for release from this
confusion at some time. All this wailing and crying in songs, stories,
shastras and scriptures is the wailing and crying of the individual mind
in utter confusion when thoroughly tired of its wanderings. But because
the individual mind does not realize the uniqueness of these three vital
principles directly released by Satyam (as they are too subtle to be
understood), it thinks, in all its different myriad modifications, that it
is there to command all and everything and rule. Its chief characteristic
is `ego' and possessiveness; it wants to rule and actually does rule in
Existence, until ...

When, at some point in time, the individual mind sincerely cries for
liberation from confusion, at that stage it is helped by the three vital
principles which lie quietly hidden within each individual, jointly as the
Divine Fragment in the original state of Rhythm and Balance. So these
three vital principles, separately, act very differently, but combined, or
jointly, they form the aspect of Divine Fragments and Divine Wholeness.
So Universal Divine Mind is actually mula-prakriti or prakriti and the
three vital principles together -- hidden in some manner, always
inconspicuous -- form the Purusha, whether individually encased or Lord of
Existence. These three principles form the original Trinity, but by no
stretch of imagination are Brahma--Vishnu--Shiva, or the Father, the Son
and the Holy Ghost, as literally portrayed (because these three vital
principles can never exist in any form, objective or subjective).

In Janah Universe, the three vital principles together formed the Purusha
as fragmentations, but there was no shade of prakriti there to play a game
or create a drama, because the gentle substance, Universal Divine Mind,
was not yet generated in Janah Universe but was created later to be of use
in Existence only. It is near-immortal but not truly immortal and
near-eternal but not truly eternal, as the three vital principle are, and
is destroyed or disintegrated at the close of cosmic day of Existence.
Such is the vital and important difference between mind, i.e. Universal
Divine Mind, and the three eternal, immortal principles released by
Satyam.

This all-pervading Universal Divine Mind in Existence, is termed and

described under the doctrine of Pradhana as `mahat', the near-eternal
principle meaning `the great' or `Being' or, in more descriptive language,
godhead of Svahah universe and also of the domain of mind. It is the
foundation or base of all Existence and the shastras trace it as Reality
Manifest in Existence -- but outside of Creation, for the first and
original Manifest Reality is the Divine Wholeness, the ocean of pure
Cosmic Consciousness, Divinity and Divine Will together, which in
meaningful scientific language we term the Unique Original Force Field.
Divine Wholeness, of course, brooks no comparison with anything known and
existing in our Universe, including Universal Divine Mind.

But this ocean of all-pervading Universal Divine Mind is itself not the
independent source of the universe as a whole in Existence. It appears so
because it is constantly fed by Divine Wholeness which is the eternal
source for it, this source always flowing from Creation into Existence and
thus supporting the Universal Divine Mind so that Existence can go on
seemingly forever and ever! It is not all-powerful because without the
continuous active support from Divine Wholeness it would itself be
impotent, though it seems to be capable of supporting all Existence by
itself. This is the first mirage of Existence and it is so from the point
of view that Satyam is not able to create directly -- it needs
intermediate stages like Divine Wholeness in Creation and then Universal
Divine Mind in Existence.

So Divine Wholeness is the Purusha and Universal Divine Mind is prakriti;

equivalently, Divine Fragments are the Purushas and individual minds are
prakriti. So the word `Pradhana' or `Purusha' is more suitable to the
pure Cosmic Consciousness encased -- the `witness', the Divine Fragment,
irrespective of size, whether finite, small, large or immense. The
encasing around is the mula-prakriti in its myriad phases, including all
the planes and areas, or conditionings, of Existence brought about by
Divinity individually in all its myriad phases.

This vital point may not be overlooked, that it is a combination of both,

the all-pervading gentle substance, Universal Divine Mind, and the myriad
stages and phases of Divinity constituting the all-pervading planes and
areas of Existence and bodies, that creates so-called primordial matter or
mula-prakriti in Bhuvah and later so-called matter or prakriti in Bhuh.
Individually and separately, the principles appear totally different --
they are not seen or felt or sensed. Actually, these three principles
cooperate to create individual substances differing so widely that we are
tempted to dismiss the thought that all of them, from the brain of
Einstein to a black lava stone, are variations of one and the same thing,
and yet they are, brought about by the cooperation or otherwise of these
principles, playing their part individually but inconspicuously, with
Universal Divine Mind in its myriad shades and phases.

Unless we are prepared to distinguish these sore points, we will have no

clear conception of the Unmanifest, Satyam the Absolute. Anything else --
whether Purusha, Pradhana, or Lord -- which we can conceive of (even
vaguely) is not identical with Satyam, because if we take eternities
to describe the Unmanifest, Satyam, we are able to say nothing at all.

The ever-flowing, all-pervading Universal Divine Mind, when flowing

through an individual is also the unseen individual's mind with the organ,
the thinking instrument, as per each universe, whilst the myriad aspects
of Divinity with myriad shades of Divine Will and myriad fragments of
Cosmic Consciousness -- i.e. the three vital principles `together' -- form
the first cause of Existence -- Purusha.

The gentle substance, Universal Divine Mind, has three elements or

qualities inherent and structured, ranging from pure sattva or rhythm,
through rajas or buoyancy, to intense tamas or absolute inertia. And
between the two extremes, namely from the beginning of Svahah universe to
the grossest point nadir at the end of the gross universe Bhuh,
Xo combinations and permutations of these three qualities mingle and
remingle. And of these variations, along with Divinity in all its phases,
are fashioned the planes of Existence, as well as bodies and senses, etc.,
first in Svahah, then in the less subtle Bhuvah and later in gross Bhuh.
In Svahah it has the predominant quality of sattva with some mixture of
rajas, in Bhuvah it has the predominant quality of rajas with some sizable
extent of tamas and a sprinkling of sattva that is left over, and in Bhuh
it has the predominant quality of tamas with a sizable extent of rajas and
a sprinkling of sattva.

This is the `basic structure' of the gentle substance, Universal Divine

Mind with Divinity in all its phases, changing its manifestations
depending on the permutations and combinations of the qualities in various
conditionings and areas due to the constant drop in vibrations at a very
rapid rate. By its `structure', its inherent texture and qualities, we
mean that it will normally ignite in each individual mind and thinking
instrument qualities along this structure and tend to push an individual
thus, to behave in a particular fashion. Depending on this basic
structure, all bodies, mind, thinking instruments, senses, and `will' can
demonstrate only such qualities.

This `inherent potential' of lending a tendency towards the expression of

such quality-laden motives, thoughts and actions, depends on the basic
structure of this gentle substance with Divinity in all its phases
constituting an individual. This is the individual's vibrational tone or
the basic structure. The energies that are generated, the prana, the
conditionings, the bodies, thinking instruments, mind, senses, and free
will, all will be guided according to this inherent potential and basic
structure of which each individual is fabricated at conception.
It is neither `sin' nor `fall' if the bodies, minds, senses, thinking
instruments and will behave in a particular fashion, for it forms the
basic conditioning. Each individual, depending on the exact vibrational
tone, i.e. on this basic structure, will act, nothing more and nothing
less -- this is the natural law. In chapter 3 of the Geeta, Arjuna, not
understanding this law, asks Lord Krishna, "My Lord! Tell me, what is it
that drives a man to sin, even against his will and as if by compulsion?"
So we need neither condemn nor admire. It is no sin, but ignorance of this
fact can be disastrous.

Yet any individual can work for the finest sattvic qualities on the upward
arc and can go beyond, for on the upward arc there is no restriction. The
how of this we shall note later in the chapter on practices. After
reaching nadir, the lowest point in Bhuh, Existence itself provides all
opportunities, but only by way of not creating fresh obstacles! One who
wants to take the road back to source has to work for it, for no help is
otherwise offered. This must also be very clear.

What is the inherent difference between pure Consciousness and awareness

of mind and thinking instruments? The awareness of mind has the
characteristic of taking the shape of the object whilst pure Consciousness
is changeless, ever the same, because it depends on nothing for its being.
Nor can anything make Pure Consciousness happy or unhappy for it is bliss
itself, while modifications of mind, range from pleasurable to painful.
Whatever changes, whatever depends on something else, is mortal and
subject to death and decay; pure Consciousness alone (and nothing else) is
not dependent on anything else whatsoever and so is immortal, ever
blissful, changeless!

The other aspect in which pure consciousness and mind differ is that mind
knows not by itself. It knows by gathering experience, i.e. it gathers
knowledge and ultimately a `load' of knowledge. As two individual minds
are not the same, knowledge of different minds is not the same, thus
leading to inequality, which engenders many negative qualities and
conflicts. On the other hand, pure Consciousness of each Divine Fragment
is the same, is wisdom, knows all that is worth knowing and more, and so
all Divine Fragments are same and equal, can merge and re-emerge and so
have no sense of separateness. Besides, Pure Consciousness is pure light
of wisdom and so can illuminate and remove ignorance. Where there is no
ignorance, there is no possibility of mistakes and error.

Not only that, but pure Consciousness is the cognisor of the mind itself
and observes all the modifications of the mind, a fact which the mind
itself is not aware of because the mind cannot observe itself. As Sage
Patanjali says in the Yoga Sutra, IV(18): "The Lord of the mind, the
perceiver (the Self, the Divine Fragment), is ever aware of the constantly
active mind stuff, the effect-producing cause." And further, in IV(19):
"Because it can be seen or cognized, it is apparent that the mind is not
the source of illumination." IV(20): "Neither can it (mind) know two
objects simultaneously, itself and that which is external to itself."
IV(21): "If knowledge of the mind by a remoter mind is postulated, an
infinite number of knowers must be inferred and the sequence of memory
patterns and reactions would tend to infinite confusion."

Refer to diagrams 1, 2, 3a and 3b. They are all processes of the

brain. Up to stage 3a, the processes are of the modifications of the
brain, i.e. neural processes. Stage 3b is free from modifications, yet
is not a state of pure consciousness. Only stage 3c is a state where the
Self, Purusha or Divine Fragment, is "the Lord of the brain/mind", as
Sage Patanjali puts it in the Yoga Sutra. This relation of brain/mind and
the Self is distinct, and it is so from the beginning of Svahah, first
sub-stage on the downward arc, till the time the brain/mind surrenders and
accepts the Self as the Lord and possessor of brain/mind and body/senses.
Even from this first sub-stage in Svahah, the Self is conscious of all the
mental processes of the individual brain/mind/(buddhi) dying and being
born with fresh bodies.

Chapter 6

Svahah -- Bhuvah -- Bhuh --- The Universes of Existence

Existence has begun -- a hypothetical case, as if one can trace the

beginning ever. The Ring-pass-not encompasses Existence with its three
universes both on the downward and upward arcs. Nothing is actually
strictly segregated by sub-stages and by downward and upward arc as yet.

Existence begins with the beginning of the most subtle universe, Svahah.
In Svahah the Divine Fragments enter via the Ring-pass-not, the Great
Divide. After the unbearable pressures during their maiden voyage through
the Ring-pass-not (a hypothetical case), they find themselves a little
`stunned' for a fraction of a moment (a difficulty of our language to
express their condition), and on landing in Svahah universe find
themselves encased in a single electronic or mental body -- very subtle,
pliable and capable of providing great freedom (from our point of view,
but a confinement for the Divine Fragments in comparison to their earlier
state) -- equipped with a very fine, sensitive thinking instrument, buddhi
or intuition -- the highest state of awareness beyond which even the
`gentle substance', Universal Divine Mind, itself cannot go -- to go along
with very refined senses and nearly unlimited possibilities of
actualization, i.e. free will.

Very quickly in this first enormously long life span in Svahah (again a
hypothetical case), the Divine Fragments regain their original bearings,
but by that time the body and buddhi have taken the reins in their hands
and have united to act independently of the encased Divine Fragment. This
aggregate starts its living, completely disregarding the encased Divine
Fragment within, and the Purusha, the Divine Fragment, graciously remains
as observer and witness, content to watch the show, namely all the
various modifications of the brain/mind, yet ever ready to help and guide
but only if asked. But Nature and Existence have so ordained and arranged
that the call for help and cooperation never comes from buddhi, so the
thinking instrument and mind are given a high stature and placed on a
special pedestal in Existence. Since that time, for eternities upon
eternities they have never given that up on the downward arc, and on the
upward arc too they do not wish to. Only in some rare instances has it
happened otherwise, but these are the exceptions that prove the rule.

This continues down the sub-stages in Svahah, till the last sub-stage at
the end of Svahah is reached, and the Divine Fragment prepares to taste
and experience the second and less subtle universe, Bhuvah, at the end of
the last, seventh, sub-stage of Svahah.

Along with the Divine Fragments, sound of first grade -- para-nada -- also
passed through the major Ring-pass-not and in doing so was fractured so
that its original tones will never be heard in Existence. It becomes sound
of second grade -- pashyanti-nada -- losing a quarter of its original
resonance. This is brought about because the vibrations of Existence, even
in Svahah, could never bear the intense vibrations of para-nada which
would have reduced Svahah universe to ashes and dust. Hence Nature's own
ways of manipulations.

So we now begin our journey in Svahah universe from the beginning of the
first sub-stage onwards to the last sub-stage of Svahah. It is improper
for us to say this because these processes of involution and evolution
have been going on endlessly and there can be no possibility of tracing a
beginning -- but, hypothetically, we begin at the beginning of Existence.
We have noted the cardinal aspects of Existence along with the
sub-aspects; this `nucleus of mischief', we know, is the cause of all the
mountains of mischief we find today.

In Svahah, the immense and the large Divine Fragments first enter in the
first sub-stage (#7), followed by small fragments at the beginning of the
second sub-stage (#6), and finite fragments in the late second sub-stage
(#6) near the end. This sequence, which started in Creation in Janah
Universe, will be repeated in the same manner in the next universe Bhuvah;
this gap will then be a little reduced in the grossest universe Bhuh, i.e.
the small and finite Fragments will enter at the end of the first
sub-stage (#7) of Bhuh. (Note that the numbering of sub-stages in the
Creation/Existence chart is relative to the ascending arc -- our humanity
being in sub-stage 4 of Bhuh thereon -- whereas on the descending arc
discussed in this chapter the sub-stages are referenced in the order in
which they are traversed. Thus sub-stage 7 of Svahah, the highest in
Existence, is also the first sub-stage traversed during involution.)

All four types of Divine Fragments have their external coverings, and so
different that it is not possible to recognize. We are, however, tracing
only the finite Divine Fragments, the first series of celestial humanity
of Janah Universe, now in Svahah with encasing of mental body, thinking
instrument or self-mind, buddhi, senses and free will. The societies of
these finite Divine Fragments are scattered far-flung in the huge expanse
of Svahah universe, in Xo conditionings with Xo possibilities, but each
area can hold only a limited number of possibilities for fulfillment so
that an immense number of probabilities remain unfulfilled.

With `individual mind' and thinking instrument enters skill of thinking

and the product of this skillful thinking we term knowledge. The quality
of this individual mind, contaminated by individual thinking, creates
thought pictures which are both simultaneously released into the
atmosphere as well as become memory patterns that are stored under a super
micro filing process -- not like original and duplicate copies, but rather
like original and near-original photocopies. Roughly 25% of the total
neural energy in electrical form is used up thus by the body system, the
remaining 75% simply vanishes into the silent areas of the brain. How is
one to make the best use of this profuse waste?

As life proceeds in the first sub-stage of Svahah, these thought pictures,

the memory patterns called sanskaras, accumulate. If you refer to diagrams
1, 2 and 3a, you will notice that the process in all the three diagrams
is the same; only, the individual cleanses his thought processes and his
emotional, sex and intellectual sub-stations within the registration area
and transforms his mental intensity ratio for the intellectual, emotional,
sex and movement centers from 2:4:8:2 towards 5:2:2:1. But the process
still remains the same: from crude, automatic reflex action, which is a
neural process, one comes to the stage of clear, logical reasoning, which
is also a neural process. On the downward arc, this happens in reverse
order, from 5:2:2:1 towards 2:4:8:2.

Only in diagram 3b does this process take a distinct turn. It is actually

a different process altogether, and once again the individual thinking
instrument reaches the high state of intuition it started with in the
beginning of Svahah. And then one has still to go beyond and reach stage
3c which is quite different from and beyond stage 3b. On the downward arc,
stage 3c does not exist even in the beginning. This clearly means that
when Existence began, in the beginning of the first sub-stage (#7) of
Svahah it was possible to work at stage 3b only and due to the cardinal
law that no attempt be made to return to the source, stage 3c and
practices of stage 3c were prohibited. But later, on the upward arc after
reaching nadir, this cardinal law, this prohibition, was withdrawn and, as
such, progress from stage 3b to 3c by practices of dharna, dhyana and
samadhi could be carried out. Release from Existence into Creation could
now be obtained, and knowledge gives way to wisdom, to understanding, and
to pure Consciousness.

Now as the body, mind and thinking instrument buddhi of Svahah universe
began to live their `life', they found that by the end of a certain
period, body and mind were exhausted and needed rest, or what we call
sleep. The difference is that in our day we get tired or exhausted within
a few hours of daylight and at night we need sleep to repair our body.
This period of waking was also very extended in Svahah, but even if it
were as extended as our present few hundred earth years, which would be
one waking day in Svahah, at the end of that period the mental body and
the thinking instrument, buddhi, needed rest or sleep.

In sleep, the thinking instrument (as with our present day brain) was not
completely shut off with the result that thought forms were witnessed in
this state. They were differentiated from thought forms in the waking
condition and were termed dreams. Actually there is no difference -- both
are, in a way, dream states. This dream state was designated as illusory
and the so-called waking state as real. From this arose many theories,
even today forming part of certain yoga practices. Some meditate on
objects in dreams and some on the meaning of dreams. All these are to be
grouped under unsound practices, along with developed theories on diet.

The subtle body in Svahah universe has a long life span because the
energies of life, awareness and emotions could function for longer
duration with the lesser resistance in the subtle universe Svahah, but
ultimately it degenerates and dies. This resistance increases sub-stage by
sub-stage as everything becomes grosser and grosser and is maximum in Bhuh
universe, so that the life span becomes shorter and shorter and is the
shortest at nadir. The Divine Fragments are immortal; the body/brain/mind
and senses wither and die. It is immaterial whether the period of such
cycles of birth and death be a moment or an eternity -- in Existence the
mortality of body/brain/mind and senses replaces the immortality of Divine
Fragments.

Hence the law of repetitions or cycles, which again could be of varying

length from very short to very long, is therefore applicable. The rule of
repetition in Existence means a series of deaths and births of bodies,
minds and senses, so a process and a method is laid down as to what
happens at death and before birth (explained later in chapter 8). This
degeneration and death is only of the body/brain/mind and senses; nothing
can destroy the Divine Fragment. There is no power in Existence that can
even touch this inner Being, the Purusha. Death demands a birth just as
birth demands a death, they are both just the two sides of a coin and go
on forever repeating. The misunderstanding, wailing and crying is of the
body and mind and for the body and mind only; for one who has seen and
knows the Self, the Divine Fragment (if there be one who has), that one is
free from all unhappiness and pain.

After a proportionately great length of time, this mental or electronic

body degenerates and ultimately `dies' and disintegrates. Now arise
speculations on form, senses, and `life', and with that some place where
this life has departed to or comes from. Life comes not from or goes back
to any place -- it is an energy created within the bodies and has its ebb
and final stoppage. Now arises speculation on birth, on good life and bad
life, and some place where there is justice to the individual for one's
good or bad life. With Svahah universe and the beginning of Existence, the
outer coverings or bodies have male and female aspects and this brings in
theories of love and attraction to each other. In Creation, Divine
Fragments have no such distinctions; they are all same, needing no life,
no sex and no procreation.

So `life' as living becomes complicated and all sorts of theories and

practices begin, right from the earliest sub-stages of Svahah and not, as
we presume, only in our time and in our days on our Earth. But it will
take time and study to be convinced of this fact, that millions of
societies of humanities exist not only in our seen, cellular universe
Bhuh, but millions and millions more in Bhuvah and Svahah universes also.
With these complications of living and dying and being born, now arise
and begin the ceremonies, rites and prayers for each occasion. Much
learned thought is expressed on all these aspects -- all of them also have
to be included under unsound practices. From these further arise the
theories of mind and senses, of impulses and sanskaras, and of practices
relating to them. In our days we have the same theories that arise from
dim past, due to age-old patterns we call sanskaras. These memory patterns
can never die because, unlike body, mind and senses, they are not
destroyed and fresh ones fabricated at each birth, but are recorded
permanently in the three super micro recording monitors and are the
permanent cause or link of our repeated lives in samsara.

But one point is to be recorded and understood clearly, that with Svahah,
first sub-stage, begins the long, timeless journey down the arc, with
vibrations falling rapidly and constantly, with mind and thinking
instrument and senses becoming cruder, duller and grosser with time, all
becoming more and more clouded. This is unlike in our present day when
body, thinking instrument and senses, being on the upward arc of
evolution, all become increasingly clearer and more refined because of
rapid and constant increase in vibrations. Though we are on the middle
stages of the gross universe Bhuh, and nowhere near Svahah universe,
the great liberation, a fact for us, is that even in the first, highest
sub-stage of Svahah, glorious though it would be in comparison to our
present stage, there is no return to the source possible, whilst with us
it is possible. Individuals can, with diligence and correct practices
under an advanced Transcendental Teacher, go beyond the first sub-stage of
Svahah and enter Creation, i.e. Janah Universe, home of the Divine
Fragments. This is indeed the great liberation.

From all these, now in our times, arise the theories of return to the
source, and the practices most recommended are inhibition of the thinking
process, i.e. mano-nirodh, and the final destruction of all memory
patterns, for as long as these sanskaras persist, samsara will persist.
But this inhibition of the thinking process cannot last for any prolonged
time, since it is an impossible and unnatural state for the human mind to
be thus held for a long time, and the individual returns to normal
awareness of life. But during such practices the sanskaras are destroyed
and, along with other such practices, all the sanskaras are finally
completely disintegrated. In higher practices of scientific yoga, one also
learns how the energy of `life' and the energy of `the essence of
consciousness' are generated. But in a normal person without knowledge of
proper grades of energies, whatever is produced is used up, so that death
ensues, and both death and birth remain outside the scope of knowledge and
awareness.

Not until the individual mind and the thinking instrument, the senses and
the body, realize that there is `something mighty' encased within, with
all wisdom and power to liberate, not until after such understanding is
arrived at and practices are followed under guidance of this mighty Divine
Fragment does final liberation come. To term the experiences of Existence
as illusory is also not correct, for they are real in themselves but not
necessary. They are taken on by the Self as a game, the game of Existence,
along with its binding rules. Whenever the awareness of the presence and
ultimately guidance of this Self dawns on the mind and thinking instrument
and in turn guides the body and senses, liberation from the game of
Existence follows. At no stage is the Self, the Divine Fragment, forgetful
of its origin and power to return to the source, the Divine Wholeness. The
Divine Fragment, Purusha, is changeless -- pure Cosmic Consciousness. It
is the body, mind and senses that are of the opinion that they know and
can find the way. Their wrong attitude is to be replaced by a correct
attitude as explained later.

The cunning mind, the individual mind, with its thinking instrument, at
first blames the body for misleading it; but, in fact, it is the
individual mind with its thinking instrument that is responsible. Here we
quote:
"Because I had forsaken unity with Thee (the Divine Fragment),
Because I, fool, had made my body Me,
Because I did not know Thee who didst dwell in me,
Therefore I wandered through raging hells,
Because I threw away my very Self,
I therefore was in chains."
Mind and thinking instrument lead to knowledge. Knowledge, however deep
and vast, is useless for it cannot lead to liberation, but is only a load
that an individual carries. Sattva is merely a quality and it is also to
be transcended and the pure state of Cosmic Consciousness entered into,
or rather experienced.

Now the modifications of the mind produce thought forms, or experiences.

These experiences are either pleasurable or painful and so pairs of
opposites arise. Pain and pleasure are experienced through contact of the
mind with the objects through the senses which are the essential
intermediaries between mind and objects. What is painful is avoided and
what is pleasurable is indulged in. But, in the long run, what is
pleasurable gives results that are painful and what at first seems painful
gives results that are good, and, as such, the whole mode of living is
readjusted. New experiences are indulged in with the same results.
Brain/mind and their modifications create intensities in the thinking
instrument (refer to the intensity charts) and also memory of all
that is experienced in miniature pictures as memory patterns of which only
the important ones as stated earlier are recorded in the super micro
recording monitor. The fresh body, mind, senses and free will have the
inherent ingredient of these memory patterns and are instinctively wedded
to them for guidance to fresh experience. In the fifth of the eight steps
of yoga, viz. pratyahara, abstraction or detachment, is taught how the
senses are to be detached from the sense organs.

So in Svahah we experience limitations, desires and non-fulfillment of

desires, frustrations, greed, possessiveness, some in mild degree, some in
medium degree and some in high degree, and all that we experience today,
what we call sanskaras, are that old, eternities upon eternities old.

After seven sub-stages down the arc, the societies of humanities in

far-flung areas of Svahah now appear quite different as compared to those
in the first sub-stage of Svahah, and are now ready to step down into the
next, less subtle but fascinating and alluring universe, Bhuvah, where
psychic powers abound. And at the end of the last sub-stage of Svahah, the
Divine Fragments, as individuals or personalities, pass on to enter
Bhuvah. As they enter this Bhuvah universe from the most subtle universe
Svahah, they pass through the minor ring-pass-not between Svahah and
Bhuvah. The effect is of further encasing them in grosser bodies with
grosser thinking instruments. Also, the grade of sound in this Bhuvah
universe is fractured and further loses a quarter of its resonance.

So we now enter Bhuvah universe of psychic powers, to follow the further

journey of the Divine Fragments. The universe of Bhuvah is encompassed by
Svahah, which means that Svahah is much larger than Bhuvah; and Bhuvah
encompasses the grossest, seen, physical universe, Bhuh, so Bhuvah is much
larger than Bhuh, -- and yet we think that our seen universe is endless!

The first secondary force field was generated in Janah Universe. The
second secondary force field was generated in the last sub-stage of
Svahah. From interaction of these two, a `substance' known as
mula-prakriti or primordial matter was generated for Bhuvah universe.
Actually, we can say it is Universal Divine Mind, at much lower vibrations
than found in Svahah, coupled together with the myriad shades of Divinity
in all planes and outer coverings. Humanities in different societies are
far-flung in this universe and each is totally isolated in amongst Xo
conditionings.

The universe of Svahah was one of concepts, and all false concepts were
generated there and are still perpetuated. There is no language as we
understand but communication was far better there than what we have. All
is inky blackness and silence from our view-point because sound is of
pashyanti grade in Svahah, too high in vibrations for us. Bhuvah is the
universe of glamour and of psychic powers. Here the spectrum of sound is
narrower than in Svahah and has been further fractured, hence it cannot
reach where it was possible in Svahah. We say only madhyama grade of sound
prevails. So also, light in this molecular universe becomes four times
slower than in the electronic Svahah universe and is now only four times
the speed we find in our seen, cellular universe Bhuh.

The thinking instrument in Svahah was buddhi, and now in Bhuvah it is

manas. Perception is poorer than in Svahah, though the eye can still
penetrate where our x-rays cannot. In Svahah, the godhead was Universal
Divine Mind, i.e. individuals can, under certain conditions, address
their prayers to this godhead, but none can exceed it -- under no
circumstances can their prayers reach beyond this godhead, for sound in
Svahah is, as we have noted above, in pashyanti grade and so cannot
recross the first and major Ring-pass-not -- even if it did try, it would
only be fractured further. This point is very important for later study
and practices.
Now due to grosser conditions in Bhuvah, it is not possible to reach this
Universal Divine Mind through prayers, because sound is further fractured
in crossing the minor ring-pass-not. It is replaced by worship of gods as
powers of Nature, which are the godhead of this universe. The sound
quality is of madhyama grade and with this sound as prayers, individuals
can, under certain conditions, address their prayers only to this godhead.
But sound now cannot recross over the second and minor ring-pass-not
between the universes Svahah and Bhuvah, and reach Universal Divine Mind
as godhead. Some do worship the godhead, but it is only a vague concept.

Here begins the figment of the human mind of Bhuvah and the first
construct to be created and worshiped is the Trinity aspect, like
Brahma--Vishnu--Shiva, or Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, or such others,
the whole range of trinities rampant all over the world. These major gods
are followed by lesser gods, whether Jupiter or Indra, the names do not
matter, for language is different in all the myriad far-flung
conditionings of each universe and with that each of the myriad societies
of humanities creates their own names of gods and the Trinity aspects.

When we say that the Universal Divine Mind in Bhuvah is not reached, it
does not mean that the humanities in Bhuvah do not think of God as the
only power and source behind all Creation and Existence, or don't believe
in other such aspects of God, including the Trinity aspect, vague though
it be. But their prayers, said either by themselves or by their priests,
cannot and do not reach Universal Divine Mind, the godhead of Svahah,
because the sound vibrations cannot pierce the minor ring-pass-not between
Svahah and Bhuvah universes and reach the godhead of Svahah universe for
the simple reason that madhyama grade of sound would be further fractured
in recrossing the minor ring-pass-not and cannot travel in Svahah universe
where the grade of sound is pashyanti.

This is a fact which we must logically understand. All Existence is based

on law and order, and on the most tantalizing aspects of vibrations. When
science will learn how to increase and decrease rates of vibration, it
will be able to work many wonders and at the same time will understand
many presently unexplainable facts.

What has happened is very much similar to what happened in Creation. At

the end of its seventh sub-stage, Divine Wholeness began flowing into
fragmentations of Xo different Divine Fragments, and relatively truly so.
Similarly, all these are fragmentations of Universal Divine Mind --
the major gods, minor gods and insufficient power points (points of
intersection of less than three rays, now as energies in Existence), even
worshiped in trees and stones. And just as inspite of the four types of
Divine Fragments, Divine Wholeness is and continues to be Divine
Wholeness, so Universal Divine Mind also, in spite of these major, minor
and insignificant fragmentations or power points, continues to be
Universal Divine Mind of Existence. This aspect is to be properly
understood when one offers prayers, as to where and up to what limit they
can reach, and if prayers be sent beyond, can they ever go beyond a
certain stage?

Now in Bhuvah, the Divine Fragments are encased in two bodies: the mental
body is very gross compared to what it was in the first sub-stage of
Svahah and is now cojoined to the most subtle type of astral body in this
first, highest sub-stage of Bhuvah. The astral body being primary and the
mental being secondary for this Bhuvah universe, the molecular world, the
astral/molecular body has to function and so is the primary body on the
downward arc. Now restrictions are greater and grosser conditionings
continue to worsen with the sub-stages in the entire expanse of Bhuvah.
Bodies are less flexible, less subtle, and get smaller and smaller in size
and their life span also becomes shorter and shorter. The two bodies
function at different rates of vibrations and this disturbs or breaks the
inner harmony. (Such a case did not arise in Svahah universe because there
was only one, mental, body.) So discord and conflicts multiply due to this
natural cause and in turn create outwardly greater discord and conflicts
in the life of the individual.

In the Mahah region, the major Ring-pass-not, in the individual's causal

body or receptacle is added the astral super micro recording monitor for
all important (as stated earlier) modifications of manas in Bhuvah
universe, and in the individual manas is implanted a second super micro
transmitting monitor, and these two between them keep uninterrupted
communication, faithfully and unfailingly.

In Svahah, the body got exhausted and needed replacement, i.e. it `died',
perhaps a million times. During the journey down the seven sub-stages in
Bhuvah universe, it gets exhausted much earlier and so is replaced much
more often than in Svahah, i.e. it dies and is born much more often, say
about 2-3 million times in going down the seven sub-stages of
Bhuvah. The law is the same: every time the exhausted bodies disintegrate
completely but the memory patterns of each life span lives on as recorded
for all time in the super micro recording monitors. The Divine Fragment,
resting in the causal body or receptacle between death and the next birth,
watches and supervises whether the fresh bodies are fabricated as per
recordings. The Divine Fragment is unbiased because It has no untruth
within. All this is explained in detail in chapter 8.

This continues down the cycles or sub-stages of Bhuvah and at the end of
the last sub-stage of Bhuvah, the last mental body is disintegrated and
completely destroyed, for in the next universe, Bhuh, both on the downward
and upward arcs, the mental body will not be needed, and when needed (as
explained later) in the distant future can be refabricated from the
recordings in the mental super micro recording monitor.

In this Bhuvah universe, the spectrum of sound, colour and light is

considerably further decreased, besides mind, body, senses and free will
becoming grosser and grosser, sub-stage by sub-stage, for the drop in
vibrations continues at a rapid and constant rate. Everything gets more
and more restricted and cruder, the mind and thinking instrument manas
also get more and more befogged. The best that can happen, or can be
expressed, in sound is in madhyama grade, because sound, in once again
passing through the second ring-pass-not between Svahah and Bhuvah is
further fractured, and the steady drop in vibrations in all Existence on
the downward arc is also responsible. But to us in our present condition,
even this sound, light and colour would be invisible because of the high
rate of vibrations and would appear as dark, inky black space.

Possibilities decrease and probabilities increase, and also the means to

accomplish are not as good as they had been in Svahah universe. Desires
keep multiplying and endeavours also increase feverishly, but means to
accomplish being less capable, and now further guided by rajas and tamas
qualities instead of sattva, give poorer and more vicious results, and
lead to cruder and more brutal thoughts, motives and actions. Frustrations
increase on all sides and grosser, cruder motives come into operation
leading to obviously cruder and grosser results.

In Svahah universe, the individual lived as per diagram 3a (refer to the

diagrams), and now in Bhuvah universe the individual lives as per diagram
2. The ratio in the registration area alters gradually from 5:2:2:1
towards 2:4:8:2. In Svahah, the individual, depending on buddhi, formed
the habit of not accepting any advice or aid from the wisdom of the Divine
Fragment encased within; now in Bhuvah it is not wanted by manas. And as
buddhi was dominant in Svahah, so is manas now dominant in Bhuvah.

Manas becomes highly egotistic. With manas becoming more and more fogged
and obscured with each succeeding sub-stage, egotistic tendencies become
more and more ruthless and more cruelty is displayed. Life is enjoyed to
the utmost and cruelty abounds! Selfishness, possessiveness and ego
increase, this being a glamorous universe. Each individual is able to
acquire and build with psychic powers whatever is needed, or prevent
another from acquiring it. Use of psychic powers is incredible, beyond our
imagination, and employed specifically to harm one another. Bitterness and
conflicts are endless. Ignorance or avidya increases more and more as
`Truth' is understood less and less due to constant and rapid fall in
vibrations, and thinking instruments and mind becoming cruder.
In Svahah, the mental body was immensely elastic and enormous in size, its
awareness, along with that of buddhi was exceptionally great. But now in
Bhuvah, the astral body is substantially less elastic and smaller in size,
though in comparison to our body would still be very large and immensely
better. The awareness of the astral body and the thinking instrument,
manas, is much grosser than in Svahah and keeps becoming grosser and
grosser due to constant drop in vibrations, though compared to our brain
and our awareness is still very sharp. Real bondage is now experienced by
the Divine Fragment.

In the last three sub-stages of Bhuvah, and in Bhuh, the negative effects
of the rays, now in Existence as energies, become more and more
pronounced. In the last two sub-stages of Bhuvah, the ray 6 (as energy
(6)) creates and brings into play the energies of `life' and `awareness'
of the animal kingdom and lesser lives. Energies of deliberate damage and
crime prevail, so that this energy (6) is given full development from this
stage onwards, so as to give a parallel animal or lower kingdom, depicting
the myriad aspects of gross human manas in Bhuvah and even grosser brain
later in Bhuh. This concurrent development is found necessary as per a
natural law of resonance of vibrations. Hence much reciprocal and
interconnected relationships between the animal kingdom and such human
individuals in particular and most other in general who harbor and live by
the energies (2) and/or (4). But much misunderstanding along this line
needs to be clarified.

In Bhuh, as in Bhuvah, the finite Divine Fragments are encased in two

bodies, not mental and astral, i.e. electronic and molecular, as in
Bhuvah, but only astral and physical bodies, i.e. molecular and cellular,
are cojoined in Bhuh. As Bhuh is the physical, cellular universe, the
physical/cellular gross body is primary and the astral/molecular body is
secondary on the downward arc, and quite the reverse on the upward arc.
Both these bodies are cojoined but do not function as one, but with our
limited awareness and sense perception in Bhuh, we are not aware of the
other molecular or astral body.

It is little wonder then that we are skeptical about anything like Divine
Fragment being encased within. Just as in Svahah, where sight and senses
are so much more penetrating, the Divine Fragment was ignored, and in
Bhuvah, in spite of x-ray vision and sharp and extended senses, both the
mental body and the Divine Fragment were ignored, so too in Bhuh it is
understandable that, with our limited senses and sight penetration, both
the astral body and Divine Fragments are ignored. So it is little wonder
we and our science are so skeptical about their very existence.

The third secondary force field generated in Bhuvah creates a substance

known as matter or prakriti. Actually, it is the grossest state of
Universal Divine Mind. The matter we experience is limited: sub-stages 6-7
and 1-2 of Bhuh are not available for study in our part of the universe.
So about the subtlest and the grossest matter we have no conception. In
limited quantities in our galaxy such matter is found, but is far away.
There are about 100 humanity bearing worlds in our galaxy, which is shaped
like a metal coin 90,000 light years in diameter and 15,000 light years
in depth, and we may be among the last ten from the bottom of the list.
One such humanity bearing world is found in 1500-2000 light years cubed, a
little more or less, so we are totally isolated. This is our seen universe
and, to be honest, we know nothing about it at all. We only have vague and
fanciful scientific theories; all these conceptions and misconceptions
will have to be totally revised.

The spectrum of sound, light and colour is smallest. Passing through the
second minor ring-pass-not between Bhuvah and Bhuh, sound is again
fractured and has now lost three-fourths of its resonance and rhythm. What was
madhyama grade in Bhuvah is now only vaikheri sound in Bhuh, and so
everything is crudest. Some pundits claim according to some shastras that
para-nada can be created in Bhuh. But what according to them are four
types of sounds are only four grades of vaikheri sound. It is an illusion
that para-nada can be produced in Bhuh -- physically, we cannot go beyond
our means nor beyond laid-down laws.

So now begins the grossest of the three universes, encompassed,

interpenetrated and supported by Bhuvah universe. Bhuvah is far too subtle
a universe, and though interpenetrating our universe, we are not aware of
it, just as we are not aware of our astral body that interpenetrates our
physical body. But some individuals in Bhuvah on the downward arc are
aware of our universe and sometimes create mischief we cannot account for.
They are known in the shastras as asuras and are actually humanities on
sub-stages 1-2 and 2-1 of Bhuvah universe that are involved with us in
some manner due to working of energies (2) and (4).

What happens on the upward arc of Bhuh is quite different, so we shall

first trace this Bhuh universe from sub-stage 7 down to the last
sub-stage, thus reaching the grossest point nadir very near the point of
no return. In sub-stages 7 and 6 of early Bhuh, the physical body and even
the physical planet, in whatever galaxy they happen to be, are
molecular/cellular in texture, i.e. partly molecular and partly cellular,
as if in an intermediate state between pure Bhuvah and pure Bhuh. Brain
and mind are also molecular/cellular -- more elastic, less crude and less
gross, with senses far sharper than what we have at present.

As the sub-stages roll by, the forms and individual mind (or brain) become
more and more physical and less molecular. In sub-stage 7, the human body
or form is 35-40 feet tall, yet weighs hardly 15-17 kgs because matter is
comparatively very rare still. The planes of Existence, wherever they be
in whatever areas of far-flung galaxies, also change accordingly; the
planets also have the same molecular/cellular structures as the sub-stage
of individuals forming humanity on it, and are giants in size compared to
our Earth, far bigger and yet lighter. The temperatures at the planet's
equator are very low, more freezing than what we experience at our poles
during the coldest winters, and too inhospitable from our point of view.

Each sub-stage is an eternity of timelessness. Nature is never in a hurry

and the cosmic clock is very different from our Earth-based clock. As the
sub-stages roll by, from the seventh to the sixth to the fifth,
temperatures rise, but such conditionings are never in the same solar
system and often in quite a different galaxy. There are innumerable
different conditionings, but some basic aspects are similar: too cold and
too bright a light of a different type that our bodies cannot stand, and
totally different atmospheres, with oxygen missing in sub-stages 7-6-5,
and an over-abundance of oxygen in sub-stages 3-2-1, which increases
combustion and heat on such humanity-bearing planets of sub-stages 3-2-1.
These are far smaller than our Earth, but heavier.

In sub-stage 6, the size of the human body is a little smaller, 25-30 feet
in height, yet it weighs hardly 25 kg. The planets are of the same
structure and get comparatively smaller and heavier, and everything
becomes more cellular and less molecular. In sub-stage 5, all matter is
considerably more cellular: now the height of the human body is 15-20
feet, yet weighs hardly 50-60 kgs, and the size and structure of the
planets have also changed accordingly. These areas or conditionings are
far-flung in the vast expanse of Bhuh, so we have no knowledge or even
any conception of them, even so do we doubt whether such possibilities
exist.

In sub-stage 4, the conditions are nearly similar to what we experience,

but in some few areas only -- there are still innumerable conditionings
that differ though the basic conditions are nearly parallel. The size of
the body is 8-10 feet and it weighs about 80-90 kgs on an average.

In sub-stage 3, the human body becomes smaller, between 3 and 4 feet, and
weighs about 200-250 kgs on an average. Human beings stoop when they walk
and their hands seem to touch the ground. The planets they are found on
are much smaller than our Earth and yet far heavier. Matter is far more
opaque and heavy. Gravity keeps increasing and temperatures are
150-175 F on an average, absolutely unbearable from our point of view. In
sub-stage 2, the height of the human form is between 2 and 3 feet, yet it
weighs 300-350 kgs on an average, and the planets on which such humanity
is found are likewise small and very heavy; gravity has increased even
more, conditions have become more and more unbearable and temperatures are
between 200-250 F; human beings crawl on all fours.

In the last sub-stage 1 of Bhuh, now nearing nadir, the body size is
hardly 1-1.5 feet, yet the enormous weight is on an average 450 kgs; and
the substance of which the body is made is extremely hard and heavy. The
temperatures are between 250-300 F and human forms find it difficult even
to crawl. There is no moon with all these planets that harbor humanities
of sub-stages 3-2-1 and 1-2-3; the planets are themselves very small and
extremely heavy.

The temperatures keep increasing and the life span also keeps decreasing.
In sub-stage 7 the life span is 900-1000 earth years, in the sixth it
reduces to 700-800 years and in the fifth it comes down to 300-400 years
on an average. In sub-stage 4 it is between 100 and 125 years. In the
lower sub-stages the life span drops to 40 years, to 20-25 years, and is
between 7 and 10 years only in the third, second and first sub-stages
respectively.

Through sub-stages 7-6-5-4 of Bhuh, the astral remains cojoined with the
physical or cellular body. Just as in the last sub-stage of Bhuvah the
mental body was totally destroyed, leaving only the recordings in the
mental super micro recording monitor in the causal body, so at the end of
the fourth sub-stage on the downward arc, the astral is now completely
destroyed, the recordings remaining in the astral super micro recording
monitor in the causal body for future refabrication of the astral body
when required after many eternities. So in sub-stages 3-2-1 on the
downward arc and 1-2-3 on the upward arc in Bhuh, human beings no longer
have the astral or molecular body, and so only a single, gross, cellular
or physical body encases the Divine Fragment, because the astral, however
gross in comparison with the mental, is too subtle for these gross stages
and so is not cojoined to the cellular or physical body. This is as in
Svahah when there was only one body, the mental, encasing the Divine
Fragment. In Svahah, the Divine Fragments had come down from Janah
Universe of Creation through the major Ring-pass-not and were in close
proximity to it, and the numbing pressures experienced did not require any
further loading, so one single mental body was found sufficient around the
Divine Fragment in Svahah.

With Bhuh universe, the third seed atom or super micro recording monitor
is placed in the causal body and a super micro transmitting monitor is
implanted inside the brain of each individual in the Xo societies of human
beings, far-flung in the vast expanses of our seen, gross universe Bhuh,
which we can never see totally from our awkward position in the galaxy.
These two super micro monitors are in constant communication and all
motives, thoughts and acts that need be regarded as harmful and dangerous
to others are recorded along with certain characteristics of the
individual also.

Our bodies cannot bear the various conditionings and areas in other
galaxies and we have not the least idea how and in what conditionings
other humanities can survive. One would be amazed. Our present
conditionings, even equatorial forests, would seem as high heaven, and
what would we do under such conditionings if we cry and wail and are so
miserable here and now. At those stages, time seems to stand still, but is
so felt as to make the conditions last more vigorously and painfully. But
the greatest relief for us is to know that we have, eternities before,
passed through these conditionings ourselves and are now on the upward
arc, and we need not have any apprehension of yet having to go through
such grades of extreme conditionings as in sub-stages 1-2-3 and 3-2-1 of
Bhuh.

Till nadir is reached, the so-called law of causation or karma is not

operative or prevailing, as some claim it is. So why such conditionings?
Is it punishment? That cannot be with the law of causation not being
operative? Then how can such conditions exist? We think we are so
miserable and suffer because of this law of causation. It will be
explained later, but please note here that the law of causation is not
operative anywhere.

But the humanities of sub-stages 3-2-1 and 1-2-3 of Bhuh are to be seen to
be believed. The wildest animals of our world, even from one million years
B.C. of the ancient world, the ugliest creatures imaginable, would appear
too gentle in comparison, and Darwin would have been tempted to suggest,
if he ever did see such conditionings, that the ape had evolved from the
grossest types of humanities! Truth is stranger than fiction, but this
Truth has to be realized.

To say that the conditionings in sub-stages 3-2-1 are inhospitable and

unbearable is to put it mildly. It is like the vague concept of `God' that
we have, only the other end of the spectrum. Such conditionings would be
impossible, nay fatal, for our humanity; we would not be able to set foot
there. We would not be able to cover a hundred yards in hours and would
fall dead from sheer exhaustion, so intense is the massive gravity and
intense heat. All living creatures, including human beings, living in such
conditions are such as to be so utterly different from what we know in our
conditionings.

Even light becomes dull and dark -- a merest shadow -- because the
atmosphere is thickly covered with clouds of stray particles, not only
dust, for it rains constantly and it is so humid that dry dust would not
be so easily found in the atmosphere. Even the rain water that falls looks
muddy from some chemicals of the atmosphere dissolving in it as it falls
to the surface. Half the surface is bare and hard-rocky, with clusters of
vegetation leaving open rocky spaces. Clouds are dark and foreboding,
deep, thick and vast, and even at noon it is like twilight, but no cooler
for that matter. The day is always shorter than the night and the heat is
intense throughout. The nights are absolutely dark and the outside stellar
creation, or outer space, is not seen. It is difficult for the sun of such
a solar system to penetrate the atmosphere through to the vegetation. We
on the fourth sub-stage can have no conception whatsoever of these
phenomena unless we see and study it.

The insect world is amazing: on the ground, under the ground, in the
atmosphere and on the vegetation, together with other strange lower life
forms. The lower life in these sub-stages 3-2-1 and 1-2-3 is profusely
created and also as crude, and live together with the human beings of
these sub-stages, as different animals live together, for these humanities
have no idea of huts or caves or even underground holes or any type of
dwellings, nor any idea of clothes or any type of coverings. Their skin,
is a hide tougher than a rhinoceros'. They eat uncooked food for they have
no idea of fire or its uses and are afraid even to go near natural fire;
they eat or get eaten by whatever is at hand, meaning human beings to
human beings or human beings to animals, whichever of them is stronger,
for even the idea of any weapons, even a stone as weapon, is lacking.

The human brain, which is very large in sub-stage 7 (nearly twice as large
as at present), keeps becoming smaller, though not in the same proportion
as the size of the body, till it is hardly one square inch of gray matter
in sub-stage 1 near nadir. Thinking is very nearly zero, sight and vision
are much too restricted, sound range is greatly diminished, the idea of
direction is poor and of dimension has lessened as to become minimal.
There is no question of hunting for food for even that would tax their
stupid, small brains, though brute strength is enormous. Once again on the
upward arc the brain grows bigger and bigger and in our fourth sub-stage
on the upward arc is a little over half the size it will grow to. So, much
development is wanting, alongside many further biological developments,
till it will be nearly twice its present size in the seventh sub-stage on
the upward arc.

The physical body withers away soon under such harsh conditionings under
the intense intensity of the Divine Fragment from within. Whereas there
were a million births and deaths in Svahah's seven sub-stages and 2-3
million births and deaths in Bhuvah's seven sub-stages, now there will be
4-5 million births and deaths in Bhuh's seven sub-stages. The laws
governing these events are the same, except for some little changes when
two bodies are cojoined and when there is a single body. The gross body
degenerates and decomposes, or is eaten away, in sub-stages 3-2-1 and
1-2-3-early 4. The Divine Fragment returns to the causal body and when
time for a fresh body is due as per the laws of cycles, the super micro
recording monitor fabricates a fresh body under guidance of the Divine
Fragment. Details of death and birth cycles we shall trace later.

Though in Svahah there are only a million births and deaths as compared to
twice that number in Bhuvah and many times that number in Bhuh, the total
time required to complete the sub-stages in Svahah is the longest, in
Bhuvah it is half this length of time, and in Bhuh it is a quarter of the
total length of time required in Svahah. This is so because in Svahah,
each life span is enormously long and the time between each so-called
death of one body and birth in a new body is also very long. Even so the
seven sub-stages of Bhuh require eternities of time, or timelessness.

In sub-stages 1-2-3 on the upward arc of Bhuh, the conditions are very
much the same as in sub-stages 1-2-3 on the downward arc, the body and
mind are also very much the same, yet there is some vital and subtle
difference on the upward arc. The earliest home sapiens, and even those
species preceding them, would appear as classical species and evolved
creatures before the specimens of sub-stages 3-2-1 and 1-2-3.

"They that know and can distinguish between the shapes of Nature and the
seeds of Nature shall, by the first, cross over the perishable in safety,
and shall, passing beyond the second, attain immortal life." Perhaps
science, keen on shapes, is missing something.
"That is perfect, this is perfect, perfect comes from perfect. Take
perfect away from perfect, the remainder is perfect."
"Whatever that lives is full of the Lord-claim-nothing!"

But the fact remains that though human beings in sub-stages 3-2-1 on the
downward arc and 1-2-3 on the upward arc, especially in sub-stage 1 near
nadir in Bhuh, may appear lower and wilder than our most primitive
animals, yet each individual has within, encased in that brute body, a
Divine Fragment, which the best of life's other creatures, however docile
and intelligent, cannot hope to have ever. And without this immortal,
imperishable nucleus, there is no continuity of any other life form in the
other kingdoms as an individual, as one single individual -- any human
being -- can trace right up to Janah Universe and Divine Wholeness through
eternities upon eternities.

Chapter 7

Return to the Source --- The Journey Back Home

What is ordained in Existence by Divine Wholeness is that the Divine
Fragments make no attempt to take the journey back home to the source till
they individually reach nadir, the grossest point in the grossest universe
Bhuh, and now it has been reached. We also noted that buddhi in Svahah and
manas in Bhuvah totally disregarded the encased Divine Fragment, and in
Bhuh the human mind and brain is not even aware of its existence. Even the
existence of the cojoined astral body is not accepted by the humanities of
sub-stage 4 of Bhuh today.

But it is not ordained that there will be automatic return to the source;
nor is any help offered or any hint given about the journey back to the
source. It indeed seems true what Omar Khayyam has to say in his satirical
poem:
"Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried,
Asking, `What Lamp had Destiny to guide
Her little Children stumbling in the Dark?'
And -- `A blind Understanding!' Heav'n replied."

And what he says satirically later also appears to be true:

"Oh Thou, who didst with Pitfall and with Gin,
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with Predestination round
Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?"

Existence has thus far rolled down a complete half circle -- the three
universes have been traversed and at last nadir has been reached. So what
should we expect next? Now comes the greatest binding term of the whole
game of Existence, so sportingly accepted and played out by all Divine
Fragments ever since they willingly stepped out of their Janah Universe of
Creation and into Existence through the Ring-pass-not. What is it? The
absolutely misunderstood and wrongly expressed laws of causation and
karma, of sin and retribution, are to be set aside -- no such laws exist.
There can be no sin and no retribution in a game, however complicated, of
Existence, sportingly played out by Divine Fragments, but a logical factor
arises from the game played so far down the cycles, from the highest
sub-stage of Svahah to the last sub-stage of Bhuh. It is that:

(1) In Svahah, each Divine Fragment, i.e. each individual, had received a
fresh, new mental body and thinking instrument, buddhi, with accompanying
senses and free will in most perfect condition.
(2) In Bhuvah, each Divine Fragment, i.e. each individual, had further
received a fresh, new astral body and thinking instrument, manas, with
accompanying senses and free will in most perfect condition.
(3) In Bhuh, each Divine Fragment, i.e. each individual, had also further
received a fresh, new physical body and thinking instrument, the brain,
with accompanying senses and free will in most perfect condition.
From harbouring certain motives, thoughts and acts that were dangerous and
harmful to others, these bodies and thinking instruments had caused and
themselves undergone certain degeneration. Such degeneration is now to be
made good, the bodies and thinking instruments are to be brought back up
to their originally given condition by regeneration. So at the end of the
journey along the downward arc, the game of Existence now demands this
final pound of flesh and the Divine Fragments, now at nadir, once again
sportingly accept to fulfil this aspect also of the rules of the game
under the law `acts of omission', though actually there has been neither
omission nor commission on their part.

It is also true that the downward arc, the journey which required constant
drop in vibrations, did also degenerate these bodies and thinking
instruments. So Existence promises to undo the drop in vibrations by
raising them from the point nadir onward at the exact rate, constant and
rapid, at which they were lowered. This Existence itself agrees to make
good, to `redeem' what was damaged -- nothing more and nothing less! The
degeneration which was due to acts, thoughts and motives that are
considered dangerous and damaging and which have been recorded in the
three super micro recording monitors have to be redeemed by the Divine
Fragments themselves.

This is now the new contract of the game of Existence. The bodies,
thinking instruments and senses are in such states at nadir that they
would never be able to do anything by themselves. Fortunately, each
individual Divine Fragment agrees to fulfil this task, to redeem all the
three bodies, thinking instruments and senses by removing the ill-effects
of such thoughts, motives and acts, till a stage arrives when the body and
thinking instrument will willingly cooperate. So now:

(1) Once the cellular/physical body, brain and senses are redeemed in Bhuh
on the upward arc, they are to be handed over to Existence with thanks and
set aside for all time -- one obstacle race is over and the first freedom,
or mukti from Bhuh universe, is obtained.
(2) Then, once the molecular/astral body, manas and senses are redeemed in
Bhuvah on the upward arc, they are to be handed over to Existence with
thanks and set aside for all time -- the second obstacle race is over and
the second freedom, or mukti from Bhuvah universe, is obtained.
(3) And finally, once the electronic/mental body, buddhi and senses are
redeemed in Svahah on the upward arc, they are to be handed over to
Existence with thanks and set aside for all time -- the third obstacle
race is over and the third freedom, or mukti from Svahah universe, is
obtained.

But why do we call this an `upward' arc, for we have also said that no
upward arc is ordained or promised? It is just because Existence is itself
bound by the rules of the game: Existence has also to redeem, to undo what
has been done unwittingly, without any sin on its part. However, certain
damage has been brought about, certain degeneration caused to bodies,
thinking instruments and senses, by lowering vibrations constantly to
enable Existence to reach the grossest point (perhaps mistakenly regarded
as the original or primal sin), and this act Existence has agreed to
redeem. So Existence is bound to increase vibrations at the same rapid and
constant rate -- this part Existence has to play and will play as its part
of the bargain. Due to this, the `substance' of the planes of Existence,
along with bodies, thinking instruments and senses, will also change from
gross to fine to subtle, just as on the downward arc they all degenerated
from subtle to fine to gross.

This retracing of steps by Existence automatically brings about what is

normally termed and understood as the `upward' arc. The return journey to
the source on the upward arc is usually called `evolution' and the prior
one down the arc as `involution'. The last act of the drama would be, of
course, the final entry of the Divine Fragments into Creation through the
Ring-pass-not, thus reaching `Home'. Never will it be felt more strongly,
more sweetly and with greater relief, but these are our words, our
emotions, of the mind, a limitation of our language to express; pure
Consciousness, the Divine Fragments, are above all such emotions, but will
be free once again from all restrictions as they originally were.

So Existence, after reaching nadir, lifts the first embargo, the

prohibition on the Divine Fragments forbidding any attempt to make the
return journey back home to the source -- what a relief! -- but only after
fulfilling the conditions of each individual redeeming bodies, thinking
instruments and senses that were given for experience in the three
universes of Existence on the downward arc, and thus removing all
degeneration caused by acts, thoughts and motives.

After accepting the rules and terms of the game of Existence in Janah
Universe of Creation, it is now 21 eternities later that the Divine
Fragments individually reach nadir. However, none can plead that such a
long period has obliterated all memory, for pure Consciousness need no
memory; this help only the mind needs. Pure consciousness is all-knowing
-- in Janah there is no need for any super micro recording monitors -- so
nothing is forgotten by the Divine Fragments and no excuse is given by
them. And ignorance of the rules cannot be pleaded and will not be heeded.
No divine intervention is sought by them, for to seek it, and to receive
it, would mean that the Divine Fragments -- you and I -- have failed to
make the grade! There is no need to seek divine intervention, there is no
need for prayers in a game. And to whom would you pray? To the godhead,
Universal Divine Mind? To Divine Wholeness, the ultimate in manifest
aspect? And would the sound of our prayers reach there? (Refer to our
earlier notes of chapter 6.)

Are not you and I the fragments of the Unique Original Force Field, the
Divine Wholeness? And so would you pray to your own Self and ask for help
from your own Self ultimately? Do not complicate issues. Keep cool and
think with a clear mind. Let your mind seek help at least now from the
Divine Fragment, that which has been ignored in sheer stupidity for all
these eternities! The game of Existence is being played by the Divine
Fragment and will be played like a real sport under all challenging
conditions. Unfortunately, in its foolishness mind thought it could be
supreme. It now finds the going hard and cries out, not knowing that
Existence is only a game played by the Divine Fragment. To the mind, it
all appears so real, so difficult and so endless, and so it is mind that
is tempted to ask for divine intervention.

Arise and be free! Let not this body and mind still keep you under the
illusion that they can deliver the goods. The brain is silly, the mind
incapable. You and I are the Divine Fragments, all-powerful and immortal
-- nothing can touch us. What are you afraid of? For long have you and I
depended on our brain and mind for a solution and a way out and were very
confident about them. All they can do is just strut like peacocks. What
have they really given us? Only misery and uncertainty. Now let us turn
away our face and follow the unfailing promptings of the Divine Fragment.

True it is that on the upward arc sub-stages 1-2-3 of Bhuh are horrible
and impotent, awareness is rudimentary, equally horrible and impotent, and
the brain, though growing constantly, is very small, undeveloped and
biologically far from complete. All links with any aspect of God or the
godhead (Universal Divine Mind) having being severed for eternities, one
has to start from scratch and rebuild this communication all over again.
It is a difficult task to say the least; however, this mighty task is only
given to mighty Divine Fragments. The pity is that we think this small
brain is going to fulfil it -- therein lies our mistake.

Come out of the illusion that you are this limited body and brain (you are
not), that you have to painfully collect knowledge and spirituality (it is
not so). Remember the quotation from chapter 1: "There is a greater
mystery than this, viz. ourselves being the Reality, we seek to gain
Reality. We think that there is something hiding the Reality and that must
be destroyed before Reality is gained. It is ridiculous. A day will dawn
when you will yourself laugh at your past efforts." For you are yourself
spiritual and all-wisdom -- that is really you; you are Cosmic
Consciousness, the Divine Fragment. Why do you hesitate to believe
yourself, your real Self?! Let not mind fool you any more. Has so much
indoctrination of Existence numbed and changed you?
"Has not come to thee an hour, a sudden gleam divine, precipitating,
bursting, all these bubbles, fashions, wealth, these eager aims, books,
arts, amours -- to utter nothingness!?" Let today be the day that has
dawned. Laugh out all your so-called miseries. Believe in your real Self;
be real again. This make-believe game has ended on reaching nadir. Now on
the upward arc, you are free to take the road of return to the source. How
long do you want to tarry here and why?

Enter Creation -- that is your Home! You have lived and survived too long
in Existence, this Existence which has been, allegorically, the vanavasa,
the forest life of exile of Rama and the Pandavas. Now you are not
obliged to carry on with this game, for you and I were generated in
Creation and, unlike everything around you, however majestic, you were and
are not the product of Existence. Existence is no place for you, Existence
does not exist for you. It is for those who believe they are the body and
the brain. Why believe in such wrong conjectures? As Sage Patanjali says
in sutra IV(15): "These two, consciousness (the Divine Fragment) and form
(the outer coverings -- the body/thinking instrument/mind/senses), are
distinct and separate; though forms may be similar, the consciousness may
function on differing levels of being." And further in II(22): "In the
case of the man who has achieved yoga, the objective universe (Existence)
has ceased to be. Yet it existeth still for those who are not free."

And, dear reader, what are the lessons we have learnt during our long
sojourn here in Existence? That Creation and Existence are not one and the
same; that only Divine Fragments of all four types are humanities and that
the physical/astral/mental bodies are not the human beings; that there
ought to be communication between all four types of Divine Fragments, the
celestial humanities. That, in Existence, only the energies of life,
awareness and lower life are produced; but Divine Fragments, who are pure
Cosmic Consciousness, have no need of such energies and so are immortal.

The Geeta describes these Divine Fragments as `Spirit': "There was never a
time when I was not, nor thou, nor these princes were not, there will
never be a time when we (as Divine Fragments) shall cease to be." "As a
man discards his threadbare robes and puts on new, so the Spirit throw off
Its worn-out bodies and takes fresh ones." (Each Divine Fragment can trace
the individual's lives through all the eternities.)

The law prohibiting return to the source has expired on reaching nadir and
has been replaced by the law requiring the physical, astral and mental
bodies, together with the corresponding thinking instruments and senses,
to be redeemed to their original state. Once the barrier is lifted, this
new rule prevents the Divine Fragments from just rushing away to source.
The totally tamasic bodies, thinking instruments and senses have developed
such inertia that it is difficult to break it. Even after breaking this
inertia, it is easier to slip back into old habits and until this much is
overcome, redeeming them is out of the question.

A part of the work of redeeming is done by Existence itself, we have

noted, by bringing about a constant and rapid increase in the rate of
vibrations at the exact rate they were lowered down the eternities from
the first sub-stage of Svahah to the last sub-stage of Bhuh. Now the
vibrations are raised from the lowest sub-stage of Bhuh to the highest
sub-stage of Svahah. This means that it will take as many eternities for
Existence to reach the original level of vibrations -- the seventh
sub-stage of Svahah -- as it took to lower them, viz. about 21 eternities.
Individuals can wait this out, take their time slowly and come along with
the tide, or they can add some extra efforts on their part and achieve for
themselves as fast a progress as possible.

It stands to reason that to redeem bodies, thinking instruments and senses

of the three universes, namely to remove the damage of degeneration caused
due to improper thoughts, motives and acts of an individual, those events
which caused such degeneration be enacted afresh, but now in reverse order
during the individual's sojourn on the upward arc, first in Bhuh, then in
Bhuvah and finally in Svahah. On seeing such events being enacted afresh,
we attribute them to the theory of causation or karma. Such beliefs of a
bygone age we still perpetuate, which only goes to show that mentally we
have as yet not left behind memories of old sub-stages that we have passed
through eternities ago.

There is neither `causation' or `karma', nor `retribution' or `punishment'

or `reap as you sow'. All the acts, motives and thoughts were of thinking
instruments belonging to bodies losing vibrations constantly and becoming
cruder and grosser. Hence, day after day, it was more difficult to think
correctly and clearly till at nadir the body and mind are in no state even
to understand the meaning of redeeming. So all these thinking instruments
are to be redeemed by whom? The Divine Fragments, of course -- the
individuals themselves! Why? Because none else can! So the Divine
Fragments continue to subject themselves to being encased in such bodies
and with such thinking instruments as the events will demand. According to
the new rules of the game of Existence, they have accepted this at nadir
and will work it out.

So it is not any punishment to either the Divine Fragments or to the

bodies and thinking instruments. If one is sick (as the body and mind
state can be called `sick') and has to go through certain medication to
get well, we do not call such a period, or the action of the medication,
as punishment or karma or causation. If one wants to twist it for
argument's sake, then everything is possible.
All of the Universe is based on certain laws and there are causes that
lead to certain effects. This does not mean that the whole life of an
individual is merely `causation' or that Existence is merely all
causation! And we have noted, besides, that only those few events are
recorded that caused damage and harm to others and were also premeditated
and perpetrated in cold logic or in cold blood. Indeed the three super
micro recording monitors are capable of creating the exact bodies and
exact thinking instruments which participated in such events and through
which such acts were perpetrated. But it must be understood that all this
was on the downward arc where ignorance was increasing and prevention
and/or atonement and even repenting were denied. This made the bodies and
thinking instruments all the more crude and gross and to this was added a
constant and rapid drop in vibrations. We have to see whether, having
included all such factors, it can still be construed to mean `sin' leading
to causation, karma, or retribution, if seen in proper perspective.

If punishment be the motive of God and Nature, then God and Nature are as
foolish as are the human law courts! For what `justice' can be or has been
done to those `wronged'? The emphasis here is on human beings and not on
law. All that the human law courts have done is give some moral
consolation to those wronged that the performer of hideous acts has not
gone scotfree. Is this any sense of justice? Those wronged have still
been wronged; they will carry a scar and, in many cases, a grudge besides
that will need to be satisfied at some time and harbouring which is going
to make their own life miserable. And the perpetrator has not been given a
chance or help to learn any lesson and regret. If God's ways are no better
than human ways, He is not fit to run the big show business!
Unfortunately, we create our God, and in our own image, and equip him with
our attributes as well! And please never use the word `Him' for a God of
your own imagination!

God and Nature want that human beings as individuals, i.e. as bodies,
thinking instruments and senses, should understand that such acts,
thoughts and motives were not worth holding or performing. How best could
individuals offer, sincerely of their own accord, to make good such damage
and thus remove the scars from body and mind of both, the victims as well
as the perpetrators of such acts and holders of such motives and thoughts.
This amounts to `redeeming'! In order to redeem, one need not repeat on
one's self an event which was inflicted on another and thus create a
vicious circle; it means to set right, in a way, the degeneration and
damage caused to the one on whom perpetrated and also, in a way, to the
perpetrator himself. Both need help and regeneration!

Is it not obvious that by undoing the damage we may have caused to others,
we are fulfiling and redeeming them and are in turn ourselves being
regenerated? The rule of the game of Existence is to redeem, redeem on all
sides, not create fresh degeneration or damage. By regenerating others,
restoring happiness to those who have been hurt, we also regenerate
ourselves -- this is the true way to redeem!

To redeem is a human approach, to be crushed under karma is brutal, and

God and Nature have no part to play with such brutal laws. Being ourselves
made unhappy for causing unhappiness to another is brute law, and for us
to believe that brute law exists under God and Nature is to mock at God
and Nature. This sort of philosophy is the fiction and fabrication of the
degenerate mind; in an earlier age when man was brutal, more than he is
today, such brutal injunctions in the name of religion and scripture,
including fires of hell and allurements of heaven, were necessary. Would
you not like to get out of this rut?

Humanity today has evolved to some extent now (though it is still far from
real development) and has now entered an intellectual phase. The human
mind has evolved to a stage where it can appreciate the value of redeeming
and would prefer to stand by it rather than the threats of heaven and hell
and karma. The two roads are far apart and the methods of approach are
utterly different. In fact, there is only one way that the road signs can
be read correctly: `karma' should be changed to `redeeming'. These
misunderstood theories from the dim past of causation and karma, the ugly
and far-fetched ideas of heaven and hell, are absolutely barbaric thoughts
and the earlier they are set aside and forgotten once and for all, the
better for all of us.

How is it that we live in an age of advanced technology but still do not

remove our feet which are rooted deep in the mire of pagan beliefs? We, as
human beings, are a bundle of contradictions. We pray to our so-called God
to avert a seeming calamity which we think is but the result of some acts
or thoughts of a bygone age now come to us for fulfilment. It is
degeneration further if you pray to avoid such a calamity! If you are
convinced that the event is coming to you as fulfilment and as punishment,
then why should you pray now, or cry and ask for mercy, knowing fully well
that it is what you deserve? Some feel that they do not deserve such
calamities, that it is but God's wish and piously say, `Thy will be
done!'; some feel that it is sent as a test of one's sincerity of one's
trust in God. Who is fooling whom? Have we no moral courage to own up a
wrong? Some consider such calamities as payment for wrong done, for
damages. Could such a way undo the wrong and the damage done? When shall
we come out of such make-believe ideas?

If there weren't this major and vital difference between karma,

retribution and punishment on one hand and redeeming on the other, there
would be no possibility of an individual making faster progress. For in
the former case one would require all 21 eternities to work one's way out.
Only, redeeming is an intellectual and extremely emotionally satisfying
human exercise. It is an understanding that one creates in one's mind: the
utterly wrong, the absolutely stupid behaviour, which ought not have been
performed or indulged in, how else can it be reconciled and cleared! It is
a sincere, silent and most honest self-education for the mind, body and
senses. The perpetrators should themselves revolt at their own
hideousness, be shameful of such behaviour on their part and most
sincerely sorry about it all. But mere make-believe will not fool God and
Nature's subtle laws -- Divine Wholeness cannot ever be cheated!

Compare this, on the other hand, with trembling individuals who pray on
bent knees and with offerings to deities to help them out. A weak
individual who thinks that so-called deities will help him out would, in
that case, remain intellectually and emotionally as immature as ever and,
in all probability, repeat his acts or motives under certain conditions.
The idea of resignation to the `will of God' (as if rebellion will help!)
is equally foolish! There is no other way but to resign if karma has to be
fulfiled. God's will is not God's pleasure, arbitrary and partial, but
only God's laws operative. If God's laws are to be fulfiled, wherein comes
the meek idea of resignation to His Divine Will? Do not profess to bear
the cross meekly. We are conscious and self-evolving beings, even as body,
mind and senses, and if this body, mind and senses are to be cleansed,
redeeming is the only way.

Within each of us is the Christ and the Buddha, and nothing less than a
Christ and a Buddha is the Divine Fragment as we call `It'. Consult
within, not the scriptures and gospels that have come down to us
mutilated. Do not ever call yourself a sinner or a slave, for ignorance is
not sin though it does deserve correction. The approach to our problem
ought to be different: redeem and be free, for there is no need to suffer!

Sage Patanjali advises "practice on one principle" for the re-education of

the mind, the thinking instrument, and through it the body and senses. To
go about it, he further states in I(33): "The mind is made clear by
meditation on friendliness towards the unhappy, compassion for the
suffering, goodwill towards all, disinterest in the sinful ..." Such
re-education is necessary because without this elementary practice
redeeming in right earnest is not possible. Such an approach is not
practical if karma or causation is involved. If by your suffering I am
pleased, that my wrong is made right thereby and that I have been given
justice either by man on Earth or God in high heaven, if eye for an eye be
justice -- then you and I are living in a brutal world, a world unfit for
human beings, not a world created by God and Nature, not a world where you
and I can hope for peace and progress.
Finally, we quote hereunder the meanings of `causation', `karma' and
`redeeming' for the reader to now apprehend them as per one's own sense of
understanding.
causation : relation of cause and effect.
karma : sum of a person's action in one of his successive states of
existence, viewed as deciding his fate in the next (destiny).
redeem : recover by expenditure of efforts; pay off charge or
obligation; deliver from wrong done; counter balance fault or
defect.

To make quicker progress, therefore, each individual has to add something

to make the return journey to the source faster. How fast it shall be is
entirely upto the individual. The trouble is that an individual does not
give any thought to the journey back to the source. At most when age
raises some dread about death and dying, one gets busy with some sort of
prayers and provision for a will. The awareness of return to the source
has to be deeply ingrained and every day one has to make some progress in
that direction. If there is no compass needle in one's life, one can
certainly then drift over the vast expanse of Bhuh universe for
eternities.

So the question remains, how shall we redeem body, mind and senses? All
the patterns of damage and degeneration are recorded. How long would an
individual have to wait for the patterns to come in some sequence,
following certain laws of cycles? With certain cycles being long and
certain others being short, the patterns of yesterday may repeat and the
patterns of yesteryears may not repeat. But the important point is not
what repeats when. Let the events come -- it is our attitude towards them
that will make the difference. Will you take these events as karma and
retribution, or will you welcome them as opportunities to redeem?

These events that come to us form 5% or a little more of our lives. Even
then their accumulation from Svahah's first sub-stage to Bhuh's last
sub-stage reaching nadir ought to be a substantial amount. So how soon can
the redeeming of this immense, mountainous load be done? Will its
redeeming require at least as many bodies and that many thinking
instruments? For instance, even a recording level of 5% of events in each
life could mean a few thousand recordings of dangerous, damaging,
premeditated acts, thoughts and motives; so a body and mind for redeeming
each of these few thousand would be necessary. This could mean that we
shall need every body and thinking instrument we ever had and the return
to the source would again take at least part of as many eternities. This
is fairly the normal way. Surely, there is a quicker method that earnest
disciples follow.

The masses of humanity will take this long road for two reasons. First,
they have no conception about return to the source and are not prepared to
work for it; secondly, their attitude has to change towards these coming
events, which they presently take only as misfortunes and explain away as
karma or will of God or whatever else. God does not show any favors, but
some are convinced that because He loves someone, say an individual with
more of unfortunate events, He visits him or her with special destiny.
We do not wish to argue with those who are convinced that these old
theories are correct; let them take the unending road. These are stone-age
ideas of religion, prayers and God. Unless we come out of this dream
state, the shorter way is not ever possible or available.

And finally, what must we do actually? That will be explained later.

Thousands of packaged deals are offered all over the world in the name of
religion, theology, this and that science and by godmen. How is one to
know who or what is able to lead and where? Mere prayers, let us make it
clear, in spite of all religious and pious hopes and assertions, will not
help; they too, we repeat, are stone-age ideas and will not do us any
good. Let the true ideas of every true age help us. And what are these
true ideas and what is a true age? If this is evolution and we are going
forward, there surely could not have been a true age preceding ours?

The trouble is that inspite of Galileo and his telescope and his ideas
that we are not the centre of the Universe but quite insignificant (for
which he had to suffer in that dark age for expressing this aspect of
truth), even today we human beings do not wish to leave our stage and
centre. We still think we are the only self-aware beings and that our
world is perhaps the only such humanity-bearing planet, and all else is
mere fiction. In fact, Xo societies of humanities in Xo conditionings in
Xo areas do really exist, not just in the grossest universe Bhuh but also
in the universes Bhuvah and Svahah beyond.

`Truth' (Satyam) is universal, the same everywhere, whatever the

conditionings, and there are conditionings through which hundreds of
thousands of societies of humanities have already passed by now and are
eternities ahead of us. Transcendental Masters are there to guide and
convey this Truth. Such are the true ideas and such are the true ages of
yore! In chapter 4 of the Geeta, Lord Krishna says: "This imperishable
philosophy I taught to Viwaswana, the founder of the Sun Dynasty,
Viwaswana gave if to Manu the Lawgiver, and Manu to King Ikshwaku! The
Divine Kings knew it ... It is the same ancient Path that I have now
revealed to thee ..." In short, Lord Krishna wishes to convey that this
real Truth was given ages ago to earlier humanities and we are not the
only humanity to receive it.

Above all, let us not forget, the Divine Fragments have accepted all the
rules of the game of Existence and in a game there can there be no room
for fear or prayers or crying. If this had been a drama, one could be
expected to act, be fearful or cry, but this is a straightforward game of
Existence. No help will be offered, that is the basic rule! So be
convinced that we have to keep divine intervention out of our minds. Let
us not go for moth-eaten definitions of God and let us not invoke
`infinite mercy' from an all-merciful God -- all these are childish ideas!
Know for certain that no wrong or sin have we committed in stepping down
from Creation into Existence, nor have we been thrown out of Creation, for
we, as Divine Fragments, have not the least part to sin in this game. As
mere witness, fulfiling the rules of the game, we have only to see that
the redeeming factors are fulfiled.

Says Sage Patanjali, I(24-25-26): "This Ishvara is the Self (the Divine
Fragment), untouched by limitations, free from karma and desire." "In
Ishvara, the Gurudeva, the germ of all knowledge expands into infinity."
"Ishvara, the Gurudeva, being unlimited by time conditions, is the teacher
of the primeval Lords." (It is the Transcendental Teacher!)

In `Light on the Path' by M.C., we read: "For within you is the light of
the world -- the only light that can be shed upon the Path. If you are
unable to perceive it within you, it is useless to look for it elsewhere
(in places, in persons, in prayers, in scriptures and shastras)." Further
she writes: "... and though thou fightest, be not thou (the personality,
the mind and body) the warrior. Look for the warrior (the Divine Fragment)
and let him fight in thee. ... But if thou look not for him, if thou pass
him by when the battle rages, then there is no safeguard for thee."

As the Divine Fragment makes its first efforts to return `home' on the
upward arc after nadir, simultaneously fulfilling the conditions of
redeeming, the conditionings and the inherent constituents of the body,
mind and senses on ascending sub-stages 1-2-3 and upto very early 4 in
Bhuh are so poor, so totally tamasic and ignorant, that no progress is
possible -- a stage we find ourselves in today! By `progress' we mean the
ability of body, mind, thinking instrument and senses to respond to the
guidance and/or promptings of the Divine Fragment within. Whatever is
apparent as progress in these early sub-stages of Bhuh is due only to the
vibrations rising constantly at a rapid rate, at the exact rate at which
they were lowered, as part of the bargain by Existence to redeem what it
damaged by way of lowering the vibrations.

We must therefore expect resistance from the limitations of the

`substance' of which the body, thinking instrument and senses are
generated. Wrong and animal-like ways of life in sub-stages 3-2-1 on the
downward arc have left indelible memory patterns. In sub-stages 1-2-3 and
very early 4 on the upward arc, all that could happen was but the
repetition of these very many animal-like memory patterns. The brain,
being small and undeveloped yet, could do nothing else but satisfy its
immediate appetites; beyond that it was incapable of anything else. All
that the Divine Fragment can do is to prompt and guide, but it may be to
no avail for some time to come.

The old tamasic memory patterns, the absolute inertia of body and brain,
are not easy to overcome. Even if body and brain are convinced, it would
be a near impossible task to break this inertia; and even if this inertia
is broken, very soon the body and brain will once again lapse into old
habits. The last six eternities are responsible for such a state of the
body and brain. The individual, however sincere, finds it heart-breaking,
time and again, to find that the old ways are ruling his or her life. Time
and again earnest resolutions will fail. This is normal -- it is to be
expected! There is no use feeling dejected, no use giving up the struggle
or developing a guilt complex.

Besides the mind and brain are bogged down in ancient superstition,
ancient religious rites and ceremonies, philosophy and theology. Even
logic and reason are coloured, and so the odds are indeed great. We love
our slavery and our miseries, we have our frailties, and we like to remain
in this condition. If we are more honest, all this will be so apparent.
Are you prepared to let all these go? Are you prepared to let go in the
first place?

The Divine Fragment realizes that this task is to be performed by itself

for body, mind and senses can and will give no cooperation for some time
to come. On the contrary, they will cling to their old ways and resist
with all their force any attempt by the Divine Fragment to change their
way of life. But the Divine Fragments are under obligation to redeem body,
thinking instrument and senses, to be accomplished first in Bhuh. Once a
communication is established, once a little change in attitude on the part
of body, mind and senses takes place, then they will realize that the
Divine Fragment encased within (Ishvara) is beyond the godhead of
Existence and would then acknowledge It as their Transcendental Teacher
(the Gurudeva). Thus this most difficult task will become easier day after
day. But we search for a guru or teacher outside of us; to find a
Transcendental Teacher thus is an impossible task and any lesser teacher
will not do.

So relying on the inherent ability and characteristics of the Divine

Fragment to find the way Home, the road leading to the journey of return
to the source now begins and generates its own momentum. But in the myriad
societies of humanities, the inherent inertia of mind, body, senses and
free will is so very developed -- even the planes of Existence have an
overpowering effect -- that especially in the grossest universe Bhuh, both
on the descending and ascending arcs in sub-stages 4-3-2-1 and 1-2-3-4,
this momentum towards return to the source is gathered very, very slowly,
insignificantly slowly. And do not jump to the conclusion that as this
return journey to the source is to be taken by Divine Fragments, so it has
nothing to do now with body, mind, senses, and the planes of Existence. We
shall take up this thread a little later.

Our world and our humanity today have emerged from sub-stages 1-2-3 of
Bhuh and are in the very early fourth sub-stage. The body, brain and
senses are just about ready now to catch the promptings and guidance of
the Divine Fragment encased within. This is the reason for the innumerable
package deals offered to guide individuals, but all of them are
misleading for they are prepared by external so-called gurus or teachers.
We, as a humanity, could sensibly find our way, but we must keep our
resolution sincerely not to be bogged down by superstition nor be
overwhelmed in the name of religion or by any threat of hell. We have so
slavish a mentality that even in our space age we would still have our
high priests -- the Aga Khan, the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and an army of
lesser high priests. All of them are impotent. The only potent force is
the transcendence of the Divine Fragment. Let it lead -- the greatest and
best of teachers!

Existence has gone through these processes of so-called involution and

evolution endlessly; we have no concept of a possible beginning or a
thinkable end to it. There have been humanities ahead of us and will be
behind us, as infinite in number as the cosmic days and nights have been.
So it happens that there is a continuous stream pouring forth from Creation
into Existence and a continuous stream of return to the source and an
endless variety of conditionings till one totally realizes. Only then does
this whole process cease for that particular individual!

The one most unfortunate aspect is that under these limitations, we

accept as true the `substance' of Existence -- the bodies, minds, thinking
instruments and senses -- but the important fact of the Divine Fragment
that is encased within is completely forgotten. The last six eternities,
3-2-1 on the downward arc and 1-2-3 on the upward arc, have made us
thoroughly forget that such a thing as Divine Fragment does exist --
immortal, coming from beyond Existence, powerful enough to reduce anything
in Existence to ashes. And when we are unable to know ourselves as Divine
Fragments, how are we to know the other three types of Divine Fragments --
the small, the large and the immense? "We live unconsciously in this
mighty ocean of consciousness." Instead of acknowledging it, we create
senseless theories, philosophies, theologies and so forth, and wail and
cry. How long, dear friends, will you be content with all these?

Existence has shown apparent harshness in the rules of the game but at
the same time has evolved such conditions that we can take maximum help
from every source; sutra II(21): "All that is exists for the sake of the
soul." Only our ignorance of this fact has prevented us from taking proper
advantage. It is because of our awful, restricted state of awareness that
we do not even dream of such possibilities. Like parrots we repeat, "As
above, so below," but what have we learnt, even philosophically? It seems
that it is, at best, a mental conception only, not a conviction arising
from experience. We treat all the three universes as illusory and call
other humanities ahead of us as devas or angels and humanities behind us
as asuras or demons.

We are ourselves creating confusion. For an unduly long time have we given
importance to the brain or manas or buddhi and have wandered in Existence.
Due to our devotion to these three types of thinking instruments in the
three universes, we have neglected and disregarded our own real Self, the
Divine Fragment within. How long, dear friends, are you prepared to
continue this comedy, or should we call it a tragedy? Now as per the last
rule of the game of Existence, we have to redeem mind, body and senses.
Does it even now occur to you that body and mind cannot redeem by
themselves?

With Divinity, Cosmic Consciousness and Divine Will as your inherent Being
and with spiritual will to accomplish, what can stand in your way? We
personally think only our own bodies, minds and senses can stand in our
way as obstacles for they would refuse to come out of their thoroughly
tamasic state. This `liquidation' (as of a bad business to avoid more
losses), this redeeming, will require untold number of births and deaths
in each universe if no conscious action is taken.

Are you content to go along that long road? Perhaps you are content to be
pious and religious; perhaps you are hopefully waiting for divine
intervention! Then, dear friends, you will have to wait for an eternity!
Perhaps you are waiting for the reappearance of the Christ or Krishna or
the Buddha, that has been promised in various scriptures. The world did
not change after their first coming, nor of all the other prophets before
and after. Their coming or their going did not make anything better -- it
only created more conflict in the name of religion and that will not
diminish if they return. Because unless we are convinced that we
ourselves, as Divine Fragments, are equal to the Christ, the Buddha, and
Lord Krishna, nothing else will ever help. (It is a misconception to call
the Christ, the Buddha and Lord Krishna as incarnations of God Almighty;
they are advanced sons of advanced humanities who are eternities ahead of
us in Svahah Universe on the upward arc. We may call them what we will
with our limited intelligence.)

You have lived in an unnatural mental and emotional world and would like
to continue living there. We do not wish to disturb you but we would that
you come out of it. We would love to see you come along with us. Will you
join us? Having gone through the last 21 eternities down the cycles or
sub-stages and the three eternities up the arc, it seems that you are now
content to think and live by the sense of eternities only; otherwise, you
would `awake' with a start and with great vigour press ahead.

We, as we find ourselves in this early fourth sub-stage of Bhuh of the

upward arc, are in a lot of confusion. We are still slaves of past habits,
memory patterns or sanskaras, that are deeply rooted and so mind and body
do not easily understand nor respond to this simple truth. Besides, this
simple truth has not been told thus simply before. To come out of this
dark jungle and find our way out is not easy indeed. We grope, we go over
the same ground again and again for there are no sign-boards, and we are
in no proper state of mind, nor yet fully awake. Our minds and senses are
as if drugged too much and for too long. So relax, recover and try to be
able. We appreciate this is not easy, but it has to be done even though
it may require an eternity. But to us it seems that you who are timeless
are not afraid to wait timelessly and so are making no efforts!

We have stated earlier that the greatest blessing in spite of the seeming
harshness of Existence is the evolved conditions, viz. that the four types
of humanities or Divine Fragments are kept together by Nature and God. If
only if we could communicate -- the finite (human) with the small
(planets), the small with the large (stars and suns), and the large with
the immense (galaxies) -- it would be a revelation. For us, a `finite'
humanity, therefore, all we have to do is set up communication with these
other types of Divine Fragments. But till we realize that we are Divine
Fragments ourselves and that these other three types are also Divine
Fragments, nothing will happen. For in our ignorance we think that these
three types of humanities are mere `lifeless orbs' and we have developed
our own theories about them. We are in search of even lower life in our
solar system and elsewhere!

But know that these other three types of Divine Fragments, know infinitely
more than what we shall ever know in coming eternities; nothing is
impossible for them and if we will but realize this, it will be our day of
deliverance! We have stated earlier that the large Divine Fragments
entered Existence an eternity ahead of the small and finite Divine
Fragments, and the immense Divine Fragments entered an eternity before all
the others. So these two types, the large and the immense, entered
Existence well ahead of us finite Divine Fragments. So their experience in
Existence is of a much longer duration and they are much better placed to
guide us with their experience of Existence -- provided we set aside our
egotistic stand that we know so much, that we are the only intelligent
beings and that we shall conquer Nature!
When we talk of science, we talk of the third cardinal aspect of
Existence, awareness, in all its shades from idiocy to intuition, via
cunning, intelligence, and high reasoning and logic, i.e. gathering of
knowledge. But the knowledge we have gathered even about our planet Earth
is not even skindeep. And as regards the solar system and our galaxy, we
have as yet not even scratched the skin. For the immensity is such that
those scientists who study our seen universe of Bhuh can only be compared
to an atom within a single cell in our body trying to study the human body
it is in. This atom will see its universe expanding or contracting,
receding or approaching, at great speed in never-ending fashion, for the
human body is far beyond its gaze, grasp and intelligence. And for it to
try to fathom the `purpose' is still more impossible indeed.

Our scientists and astronomers are placed in an identical predicament.

Even if we can pass through space and not only cross a galaxy but study
each galaxy and gather knowledge thereof at the impossible rate of one
galaxy each year, even then we would still need 15 billion years at
least, so impossible is the task! And who, indeed, can cover and study
one galaxy in one year? Unless, of course, we stumble across or are shown
better methods. Are scientific yoga methods hinted here? These words are
not written to underrate or discourage the good efforts of science, but to
show that there ought to be a better, faster way -- otherwise it is
impossible. We cannot deny that however slow this scientific approach may
be, it is this method that has so far done much to bring us out of the
dark ages; but, at the same time it cannot be denied that faster and
better methods are to be evolved.

In Zen there is a fine expression, `satori', namely a breakthrough or

piercing, which is to be properly understood. Satori is not a state of
either emotional or intellectual high balance in the inner life, though in
scientific yoga that is an elementary requirement. The question of moral,
emotional and intellectual discipline and the fact that the individual is
biologically complete (which most of us are not at present) are also
simply prerequisites and taken for granted. Refer to chapter 11 on
practices and you will understand that a state of `clinical death' of the
physical body is brought about. This is not to be mistaken for an
unconscious or subconscious state, one cannot even call it superconscious
-- it is a state by itself, when it is possible for satori to take place.
The world of thoughts and concepts ceases! Refer to diagrams 1, 2 and 3a
and compare them with diagram 3b; then realize the state of diagram 3c
that makes satori possible -- for satori is diagram 3c.

Some authors have written intelligently on this subject of satori. The

trouble with Western writers is that they analyze and have great
intellectual capacity, but in the absence of certain firsthand experience
they can only write some nonsense, however beautifully. Some try to fathom
the mind of Buddha as to how he arrived at satori, but mind has no role to
play here, whether it is yours or mine or the Buddha's. No amount of
roaming throughout the three universes of Existence, let alone the seen
universe Bhuh (even if this were possible), can give one single clue about
Creation and much less about the higher aspects of Creation. Awareness,
complete awareness, of the three universes of Existence is merely total
awareness, including all grades of awareness. It is not Cosmic
Consciousness, and it cannot lead to consciousness for it cannot ever be
transmuted or transformed into consciousness!

Existence is of a `kind', Creation is of another `kind'. Knowledge of

Existence will not lead to the wisdom of Creation; awareness of Existence
will not lead to Cosmic Consciousness of Creation. We, as a humanity, are
in an infant state and our knowledge and awareness will always be of a
kind; Consciousness and insight are of a different kind altogether. In
Janah Universe and Tapah, the ability to merge and re-emerge, to be
anywhere instantly, are different aspects which are denied to Existence
and there is nothing approaching them in Existence anywhere. At no stage
have we expressed the primitive phrases of a bygone age -- `maya' or
`illusory'. We have stressed always that Existence is as much a Reality as
Creation is, but is of a kind. We have always moved along the same `stick
of matter' introduced in chapter 1 and have never lost sight of our stick
as we proceeded.

It is true that even humanities in sub-stage 7 of Bhuh would appear

God-like in comparison to ourselves -- even humanities at the end of the
sub-stage we are in today would appear to us as supermen -- but to say
that they are near enough to Cosmic Consciousness is meaningless. Advanced
sons of humanities in Svahah have appeared amongst us as gods, or
incarnations of God, for bear in mind that nothing from higher than this
stage can incarnate in our conditionings and visit our planet Earth! God
never incarnates anywhere -- there is no need! Let this childish notion be
forever given up and with it the notion that with God everything is
possible, so He will intervene. This point is to be kept well in mind.
Let not pious religious people get hurt at this aspect of Truth.

Our subject now is: can knowledge, methods, weapons and instruments of
Existence pierce the Ring-pass-not that encircles Existence to enable us
to enter Creation? Unless this breakthrough, satori, is accomplished by
each individual, there is no escape or hope. (Of course, the number of
ways that are suggested and the number of godmen claiming to know the way
is legion.) After piercing this Ring-pass-not, the Mahah region, even then
it is impossible to see any reflection of Truth (Satyam). For Truth is
stranger than fiction!

So by gathering knowledge or by increasing awareness, there is no ultimate

hope or way to know the Truth, even if we continue to gather knowledge for
an eternity. Even our godhead of Existence, Universal Divine Mind, is a
product of Existence, something that was developed in the later sub-stages
of Janah Universe. So Universal Divine Mind itself cannot pierce the
Ring-pass-not and enter Creation. Let this be absolutely clear that the
very godhead of Existence cannot enter Creation for there is no need.

How, then, can we pierce through, break through, the impenetrable barrier
of the Ring-pass-not and enter Janah Universe? Do it and you have
accomplished -- everything! Neither science nor scriptures help for both
have their origin and birth in Existence. What is needed is not much more,
but `much else'. What could this `much else' be?

Some talk about human `will', but it is also a child of Existence. The
`gods', too, are products of Existence. So to whom would you pray and
whose aid would you seek and ask for guidance? Our prayers are besides the
point due to the fact that the law of vibrations would not allow them to
reach across. All those who claim to be godmen are the recent products of
Existence and are much below the godhead, so it is obvious they cannot
help; in fact, they are in much need of help themselves!

Some talk of `elementals', mere power points, such puny aspects of

existence. Some coin new words for old, like `demurgic'. Some speak of
`angelic planes', mere human beings a little further ahead on the upward
arc. How can they be instrumental in this breakthrough for they have as
yet not achieved this breakthrough themselves. Earlier we have quoted the
lines from `Light of Asia': "Perchance the Gods have need of help
themselves." And let us not bring in words like `Being', `Reality',
`Transfinite' and many more such terms to express something which
Existence has no relationship with.

Where and what is the solution? Where and what are the weapons or
instruments with which we shall hope to pierce the Ring-pass-not, the
Great Divide. And in this near-impossible task, we cannot be dishonest
with ourselves and make-believe with our weapons and instruments. The
enormity of our probe, the problem before us, is not easily put between
the covers of a book, be that book however large, however ancient, however
authoritative, be it the gospel itself.

This is a stupendous task. We know fully well that if we were to approach

our Sun in our solar system, a station hardly eight minutes away from us,
with our present-day scientific weapons and instruments, we and all our
instruments and weapons would be disintegrated. Then how can we even think
of depending on their use in this near impossible task of approaching the
Ring-pass-not before whose unbelievable and formidable pressures we shall
be flattened immediately. We must have `much else'!
It therefore calls for rethinking, unbiased by either the name of the
Buddha or the Christ. An open mind is needed, one that is ready and
prepared to welcome its own disintegration in a sincere endeavour to
achieve the breakthrough. And in our endeavour, let us promise ourselves
not to mince words and just talk. It will lead us nowhere. There is no
need to coin new words or create jaw-breaking phrases. "Talk does not cook
rice." Rather, are we ready and willing to work, to practise and to dare?
In spite of myriad failures and frustrations and even at the risk of
disintegration, are we prepared to dare?

Some talk about the `reincarnation of God' aspect. Such incarnations that
we know of, in all recorded and unrecorded history, that can accept the
frightfully restricting conditions of our state of Existence, can only
come from humanities who are eternities ahead of us in the sixth sub-stage
of Svahah on the upward arc. Such, of course, are not God incarnate
that the world is talking about. You and I and the world have some vague
idea of God, that is the trouble. All these are mere concepts that have
originated in Svahah, the universe of original concepts, and have come
down with the sub-stages. So we can safely say that no such incarnation
has spoken our language and we are at a loss to understand their language.
In fact, no God has ever incarnated.

Some speak of `hidden' knowledge and wisdom, hidden from the `profane'. But
who are these profane? Perhaps you, I and the common man in the street?
And which scripture or shastra dare call you, me and the common man in the
street profane? And how could such knowledge, these so-called truths
revealed to some few, be out of bounds for anyone? Do not all the sources
spring from one of the universes of Existence? They are not beyond
Existence. They will only add to the universal store of knowledge but
would be impotent in breaking through, however much be the fuss made about
such hidden knowledge.

Some talk of virtue and vice, some of reward and punishment. Of these, one
school would say such punishment and rewards are here and now, another
that it is all dispensed somewhere else in a region or state called heaven
or hell, and some others would wait till a supposed `day of judgment'!
Those who wait for the day of judgment wait for the whole of Existence
ever to come to an end! All such primitive, immature, pagan ideas of an
age gone by belong to dead religions which are to be buried, for they have
served their purpose in whatever conditionings whenever and wherever that
humanity was in its infancy. Are you content to have such a befogged mind
and be mired in all these? In that case we must part company, though we
wish that you come along with us and we would like to wait for you.

Some even say, `Is not God capable of doing anything, even if it is
impossible?' Some would ask, `Is not the mercy and love of God able to
reach us?' Dear friend, if you happen to be a pious and religious person
or if you are looking for or expecting solace, in trying not to offend you
we may say yes, but if you want the correct reply, it is `No!' In the
first place, what have you in mind when you say `God'? The very fact that
you hold the concept of God in your mind means `It' or `He', which is not
God but some vague idea of God (and please do not cite moth-eaten
definitions of God). And if you expect that concept of God to do
something, this concept cannot go beyond Universal Divine Mind, for a
concept is a child of the mind. This sort of mental acrobatics will not
help.

Let us be honest with ourselves and not be satisfied with solace or cheap
satisfaction or some cheap mental achievement or fall into a sort of
self-hypnosis like `darshan'. (Many bhakti yogis and aspirants suffer from
self-induced hallucinations, which is only self-hypnosis of a different
sort; these good religious people are mentally ill.) Let us put aside mere
talk.

Some bring in karma or causation, the reap as you sow theory, but let us
ask the prime question behind this theory: to what or whom is this law
of causation or karma applicable and how? Try to answer this question and
you will realize how impossible is the answer, because the thought is
wrong. And at what stage in Existence has it come into force? Can you
trace it? Has it power to pierce the Ring-pass-not? Above all, is it a law
in the first place? We maintain that there is no law of causation or karma
operative anywhere. All such theories are fragmentary and are good for
fragmentary achievements, but not for a final stupendous breakthrough, the
final leap!

Human mind expects justice from a God with mercy or compassion to be

operative in Existence, yet the symbol of justice all over the world is
blindfolded holding the scales level! Are we not born and soaked in
contradictions and contradictory possibilities, and then sum up saying,
`All things are possible with God', without even understanding what sort
of a God. Besides, why do we lose sight of the fact that it is our
struggle and our endeavour for realization. Then why expect God to do our
part of the work, even if such a God could or would interfere in His
mercy? How can it ever give you satisfaction that you have achieved
something? Actually, you have achieved nothing, absolutely nothing.

What a sad plight we have come to! We may plead for mercy from an
adversary at whose feet we may have fallen because we are defeated, or
from a king or president, or from a court of law, but why from an
all-merciful, all-knowing God? Why are we pleading for mercy in the first
place? Because we have a rubber backbone? Are we men or mice? And what
kind of all-knowing God is He if He is to be informed on bent knees about
our pitiful state and is not able on His own to know our need and come to
our succour when our condition needs it. If He is able, why does He put us
in such a situation of begging for it at all? And if he can know on His
own, where is the thought of asking for divine intervention? Why then pray
to such a God? Only befogged minds can ask for God's mercy and expect to
receive it.

Have you realized the utter inadequacy of the power of the godhead, the
Universal Divine Mind? It is not able to break through into Creation nor
able to pierce the Ring-pass-not. If it does, all Existence is then
doomed! And to this godhead could our most exalted prayers in our most
exalted mood ever reach? To be frank, none of our prayers ever reach thus
far. With a cool head, read this book right up to the end and you will be
convinced.

In the beginning of Existence, the purpose was to try and see how
immensely wonderful the Divine Fragments were and whether any type of
conditioning of Existence could possibly make them forget to take the road
back to the source? Would they fail or would they succeed? If the answer
to this is `yes', namely the Divine Fragments have failed and are crying
for help, then not only the Divine Fragments but the Divine Wholeness,
Tapah, the very aspect of Reality whose fragments are these Divine
Fragments, i.e. you and I and the common man in the street, all Existence
and Creation are doomed. If the Divine Fragments fail, Divine Wholeness
fails and everything else will fail.

And if such divine intervention from a deeper-down source -- from Satyam,

the Absolute -- is necessary to help us and the whole of Existence along
with Creation out of the `great failure', we, the Divine Fragments, should
be ashamed. Shame be on our Cosmic Consciousness and our Divine Will! Why
be Divine Fragments at all? Be content to be mere body, mind and senses!
But the Divine Fragments are not crying out, the individual mind is crying
out -- it has failed! We are all mixed up in our thinking and in our
beliefs.

So please, for your God's sake, the God you expect to intervene with
justice and mercy, with charity and compassion, the God whom you expect to
do the impossible, give up such kindergarten thoughts. Be an adult
emotionally and mentally, face your own problems and search for the proper
instrument or weapon with which you can accomplish satori, the final
breakthrough.

In the Geeta, this quest and search is stated to be for a warrior, a

warrior of a `class'. We need warriors of a class better than Arjuna, who
will not despair, faint or fail, nor hesitate when the battle begins and
in self-justification profess wisdom as many of us do! "Sanjaya said:
Having spoken thus (having professed wisdom), in the midst of the armies,
Arjuna sank on the seat of the chariot, casting away his bow and arrow,
heart-broken with grief." Such are not true warriors. Let not such be the
state of disciples. We are sure Divine Fragments are great warriors, they
do not flinch in the face of any conditionings or odds, and you and I and
the common man in the street are all Divine Fragments existing under a
particular conditioning. As Divine Fragments we have never cried nor shall
we ever! Nor are these Divine Fragments backing out after having accepted
the rules of the game and entered Existence willingly. It is the mind that
is perplexed and cries out, for we are Divine Fragments and are witnesses
only. Or are we all really convinced that we are not these Divine
Fragments but rather this lamentable body and mind, little chunks of body
and brain. If so, we shall leave you to your dream state and wait for you
to wake up some day, but we do want that you wake up and fight, smile and
be free!

Some talk of sin and the `fall of man'. What sin and which fall? And,
besides, is it a sin to fall? Do we not remember: "True glory lies not in
never falling, but in rising every time we fall?" This is the worth of a
true warrior -- a true, brave warrior knows the extent of danger,
understands fear, but overcomes it. Divine Fragments are such true
warriors; nothing, no type of conditioning, can awe them and ought not to
awe them, or make them forget and cry and pray for divine intervention.
You, dear friend, are only fooled by your mind.

If this be so, then how are Divine Fragments complete and immortal? They
need nothing. So why such meaningless tales of woe? Why? Wake up and smile
and go ahead. Let not your mind make a mess of everything any more. Give
the reins of everything you have in the safe hands of the charioteer, the
Divine Fragment!

If only Existence were to cease to exist in us, then may we be able to

cease existing in Existence!

When we talk from the point of view of forces in the Universe, which
forces are we talking about? Where is the link with any such force that
has penetrated Existence and has passed through the Ring-pass-not? Try
and search for this `something', put your finger on it and you have found
the gold mine you have been searching for. But even if all attempts fail,
smile and forge ahead.

And have we ever tried to learn what `life' is? Life is itself a product
of Existence and has to obey the laws of Existence, so it cannot go
beyond Existence, it cannot penetrate the Ring-pass-not. So life is unable
to help us for it is not needed in Creation, for without life there is
immortality!

"If you do not meet a transcendental teacher, you will have swallowed
Mahayana medicine in vain." It calls for honesty of purpose, integrity of
mind, and `much else'. Unable to grasp God's essence, we seek help in
words, in names, in figures, in animal forms, in trees, in summits and
sources, perhaps in anything and everything else but in our true Self, the
Divine Fragment. But why forget that everything is possible with our Self,
the Divine Fragment? "Remote yet near, utterly aged yet alone, He sits
within the temple's inner shrine, with folded hands and countenance
divine, omniscient, inscrutable, unknown." But who would dare to believe
this!?

This is why our minds accept thoughts like `immaculate conception', which
is prevalent in many faiths besides the Christian faith where the natural
function of sex is considered a sin, and whenever our minds wish to give
the status of a God to a new-born, whether he be Jesus or Gautama. And
when we want to make the impossible possible, we rely on the statement,
`With God everything is possible!' These are signs and symptoms of minds
that have not grown up and refuse to grow up.

Further, it is not enough to pierce the Ring-pass-not and reach there, for
to reach there and explore it would mean that one would know everything
about Existence but nothing still about Creation! One can then only become
a Buddha, the All-knowing. But to transcend Existence, one must also
transcend this Great Divide, this region of akashic records, and it is
many times more difficult to surmount the pull of gravitation and the
fascination of the Mahah-kala than of all the three universes of Existence
put together! Because one likes to remain a Buddha and roam the
Ring-pass-not, for it seems the `ultimate' for a human being and one may
mistake it for nirvana, since mind and memory are held there as if in deep
freeze. Just as to many godmen of our days, psychic powers seem the
ultimate, to some being a Buddha would seem to be the ultimate. But one
has to reach the Universe of Janah, our source and our Home, and the next
natural step, Divine Wholeness, Tapah, Reality manifested, to merge and
become one. (We do not here intend to bring in the thought whether the
all-knowing Buddha did reach Janah Universe and then Tapah or remained in
Mahah region as the all-knowing Buddha!)

If we wish to know the `what' of Existence, then we can be content to

remain in Mahah, the Ring-pass-not, and remain a Buddha. If we wish to
know the `why' of Existence, we must go beyond Mahah region into Creation.
But the `why' of Existence cannot be known unless and until we step inside
Creation, and it cannot be known if we take aid of things, however
majestic, that have their source and birth in Existence.
At this stage it is appropriate to quote from the Geeta. Lord Krishna says
in chapter 2: "When thy reason has crossed the entanglements of illusion,
then shalt thou become indifferent both to the philosophies thou hast
heard, and to those thou mayest yet hear." "When the intellect, bewildered
by the multiplicity of holy scripts, stands unperturbed in blissful
contemplation of the Infinite (the Divine Fragment), then hast thou
attained Spirituality."

We have noted that the way out of Existence is by accomplishing satori, a

breakthrough, piercing not only Existence but also the major
Ring-pass-not. We have, as yet, not stated what weapons we have with which
we shall be able to do so. Before we do so, we shall first study what we
are, what is happening within us and how we operate as body and mind, how
we die and how we take birth again.

"My centre is universal, my periphery is personal."

"What can happen to a man whose whole being is made up of desires, if
he has no cellular body and does not exist in a cellular world?"
"The shock which separates the end of one life from the beginning of the
next, which severs the Essence (the Divine Fragment) from the corpse and
launches it back into the seed is the most tremendous which a human being
is called upon to face. In fact, it is too strong for ordinary man who has
no choice but to forget, and falls asleep."
"Ordinary man has no unbroken consciousness (awareness); that is,
consciousness does not accompany him at the moment of so-called death; he
cannot know what death is, nor the unification of death. Causes pass from
one life to another unaccompanied by consciousness. If man has continuous
consciousness, death would have a different meaning."
"Those who forget when they leave the physical bodies and because they
cannot yet bring back into the physical brain conscious recollections of
that passing out and of the subsequent interval of active living, they
fail to relate death to sleep."
"Death literally is the withdrawal from the heart and the head of these
two streams of energy, producing, consequently, loss of consciousness and
disintegration of the body."
"If we wish to learn in what condition one will be when one has quit
the body, observe in what condition it is while one is joined with the
body."
"Preparation for states after death and before birth exactly implies that
we attempt to think, and we do dimly begin to understand, that with human
individuality attached to a molecular or electronic body, such a body
would enjoy all kinds of power, properties and possibilities, which from
the point of view of cellular bodies are inconceivable and miraculous."
"The art of dying should be a triumphant finale of life, a glorious
prelude to a conscious exit. A new attitude to death is to be cultivated,
a science of death to be inaugurated."
"Nothing can live eternally, but that which hath lived from all eternity."

These quotations are given here because many minds have given serious
thought to this subject of birth and death. It is not enough to just
conjecture -- there are practices of higher yoga which when carried out
make this subject clear and understandable. We shall come to the details
later.

The question of what happens after death leads to the question as to what
takes place before birth; and whether there is some process involved,
governed by some method or law, and also whether there is any relationship
between the different processes concerning these two vital events of birth
and death. We call these two vital events `intervals' in a person's
awareness, in as much as a total change is brought about accompanied by a
complete break in awareness, like the minor interval of sleep. The changes
at these intervals are from electronic to molecular/cellular at birth and
from cellular/molecular to electronic at death.

Some more related questions come to mind. Can death be `conscious'? Can
birth be conscious? If both, death and birth, can be conscious, then we
have one unbroken consciousness, one unbroken continuation of life, only
changing our used, tired, worn-out, exhausted body for a new one. In that
case, are we not immortal? Man is mortal because his awareness comes to an
end and he knows not what happens then; similarly he knows not where he
has come from because of lapse of memory or awareness. This is the master
key which Existence has over our bodies, minds, senses and awareness. If
we can defeat Existence in thus making us helpless, we have Existence
itself in our grip!

If awareness does not come to an end, we have a person who is truly

`awake' and conscious. The word `conscious' is misused. From our earlier
statements you will gather that only Divine Fragments are Consciousness,
pure Consciousness, and that the body, mind and senses, however wonderful
they may appear, even in Svahah universe, have awareness only.

Awareness has one great weakness -- it has no continuity, whilst

consciousness has no break. This is the vital difference. Consciousness is
of the Divine Fragments, so they are immortal. Awareness is an energy
produced within the body, whether physical, astral or mental. This
generation of energy is profuse in the beginning of life and slowly dries
up, whilst Consciousness is part of, a fragment of, the Unique Original
Force Field, Divine Wholeness, and its most minute fragment or unit is
immortal, Self-generating endlessly.

Since there is a change of state at the two intervals, such changes in

`matter', either from gross to subtle or from subtle to gross, brings
about changes in speed commensurate with the matter composing it, either
from slow to fast to express or from express to fast to slow. The great
electronic speed at conception is then in molecular time and drops
down to cellular time, which can be observed from conception to birth,
from birth to 3 years (30 months rather) of age of the child, during
which period growth and changes are visible, and from 3 years to 7 years
of age, when growth is still visible but is not as much as in the period
between birth and 3 years. From ages 7 up to 18 years, growth is still
visible but appreciably slower, and may continue very slowly upto the age
of 25 years. In each succeeding period the rate of growth slows down.
Thereafter there is hardly any growth, only some surface changes, and then
gradual wearing down to middle age, to old age and to death, when
everything is completely over.

Why? Because the internal mechanism slows down and the two vital energies,
the energy of the essence of life and awareness and the energy of the
essence of consciousness, which are generated within the primary body and
passed on to the secondary body, are produced much less abundantly as the
days pass, and ultimately cease altogether. This brings on old age and
death. Metabolism and catabolism are two terms which, translated in
context to our subject, mean that there is certain production of vital
energies in our body and there is a certain, continuous drain of these
vital energies. In the early stages, the production is more than the drain
and from middle age onward the drain is much more than the production, to
put it thus in a layman's language. This daily drain causes fatigue and
brings on sleep which, to a certain extent, nourishes the system, for
during good sleep the drain is appreciably less and production, being
constant, builds up reserves, but is not enough. This daily drain, a daily
deficit, coupled with the vital loss in production brings about weakness,
diseases and old age and ultimately adds up and ends in so-called death.

The individual, therefore, faces three different speeds or dimensions of

time: one at conception, another at birth, and a third at so-called death,
viz. molecular, cellular, and electronic. To get some idea of the
difference in speeds: a period of 78 cellular or Earth years of time, a
typical present day human life span, is equivalent to 26 days of molecular
life or time, and to merely 34 minutes of electronic time. The constant
ratio between them is roughly 1,100. The brain of an ordinary person,
therefore, is not able to grasp what happens at these intervals and so
becomes unconscious and unaware, because these speeds are far too great
for the individual to register without the help of certain practices
carried out under a guide during the period when one is alive.

A cellular body made of cellular materials can reach a maximum speed of

67,000 miles/hour (18.6 miles/second or 1/10,000th the speed of light in
vacuum) in the absence of any resistance, with resistance the speed will
be less and will vary. Molecular speeds can reach upto 1,860 miles/second
(or 1/100th the speed of light), while electronic speeds can reach 186,000
miles/sec. Electromagnetic radiation is an electronic emanation of energy.
The three worlds, the cellular, the molecular and the electronic coexist,
the finer interpenetrating the grosser. So matter in molecular form
naturally enjoys greater freedom than matter in cellular from. In the
molecular world one can move in all directions simultaneously, as when a
scent bottle is opened and the fragrance reaches all sides simultaneously.
This thought itself is foreign since such is not possible in the cellular
world.

Chapter 8

Conscious Death and Conscious Birth

The effect of the process of death is not like a log of wood being burnt
to ashes -- that happens to the cellular body; it is, rather, to reduce
the complete `being' of an individual to a `point', a vital, concentrated
point. We can compare it to a distillation, say, of flowers in our
cellular world to a drop of perfume, but intensely concentrated. This
perfume can then pass through the tiniest crack in a door or wall
through which not a single flower can pass. So, too, this vital, intensely
concentrated `point of being' can at death pass through time and space in
a way not conceivable to us. If experienced, we would then understand many
aspects and dimensions of time, including immortality and eternity.

Supposing we can develop an `essence body', a body of awareness, similar

to scent, we could then, like scent, move in other more subtle worlds and
yet our physical awareness and physical body could be either fully aware
or `awake' in this cellular world, i.e. on this earth, or be in a state of
sleep (refer to the practices). This energy of `the essence of
consciousness' (refer to the diagrams) can be generated and accumulated,
and then one can experience states which are normally not possible. These
practices constitute the higher aspects of scientific yoga, not the yoga
professed today all over the world including India. But in an ordinary
person this energy is generated without conscious efforts in small doses,
not in sufficient or proper quantity and quality, and is used up
quickly in bursts of temper, brooding or sensitiveness, etc., so that its
accumulation is not possible.

If a body of such energy of the essence of consciousness can be developed,

it would need nothing. For perception it needs no light, for it can see
the inside of opaque objects; it can project itself at great speeds, i.e.
be near-instantly everywhere; its spectrum of vision and sound is many
times enlarged, rather indefinitely perhaps, so that it can perceive an
atom or a galaxy, i.e. it could function both as a microscope and a
telescope and, for that matter, as any other sophisticated instrument. In
higher yoga, such powers are called siddhis or psychic powers, as
enumerated by the Sage Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra -- but the motive
should not be the acquiring of such powers, but to go beyond them.
Actually, this energy of the essence of consciousness in proper grade and
quantity can, for scientific yoga practices, build an electronic body --
the mental body -- based on the recordings in the super micro recording
monitor, exactly like the one that was disintegrated in the last sub-stage
of Bhuvah.

`Will' is also an energy that can be developed (refer to the diagrams),

from third grade or `neutral will' in an ordinary person, when it is able
to do or perform nothing, through second grade or `intellectual will',
which is useful and adequate for activity in the objective world, to first
grade or `spiritual will', when it can perform things that seem
miraculous. This too is explained later.

After developing the energy of the essence of consciousness and spiritual

will, one has to develop `purpose' or `aim', i.e. to what end or purpose
will all this be made use of, so that this body of the energy of the
essence of consciousness can be so directed by spiritual will. Our motive
should be clean and to do all this one needs an advanced guide, a
Transcendental Teacher.

So it is apparent that all this intense work on one's self is to be done

consciously when alive, in this lifetime. Only then can one be fully
aware or awake in this cellular world and also be in the other, molecular,
world, i.e. be awake or aware during one's lifetime as well as after
death, and be able to bear the shock of death, the shock of entry into the
new state. We know that a sudden descent into the ocean, even to not very
great depths, makes a person unconscious. Little wonder, then, that an
average person, with no such intense work done on himself consciously,
becomes unconscious at such intervals.

The extra dimensions, the changes in speed, the fact that ordinary,
earthly thoughts take actual shape and texture in four-dimensional form,
and all ulterior motives and unexpressed or suppressed thoughts take
hideous, monstrous shapes and colours -- all this can make a person think
that it is all actually happening whilst in some dream state one is
in after death, perhaps even that it is all actually meant as punishment.
One is then terror-stricken. This goes on over a prolonged period. It is
merciful that one is unconscious, that one remains in a dream state after
death; even then it is an unbearable experience.
We have noted that at the end of the fourth sub-stage in Bhuh on the
downward arc (which would be equivalent to the beginning of the fourth
sub-stage in Bhuh on the upward arc), the last astral body was finally
disintegrated, so that in sub-stages 3-2-1 (descending) and 1-2-3
(ascending) of Bhuh only one single physical or cellular body of brute
nature was around the Divine Fragment in very brutal conditionings. The
brain was also very small and could not think for itself. So in our early
fourth sub-stage on the upward arc, once again the astral body is rejoined
to the cellular. This first astral body on the upward arc is exactly akin
to the last astral or molecular body that was completely disintegrated as
per the last recordings in the astral super micro recording monitor, but
with one vital difference: on the downward arc, the cellular or physical
body was the primary body and the astral was secondary; now on the upward
arc, the astral body is primary and the cellular/physical is secondary. A
very major factor and change. Because of this, during higher practices the
primary body will enable experience of higher stages of the next subtle
world, Bhuvah, which is molecular in nature. This will be so increasingly
in the next sub-stages 5-6-7 of Bhuh on the upward arc, as vibrations will
keep increasing steadily at a very high rate, the same rate at which they
were lowered on the downward arc.

Both these bodies are once again perfectly cojoined, the subtle astral
interpenetrating the gross physical. When the physical breathes air, the
astral intakes prana; but the limited brain with its limited awareness is
not aware of the astral body, nor of the intake of prana (or of the
presence of the Divine Fragment within). Unfortunately, this breathing of
air by the physical and the intake of prana by the astral is not in
rhythm. This sets up an internal conflict that creates many other types of
conflicts, both internal and external. But how can this be known and
redressed when the very existence of the astral body is doubted!

To redeem the physical body, brain and accompanying senses, therefore, the
first essential step is to set up this rhythm between the breathing of the
physical body and the prana intake of the astral. To do this, the brain
has first to accept that there is an astral body besides the physical,
further that it intakes prana, and that a rhythm should be established
between these two processes -- this much should dawn. Besides resolving
this conflict, and besides the main task of redeeming, other further steps
are that we bring about coordination and communication at all levels:
first between the physical and the astral; later between the astral and
the mental; then with the Divine Fragment; and then between finite Divine
Fragments and, successively, the small, the large, and the immense Divine
Fragments, and other such interconnecting states.

But "the journey of a thousand miles starts with a first small step." So
for all this the initial, vital, absolutely essential first step is
developing and establishing the all-purpose three-step rhythmic breathing
(3SRB) (see the section on preliminary practices in chapter 11), which
thus assumes importance out of all proportion. 3SRB is not an exercise --
it is the correct way of breathing, and has to replace our present faulty
breathing as the correct breathing for all 24 hours.

Whenever there are two bodies, such coordination is essential, indeed

absolutely vital. To think that with the first breath we are born and that
with the last breath we die is a misconception. The astral or molecular
body is the primary body, so as long as prana circulates in that body we
shall live, and with the cessation of such circulation we shall die. Our
breathing depends on it, for our physical body is only a secondary body.
This is one of the mirages of Existence and one who wishes to make faster
progress must find and uncover for oneself many such mirages.

We do not breathe through both nostrils at all times but through either
the left or the right one, and, during the changeover, through both for
just a few minutes. In the astral, the left nostril (and the channel
emptying into it) is known as ida, the right as pingala. It can happen
that instead of one nostril being completely closed, the flow may be
little in one and more in the other.

The air that the physical body breathes goes to the lungs, through
combustion the blood reaching the lungs is oxygenated, the cleansed blood
is sent back to the heart to be recirculated in the body and supplied to
the brain through a network of nerves. The blood that goes all over the
body and brain returns to the heart via a network of veins. This is
circulation in the physical body. "Because we cannot penetrate directly to
lower levels or worlds, we do not guess what blinding disintegration,
explosions and aesthetic fusion the oxygen of the air of our breath brings
to the molecules of the blood."

The prana that the astral body intakes goes mostly to muladhara (point #1)
and 10% of it directly to swadhisthana (point #2), the two vital points in
all the diagrams 1-3c. We have to study this prana circulation (1<-->2)
in the astral body. At muladhara, the prana is transformed into the
energies of life and awareness, at swadhisthana it is transformed into the
energy of the essence of consciousness. Depending on the development of
the individual, this latter energy could be of either first, second or
third grade, the last being normally the case. All this takes place
because of the very presence of the Divine Fragment within; if It were to
depart everything would come to an end!

If this energy be of third grade (refer diagram 1), then the energy of
will that flows as the by-product is neutral will that is able to do
nothing, and emotions and sex energies are crude in that person. If the
energy be of second grade (refer diagram 2), then the energy of will that
flows as the by-product is intellectual will, which is able to do little
though, the emotions are upgraded and sex is normal with that person. If
this energy be of first grade, which is very rare indeed (refer diagram
3a), then the energy of will that flows as the by-product is spiritual
will, i.e. it is able to do much, the emotions are very noble and sex is
sublimated. "Spiritual will is that quota of Universal Will which in any
one individual enables the spiritual man to cooperate in the plan and
purpose of the great life and thus be a partner with God and Nature!"

In an average person, there is no conscious control either at muladhara or

at swadhisthana. Control becomes possible, or is conscious, only when
first grade of the energy of the essence of consciousness is generated
along with spiritual will, and is able to direct forces within the body,
and sex is sublimated. This will be explained later.

"Somewhere, in another world, the fundamental chord of a man's life has

sounded, and here in this world the physical constituents of his organism
have assumed the responding pattern and become tangible to us."
"In the same way, the disintegration of the earthly element of the old
(dying) body appears to set up a vibration... This vibration would seem to
be the bearer of the final psychological pattern (sanskaras or structure)
of the dying man."

Both processes -- birth and death -- referred to in the above quotations

are like processes in the human body over which we have no conscious
control. They are nearly the same in all the three universes of Bhuh,
Bhuvah and Svahah, with minor modifications depending on whether there is
a single body or two cojoined bodies encasing the Divine Fragment. Let us
now trace the processes of birth and death that we, our present humanity
that finds itself on this planet in the present fourth sub-stage in Bhuh
on the upward arc, are all subject to.

No sooner is the individual cycle for rebirth on, than fresh birth takes
place. The new-born child-to-be, i.e. the new cellular body as it will be
when fully adult, is woven as per recordings in the super micro recording
monitors under the impartial guidance of the Divine Fragment. As Sage
Patanjali says in IV(14): "The manifestation of the objective form is due
to the one-pointedness of the effect-producing cause (the sanskaras)."

As per the recordings in the second (astral) super micro recording

monitor in the causal body, astral or molecular substance is selected and
woven into the shape of a body, with all the astral counterparts of the
organs, nerves (nadis), mind, the thinking instrument (manas) and all
other details properly taken into account and fabricated. The `genetic
structure' is of secondary importance only, the fabrication depending
solely on the super micro recordings. Parents play no part constructively
-- they are mere ground as required -- for there is no `heredity'.

All potential and possible progress through free will operative is allowed
for; also, if certain defects or traits of the damaging thoughts, motives,
and acts are noted as per the recordings, provision is also made for
them. This we unfortunately call destiny or karma rather than the events
that give us the opportunity to redeem. Such events amount to about 5%, or
a little more, only of our lives; the remaining huge majority is free will
operative. Some stress (and such is now implicitly accepted) that every
wink of the eye is predestined, that every breath is predetermined -- it
is not so. It is quite an untrue picture presented and is the cause of
much misunderstanding. This point is to be properly and clearly
understood.

This fabrication of the astral or molecular body as per recordings is

managed under the unbiased supervision of the Divine Fragment, which
remains in the causal body after the death of the previous physical body
and until the birth in a fresh physical body. This is the disembodied
state of the Divine Fragment; it does not loiter or wander as one without
a place to rest, neither does it go and merge with the Divine Wholeness,
nor is it subjected to `heaven or hell' because Existence has no power
over it.

When the astral is complete in all its details, then at the proper moment,
as per the law of cycles, `parents' are selected, most suited for the
new-born to best fulfil his or her potential as well as to acquire
characteristics and diseases -- and so conception takes place at the
chosen hour. In the selection of parents, forces or entities -- either
advanced sons of advanced humanities, mostly of Svahah Universe, and/or
those Divine Fragments who have not joined the game of Existence --
volunteer for services and play their part. Here the ill-conceived theory
of heredity has cropped up. The parents give nothing; the incoming child
finds ground suitable for the inherent potential, defects, appearances or
looks, diseases, weaknesses, characteristics, etc. Each to-be-born child
is given what is best possible, and sometimes certain obstacles are
included to bring forth the best in the child. This preselection is made
by the super micro recording monitor and duplicated before birth in the
arrangement of genes. The seed finds the ground to germinate.

During pregnancy, the astral body of the child to be born hovers near the
mother and about the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy in normal cases,
sometimes a few weeks earlier or later, enters the womb and cojoins with
the nearly formed physical body. From the moment it is generated, the
primary or astral body intakes prana, although the physical child in the
womb does not breathe. The mother, in most cases, notices a certain type
of movement or sensation which is ascribed to the physical child in the
womb from this time onward but belongs to the astral or primary body of
the child. If there are some physical, emotional or mental defects due to
certain important recordings, there will be corresponding prana
obstructions in the primary or astral body and the child born will show
such defects in the physical body.

If all goes well, two things must happen for the physical birth of the
child to take place; if either does not, then the child is still-born.
(1) That particular Divine Fragment for whom these bodies are generated
and fabricated enters the cojoined bodies. If this step does not take
place, the following step (2) is aborted. (2) With the first breath in the
physical body, the prana intake reaching muladhara creates a spark and the
energy of life and awareness begins to circulate in the physical body.
Simultaneously, the prana directly reaching swadhisthana (normally about
10%) creates another spark and the energy of the essence of consciousness
(normally of third grade) begins to circulate in the primary body.

The shock of these sparks generating the vital energies is painful and the
child cries. For some medical reason also, it is good for the child to
cry, but the main reason for the bitter cry is the immense pain felt at
these two vital points in the astral body coinciding in the physical body.
Inside both the bodies, process (1) for the generator and process (2) for
the engine take place, generating as well as consuming energies
simultaneously.

Note that till the child is physically born, (1) it does not breathe in
the womb, (2) neither the energy of life nor of awareness is generated
independently in the child, and (3) the Divine Fragment does not enter
till the first breath at birth. There are no `live' movements of the child
in the womb. So abortion is not taking of `life' for there is no life
till the first breath outside the mother's womb. We wish to clear the
misconception that abortion is taking or smothering of a life. Nature's
knowledge is such that in cases of abortion, Nature is never cheated, and
if Nature wants the child to be born, even abortion methods will fail due
to some technicality or causes beyond our control and knowledge. We are
not here to discuss whether abortion is good or otherwise, or whether it
should be encouraged or discouraged; we do not wish to enter into any
controversy. All we have to state is that abortion is not taking of
life and is no sin, as some religions stress. Many misconceptions prevail
in all religions and this is one of the many.

When an abnormal or sub-normal or defective child is born we attribute

this to the `will of God'. Such are childish notions. Our immature and
childish minds are yet not ready to accept and take responsibility for all
that is good and also for all that is not good. Such arbitrary action is
not taken by any so-called God or by any other power, be they devas and/or
demons, for these are also humanities a little ahead or a little behind us
on cosmic scale. Nothing outside of the laws is permitted in Existence,
i.e. there is no possibility of such gross interference, and no one can
interfere for better or worse -- not even God Himself, for He is, if
anything, but the upholder of law and justice. We cannot compare Him to
our irresponsible ministers who would not hesitate to interfere and throw
their weight around!

It is nice to know what the Geeta has to say on this pertinent point,
viz. divine interference in the name of God's will:
"The Lord does not accept responsibility for any man's merit or demerit.
Men are deluded because in them wisdom (of the Divine Fragment) is
submerged in ignorance (of body and mind)."
"I am the same to all beings, I favour none and I hate none, but those who
follow my laws devotedly, they live in Me and I in them."
"The duty that of itself falls to one's lot should not be abandoned,
though it may not be pleasant."

We also express a parallel modern thought: "Aspirants fail to make good

where they are because they find some reason which makes them think they
should be elsewhere. Men run away, almost without realizing it, from
difficulty, from inharmonious conditions, from places which involve
problems, and which are staged to draw out the best that is in a man,
provided he stays in them."

Now just as the physical body eats and drinks, the primary, astral body,
also known as the emotional body or karana sharira, gets its food from the
other grades of prana in the form of impulses that enter it at the rate of
120 per second and reach the sense organs, and are thus transmitted to the
physical. (An impulse is the smallest unit of energy.) Here we must
explain the correct manner in which all impulses reach us. We wrongly
believe that when we see or hear, the impulses of perception and sound
directly touch the retina or the ear drum. Actually, the impulses enter
the primary astral body through the five sense channels, flow as senses
into the physical body and reach the sense organs -- the eyes, ears, etc.
Simultaneously, they reach the registration centres in the brain, with the
organs getting the necessary messages transmitted therefrom. That is why
in the shastras it is said that "the senses are not the sense organs
themselves." This is very necessary to grasp properly. Please ponder over
this as many misunderstandings will be cleared.

So the sense organs play their part only when the senses are transmitted
to the physical brain and result in thought forms, or what Sage Patanjali
calls `modifications of the mind', which are molecular in nature. The
modifications of the mind in the average person are merely an automatic
reflex action which passes off as normal thinking. The reactions of the
individual by way of thought forms are the individual's `mental
excretions' -- and what care do we take of them as is expected of us, as
in the case of physical excretions? Till we do so, and by law enforce it,
we are not truly civilized.

The generation of these energies, we have noted, obeys laws just as

everything in Existence is subject to law. Whether their flow and quality
will increase or decrease depends solely on the positive or negative
efforts of the individual. As these two vital energies grow dimmer or less
abundant, then diseases, sickness, coma and old age come in, and when they
cease the individual also ceases to live. Various reasons based on various
laws are responsible for their malfunctioning or ceasing to function (see
the intensity charts). Breathing, too, is a forced action brought about in
the physical body by the production of these two vital energies.

When death is near, the radiation of the Divine Fragment (which can never
be seen, but its rays passing through the vesture create a glow that is
mistakenly called `soul') withdraws from all extremities, and with this
the energies of life and awareness wither and are not generated any
more within the computerized organism. So life and awareness seem to ooze
out from the fingers, palms of the hands and lower limbs, and finally from
the face and head, with the feeling of cold coming all over.

The ordinary person who has not practised the higher steps of scientific
yoga can do nothing about this. That person has to go and in a state of
complete unconsciousness. There are three warnings of the oncoming of the
symptoms of death. 88% die at the fist approach and 98% do not survive the
second approach. The warning comes with blood receding from the feet,
palms and head, and the person looks bluish-greenish. Slowly these
symptoms spread over the entire body, but a circle on the chest near the
heart still retains the normal colour of the skin (provided the skin is
fair, otherwise it is difficult to judge). In this case a person may
revive if medical attention is available instantly. In most cases of
swoon, the person appears dead but actual death does take a little time.
Revival can be effected if this warning is not final.

By use of some sophisticated equipment, science will in future be able to

make use of the `awareness' of the organism to make the organism look
alive at the first warning of death, and the person can once again
recognize known people. But in the interest of the dead this may not be
done. The awareness of the organism itself, which is but the leftover
energies of life and awareness in the organism, is limited and these
energies are slowly extinguished unless some sort of artificial energy
supply is given to the organism. Should these treatments and instruments
continue, even then the body will ultimately collapse some day. From the
first moment of clinical death the organism may be preserved by chemicals
to function, but awareness will diminish to zero.

(Those who have practised nightly during their lifetime (refer chapters
12-13 later) can at the first warning (if they so desire) consciously
create sufficient heat (or high fever) within the organism by certain
pranayama practices and then the organism becomes normal again. This will
leave the organism weak for three days. This is done if there is good
reason for survival and not otherwise. This is possible only for those who
can take conscious birth or can die consciously.)

So when a person dies, these two vital energies are generated no more;
simultaneously, the Divine Fragment collects itself and moves from the
heart centre, anahata, to bindu (during waking hours), where It is at in
sleep every night, and departs from bindu through the skull (without
fracturing it, of course). Bindu is a dimensionless point (that has no
measurement) but is shown in the diagrams/charts in the appendix. It is a
misconception that It departs from sahasrara. On the death of an
individual the physical body is disposed of according to different rites
and ceremonies, whereas the astral body that was cojoined can exist for
some longer time, being more subtle, elastic and self-conscious.

The Divine Fragment takes along the astral body along with it up to the
seventh sub-stage of Bhuvah -- for beyond this the astral cannot go -- and
then, after releasing it, continues to the Ring-pass-not, the Mahah
region, to rest in the causal body allotted to It till fresh birth is
taken. The astral body then floats down in dream state, if certain
practices are not carried out during earth life, till it reaches the
astral plane it belongs to -- an average person belongs to this Earth
stage only or worse -- and then disintegrates completely.

In this after-life of the primary body, i.e. between the death and the
rebirth of the individual, there is a period known as the disembodied
state -- the physical body is missing but the astral is existing and
the Divine Fragment has returned to the Mahah region. The primary body now
regains its awareness to some extent and finds the secondary missing, but
does not know that on astral planes by just wishing one could regain it,
and so is miserable.

The astral body normally does not remain on the Bhuvah universe astral
planes proper but returns to the astral belt around the Earth and lives
its lone existence as an "empty shell" in a dream state. In this swoon
state, which is a dream state of the events experienced with the secondary
body during the last Earth-life -- all thoughts, motives and actions
committed -- these now appear in four dimensions, dramatically choosing
actual shapes and sizes quite bewildering. Being ignorant of the new
dimensions and speeds, the astral sees, as if in reality, hideous
thoughts, motives and actions held or performed during earth life and,
suffering acutely, feels intense fear, pain and distress. It roams as per
its thinking on lower and lower astral planes of Bhuh universe and suffers
the life of near animal humanity prior to final disintegration if the
memory patterns had been not pleasant. This is the mistaken idea of hell
-- an independent concept of Existence to dismiss the idea of `redeeming'.

Conversely, if the thinking of the individual were honestly good during

one's Earth life (not through fear of God or hell -- in which case
also one will see only dreadful dreams -- only those who indulged in good
for the sake of good), such individuals who harboured honourable and
helpful thoughts will see colourful, happy dreams in dream state, feel
intense peace, and slowly float down to astral planes of Bhuh universe and
start disintegrating. These are the various interpretations of so-called
heaven and hell.

The same old memory patterns repeat and are dreadful or pleasant in
extremely heightened intensity depending on what memory patterns were
indulged in. This goes on till disintegration sets in. For one must know
that the astral planes are the most dreadful, deceitful and glamorous, and
at the same time could be the most beautiful planes which can be
consciously moulded or one may be subjected to, depending on what efforts
were put in during Earth life to understand them. If dreadful it is a
state of hell, if beautiful it is a state of heaven. Dreams in higher
sub-stages are equivalent to being in high heaven and dreams in lower
sub-stages are equivalent to being in dreadful hell.

In some rare instances of violent or intense desires not being fulfilled,

a few primary bodies, on getting their awareness back to some extent after
swoon, return to Earth in search of fulfillment of their desires. They
roams in the vicinity of where they used to be when cojoined with the
physical body and visit places where they think they can fulfil such
desires. But during daytime on Earth they take refuge on the dark side of
the Moon. Can you imagine the speeds? The distance from the Earth to the
Moon is a quarter million miles and they have time to spend anywhere on
Earth at night between 12 midnight and 4 a.m. Earth-time (including the
coming and going). So we have no idea of the speeds, vibrations and
dimensions of this region, and our rites, ceremonies prayers have no place
there. It is a fiction of our minds created by our priests. Some
spiritualists say they can call such bodies and contact them, and many
improper theories that are evolved in spiritualism. For these astral
shells, having mental communications, can read human thoughts and can
answer any question and we foolishly believe that our dear departed ones
have returned to answer us!
All this is for those who have not consciously worked on themselves and
have not carried out higher practices of yoga in this earthly life. Once
this astral body disintegrates, nothing is left of the individual! There
is a short or long period of waiting before fresh birth, depending on the
cycle pertaining to the individual.

So for whom do we cry, pray and have various ceremonies? Some may argue
that we do so for this astral body, but how come all one's life one
does not even accept the presence of the astral body and now we are so
very conscious of it! For that matter, the so-called reward and punishment
is given only to the lone forsaken body, the astral shell that remains for
some time before disintegration and which, as the primary body, was
leading the physical body. Is that so? If higher practices of yoga are
followed, as explained in the practices, even this is avoided. Those who
are fully conscious of this astral body during their earthly life can
disintegrate it at once. Besides, both the bodies are consumed -- it is
ordained that the coverings be completely destroyed each time.

The immortal, indestructible Divine Fragment rests peacefully and needs

nothing. It has had no part to play during earthly life -- It is only a
`witness' to the modifications of the thinking instrument, of body, mind,
senses and free will, and is therefore not subject to any reward or
punishment. In returning to the Mahah region after the death of the
individual, It is beyond all Existence, beyond the three universes, so the
question of hell and heaven does not arise for the Divine Fragment. So,
again, for whom do we cry, pray and have various ceremonies? When shall we
wake up and know that we must stop these foolish so-called religious rites
and ceremonies for the dead. You and I are the Divine Fragments -- we need
nothing! All we need is to realize this and be free.

The Divine Fragment needs nothing. It can save our priests and religious
heads if It is believed in! The Divine Fragment, the Self, is pure
Consciousness and can never know sorrow, nor pain or misery for nothing
can cause It that. Nothing can touch it, so burning in eternal hell does
not arise -- It can quench the whole of hell's fire. It is beyond all
limitations, needs not even life or awareness since it creates these two
vital energies for the survival of the bodies which form its outer
coverings when on Earth or in any other conditioning anywhere in the
Universe. So why this childish attitude? We say, "May his soul rest in
peace." Utter foolishness! Soul, or Self, is always tranquil and at peace!

So the question of heaven and hell does not arise, and neither does the
question of the day of judgment. These are theories purposely created when
humanity was much too immature and fear of God, and punishment and reward,
were the only ways by which the people could be held under some control.
Those were the heyday of the priests, the religious leaders, who ever so
very kindly issued permits to heaven (for a price, of course) to the
religious-minded. These permits are seriously bought even today! To what
lengths can the human mind be degraded! And in this space age, even now,
how many millions and millions would not dare to say this or that in fear,
lest they be condemned to eternal hell! Even today, religious leaders have
a grip that science has failed to obtain.

Wake up, dear friends, wake up! Rub out these ancient memory patterns.
They were once good and desirable, but that age is dead and gone. Live in
the present age. You alone can issue a permit to yourself, no one else
can, not even God -- for this is the law and only this is ordained. We
have never given five minutes of independent, serious thought any day to
this important subject. We blindly follow age-old customs as if drugged
and believe whatever is said in the name of religion -- any religion, all
of them are the same. And all religions have been thoroughly manipulated
by the priest class to suit their own objectives. Let us come out of this
stupor! The awful misunderstanding, be it coming from Dante or Milton, or
scriptures or shastras, let these stone-age ideas be set aside once and
for all time as totally wrong and stupid, something that can never happen.
Do not mix this space-age with the stone-age in your minds. Live and die
in this space age. Though the masses have never been ready to receive it,
humanity is now becoming more mature and these immature ideas do not befit
us.

Let us take the definition of `day of judgment': the last, final trial of
the subjects of God's moral government at the end of the world. It sounds
so silly! We now know how long it will take for the world and humanity to
end, so this so-called day of judgment is so far off. And inspite of not
believing in reincarnation or rebirth after our earthly life, we still
harbour such impossible thoughts. In many cases life starts with great
handicaps, which too is endured in the name of God's will, and then
awaiting the day of judgment, perhaps in purgatory (which does not exist),
perhaps now here ... Oh God! This almighty foolishness! Does it not sound
meaningless? And yet we will keep faith in religions that want us to
believe so! At this rate we will all degenerate more and more.

Keep an open mind and find out for yourself who or what suffers or enjoys
after death and why? Whose fault and whose merit is it? Who is existing
and where, or does exist anywhere?

The main difficulty with prayers being meaningful is the law of

vibrations. We have noted earlier that para-nada, on passing through the
Ring-pass-not, is fractured; this resulting pashyanti-nada of Svahah in
passing though the first minor ring-pass-not was further fractured to
become madhyama-nada in Bhuvah, which in further passing though the second
minor ring-pass-not was fractured to the grade of vaikheri. It means that
stronger vibrations break down and become weaker as they pass through the
rings-pass-not. So in order to reach the godhead beyond, if they try to
recross these barrier areas of the rings-pass-not, they would be fractured
to mere hoarseness and may even totally disintegrate. Therefore, thoughts
and sounds of vaikheri spectrum cannot go beyond Bhuh universe and rise to
the level of madhyama or pashyanti -- so how can they be heard?

Since the sound vibrations of our prayers in Bhuh are within a limited
spectrum of vaikheri sound, the prayers recited by us or by our priests
cannot reach even the highest grade of vaikheri, which is far below the
least grade of madhyama. So the astral body, which is on the molecular
sub-plane and which can only catch sound of madhyama grade, even if it
were awake (not in dream state) and expecting to hear, would not be able
to hear. Is this clear? It is only a pious thought and pious solace that
our prayers are heard, that our rites and ceremonies can help. All of
Existence is based on law and order and not on pious fancy!

Because of the utter change in speed and dimensions, we are unable to see
the universe Bhuvah, nor, because of the higher vibrations of madhyama
sound, do we hear any sound from that universe though it is all around
us. It would be better if we are less emotional and more practical,
rational and calmer; it would be possible to understand much more. In the
absence of conscious and prolonged practices and study in this life of
astral travel and astral laws, and of consciously being able to create
madhyama sound, there can be no contact and no communication.

Be not under any delusion that our prayers, rites, and ceremonies can
help. Also be not under any delusion that no care is being taken of the
lone astral shell existing for some time after death, that it is in
such pitiable condition and left alone needing help. (As to who goes to
its help and how to help will be stated in chapter 11 on practices.)
Therefore be rational, calm and less emotional. If prayers cannot be
heard, do not bring in powers that cannot intervene on grounds of mercy
and charity to make laws ineffective! As to the powers they are addressed
to: if they know, then your prayers are not needed; and if they have to
hear your prayers to know, then they are not powers enough that can help.
There are many types of mirages in Existence and one such is that divine
intervention can be brought about or can take place.

But when we pray, to which God or godhead shall we pray? Not that vague
thought, `To the one and only God,' repeated parrot-like, like a tape
recorder. God must be beyond your conception to be a God, and, above all,
if God is a `He', then forget `Him'!

People suffer from hallucinations and are termed mentally sick; it is

a mental malady and needs treatment. The pious people and bhakti yoga
disciples also suffer from hallucinations; they too are mentally sick and
need treatment. God is not free to give darshan to the devotees! In the
former case hallucinations may be of a morbid type, and in the latter
case they may be of a pleasant and religious type; nevertheless, all
hallucinations need treatment, whatever the type.

In this fourth sub-stage on the upward arc of Bhuh, we are in deep

confusion because of limited awareness. We as human beings of our period
grope our way about. Most of us worship the greatest of all gods -- `I' --
unfailingly, and the rest of us have some vague idea of God, more created
by man with his wild imagination. It is better to worship what you know
rather than a meaningless God, for how can it be possible for a human mind
to figure that which is not ever seen by anyone, much less that which is
beyond conception.

We are told, rather we have heard repeatedly and from many people, that in
one of the most famous temples of South India, Lord Balaji walks over
every night to His consort and that the sandals placed at His Holy feet
(near the idol, we suppose) get worn out! What a God and what great
worshipers! We are informed that He is the richest God in India! Not one
word is added to what we have heard. And in many temples God is fed,
bathed, put in His bed to sleep, and is not disturbed when He is asleep!
To what limits can we go! And what helpless Gods are we worshiping!

Does it not then mean that actually man creates a God and that too in
his own image and with his frailties! And does he not impose on his God
some weaknesses that he himself has? An angry God! How can it ever be? By
all means carry on with your make-believe, carry on for eternities, for we
are all making this game of Existence more interesting and longer lasting!

So our beloved person, Mr. or Ms. X, is dead; the Divine Fragment has thus
had a name, and it has happened so a few million times, each time a
different name! Had Divine Wholeness named or numbered each Divine
Fragment, it would have made our present task easier, for we would then
have clearly known that the physical body we know and call Mr. or Ms. X or
father/mother/son/daughter/husband/wife is all madness, nothing short of
madness, intense madness. These outer coverings are sometimes male and
sometimes female, and with succeeding lives, i.e. births and deaths, the
relations we know today would also seem so foolish, what with a mother
becoming the wife and the son becoming the father! If you could only see
all this, the madness of it all, instead of crying and mourning and
observing rites, ceremonies and prayers, you would laugh till your sides
split and your stomach aches -- all this foolish drama and humbug that
goes on in the name of religion! But Divine Wholeness itself could not
trespass on the birthright of each Divine Fragment to merge with and
re-emerge from It, so that there is no separate identity. It is our
ignorance of the facts, not seeing one eternal life down and up the
sub-stages of Existence and beyond the Ring-pass-not.

Awake, open your eyes, know, and be free! The loved one is your memory of
the personality of a particular physical body and whatever you are
consoling is your own memory. Reason it out -- what else can it be? If you
lose memory by some chance you will cease to mourn. The greatest mirage in
Existence is memory, and, in some cases, loss of memory; at a particular
hour it plays its tricks with us and we are not willing to counter it by
being conscious. We have stated earlier that awareness passes through
phases like the moon, from no moon to full moon; pure Consciousness, on
the other hand, is constant like the sun, bright and without phases.

Contrary to common belief and understanding, memory does not belong to the
physical man. All memory of all the important thoughts, motives and acts
those that were premeditated and deliberately executed as to be harmful
and damaging to others, is held in the three permanent seed atoms, what we
call the super micro recording monitors, from which an exact and complete
duplicate in coded microform (of all our past lives in their entirety),
what we call memory patterns, is issued to each individual who is about to
be born. Based on this, circumstances and events cross the individual's
path and based on certain cycles come as events. A very complicated
reckoning takes place. Also contrary to all beliefs and understandings,
only 5% or a little more of an individual's life meets with these exacting
patterns that have to be fulfilled, if not redeemed.

Such memory patterns accumulated from the beginning of Svahah to the

grossest point nadir in Bhuh are now on their way seeking redemption or
failing which, fulfillment; but no redeeming is possible unconsciously nor
by any law of causation. They are to be understood and to be transcended
-- intelligently, sincerely and knowingly -- by each and every person. But
the only reason they come our way is because the body, mind and senses
have to be redeemed. Besides, it is one of the rules of the game and so
play it well, resume with courage and understanding. And redeeming is
only possible if: (1) One is convinced about the primary, astral body
besides the physical as explained. (2) One is consciously able (under a
Transcendental Teacher) to separate the primary body from the secondary
for various advanced practices. (3) One is convinced that the best and
only teacher is the encased transcendental Divine Fragment within. (4)
Body, mind and senses therefore accept the Divine Fragment and the
guidance given with devotion. (5) Last, but not the least, correct regular
daily practice of higher scientific yoga study is adopted.

Till then it is mere talk, words to no avail. In the absence of this we

may cry our hearts out, observe fasts, pray and take recourse to all sorts
of ineffectual nonsense, even to asking and expecting divine intervention.
Why do we do this? Are we innocent and God in His divine pleasure heaps
all this on us, as some say to try our faith? Even if we were to believe
in `as you sow, so you reap', why cry now? Why panic? Why not calmly
accept, even without saying, `Thy will be done' -- for it is not His will
but His laws that are operating, ceaselessly and unerringly.

So when these events visit us in order that we redeem, if we are not

conscious of this fact and do not redeem in a proper manner, the next
effect it has is of seeming causation. In our ignorance, when we are not
ready to redeem our past consciously we suffer, and it all appears as
painful and undeserved, or God's will. So life and Existence get a bad
name -- that in Existence we can expect only pain, misery, injustice and
inequality of all sorts, and which, not to offend the deity, we piously
call God's will. Thus are `reap-as-you-sow' and other such meaningless
theories woven.

But from birth to death we go through life unconsciously, unconscious of

our past `roots' however deep down and far off they may have been. "If
this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seeds and in
what unremembered seasons." And when we cannot clearly see the whole
picture, we have a thousand odd theories in the name of religion,
theology, philosophy and, of course, the unquestioned so-called holy
scriptures and gospels of various faiths which have been tampered with so
many times by our ancient priests. Religions are mockeries and yet we
piously hug them. It is apparent we do not want to come out of our moral
and mental blindness, which is worse than physical blindness. We prefer to
live in a cocoon like the worm and do not wish to fly like the beautiful
butterfly!

Normally for most of our waking time, we live either in the past or in the
future, in hope or in despair. Do you know why? Because all these states
are dream states: past and future, hope and despair. The only reality is
the present, which may even be harsh, demanding rightfully its pound of
flesh if you are not aware of redeeming, but if you are conscious you
smile and welcome the opportunity to redeem. In the former case where we
are not aware of redeeming, we shiver and cringe, because we have no moral
courage to say, "Well, my own deeds, thoughts and motives, those
deliberate, damaging ones, are revisiting me. If now I find them hideous
and unbearable in their effect on me, I should have thought more about
them then, not now; but never mind, even now it is not too late. Why do I
cry for mercy and charity? Did I show it myself at that time?" And then we
should undergo the full process of redeeming. Face it with a smile, face
it like a man; above all, play the game of Existence like a sport in the
spirit it was once accepted.
In chapter 4 of the Geeta, Lord Krishna tells Arjuna, "I have been born
again and again, from time to time; thou too, O Arjuna! My births are
known to me, but thou knowest not thine." The processes of birth and
death that have just been outlined are for us ordinary persons. We who die
unconsciously and not knowing our own past memory patterns, wherever and
whenever they germinate and create events, think we do not deserve what we
get. Not only is memory required to know the why about such visitations,
but also the awareness that it is not karmic debt -- viz. causation,
retribution or punishment -- that has visited us, but the opportunities to
`redeem'; the method, the approach, and the fulfillment is then totally
different. Unless this understanding comes into our life, life and
Existence will cease to have the correct meaning for us and we will all
continue to grope unaware and suffer endlessly, for ignorance of such
knowledge is no excuse. Even in our own world, if a child were to touch a
live wire, it will get a severe shock and maybe even die; we can expect no
pity from anywhere in that case for it is a law of electricity violated.

But karma and dharma have been maligned, abused, and misunderstood as
nothing else (besides scientific yoga) has been. There is no need to go
through such memory patterns as are recorded and come to us as events, and
not knowing how to redeem, we have no other course but to suffer. Sage
Patanjali states, as did the Lord Buddha, in II(16): "Pain which is yet to
come can be warded off" -- not by prayers, not by divine intervention, but
by understanding and following correct methods that help us to redeem.
Otherwise, with the poet, we too can only say:
"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on; nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
Does that mean that our scriptures are impotent, tampered with as they
have been over the ages, or maybe that we are impotent, we ordinary men
and women and our priests?

"Those that ask shall have, but though the ordinary man asks perpetually,
his voice is not heard. For he asks with his mind only, and the voice of
the mind (vaikheri) is only heard on that plane on which the mind acts."
"In the Universe, there is no form of knowledge which is not perceived
through sound; knowledge is pierced through by sound, all this Universe is
but the result of sound." But one must learn to create and use it.

But we are human as long as we have these outer coverings, the body, mind,
thinking instrument and senses. What a pity that we continue to go by
the shape of our body, its texture and its constituents, and not by the
seed, the power that resides within. We fondly believe in many things, all
incorrect, and this one is the biggest of mirages.
So the most necessary aspect of life is to be conscious of return to the
source. Work for it conscientiously and with "tireless endeavour". To be
immortal means to be conscious at all times and to be able to pass from
one form into another, from one state into another, from lesser to greater
dimensions, in fact across the full range of the spectrum of vibrations.
Quit crying, quit dabbling into and following this thing and that. It is
only possible to progress if you are prepared to redeem. If we can
generate the energy of life and awareness in proper quality and quantity,
and the energy of the essence of consciousness of first grade with
spiritual will, properly cultivated, developed, and directed, this
coherent and developed form, we assure you, is independent of unconscious
dying and bodies.

Look forward to these possibilities. Wake up, smile and work for that
goal. What can thus pass from Existence into Creation? Only that which by
nature and quality is immortal! So it cannot be the bodies, nor the mind
and its thinking instrument, nor the senses. But the link has to be first
established with pure Consciousness that is within you, and not the
awareness of the body and mind, which are your coverings. Do it and be
free!

"To acquire the power of changing one's vehicle or form for that molecular
world at will, it is necessary both to possess and control a body
belonging to the world above, a body of the next finer state of matter."
If this is possible for an individual, such a person will know from
prolonged practical study the laws of astral or molecular travel and
interpretation of the astral or molecular universe. He will be able to
study the astral or molecular body and so will be able to diagnose and
set right or heal cellular or physical bodies. Such a person with
molecular insight will be able to see memory patterns in an individual or
events coming to a person for certain fulfillment or for redeeming. These
are elementary psychic powers, yet require strenuous and prolonged study
and practices.

"Death and transformation are ordinary man's unchosen and unchangeable

fate. All that he can choose to change is awareness -- but to change this
is to change all." A fully conscious man has developed a permanent and
indestructible principle of awareness, namely a fresh mental body, and so
established a firm link with pure consciousness. The idea of development
is to forge and develop a link with pure consciousness, i.e. the Divine
Fragment, with the help of the energy of the essence of consciousness, not
with the awareness of the mind. There is a natural gap, a void, existing
between awareness of body and mind and the mighty force of pure
consciousness which is encased under the outer coverings of body, mind and
senses for you, me, and the man in the street, and that can and will guide
and lead each one of us.
Chapter 9

The Technique of Correct Thinking ( or The Science of Thinking )

--- Preparations For Higher Steps of Scientific Yoga

In practically all the books on the subject, writers give definitions of

`yoga'. They say yoga is to join or to yoke -- true, but what to what?
They do not know that themselves unfortunately and so write what they
please, quite irresponsibly.

Scientific yoga is to join or yoke (1) the individual's awareness of the

body, mind, senses and free will of the physical, astral and mental bodies
and their respective thinking instruments, viz. brain, manas and buddhi,
to (2) pure Cosmic Consciousness, the Divine Fragment within these outer
coverings. Between these two is an almost unbridgeable gulf. How shall we
bridge this gulf? With what material: the energy of the essence of
consciousness of first grade. With what means: spiritual will, directing
this energy under its guidance. Once (1) and (2) are brought in contact,
or rather (1) is yoked to (2), life and purpose become meaningful.

"If you do not meet a transcendental teacher (your pure consciousness, the
Divine Fragment), you will have swallowed Mahayana medicine in vain."
"As a man reads about doctrines, without receiving `oral instructions' he
will miss the thing really necessary to attainment."

Sage Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is excellent for training along the path of
scientific yoga, what some would call "work on one's self". The sutras are
arranged in four books originally, but for study and for yoga practices
they are to be rearranged to understand them properly. In Appendix 1 we
have given the rearranged yoga sutras, now in five books, for proper
reading.

We do not know how authentic it is, but it is said that Sage Patanjali was
known for his `Book V', which is not traceable, and so it is said that the
contents of this `fifth book' have been handed down by `word of mouth'
only.

It is a fact of history that Kautilya's Arthashastra simply disappeared

after his death and for over a thousand years its contents were not known.
Western scholars of political science thought that India, surprisingly,
had made no contribution to this subject as other writers from India on
the subject were far below average. But in the first quarter of the
twentieth century, Kautilya's works came to light and proved to be a gold
mine on the subject of political science. Today it is obvious that
Kautilya had written a masterly treatise on the subject from every
conceivable angle. Yet before it was discovered whenever a mention of its
existence was made western scholars gave a skeptical smile!

It is likewise possible that a masterly treatise on the Yoga Sutra, `Book

V' by Sage Patanjali, may have been lost and, like Kautilya's
Arthashastra, may come to light in the future, perhaps after centuries.
It is conceivable that the Sage must have expounded for his chosen
disciples a masterly treatise on the sutras explaining in detail various
practices. For the Sage is not the author of the sutras -- these sutras
were scattered in the scriptures of his time and he was able to compile
them systematically, and just for compiling them he would not be entitled
to be called a `bhagwan' (for in his days bhagwans were not as plentiful
as in our days)! In the meantime, there is no need to be skeptical about
its existence; even today, manuscripts are unearthed daily and authorship
is traced and proved. So hereunder we present whatever we have been able
to gather from word of mouth concerning the fifth book of the Yoga Sutra.

Before reading further, the reader is requested to study the preliminary

practices in chapter 11, especially the sections on drifts of the mind and
what they signify, the corrective exercises, and the three-step rhythmic
breathing. Without this background, it will be difficult to appreciate
what follows. What Sage Patanjali had to say in detail on yama and niyama,
which are not merely commandments and rules of conduct, we have explained
in some detail in another book, "Yoga Sutra of Sage Patanjali --
Exposition and Practices."

The first sutra to understand is IV(15) (read as sutra 15 in the original

Book IV of the Yoga Sutra): "These two, consciousness and form, are
distinct and separate; though forms may be similar, the consciousness may
function on differing levels of being." This fact is of primary
importance. From what we have stated earlier, we understand that
`consciousness' is of the Divine Fragment and belongs to the domain of
Creation, and `form', i.e. body and mind, belongs to the domain of
Existence and functions through `awareness'; that the transitoriness of
body and mind has no commonalty with the immutability of the Divine
Fragment, but the link between them has to be established for it has a
purpose to fulfil. Creation and Existence have to be understood and the
purpose of Existence ought by now to be somewhat clear and understandable.

Further, it is also to be understood that on the upward arc the hold of

the Divine Fragment on body and mind is taking an ever firmer grip and
this results in different expressions of the individuals. This hold will
keep on increasing, the communication will keep getting better. This also
has to be grasped. We have said enough about Creation and Existence, and
under what conditions the Divine Fragments accepted their `wanderings' in
the three universes of Existence, first down the arc for eternities as the
vibrations were rapidly and steadily lowered at a constant rate to make
the planes of Existence, along with body, mind, senses and free will,
cruder and grosser, and then on the upward arc for eternities as the
vibrations will keep increasing and form, senses and free will once again
become subtle, refined and sensitive.

When the downward arc ends in the grossest point nadir, the consciousness
is encased within such brute forms and is amidst such brutal surroundings
that in sub-stages 1-2-3 of Bhuh on the upward arc the Divine Fragment
could get nothing by way of cooperation and coordination from the form,
whose awareness is at so low an ebb that they cannot take any guidance. In
sub-stage 4 at the beginning also it is not possible, but at a later
stage, about a 100,000 years before our present day (hardly a few moments
on the cosmic clock), mind, body, senses and free will were just about to
respond, but only in a few rare individuals. For humanity as a mass of
people, there is still time and that time is coming nearer.

We, the present humanity, find ourselves at this critical stage. So a

difficult problem is on our hands today. Before this question of "Divine
Fragments could if body and mind would" is the more important step of
establishing communications between the two, i.e. yoking the latter to the
former. This is of prime importance and necessity. The Divine Fragments
regularly send, and keep sending, coded signs and signals, but body and
mind are even today not aware, otherwise why so skeptical a view on
subtler bodies and Divine Fragments within that can guide them.

But even before this, the secondary, physical body and its thinking
instrument, the brain, should be made aware of the existence of the
primary, astral body and its thinking instrument, manas, and communication
should be established between them. This is the easier step for both the
physical body and brain and the astral body and manas work with awareness,
a common quality. And then the two should jointly establish, or rather
accept, the communication sent by the Divine Fragment. So the steps are:

(1) Establish communication between the physical/cellular body/brain and

the astral/molecular body/manas. This calls for intense rhythm between
their individual awarenesses and this rhythm can only be established by
imposing the three-step rhythmic breathing as the correct way of breathing
for all 24 hours.

(2) Then, jointly, both the bodies and thinking instruments are to be made
aware of the signs and signals sent by the Divine Fragment and follow the
directions given, for It is the greatest of all teachers. It is, in fact,
the Transcendental Teacher!

What are the simple steps we must follow and practise to make this
possible? At the stage we are in, great confusion exists in our bodies and
brains which are not able to establish this essential communication with
the consciousness, the Divine Fragment. In the absence of this contact,
all search is naturally outward only and all efforts so directed outside
of the human frame can only lead to frustration.

We have also noted that after reaching nadir the restriction on making
attempts towards return to the source is lifted, that it is no more
prohibited to return to the source as and when one can. The Divine
Fragments, due to in-built ability to return to the source, can make the
journey Home immediately, but as per the last rule of the game of
Existence they have to `redeem' all bodies and respective thinking
instruments of all the previous births that were degenerated on the
downward arc. Full coordination and cooperation of the awareness of all
the bodies and thinking instruments with the consciousness, the Divine
Fragment, is therefore absolutely essential.

"The building of a shell leads to separateness and necessitates the

eventual overcoming of the shell already built." In Existence the Divine
Fragment is encased in one or two shells or bodies and keeps fabricating
more shells. Unless we eventually disintegrate these bodies by redeeming,
the Divine Fragments cannot regain their original unconfined condition and
reach their original Home, Creation. So to restore bodies and minds of the
three universes back to their original condition, their ability to respond
to and cooperate with Divine Fragments is expressly necessary.

But the root cause of the whole problem is that "Divine Fragments could if
bodies and minds would". Many religions, theologies, philosophies and a
host of other isms have added to this confusion, and the simple clear way,
that of going along with the aid of consciousness, the guidance of the
Divine Fragment, the Transcendental Teacher, is unfortunately overlooked.

Physical mind alone cannot contact this consciousness, for the link to be
established with consciousness is by generating and directing the energy
of the essence of consciousness, which is generated only in the primary,
astral body and passed on to the secondary, physical body. Sage Patanjali
in his special (oral) instructions makes this point absolutely clear. Once
mind and body grasp this vital point, progress will be easier and faster.
"Once the magic of the soul (the Divine Fragment) is grasped by the
personality (mind and body), the soul steadily dominates and can be
trusted to carry forward the training of the man to fruition."
In this matter, the importance of three-step rhythmic breathing cannot be
over emphasized, however much we may keep repeating it. "And not until
each cell within his body is fully alive and vibrating to a uniform
measure (rhythm) will he (the personality) be fully grown and perfected."
It would therefore follow that: "It was but yesterday I thought myself an
insignificant fragment, quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life.
Now I know that I am the sphere and all life in rhythmic fragments moves
within me."

Even after an intellectual grasp of this, one is not able to make

progress. The practices in chapter 11 will further aid in the elementary
work of yama and niyama which are to be properly understood as based on
scientific principles of thinking. The next step is the establishment of
`rhythm', in thinking and in breathing, to allow for all possible progress
and for establishment of communication between the two bodies and the two
thinking instruments.

II(3): "These are the difficulty producing hindrances: avidya, the sense
of personality, desire, hate and the sense of attachment."
II(34): "Thoughts contrary to yoga are: harmfulness, falsehood, theft,
incontinence and avarice, whether committed personally, caused to be
committed or approved of, whether arising from avarice, anger or
ignorance, whether slight in doing, middling or great."
The corrective methods in chapter 11 explain what actual work the disciple
has to carry out, and this Sage Patanjali states as
II(33): "When thoughts which are contrary to yoga are present, there
should be the cultivation of their opposite (the corrective methods)."
Without proper methodical work over sustained periods of time this is not
possible. In these sutras, it is implicit that the way of yoga is the
right way to live!

Now follows the understanding that if there be a guru or teacher, a true

Transcendental Teacher, it is the Divine Fragment within -- only `That'
and none else. Sage Patanjali calls the Divine Fragment `Ishvara', and if
there be a way out of Existence into the eternal realms of Creation, no
other external guru or teacher will be able to take the disciple by the
hand. To perform satori, to break through or pierce not only the seen,
gross universe Bhuh but also the subtle, unseen universe Bhuvah and the
even subtler universe Svahah, and then the major Ring-pass-not, the only
unfailing weapon strong enough and wise enough is the Divine Fragment,
Ishvara, God within each one of us, for only `That' has come from beyond
the Ring-pass-not with in-built ability to return to the source, Creation.

I(23): "By intense devotion to Ishvara (constant internal communication),

knowledge of Ishvara is gained."
I(24): "This Ishvara is the Self, untouched by limitation, free from karma
and desire."
I(25): "In Ishvara, the Gurudeva (the Transcendental Teacher), the germ of
all knowledge expands into infinity."
I(26): "Ishvara, the Gurudeva, being unlimited by time conditions (time
and space conception ceases) is the teacher of the primeval Lords."
I(27): "The word of Ishvara is `AUM'. This is the Pranava."

We have noted earlier that sound, and so voice, has four gradations, of
which para-nada prevails in Creation, and wherever is para-nada there is
immortality, peace and bliss. But it is well nigh impossible for anything
from Existence to bear its immense vibrations without disintegrating. In
Creation, since Divine Wholeness and in Janah Universe where the original
four types of celestial humanities or Divine Fragments exist, the Divine
Fragments are not affected, their vibrations being comparable to and
commensurate with those of para-nada. So para-nada is contained or
held within the Divine Fragment!

This para-nada, in passing through the major and minor rings-pass-not, is

fractured, but nothing happens to the Divine Fragments that by now, from
the earliest sub-stages of Svahah down to nadir and then up through
sub-stages 1-2-3 and early 4 of Bhuh on the upward arc, have crossed and
recrossed these ring-pass-not barriers millions of times, when, after each
so-called death of the body, "That", i.e. the Divine Fragment, rests in
the causal body in the Mahah region or major Ring-pass-not. This
sufficiently proves the indestructible calibre of the Divine Fragment.

No instrument, no object in any of the three universes of Existence can

raise sound to its original pitch of para-nada. Only within the Divine
Fragment resides para-nada, and there is no change there because para-nada
is itself produced by the immense vibrations of the Divine Fragment. So
the Divine Fragment -- Ishvara, the Transcendental Teacher -- alone can
sound and produce the notes of para-nada and can teach the aspirant to
pronounce AUM -- no one else can, be rest assured. But not understanding
this, AUM has mistakenly been given a place of high honor, thus goading
the aspirant to chant it and run the risk of total damage. This chanting
is to be discouraged; let only the inner teacher, Ishvara, guide when and
how. Even today the Divine Fragment can produce para-nada, which would
immediately disintegrate the entire Bhuh universe totally, as also body,
mind and senses. But that should not be done before they are redeemed,
this being the condition or rule of the game of Existence. Conscious death
is brought about thus only!

Many scholars write voluminously on AUM, what it is and how to produce

this pitch of para-nada. AUM is only a symbol, a code, try to understand
this code; `It' says something, try to hear it; if you cannot, then do not
play with it. It cannot be pronounced by either the mouth or the mind for
it is the symbol of para-nada! By just repeating it nothing happens, but
one does run the risk of total mental derangement or physical nervous
prostration if, by any chance or means, certain vibrations are aroused in
a certain manner by its repetition. With oral repetition the human vocal
chords will snap, and even if it is silent mental repetition the brain
will be damaged. Do not, without proper guidance, repeat AUM! The risks
are great and many.

So what note or mantra could one utter to make body, mind and senses feel
this closeness and ableness of the Divine Fragment, to establish
communication with the inner Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara?

Only recently on the upward arc in early sub-stage 4, about a 100,000

years before our time, have body and mind of rare individuals shown any
response to the many and continuous coded promptings sent to the mind and
brain. But we, as a race, are yet not able to respond, because the body,
mind and senses are not yet on the same wavelength and our spectrum of
sight and sound has to improve very considerably first. This inability of
our mind and body to respond has led some writers to describe what we call
our waking state as `sleep' or a `dream' state, because the mind and body
are merely aware, and aware of their own selves only, and our so-called
self-consciousness is mere self-awareness. It means that they are not
aware and have no inkling that help is so near and that better help cannot
be found anywhere in the Universe. A pity! What a pity indeed!

What is worse is that after becoming aware that some signals are sent from
within asking for establishment of communication, even after this
realization the body and mind remain in their world only, thoroughly
engrossed. How to bridge the gulf, not of language but of the pitch of the
sound, this is the basic problem and unto that is the basic training. To
make body and mind responsive, many methods are advocated, and all over
the world there are societies and associations, some even claiming sacred
and secret rites. And of individuals who think they know there is no end!
Transcendental meditation is bottled like Coca-Cola and sold ready for
consumption! A pity!

Besides, after ages and eternities of tamasic life, crude and brutish, in
sub-stages 1, 2 and 3 of Bhuh up and down the arcs, the material of which
the present body and mind are fabricated are totally filled with tamasic
matter and tamasic qualities, and the habits long cultivated and indulged
in of being and thinking, of eating and sleeping and sex, are too deeply
ingrained in us. We are, so to say, indoctrinated to a particular way of
life and to memory patterns, also crude and brutal, of such daily living.
This mode of life, this deep-seated inertia is what is considered normal
life and even the right way to live! So entirely new patterns have to be
introduced, the re-education of the individual has to be brought about.
But why must body and mind accept the new patterns as more correct? What
has been so far considered traditional over the ages, why should it be
denied and the old patterns set aside?

Another factor is more overpowering. Even should mind and body desire to
make the change, the tamasic, lethargic inertia of body and mind will not
respond. That is why we have mentioned that we must become biologically
`whole' or complete. To be free from this catastrophe of lethargy, let it
not remain a mere wish! Sage Patanjali is so very aware of this ingrained
tamas or inertia of body and mind, cautioning that even after an
individual makes firm resolve and sincere efforts, the danger of
relapsing, or dropping back, into the previous state of tamas is very
great. IV(27): "Through force of habit, however, the mind will reflect
other mental impressions and perceive objects of sensuous perception."

The whole body and the grey matter of the brain, every cell thereof, has
to move forward, and the tremendous inertia stored in every tissue and
cell, gathered thus, has to be overcome. It takes time and even after
overcoming once, or even many times, it is not over. Time and again, the
body and mind will lapse into their previous grooves, the old lethargic,
tamasic grooves. Many aspirants feel guilty and consider it as a fall and
sin when they fail after making firm resolve in their well-meaning
efforts, and feel depressed and sad. But we must try to understand
properly what our mind and body -- each birth finds a new body and mind,
but based on old memory patterns -- have gone through and how difficult
the task is.

To be biologically complete requires a methodical and scientific approach.

Mere sincere efforts, but unmethodical, will not help. We have noted that
in an individual at this stage the `will' is neutral or weak; in the
second stage the will is intellectual only, useful in the objective world
of day-to-day living; and only when the individual is biologically
complete is it spiritual will. (Refer to the definition of spiritual will
given earlier.) Dwell on this thought and you will realize your
partnership with God himself.

On this difficult path, only willingness and sincere efforts do not help;
they are indeed much needed and indispensable, but we must properly
understand what is to be done and why we are doing a particular thing.
That is why it is so essential to study yoga scientifically, why our
efforts have to be directed by scientific methods. We must understand how
our brain works, how the body responds, how energies are created and
directed, whether the astral/emotional primary body is a fact and how it
can cooperate. For remember that all Existence is based on law, it has a
scientific foundation. Mere breathing exercises that pass off as
pranayama, or postures or japa will not help. Never will ready-bottled TM
help! This will only give consolation that one is on the path and may
induce the `holier than thou' feeling against which we must be very
careful.

III(15): "The stage of development is responsible for the various

modifications of the versatile psychic nature and of the thinking
principle." Sage Patanjali points here to the biological completeness
(refer to the sequence of diagrams 1-2-3a) without which these
modifications are uncontrollable and the various memory patterns arise
without conscious control. The versatile psychic nature is the undeveloped
state of lower emotions (refer to the intensity charts) and of the
thinking instrument, which is more than just the brain alone (we shall
study this later). And yet it is stated very simply in I(2): "Yoga is
achieved through subjugation (healing) of the psychic nature and the
restraint (calming) of the chitta." How is this done?

So you will be convinced that a scientific and methodical approach is most

essential and will take an aspirant on the road without heart breaks or
regrets or depression or feelings of guilt. Many disciples have gone off
the path in sheer desperation, and many more will.

Quite often we hear mention of the pairs of opposites. It is a science by

itself and requires very deep understanding, but before we come to this we
must be aware of the quality of our thinking. We are not referring here to
the quality of thought -- they are two different subjects. The quality of
thinking is dependent on the development of the thinking instrument, which
is the brain plus something else. The quality of thought can be good with
a poor thinking instrument and can be bad with a good and developed
thinking instrument, just as an uneducated person need not necessarily be
a bad person nor an educated person need necessarily be a good person. For
this, study the intensity charts. Then, when we check the quality of our
thinking, we must discern whether it is (1) mere automatic response, (2)
shallow thinking, (3) correct thinking, (4) logical thinking, (5) logical
and correct thinking, (6) intuition, or (7) wisdom. All these shades of
understanding are very essential and, in a proper setting, with Sage
Patanjali's guidance of instructions given by word of mouth, one is better
placed to make proper progress.

Sage Patanjali states in III(8): "The sequence of mental states is as

follows: the mind reacts to that which is seen (or heard, felt, etc.);
then follows the moment of mind control. Then ensues a moment wherein the
chitta responds to both these factors (what is seen and reacted to).
Finally these pass away and the perceiving consciousness has full sway."
And further in III(9): "Through the cultivation of this habit of the
chitta there will eventually occur a steadiness of spiritual perception."
And finally in III(10): "The establishing of this habit (over a period of
cultivation) and the restraining of the mind (calming of the thinking
instrument) from its thought-form-making tendency, results eventually in
the constant power to contemplate."

Only now, after these preliminary thoughts, does Sage Patanjali come to
the subject of thinking. We human beings of our present age talk proudly of
the twentieth century, but on the cosmic clock it is not even a few
moments, and how primitive our thinking is will become obvious if we apply
the various formulas he has given. Our present thinking is nothing more
than automatic reflex action: e.g., if a bee were to sting us, our hand
automatically slaps that spot on the body; or someone says something, we
get red in the face, we retort sharply or slap the person. It requires no
reasoning or logic -- thus is our so-called twentieth century thinking.
Fully 95% of the people all over the world indulge in this type of
thinking all the time, and the other 5%, on hardly a few occasions, do not
think like this. We have never been taught in school this very important
subject of correct thinking because we, being human beings, assume that we
alone, perhaps in all Existence, can think! But thinking is a science and
unless, like any other faculty of science, it is taught properly, we shall
remain ignorant of the science of thinking.

Therefore, the first, elementary step we have to introduce at this stage

is to pause for a moment. This is the most elementary method of mind
control: we pause for a moment before reacting and do not just jump into
the well because our ego is hurt. How will you pause? Just take in a deep
breath and throw it out. Try it and see how relaxing it is. All the heat
and passion created passes out of your mind and body with this one deep
breath which you exhale forcefully.

The world's woes between individuals, between groups and between nations
is traceable to this fact, that we have never introduced this elementary
first step of a pause, and that too for just one moment. Just a pause may
not appeal to most and may not be possible for most, hence at that moment
take just one deep breath and exhale it forcefully. When we pause thus for
a moment before reacting, the initial emotional reaction passes away --
not that we become angels, but the white heat that is built up in our
first reaction cools off and is then much less.

Do you know why we still have this habit of automatic reflex action?
Because for the last three sub-stages down the arc and the first three
sub-stages up the arc, i.e. for over more than six eternities, we have had
out primitive, wild, crude ways, our animal ways, of thinking and living
and reacting. They are deeply ingrained in us and we carry those memory
patterns with us in this early fourth sub-stage on the upward arc. So not
yet being free from these primitive, ugly, animal-like habits, we still
continue to think in the same fashion. We think incorrectly, we breath
incorrectly, we eat and sleep incorrectly, and yet we expect to behave
correctly! But it now needs a radical change.

So with this pause, our behaviour pattern begins to change. This is not
thinking yet -- it is just a method to break an old wrong habit and is the
first step towards the method of correct thinking. And in the two sutras
that follow, III(9-10), Sage Patanjali tries to emphasize the necessity at
first to cultivate this habit painstakingly, for this pause has not yet
become our memory pattern and what is not a memory pattern is not a habit,
and for some time to resolve to do it consciously. It then forms a memory
pattern, and when this habit is established the old habit of automatic
reflex action is broken. Yet it is not correct thinking still; later we
shall learn its practice and advanced method.

IV(27): "Through force of habit (inertia or tamas that is inherent in the

matter of mind and body), however, the mind will reflect other mental
impressions (drifts during a certain line of thinking) and perceive
objects of sensuous perception." (Emotions and sex, being crude and not
yet refined, will have their way.) IV(28): "These reflections are of the
nature of hindrances, and the method of their overcoming is the same (the
corrective methods as shown in chapter 11)."

But Sage Patanjali cautions here further that even after establishing the
new habit one should not relax, for the memory patterns of the old habit
are not totally destroyed and there are chances that the mind may relapse
into the same old habits due to inertia. Such intruding thoughts, coming
as they do in series of pictures, are hindrances or drift -- hindrances to
our subject of study or discussion, and drifts in as much as the mind
loses its hold on the subject of study or discussion, picks up and then
goes along this old series of pictures that has come in unasked for, the
study or discussion forgotten, and one drifts into something else,
something entirely disconnected. How to overcome these hindrances in our
study or discussion and to learn to eradicate them from the drifts
observed are subject matter of scientific study.

The human mind is accustomed to making a thought picture of every word,

seen or heard, and this audio-visual method is, in many ways, so much
better for mental grasping than the audio only method of teaching. What is
a mental grasp? In a class of, say, ten pupils who hear their teacher say
something, in ten young minds are formed ten series of mental pictures of
what is heard. Of these ten pupils, those who have mental pictures nearest
to what the teacher has in mind (for the latter also has mental pictures
while teaching and talking) will have better or good grasp, and those for
whom the series of mental pictures are different will have poor or no
grasp at all of the subject. It could be in some cases that the mind may
be wandering elsewhere, in which case there is no impression at all. Now
in an audio-visual method, the series of mental pictures the teacher has
in mind is reproduced clearly and all ten pupils will absorb the same
series of mental pictures; hence the grasp in all cases ought, ideally, to
be nearly equally good, except for the mind that is wandering in which
case again there will be no impression at all.

Now refer to the diagrams. You will observe that diagrams 1-2 and 3a-3b
are stages in a continuous process of biological growth from within
leading to biological wholeness or completeness in the human system, as,
besides the front brain, the mass of the mid brain is also activated in
stages 3b and 3c. The brain is divided into three sections: I, the fore or
front brain, the registration area; II, the mid brain; and III, the hind
or rear brain.

We receive incoming impulses through our five senses, i.e. through our
electromagnetic field, but appear to receive them from our sense organs.
Please remember that the two are not one and the same thing: "The sense
organs are not the senses themselves." Through a network of nadis, these
impulses carrying messages are transmitted from the electromagnetic field
to the spinal cord, the ultimate highway for nerve communications from all
the areas of the physical body. They then travel via this spinal cord to
reach the rear brain or base of the skull, an area incorrectly designated
as `unconscious mind'. Anything unconscious can be of no use in our
conscious progress! We call this area the memory pool, of accumulated
memory patterns, and it is divided into two sub-sections: IIIa marked
`shallow', has all the memory patterns of this current life from
conception onward; and IIIb, marked `deep', has all the memory patterns of
all the millions of previous lives, a duplicate copy brought from the
super micro recording monitor and stored. Before this section IIIb deep,
all the oceans of the world put together would look like a drop.

From the base of the rear brain, right over the top of the brain and
across to the front is a channel through which rush all the incoming
impulses received through the five senses. These impulses are not in any
particular language but are universally coded, as are also all the memory
patterns in both sections IIIa and IIIb. At this stage of our evolution,
only the top soil of the mid brain up to 2 mm deep is active, what is
normally called the cortex. On both sides of this channel, denoted by
small parallel dashes, you will notice tiny dots between the dashes. There
are thousands upon thousands of these dots, each depicting a door or
valve. In a person least developed, as in diagram 1, each such door or
valve opens and closes without any control. When open, they release into
this channel a series of pictures (not just one single picture). Normally
the incoming coded impulses, as per their coded messages, automatically
open such valves or doors of related or identical memory patterns, couple
with these memory patterns released, and together they reach the fore
brain.

Here, as per reaction or as per use of the pause habit, the four centres
within section I marked `I-E-S-M', viz. the intellectual, emotional, sex
and movement centres, suck up these impulses with their coded messages
along with the identical memory patterns that have come along adding the
colouring of past experience. That is, the influence of situations from
the past, whatever the experience, whether pleasant or painful, is added
and is responsible for our reactions to these impulses received in the
ratio prevalent, whether 2:4:8:2 or 5:2:2:1 (for I-E-S-M respectively) or
somewhere inbetween. This section I together with sections IIIa and IIIb
form the human movie camera situated in the brain, in full colour and
extremely sophisticated. There are two such computers, one in section I,
the registration area, and another usually in the memory pool section
IIIa (though it can be section IIIb), working in tandem.

The front brain is an independent computer like the rear brain, though
they do work together, while the mid brain is the master computer which
coordinates all the computers and makes its own decision, whether to feel,
or to act, or simply to refile or suppress without any sort of expression.
This suppression can be dictated by diplomacy, cowardice or respect, and
our final decision, a thought form, is a coded impulse conveyed from a
point, ajna or the magnetic point, a little behind and between the eyes,
marked in diagram 1 as #7. These four centres in the front brain work
ceaselessly like a computer -- refer to the intensity charts which show
how the front brain works non-stop.

Normally in an average person, functioning as in diagram 1, the four

points in section I of the brain absorb or suck up the incoming impulses
along with the identical memory patterns in the ratio 2:4:8:2, clearly
showing that the incoming impulses are dominated by lower emotions and
sex. Equally, the coded thought forms which are thrown out from point #7
are also as crude. What makes us presume that the emotions are lower and
thoughts are more tinged with sex? We have noted earlier that the majority
of prana in the primary body reaches muladhara, while 10% of it reaches
swadhisthana and creates there the third grade of the energy of
consciousness. There (1<-->2) you will note crude mental and emotional
energy, crude sex and neutral will.

It is also true that this same process can start from the memory pool
itself, i.e. from within also, without the external incoming impulses with
their coded messages. Sections IIIa and IIIb can send their series of
coded memory patterns to the front brain and the computer is kept working.
This happens when a person is mentally idle. When this happens we say a
person is brooding, or settling back accounts continuously, i.e. is living
in the past. This is a sort of day-dreaming, or actually dreaming as in
sleep.

Why does this happen? We have stated above that some decisions which were
not expressed are filed back in the memory pool, or suppressed, and they
now seek expression. These series keep repeating, depending on how intense
they were and to what point in section I they belonged, whether to I, E, S
or M, and so are accordingly coloured and repeated. Much energy, emotional
and sexual, is wasted thus. This causes greater fatigue than physical work
and leads to stress, tension and prostration. If this state of mental and
emotional brooding is predominant in a person, the individual needs the
help of a doctor because such energy consumption would drain off certain
organs and tissues in the body and brain; later a psychiatrist is needed
for it would lead to morbid maladies and diseases.

Alternately, if the memory patterns or pictures are nice or spiritual, and

if such imagining is indulged in because of memory patterns/impulses
coming from section IIIa, one can and does suffer from hallucinations. It
so happens that such cases are pleasant, e.g. like hope of darshan, in
contrast to the former cases being sad, wild or vicious; nonetheless,
both being hallucinations are symptoms of mental sickness. All such people
live in the past or in the future, in hope or in despair, and are only
day-dreaming.

In both cases, the person sees as real whatever he or she broods on or

keeps imagining. It is fortunate that all the valves or doors on the other
side of the channel, those adjoining memory section IIIb deep (which
contains all the memory patterns of all the previous lives), mercifully
remain shut in a normal person. But in some few cases it may happen that
one or more valves or doors on the side of section IIIb may open, of
course without any conscious control, and so spill their memory patterns
as a series of pictures into the flow of the incoming impulses. What
happens then is the split or multiple personality syndrome, depending on
how ancient an age gone by is the series of memory patterns flooding the
mid channel.

The spilled memory patterns could be thousands of years old or more, when
dress, customs, language, etc., in that age were so different. The
individual, seeing in the mind's eye some weird pictures and not
understanding what they signify because these memory patterns are not
consciously or carefully filed (which is itself a scientific process), is
confused, frightened and dismayed. And whenever this flow stops the
individual behaves normally again. So both the individual and those around
are at a total loss to understand the resulting behaviour which is very
strange and sudden. However ancient be these patterns that are spilling
into the mid channel, any person getting a series of pictures from section
IIIa or IIIb will take them as real.
Much research and study is necessary for treatment of abnormal and sub
normal behaviour. Tranquilizers shut these doors or valves temporarily,
and perhaps repeated doses often induce a tendency in the doors or valves
to remain shut, but this way of shutting is accidental, uncertain and
rather unmethodical, because the physician himself does not know this
mechanism (of the doors and memory patterns) in his own mind and is not
aware as to what is actually happening; his prescription may or may not
work.

In thinking, the incoming impulses that bring coded messages and the
identical memory patterns of the present life that are spilled from
section IIIa reach the front brain. If, while this series is being worked
on, another series, activated as per the incoming impulses, is spilled in
from another door also from section IIIa, a normal person behaves normally
but drifts in talk, in study and in thinking. When a normal person is
engaged on a particular subject and relevant memory patterns start
spilling in, other doors may accidentally open inbetween. So a different
series of memory patterns will spill in and the particular subject at hand
will be forgotten, and the front brain computer (section I) will work on
the new series coming in as data, but even this may not last long as
another door may open and spill another series of memory patterns, so that
the front brain computer will then work on this new series. This
uncontrolled thinking is a very common occurence and it goes on and on in
an ordinary, average person; it happens because no conscious practices
have been carried out to keep these doors shut or to open them when
required. This control is scientific yoga.

These are drifts of the mind and they are consequences of a natural
happening: the incoming impulses are ceaseless. They pour in all the time
at great speed and in great variety, they come in any haphazard manner and
as haphazardly draw out identical memory patterns, and depending on such
haphazard incoming of the impulses the doors or valves open and shut
continuously without rhyme or reason, as it may appear, without any method
or control. So drifts of the mind is a common malady, like the common
cold, and as difficult to keep out, but this is all because no attempt is
made to study how the incoming impulses are to be taken in proper sequence
and how the doors or valves of the memory patterns be allowed to open and
close as required.

This is a very important study in the process of correct thinking, but we

have made no attempt to learn the methods and teach them to our children.
We think haphazardly and our children will also adopt the same methods and
remain equally deficient. It may be argued that birds learn to fly and
fish to swim, but we are not the lower subconscious species where nature
helps. We are self-evolving human beings, which is why our young ones are
so helpless, unlike those of birds, fishes and animals, because we human
beings have to learn everything consciously and methodically if we want to
be human beings. But if we still wish to be like animals or birds, then no
such question arises.

Unless scientific study is made in the science of thinking, these drifts

will keep repeating, oft times totally exasperating a person, especially
when one wishes to pray or recite japa or is engaged in some serious
study. One then finds how impotent and helpless one is before these drifts
that would rule oneself, especially if they are dictated by strong
emotional or sex intensities. At that time try to read a book or pray, and
you will find to your dismay that it is not possible unless you have
practised scientific methods. The practical steps of drift watching given
in chapter 11 will enable study of this elementary work on one's self, and
then further study is to continue with the intensity charts and diagrams 1
and 2.

Certain types of thoughts create certain types of chemical reactions in

the physical body. As the physical body is a chemical factory, so energy
transformations and chemical reactions change the body tissues and create
irregularities in the normal functioning of the nerves and other organs
within the body leading to various ailments and diseases. The intensity
charts show how the intensities of certain emotions and thoughts induce
certain ailments and diseases.

Why does this happen to us? That is, why do diseases and ailments develop
within the body? Is it to prove that there is a link with emotional
energy, that if the latter be contaminated it would contaminate the body
and mind? What is the real purpose of this mirage? Sometimes negative
incentives have to be undertaken to yield results. So the Divine Fragment,
as a last resort, makes use of the rod, and a natural rod that is used is
diseases and ailments. Hence the opinion of modern science that the `mind'
and `moods' are to be treated to put the body right.

These innumerable doors or valves on both sides of the central channel can
open at any moment without any prior notice, or may not open at all as in
the case of backward children. If they do not open haphazardly and spill
their series of disconnected memory patterns in picture series into the
main stream of incoming impulses, one is `lucky' to be able to maintain
objective or subjective concentration; lucky because one is not aware of
or in control of the inner processes. If we can prevent, or rather
control, the drifts of the mind by following a method, we should be able
to maintain objective and subjective attention. (`Subjective' means that
the subject is more subtle). This attention, objective or subjective,
which is described as concentration and meditation depending on length of
time, is possible when one attains to the biological stage shown in
diagram 2. But by no stretch of imagination is this dharna or dhyana,
because for these two processes different brain patterns and different
developments within the brain are necessary (as shown in diagrams 3b and
3c). For compared to diagram 2, diagram 3a is miles ahead, and compared to
diagram 3b, diagram 3c is light years removed. And true pratyahara,
dharna and dhyana are possible only after the stage shown in diagram 3b
is attained -- that is the minimum requirement!

Only when an individual reaches the biological completeness of diagram 3b

is one capable of inner controls consciously. Persons who are successful
in materialistic circumstances, e.g. successful businessmen or
professionals, whether writers, doctors, lawyers, executives or
scientists, have developed the art of objective attention, either by
intention or by some practice unknown to themselves. But to say that is
dharna is to show utter ignorance of the great and extremely vital step
in evolution, when an individual becomes a different species of humanity
inwardly and is then in a position to perform the extremely difficult
steps starting with pratyahara, and proceeding through dharna and dhyana
as described, to say nothing about samadhi, and which can only be taken
under the care and guidance of a Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara, and not
under dime-a-dozen so-called teachers of the outer physical world. Be not
deceived that as per diagrams 1 or 2 one can ever perform the difficult
science of dharna, dhyana and samadhi, or even the first step,
pratyahara. Let us not mock at what is meant by dharna and dhyana, let us
not translate these words as merely `concentration' and `meditation'.
More will be explained later in chapters 12-13.

The practices of window gazing, fast reading (say a page at a glance),

memory training, concentrating the gaze at a point or a spot, looking into
one's own eyes in the mirror and so forth are some of the exercises
suggested to attain objective concentration, but to say they lead to
dharna amounts to mere gimmicks. Even should one be able to read a book
at a glance, which is not possible objectively, even then one cannot term
it as dharna or dhyana. (Ironically, it is possible to read a book,
however bulky, without giving a glance through the real practices of
dharna and dhyana, but such cheap dramatics are not indulged in by real
disciples.)

So we would like to keep the words dharna and dhyana as they are, rather
than translate them as concentration and meditation, which they are not. And
when you learn the higher practices of scientific yoga, you will then also
agree. All the various commentaries written on the Yoga Sutra have not
mentioned what we shall explain as dharna and dhyana, because the authors
of these commentaries, however intellectual, cannot understand the deeper
significance of the Yoga Sutra, and that too in the absence of access to
`oral instructions', `by word of mouth', of the fifth book of Sage
Patanjali. So when we use the words dharna and dhyana, it shall be for
a specific purpose and meaning as explained later.

There are advanced practices in yoga wherein a disciple, under guidance,

is made to open the doors or valves of section IIIb methodically, learn
his past lives through the memory patterns drawn out and correct or
`redeem' them, and describe this process to his Transcendental Teacher,
Ishvara. This form of advanced practice is true redeeming, but even this
is objective concentration only (and not dharna or dhyana) with the high
purpose of redeeming mind and body!

This methodical way of studying, understanding and dissolving the memory

patterns is the very purpose of life and birth. Merely living, without
purpose, merely accumulating the goods and treasures of the world and
becoming successful in objective life is not the purpose. Yet no one is
denied this material success -- by all means have it by right and by good
means, because your ability to concentrate will make you successful. But
at the same time do not lose sight of the `real purpose' of life and
birth, which is to dissolve the memory patterns, to dry up the memory
pools. For this always find time from the busiest life, a few minutes
daily, for certain practices towards saner, better, higher living; for
this is the purpose, or what `life' is for.

The essential gist of the thinking process is explained by Sage Patanjali

in a few sutras:
I(5): "The mind states are five and are subject to pleasure and pain; they
are painful or not painful."
I(6): "These modifications are correct knowledge, incorrect knowledge,
fancy, passivity (sleep) and memory."
I(31): "Pain, despair, misplaced bodily activity and wrong direction (or
control) of prana or the life currents are the results of obstacles in the
lower psychic nature."
II(3): "These are the difficulty-producing hindrances: avidya (ignorance),
the sense of personality, desire, hate and the sense of attachment."

Sage Patanjali repeatedly wishes to convey that the aspirant is as yet

only practising the corrective exercises to attain the proper inner
biological development which is so necessary and which has yet not taken
place. Avidya, tamas, lethargy are not yet rooted out, with the result
that time and again various difficulty-producing hindrances will arises
during the progress of the aspirant. As yet, the ratio of the four vital
points in the front brain registration area (section I) is close to
2:4:8:2 (see diagram 1), meaning that undeveloped emotions and sex are
predominant and the intensities of these two points is very high (refer to
the intensity chart). The aspirant will not be free from lower desires,
hate or attachment to persons, things and places, which form the lower
psychic nature, and then will cry out desperately like Arjuna: "My Lord!
Tell me, what is it that drives a man to sin, even against his will and as
if by compulsion?"

This simple thought is expressed after ages, after centuries upon

centuries, in our days also: "I want to know why apparently intelligent
individuals so often behave in certain ways against their own inclinations
and wishes." -- Ivan Pavlov. Another modern mind expresses the same
ancient thought: "Why are such multitudes of men and women so ready to
sacrifice themselves for a cause so utterly hopeless and in ways so
painful and so profoundly humiliating." -- Aldous Huxley. And, "There is
no struggle of soul and body save in the minds of those whose souls are
asleep and whose bodies are out of tune." -- Khalil Gibran.

Between Arjuna and Ivan Pavlov is an age, but the cry is the same, even
the words used and the sense conveyed are so nearly similar. Why? Because
we human beings have never cared to pause and consider that unless
thinking is treated as a science, a faculty to be developed, and is taught
as such in schools and colleges, we shall continue to live by our
haphazard ways of thinking, and shall never develop and be biologically
complete within. The brain has to be consciously developed!

The lower psychic nature is not the same as lower psychic powers. Lower
psychic nature is a sign of lower emotional nature, only kept in place
under fear of law and society, and is most evident during revolutions and
wars. But this subjugation is harmful, so deliberate and conscious efforts
are needed as remedy, otherwise even after 5000 more years we shall cry
our hearts out like Arjuna. To this the world has paid no attention and as
long as proper methods are not introduced to re-educate the thinking
instrument, then even after centuries we shall remain brute animals,
however much technical progress we make, for technical progress cannot
make us human beings.

The two major life currents, the two vital energies, that flow from the
two vital points, muladhara and swadhisthana, in the primary body, are yet
to be developed and refined. Subsequent to that and depending on it, the
emotional, mental and sex energies will be refined, and the most important
development, viz. a change in the ratio of the working intensities of the
four vital centres in the front brain section I, is to follow. When all
that we register, cognize and understand will also change, slowly though,
from 2:4:8:2 towards 5:2:2:1 (refer to diagrams 1 and 2), much progress is
said to have been made.

On this depends the failure or success of the aspirant. Now refer to

diagram 2. Over a long period of development, of hard, conscious,
methodical work, the ratio of the intensities changes. This means that the
intellectual centre has more traffic in the incoming impulses and the
identical memory patterns they draw out, while the traffic at the
emotional and sex centres has lessened appreciably, the ratio 2:4:8:2 now
tending towards 5:2:2:1. The two vital life currents (1<-->2) in diagrams
1 and 2) also show a marked change: the energy of the essence of
consciousness is now of second grade, the will is intellectual, i.e. of
some use in the objective world, and the emotional, mental and sex
energies are refined. The vital organ, the heart, plays an important part:
note the important flow of refined energies from the heart to the front
brain section I. All these changes within that are indicated here are in
the primary or astral body and not in the physical.

The violent emotional and sex storms are now not prevalent with that
damaging frequency and intensity, i.e. they are much less than they used
to be, wrecking the aspirant from time to time. The direction of energies
internally has improved and is possible to some extent. The drifts have
lessened now, more logical and rational thinking is possible, but the
possibility of being overpowered due to the tamasic nature, the inherent
weakness, of the body and mind is still present, though not to the same
extent and not with the same frequency of occurence. Tamas has reduced,
rajas is still present, and both are not yet out of the system; so the
aspirant has to be on guard constantly.

To proceed from diagram 1 to diagram 2 takes many lives to come about as a

natural process of evolution, if one does not work consciously on
one's self. But the transition can be developed with care, diligence and
application, and for that Sage Patanjali requires something more form the
disciple or aspirant: `tireless endeavour' (I(13)) and `fiery aspiration'
(II(32)). Such intensity of application does not, however, last long in
ordinary people. Sage Patanjali is conscious of this fact, that it is
difficult for all to have such fiery aspiration and tireless endeavour for
long periods, and so states in
I(21): "The attainment of spiritual consciousness is rapid for those whose
will is intensely alive." We know that this type of will, what we call
spiritual will, is only possible with the stage of diagram 3a and onwards,
for which further biological development has to take place. And even after
this takes place, Sage Patanjali points out in
I(22): "Those who apply the will likewise differ, for its use may be
intense, moderate or gentle. In respect to the attainment of true
spiritual consciousness there is yet another way." Objective concentration
will not help, though it would indeed prepare the ground, but dharna and
dhyana are quite different from and beyond it.

With diagram 3a it is apparent that the biological development is nearly

complete. Emotional and sex energies are now sublimated and will has
become spiritual will, but even this does not lead to transcendental
experience. Here we note the most important and vital change, that due to
cultivation and establishment of spiritual will. Just as we have many
valves in our physical body which do very important and vital work, so
there are two major blocks or valves in the astral body, one at the base
of the spine and one at the base of the rear brain at taluka. They always
operate like a two-way switch: when one is open the other is closed and
vice versa; they are never together in open or in closed position. Till
now, the one at the base of the spine was permanently in closed position
and the one at taluka in open position. Now with the development of
spiritual will, these two major blocks or valves open and close
consciously as desired, as do also the minor doors or valves in the brain
channel which spill series of memory patterns into the mainstream of
incoming impulses.

Once the biological development as shown in diagram 3a is reached, then as

Sage Patanjali continues in I(22): "... In respect to the attainment of
true spiritual consciousness, there is yet another way." Once this
spiritual will is developed, and once the first grade of the energy of the
essence of consciousness is generated, the vital life currents and
energies can be directed as desired, the blocks and valves, major as well
as minor, can be kept in open or closed position as desired, and the first
grade energy of the essence of consciousness is available to establish a
link with `pure consciousness' itself, which is nothing else but our
Divine Fragment -- Ishvara, the Transcendental Teacher. Once this stage 3a
is reached much is achieved, but it takes many lives for such development
in spite of fiery aspiration and tireless endeavour.

Till now all was accumulation of knowledge by slow plodding, and now this
possibility of contact and guidance, due to inner wholeness or
completeness, leads to `intuition'. It is one of the higher grade energies
which later leads to transcendental experiences. Sage Patanjali points out
the difference between correct, rational thinking and the stage of
intuition, i.e. between the earlier diagrams 1-2-3a and diagram 3b, and
between objective and subjective concentration and sustained
concentration, in the following sutras.

III(33): "All things can be known in the vivid light of intuition."

I(48): "The disciple's perception is now unfailingly exact, i.e. his
mind reveals only the truth."
I(49): "This particular perception is unique and reveals that which the
rational mind (using testimony, inference and deduction) cannot reveal."
I(50): "It is totally different from, or supersedes, all other
impressions."
But much has to be done before this can happen as a fact and not just as
either theory or a mental concept.
Now refer to diagram 3b. Please note that once stage 3a is attained,
stages 3b and later 3c are possible though not easy. Indeed they can
be achieved as a ceaseless continuation of the disciple's dedicated work.
Here, too, Sage Patanjali warns again: the inherent tamasic qualities of
body, mind and senses of the material substance of which the bodies are
made have first to be eliminated completely, because occasional or
accidental opening of memory valves can flood in tamasic vibrations.
I(30): "The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental
inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion,
erroneous perception, ..."

One may wonder that even after such hard work and internal biological
development, which some call `internal purification', such obstacles should
still come inbetween, but Sage Patanjali is clear in his mind when he
explains in IV(9): "There is identity of relation between memory and the
effect producing cause, even when separated by species, time and place."
The effect-producing causes are (1) the incoming impulses which draw out
identical memory patterns from sections IIIa or IIIb, acquired from the
important recordings in the super micro recording monitor, and (2) the law
of cycles, which is most complicated, so complicated that even the great
Buddha would only say, "It is wheels within wheels!"

Sage Patanjali has said much in a few words. This is a vital thought and
should be understood properly, for most disciples overlook this vital
aspect. Events of very distant past will stream forth in the life of the
disciple or aspirant, so remote a past that he may feel and think as if
belonging to a different species of humanity. The time period may be in
thousands of years, the events may have happened in some distant area of
the Universe; nevertheless, if pertaining to the disciple or aspirant
concerned, they will visit him as per the laws of cycles. This will bring
about certain vital results, sometimes unexpected and seemingly
impossible, and this happens when a disciple or aspirant does not realize
that he has not fulfilled by way of redeeming and so has to fulfil by way
of causation.

It can happen that over many lives the disciple may have made great,
sincere progress and developed, and improved upon his biological
shortcomings. This inner development amounts to his now belonging to a
different species of human beings. All true yogis, adepts and masters are
a different species of human beings though their outer forms may be
similar to ours. It could be that hundreds of thousands of years may have
elapsed, yet if some cycle or cycles which have been generated happen to
come his way, it may make him think and act in such a way as to surprise
not only him but those around him as well. The incoming impulses, like a
thief in the dead of night during a sound slumber, enter and work havoc
with the disciple.
Is there then no remedy? Should one bow one's head before such unavoidable
happenings? Yes, there is a way: one must have a Transcendental Teacher,
Ishvara, and it must have been explained to one -- and one must be
convinced thereof -- that to avoid causation demanding its pound of flesh
it is better to redeem, and methods and a mental approach to that end
should thus be cultivated.

I(14): "When the object to be gained is sufficiently valued, and efforts

towards its attainment are persistently followed without intermission,
then the steadiness of the thinking instrument is secured." But this also
depends on what Sage Patanjali says further in II(13): "So long as the
roots (or sanskaras, the recordings now as memory patterns) exist, their
fruition will be birth, life and experience resulting in pleasure or
pain." And in II(14): "These seeds (sanskaras) produce pleasure and pain
according to their originating cause (the recordings) being good or evil."
We have seen personalities like Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Ramana Maharshi
and other sages of all countries go through certain sufferings due to
cycles that must be crossing their path after, God knows, how long!

Now comes a stage when the mind realizes that it is not the seer nor the
source of knowledge. The body and mind had for long ages, indeed for
eternities, ignored the Divine Fragment; but now there is a feeling at
first, and later a certainty, that something higher and mightier is
sending hints. We have noted that on the downward arc the Divine Fragment
had made no attempts to assert its rightful dominance, but now It can and
does so very tactfully and slowly. It is only now, at this stage of our
evolution that individuals are just responding and some have already
responded, that it asserts. This feeling, turning into a conviction must
come to the body, thinking instrument and senses of their own accord, not
all together but one following the other:

(a) That the lives they have lived and have been living so far do not seem
proper and that there must be a better way to live. (b) Later, the search
for an external teacher or teachers having failed, conviction dawns that
there is none in the outside world. As long as disciples keep searching
for and following external teachers, no real progress is possible. (c)
That the Divine Fragment, Ishvara, of each individual is the
Transcendental Teacher, the teacher of the gods themselves. And then the
disciple, willingly and with devotion, follows directions received from
within, at first rather slowly and then in full as if "in tune with the
Infinite", with the Divine Fragment.

It is because the stature of the Divine Fragment, Ishvara, is that of

`Gurudeva', the Transcendental Teacher, that so much stress and respect is
attached to the Teacher or Guru, but not to any so-called external teacher
or guru. The great Mirabai considered her Divine Fragment as Krishna, her
conviction as in (c) above, and sang devotional songs, fully realizing
that she was addressing Krishna. The Divine Fragment of each individual
is, as per the faith of the disciple, either Krishna, Christ, Buddha or
any such lofty personality. Many bhakti yogis follow no methods, for some
of them are really God-intoxicated. Their God is rightly their own Divine
Fragment, Ishvara and, as with Mirabai, they look to their Divine Fragment
either as Krishna, Christ or Buddha. But this conviction and devotion of
the mind must be deep-rooted.

II(4): "Avidya (ignorance) is the cause of all other obstacles, whether

they be latent, in process of elimination, overcome, or in full
operation." II(5): "Avidya is the (mental) condition of confusing the
permanent, pure, blissful and the Self (the Divine Fragment) with that
which is impermanent, impure, painful and the not-Self (body, mind and
senses)." With what results? IV(16): "The many modifications of the one
mind produce the diverse forms which depend for their existence upon those
man-mind impulses."

As biological development proceeds, slowly the mind and thinking

instrument come to the above conviction and thence proceed to the
following conclusions. IV(19): "Because it can be seen or cognized, it is
apparent that the mind is not the source of illumination." IV(20):
"Neither can it know two objects simultaneously, itself (its knowledge
content and activity) and that which is external to itself (the Divine
Fragment)." The mind is further convinced of such an impossibility as
IV(21): "If knowledge of the mind by a remoter mind is postulated, an
infinite number of knowers must be inferred and the sequence of memory
patterns and reactions would tend to infinite confusion."

What follows is very natural but only possible at this stage of biological
development, when mind has reached the stage shown in diagram 3a, and is
not due to any false religiosity. IV(26): "The mind then tends towards
discrimination and increasing illumination as to the true nature of the
one Self (the Divine Fragment)." Then, from this stage of development
onwards it proceeds to stage 3b and is guided properly to understand the
true nature of the Divine Fragment as Ishvara, the Transcendental
Teacher, the only worthy teacher. Stage 3b is mind's ultimate progress
-- it cannot go beyond this stage and so willingly stops the myriad
modifications, the thought forms which create ripples or whirlpools, i.e.
various electromagnetic waves, in the thinking instrument.

Now one slowly closes the major valve or block at taluka, the base of the
rear brain, which for eternities had remained in `open' position -- mind
must do this of its own volition and accord. And when this is done all the
noise inside the mind ceases and in deep silence it is able to hear the
merest whisper of the Divine Fragment, Ishvara, the Transcendental
Teacher. What follows now is IV(32): "The modifications of the mind stuff
through the inherent nature of the three gunas come to an end, for they
have served their purpose."

First we have to remember the idea and of the Divine Fragment entering
Existence, willingly accepting all the rules of the game of Existence,
acquiring minds, bodies, senses and free will to be encased within these
outer coverings, and agreeing to be completely ignored for eternities.
This purpose is not fulfilled upon reaching nadir. The other aspect and
purpose to be properly understood also is that the Divine Fragment has now
to unwind what has been wound around through all these eternities, to
`redeem' entirely all degeneration caused to body, mind and senses. And,
further, that this whole process is not causation, punishment, karma,
predestination, retribution or God's will. And so the most important
purpose, the redeeming of body, mind and senses, is now being fulfilled;
for if mind is redeemed, then body, senses and free will are automatically
redeemed. No more is there any need of mind modifications, of this the
mind is convinced. Stage 3b is now reached and deep silence reigns within,
and so comes peace, all-enveloping inner peace.

I(3): "When this has been accomplished, the yogi knows himself as he is
in reality (as the Divine Fragment)." Further methods and steps continue
so that the disciple proceeds from stage 3b to 3c and is now ready for
the most rewarding experiences. These experiences are for the benefit of
mind and body for the Divine Fragment is redeeming them; silently they
learn and realize. The sutras suggesting the way are II(1): "The yoga of
action leading to union with the Self is fiery aspiration, spiritual
reading and devotion to Ishvara." II(2): "The aim of these three is to
bring about Self-vision and to eliminate obstructions." These three we
shall study later in chapters 12-13.

Now that the mind has realized the omnipotence and omniscient capacity of
the Divine Fragment, it is not only too willing to surrender but is full
of devotion, love, praise and worship, an attitude which is most
essential. The mind is now obedient! This obedience enables the conscious
operation of all the minor valves or doors and of the two major valves or
blocks, a major biological development. Once the mind surrenders willingly
and is devoted, the qualities cannot function independently, and neither
can the senses and free will as they like, which was the predominant inner
condition of the individual earlier. II(19): "The divisions of the gunas
(or qualities of matter) are fourfold: the specific, the non-specific, the
indicated and the untouchable." But there is no need to go into these
technicalities of the qualities now, though it is a study in itself. This
mind has realized, and the body being subservient to mind nothing now
rebels or acts irresponsibly. III(47): "Mastery over the senses is brought
about through concentrated meditation upon their nature, peculiar
attributes, egoism, pervasiveness and useful purpose."

There is now enough scope for objective and subjective concentration or

meditation, but at this stage the disciple will not waste time indulging
in such study, profitable though it be, because the conviction has
satisfied the mind. It is therefore no more restless -- to be restless was
so far its dharma! It realizes that this gross universe of Bhuh is but
one phase, a purpose to be realized and transcended (but not by running
away from life), and that all and everything in the Universe is for the
Self, II(21): "All that is exists for the sake of the Self."

The gross body and mind have reached this conviction. Now the primary,
astral/molecular body and its thinking instrument, manas, are also to be
convinced, for they are cojoined to the physical. An inner rhythm is
established by three-step rhythmic breathing for all 24 hours, which is
essential to achieve inner and outer rhythm and which also induces peace
to the brain. What follows is:
II(49): "When right posture (of mind, not body!) has been attained, there
follows right control of prana and proper inspiration and expiration of
breath."
II(50): "Right control of prana (or the life-force) is external, internal
and motionless (in diagram 3c); it is subject to place, time and number
and is also protracted or brief."
I(34): "The peace of the chitta (the thinking instrument) is also brought
about by the regulation of prana or the life breath."
II(55): "As a result of these means, there follows the complete
subjugation (control) of the sense organs."

When an individual reaches stage 3a and achieves biological wholeness,

this posture of the mind, of adoring and implicitly obeying the Divine
Fragment, is the sought-for best posture. At this stage, the seven vital
energies are not only generated but directed to flow properly, because all
the minor and major blocks or valves can be opened and closed consciously
at will. The most vital seven energies, in decreasing order to importance,
are: the energy of the essence of consciousness, the energy of awareness,
the energy of life, spiritual energy (for want of proper description), the
energy of intuition, the energy of genius (directed to any particular
faculty), and the energy of sensitivity. Of these seven energies, the
first three are generated automatically at birth but not in proper quality
or quantity, for even in our days in the twentieth century we are born
half complete and we live and die half complete. The purpose of birth and
life, and that of scientific yoga, is to complete the other half, to make
oneself a complete or whole individual. The latter four energies are to be
diligently developed, generated and directed.
When these vital energies are not generated, and those that are
automatically generated are not refined, that is the state of sub-human or
animal tendencies prevalent in the human system. These create obstacles,
as Sage Patanjali puts it in I(30): "The obstacles to soul cognition are
bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness,
laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perception, inability to achieve
concentration, and failure to hold the meditative attitude
(one-pointedness) when achieved." And in I(31): "Pain, despair, misplaced
bodily activity and wrong direction (or control) of the life currents are
the results of the obstacles in the lower psychic nature."

The vital energy of the essence of consciousness is now of first grade,

will has become spiritual will and is able to bridge the gulf which had
remained unbridgeable for eternities in the absence of this energy between
(1) the awareness of the two bodies and their thinking instruments, and
(2) the pure consciousness, the Divine Fragment. So the pranas now flow
properly in the primary body and can be directed by spiritual will. All
this means that the flow of incoming impulses and the flow of the series
of memory patterns are also under full control, and by consciously
controlling and operating the blocks or valves an individual can prevent
and/or allow only such mind modifications as are necessary, as per diagram
3a, and live in peace. Since so much is possible, the sense organs and the
senses themselves are also quiet because the senses that flow through the
sense organs can now flow only with the assent of the individual, who can
shut the major entry valve at the base of taluka, for he has reached stage
3b and is now proceeding to 3c.

Natural and logical thinking and reasoning, which create many different
types of waves -- the modifications -- in the grey matter are now not
needed, for stage 3b is now attained and correct knowledge without taking
recourse to all this is possible "in the vivid light of intuition". The
result is a quite chitta -- the near impossible has been achieved! Both
mind and brain had so far worked together like an advanced computer, but
the actual purpose of the mind is to be an organ of perception only. The
mind has not to solve problems -- that is to be left to the brain. It has
only to transmit to the brain all that is perceived and the brain will be
able to see and register; in its catalytic presence, the brain is able to
function. The function of the brain is to work like a computer and solve
all the difficult problems (though, at this stage of 3b, even this is
superseded by intuition, or perception of the mind); the function of the
mind is to act like a torch, throwing light in dark places. This light now
comes to it from pure consciousness, the Divine Fragment, so as to act as
a powerful, higher order electromagnetic energy which enables the computer
brain to work with the least difficulty. This is the difference between
brain and mind, and this distinction is very vital.
The individual who has attained to stages 3a and 3b can, whilst fulfilling
the house-holder's duties, remain in state 3a, and when free from these
duties remain in state 3b, which keeps the chitta quiet, even as one now
works to attain the stage 3c. Stage 3c is the state for advanced
practices. Diagram 3b shows the functioning of the mid brain, which was
non-functional in diagrams 1 and 2, and this biological development has
made possible certain nerves to be operative for the flow of vital
energies.

Various centres, or points, that were dormant so far, start pulsating.

When all this happens in an individual, it is to be experienced rather
than believed. In the language of yoga, this is the state of pratyahara,
i.e. non-attachment or detachment. II(54): "Abstraction (or pratyahara) is
the subjugation of the senses by the thinking principle and their
withdrawal from the sense organs and that which has hitherto been their
object." The very beginning of pratyahara is the inherent state of
pratyahara! Please set aside all known meanings of attachment/non-attachment
and keep the mind open for a fresh understanding as to the inner condition
of both the bodies, physical and astral. No advanced practices are
possible unless this state is reached! The individual, on reaching stages
3a and 3b, is in a position to carry out the advanced practices of
pratyahara, but only under the Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara, and never
otherwise. However, one can not practise dharna and dhyana without at
first working consciously for these states 3a and 3b.

I(37): "The chitta is stabilized and rendered free from illusion (various
self-conceived mirages) as the lower nature is purified and no longer
indulged in." Before achieving the stage of entering the path and becoming
an accepted disciple under an advanced guide who can bring the disciple to
the stage of pratyahara, it was I(4): "Up till now the inner man (the
Self, the Divine Fragment) has (seemingly) identified himself with his
forms and with their active modifications." But by hard, diligent and
ceaseless work under guidance the disciple reaches the stage of 3a and 3b,
II(41): "Through purification, comes also a quite spirit, singleness of
intent, conquest of the organs, and ability to see the Self."

Once the disciple reaches the stage of `seeing' and `contacting' the
Divine Fragment and taking guidance, i.e. from stage 3a onwards, that is
the important and basic stage for scientific yoga, viz. pratyahara.
Dharna, dhyana, samadhi are miles away yet. The Divine Fragment, Self, is
now the acknowledged Transcendental Teacher of the personality or
individual and guides the individual to experience firsthand; so the
disciple is ready for the most advanced practices, at first of pratyahara
and then higher.

Who is a disciple? The personality made up of the physical and astral

bodies in rhythm with the physical brain and astral manas. This complex
personality, which now no more lives by its own awareness but by obeying
and adoring the Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara, the inner Divine
Fragment, willingly submits to all directions. Progress on the path, means
that this developed personality, earlier frustrated and tired, at last
realizes and follows the directions of the best of all teachers and stops
looking for external teachers, for there are none worth the name.

So the personality, which was `blind' so far to the presence of the Divine
Fragment, is now, as a disciple, adoring `It' and under guidance is ready
for the most advanced practices. The Divine Fragment is now willingly
given the status of the "Lord of the mind" by the mind itself. IV(8): "The
Lord of the mind (the Self), the perceiver, is ever aware of the
constantly active mind stuff, the effect-producing cause." The
Radhe-Krishna episode is but a practical fancy of original writers to
portray the beautiful and tender relationship between the mind of a
disciple, who has reached the stages of diagram 3a and 3b and is
progressing to stage 3c, and the Self, the Divine Fragment.

Down and even up the sub-stages for eternities, the inner Divine Fragment
had assumed the role of a mere `witness' but had always been aware of the
working of the brain, manas and buddhi of the physical, astral and mental
bodies. Now the personality has willingly accepted the Divine Fragment as
its Lord and many songs are composed in adoration. No sort of control of
the mind modification is needed now, and the stage of effortless effort,
i.e. without any need of conscious control, is reached. III(12): "When
mind control and the controlling factor are equally balanced, then comes
the condition of one-pointedness."

By now the concrete mind is long since silenced. The primary body and
manas are able to function on their own plane and, being more subtle and
sensitive, are able to demonstrate psychic powers, III(36): "As a result
of this experience, the higher hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell are
developed, producing intuitional knowledge." (Refer diagram 3b.) But, in
III(37): "These powers (of the astral body) are obstacles to the highest
spiritual realization but serve as magical powers in the objective world."
The disciple has to guard against playing with these higher senses of the
astral body, for these seeming psychic powers are merely the extended five
physical senses, the astral body being far more subtle. The use of psychic
powers creates noise inside manas just as wrong thinking creates noise
inside the brain. For absolute peace of the chitta, this has to be
silenced also, otherwise the promptings of the Divine Fragment, the
Transcendental Teacher, will not be heard and further progress prevented.
Any such ability is merely an obstacle to the clear vision, the absolute
freedom and working of the Divine Fragment, and to further guidance from
the Transcendental Teacher, which may be wholly withheld for a long time
indeed if psychic powers are indulged in.

Those godmen who display such psychic powers think they have attained the
ultimate, which illusion allows them to bestow packaged transcendental
meditation on their disciples, but the fact is that they have hardly
reached the stage of pratyahara. Such who display psychic powers will be
disowned by their respective Divine Fragments for many lives to come and
the disciples will be left free to play with their psychic powers till
such time as they get tired and confused once again, come to their senses
and, realizing thus, once again ask forgiveness for such trespass and
sincerely regret their behaviour. Then only will their own Self, Ishvara
the Transcendental Teacher, forgive and give further guidance provided
they never again demonstrate their psychic powers.

Chapter 10

Man , The Human Being , is Both the Computerized Organism and

Transcendence Itself

The Ocean God and the Thinker Man

Let us begin at the beginning as if we have learnt nothing. You, dear

reader, are here and what brings you here is a common bent, not
sufficiently clear to you and remaining unexpressed. Yet it is there,
binding each one of you, as it does bind me to you. But to have that
something in you and to proceed from that early stage requires a certain
amount of awareness, however little or great, in each one of you. This
awareness makes you eager to know more and more as we proceed. But, alas,
as long as this remains an urge in you, it will be only accumulation of
knowledge and after ten million years also there will be no foreseeable
end to such accumulation, even if we keep meeting, and the purpose would
still not be achieved. You have been here before and are here now and have
so far only accumulated knowledge. Knowledge does not make one a wise
person, it makes one a talented person, an informed person.

Experience me, experience my words! So far you have only read and analyzed
my words and whenever they do not agree with your accumulated knowledge,
whether read or heard elsewhere, a question arises in your thinking
instrument, and when this is going on within your brain you miss what
further I have said or written. Herein lies the real mischief that stands
between you and me and, for that matter, will remain between you and any
other teacher, and as long as such an attitude remains you will go from
teacher to teacher. How will you experience me? I am talking of an
experience! Remember, experiencing and understanding of the same thing are
two very different aspects and poles apart. You have so far been trying to
understand me. With understanding will remain a dualism: you and me; with
experiencing you will dissolve this dualism! Will you dissolve in me as
sugar on the tongue? You will then get the inner meaning of my words. So
let us begin now.

There is one large body of water on our planet but the small mind of man
has divided it into many oceans, seas, bays, gulfs, straits and channels.
This vast body of water is and should be, by nature, always calm and free
from waves, undercurrents and turbulence. Likewise, the vast brain of man
is and should be, by nature, always calm and free from waves,
undercurrents and turbulence, i.e. from modifications.

But the wind strikes the surface of this vast body of water and creates
waves and turbulence. Wind is an external agent that strikes the calm
surface of this vast body of water, so much so that the oceans and seas
all over the world are never free from waves and turbulence. So waves and
turbulence at sea and on the oceans, including all gulfs, bays, straits
and channels, is not the inherent characteristic of this vast body of
water but is the characteristic consequence of the moving wind all over
the world. Wind we do not see, though we may experience it, but we see the
waves and turbulence, i.e. that which is more obvious.

In the same way, the modifications of the brain, i.e. the turbulence and
electromagnetic waves, which are unending like the waves of the ocean, are
not the characteristic of the human brain. They are the characteristic
outcome of impulses, like wind an external source, coming in from objects
of senses all around us and striking the calm surface of the brain.
Impulses we do not see, though we may experience them through the
turbulence and waves, the modifications, i.e. that which is more obvious.

Both the mighty ocean and the great thinker, man, tried for ages upon ages
to calm their surfaces from turbulence and unending waves but without
success. At last, in distress the mighty ocean (you know, the god Neptune)
approached the highest God and on bended knees requested a boon that his
sincere efforts to keep the surface calm and free from waves and
turbulence be granted! Seeing the ocean thus, man the thinker also went to
the highest God and made a similar request for he too had made countless
efforts over ages and was also totally frustrated and desperate.

Hearing them, the great God smiled and said, "Dear children, if I should
grant your request, which I do not want to, then you, mighty ocean, and
you, great thinker man, will both stagnate, degenerate and die. When I
refused such an offer to the ocean and the man who also came to me ages
ago from the moon, they thought I was denying them an opportunity to reach
godhood and so they insisted. Now look at the surface of the moon -- can
you find any trace of ocean or man there? Thus have I ordained whereby to
keep you, the mighty ocean, and you, the thinker man, from such decay,
decomposition and death, that the only way out is total and non-stop
turbulence with unending waves! You will both thus remain vibrant,
energetic, healthy, clean and free from rubbish that otherwise can soon
gather in no time and suffocate you both. So both of you go in peace!"

So both the ocean and the man returned from the highest God dejected and
no wiser. And, today also, we find the surface of the ocean and of the
brain of man always in turbulence and unending waves. This is the natural
way of life and one should not be unnecessarily upset and dejected over
this. As long as physical man lives in a physical world, this is the
natural law in operation!

Both the ocean and man, the thinker, sat down to think. Some men decided to
give up worldly activity, went into deep forests and engaged themselves in
severe tapasya (penance). Others left their homes and belongings, went to
quiet places and, sitting with legs crossed and eyes closed, engaged
themselves in dhyana. Some more gave up meat-eating and all the tasty
foods and passed their days in temples or on the banks of rivers and
engaged themselves in japa. And yet some others gave up worldly life and
engaged themselves in various asanas and pranayamas and in secret and
sacred knowledge.

Seeing all this with man, and seeing the ocean also miserable, the great
God, out of love for his creation, sent the Buddha to this planet to help
both the ocean and man. After his own enlightenment, the Buddha went from
place to place, from one in tapasiya to another, and said, "Friend, this
is not the way. The beautiful body God had given you is now withered like
a dying tree and no flowers and no fruits will ever grow thereon. Get up
and follow me." Then he went from one dhyani to another and said, "No, my
friend, this is not the way. The beautiful mind God had given you is now
withered like a dying tree and no flowers and no fruits will grow thereon.
Get up and follow me." Then he went to those engaged in japa and said,
"You have forsaken your duty in life. Go back to your homes." He then went
from one hatha yogi to another and said, "My friends, you are twisting
your bodies to no purpose. All of you hear and follow the noble truths."

And the Buddha gave the noble truths:

(1) There is turbulence unending which causes pain and misery.
(2) There is a cause of this turbulence which causes pain and misery.
(3) This cause can be remedied.

Man, the thinker, did not immediately understand the great Buddha. But the
mighty ocean grasped the Buddha's words, called unto the man and said, "Go
down into my depths." But the man hesitated. "Do not hesitate, I will
protect you. Go and see and learn." The man did as he was told and dived
into the ocean depths. What did he find and learn there? That the top
surface of the ocean suffered from turbulence and unending waves, but
below all was calm and inky dark: no waves, no turbulence, no sound, no
light, no colour, only inky darkness -- void, nirvana!! He saw the sea god
sitting peacefully at the bottom of the ocean!

The man came out of the waters of the ocean and, after thanking the mighty
ocean god, then looked below the top soil of his brain and went deep down
in his brain. And he found that all was calm and peaceful and inky dark:
no waves, no turbulence, no sound, no light, no colour, only inky darkness
-- void, nirvana!!

Man as Computerized Organism plus Transcendence

The underlying idea is that the top soil of the brain together with the
front brain and the rear brain memory pools form the thinking instrument,
and these regions of the brain will forever remain in ceaseless activity.
To stop this ceaseless activity means to be in coma, or to be unconscious,
or to be dead. So we make no attempts to quieten this area of the brain --
we can only re-educate this area and will find to our surprise a lot of
peace that we had never experienced or dreamt of before. But to expect
transcendence or to meditate with this area is to ask for the really
impossible. It will be frustrating as the ocean and the thinker man found
for themselves to their utter dismay over the ages. Transcendence and
meditation are possible, but not before re-education of this area and with
the help of some other centres of the brain.

Besides, we must understand that man, the human being, is certainly not
this organism, the so-called body. Before we go further let our minds be
clear that we are normally talking about two separate aspects, but not
understanding this we treat them as one! They are: (1) the computerized
organism, or the body, the personality or the individual; and (2) the Self,
i.e. Transcendence itself. The great mistake prevalent is that statements
are made without reference to one or the other and sometimes may be made
in reference to one and be misunderstood for the other, so that total
confusion prevails on all such occasions.

Further, we have to set aside religion, philosophy, yoga, TM, and all such
subjects, because if we are talking about the computerized organism, know
that this organism has nothing to do with any of them, for it is a
mechanism and all it will do is play all such above data fed into its
computers repeatedly without imbibing anything. (In India, during black
money transactions we quote the Geeta!) The last 6,000 of recorded history
have proved this, that the organism is a mechanism and one cannot preach
to a mechanism. And if you are talking about the Self, or Transcendence,
it is unnecessary and a waste of time as the Self is far above all this.

So please keep your mind and brain clear and do not be unnecessarily
involved in various discussions, useless efforts and still more useless
reading. Whenever and whatever you read or hear, ask what the statement is
about! The computerized organism needs certain basic help in the field of
habit and drift mechanisms; if proper education is forthcoming in this
direction, then the mechanisms of brooding and/or day-dreaming will cease
to operate, for these mechanisms are the major culprits that keep the brain
in turmoil and turbulence unending. Then follow a few steps as to how the
impulse/response mechanism can be set right if it needs setting right. Do
not preach religion, philosophy and morality to the computerized organism,
for it is a mechanism itself, highly sophisticated though. In your proper
senses, would you ever preach to a mechanism? It amounts to preaching to a
tape recorder -- the computerized organism is exactly that and nothing
more!

There is a car and its driver. The car is giving trouble. Will you preach
to the car? Or will you preach to the driver religion and philosophy? The
right step is to call a mechanic and put the car right. You may re-educate
the driver in the mechanics of the car but preaching religion, philosophy,
yoga, TM, or Christian Science, etc., to either is sheer nonsense. Yet that
is exactly what we are trying to do. Instead of preaching, simply
re-educate the thinking instrument!

Let me now quote a great Zen master: "The mind, as it is in itself, is

free from disturbances, ills and follies, and every thought is thus of
transcendental knowledge and wisdom." (This applies when you talk of the
brain below the 2 mm deep top soil, for on the top soil is turbulence and
waves unending. Refer to the geography of the brain in the diagrams.)
"Being so, there is no use in establishing anything. When erroneous
thoughts do not arise, this is precept (shila, or morality). When
erroneous thoughts are no more, this is meditation (dhyana). When the
non-existence of erroneous thoughts is perceived, this is transcendental
wisdom (prajna)." The first two refer to the individual struggling with
the computerized organism and the third refers to Self, Transcendence, in
which state we apprehend "non-existence of erroneous thoughts". Precepts,
meditation and wisdom (transcendence) constitute the Buddhist triple
discipline. But to be involved in these disciplines is to miss the gist of
illumination and transcendence.

Life is movement with some purpose; the purpose may be only survival. To
maintain the continuity of movement of life, two things are essential: (a)
breathing, right or wrong, must go on to keep life moving, and (b) a
continuous impulse/response activity, right or wrong, must go on to make
life meaningful. This activity is aided by memory patterns. The whole
organism is then computerized, i.e. automatically functioning!

Impulse/response can be continuous provided the organism has in-built

inner lines of communication, or circuits, whether right or wrong, so that
the slightest impulse of sight, sound, touch, smell or taste alerts the
organism and causes it to respond instantly to all such incoming impulses.
Memory patterns make the organism go towards or away from such impulses
received on the basis of what is pleasant or painful or what is to one's
gain or loss.

Man has not shown so far even today in the space age a better or different
mode of living. His inherent superior nature makes him miserable, living
within this computerized framework, but he does not know how he can break
out of these walls around him and live a really meaningful life. We are
talking of the computerized man who, through his five senses, his inner
lines of communications or circuits, whether right or wrong, lives by the
impulse/response mechanism in which incoming impulses impinge or strike
the top soil of his brain and create unending turbulence and waves -- the
modifications. This computerized living is further aided by the mechanisms
of drift, habit, brooding and/or day-dreaming, and seem to bind him and
make him speak and act as if he were a puppet. The memory patterns guide
all these computerized mechanisms by feeding the necessary data.

Fortunately for him, he feels that there is something wrong somewhere. He

is otherwise very intelligent and also creative. "Look at the figure in a
puppet show, whose movements by another are controlled." Like a puppet, a
deluded man (one we find all over the world) is controlled by his feelings
and his passions, which are nothing but his past memory patterns caused by
ignorance, and is at a loss as to how to be free from all this oppression.
So long as he is unable, he is unfit to save himself, however educated or
religious he may be otherwise.

The reason for this inability is the confusion created all over the world
by making statements whose truth or wisdom we do not question and about
which no one is clear for whom they are made, whether for the computerized
mechanism, the organism, or the Self, Transcendence? If they are for the
former, they are all a waste of breath and energy, and if for the latter,
they are uncalled for and redundant for the Self is far above the wisest
statements.

We have noted that the top soil of the human brain 1-2 mm deep is
computerized for all impulse/response conditions only and accordingly will
function whether one is conscious of this fact or not. This is its dharma!
Herein is a great waste of time and ultimately frustration, because one
should not waste any time or effort to prevent this or preach to it. This
top soil will function as it has to, whatever you do, unless you freeze it
by drugs, alcohol or anesthetics, in which case you are good for nothing
in this life and in this world for you are unconscious and could be dead!
So you see the futility of such exercises to silence this top soil. Leave
it alone! Do not preach to this mechanism morality and meditation -- like
a monkey it will repeat, knowing no more than a monkey! If no attention is
paid to its functions, it will tend to set right and be a little more
quiet.

Remember both the ocean and the human brain below the surface are calm.
Live there! Waste no efforts in achieving anything for there is nothing to
achieve! You have the blessing of Transcendence at all times, for you are
Transcendence, the Self, itself! Remember the two-fold path of the Geeta.
When you will live the two-fold life, of the computerized organism as an
individual and of the Self as Transcendence, you will yourself find that
there is no need for precepts, meditation or transcendence. Just be
natural! You are structured in a particular fashion so that you can
function in a given condition -- just function and forget all else! Do not
try the unnatural ways for then you will feel dejected, for what is
unnatural cannot be brought about.

Remember at all times the distinction between the organism, which is a

mechanism, normally denoted by `self', and the Self, or Transcendence. The
organism is a computerized structure, so let it function along the lines
it is structured. This organism cannot attain transcendence; it can take
care of itself and, if left alone without any interference, it will not
interfere with or obstruct the Self, it will be better behaved. If it is
allowed to function as it is structured without bringing in religion,
philosophy, TM, etc., etc., you are a lucky and a sensible person. Do no
such pious things! The organism wants to be left alone without any
so-called guidance. It knows its responsibilities for with awareness goes
responsibility.

Self and Transcendence are synonymous, organism and computerized functions

are synonymous. This dual structure is to be constantly remembered and one
may not invade the territory of the other. Live this concurrent life --
there is no need of a pious religious life for the computerized organism.
It may wish to eat, drink, rest or sleep, so let it do just that. Do not
be unnecessarily concerned with rites and ceremonies, with vegetarianism
and other fads, etc., for there should be no interference with the natural
life of the organism. Only correct the mechanisms of drift and habit --
this will stop brooding and/or day-dreaming, the organism will lead a
healthier life and you will live better for such an exercise.

My dear friends, what would you meditate on? And what is the need of
meditation? Meditation and morality are two energy-consuming efforts that
lead one nowhere! Of the two structured aspects of the individual, the
so-called human being, the organism or body would not understand morality
or the need for meditation; as for the Self, Transcendence, would you
teach It morality or meditation? So what are you trying to do! Do not give
the computerized organism what is the natural structure of the Self,
Transcendence, and do not disturb it or try to channel it into unnatural
ways. It will not accept the unnatural diet, religion, philosophy, yoga,
japa, etc. And the Self, Transcendence, does not need any for It is far
above these -- with It you have nothing to do, rather you can do nothing!
Is your mind and brain now clear?

The great Zen master says: "Those who recognize this objective world (the
organism's world) and yet find their minds (the deeper brain below the top
soil) undisturbed are in true dhyana." The gap between contraries does not
exist for there are no pairs of opposites. The so-called pairs of opposites
have one side for the computerized organism and the other for the Self,
Transcendence. But we mistakenly assume that both sides are for the
computerized organism only! Study this science of the pairs of opposites
if you like, but waste no time on these contraries as normally understood.
Wisdom, or transcendence, will illumine this point.

"But to let the mind (the brain's top soil) move on by itself, and perform
its inexhaustible functions, this is the way to be in accord with the mind
essence." To attempt to reach light by dispelling darkness is dualistic.
This amounts to keeping prajna/wisdom away from dhyana and will lead to
quietism and death. In the dust-wiping type of meditation, of precepts or
morality, it is not possible to go beyond tranquilization of the brain,
which means, as stated earlier, imposing the unnatural state and is bound
to end in frustration. So avoid this by all means. As long as you cling to
a sitting position with eyes closed and legs crossed you can never reach
the deeper mind!

Prajna, Transcendence, Self-nature, are identical. "Whenever there is more

of dhyana and less of prajna it helps the growth of ignorance! The more
you practise dhyana (meditation), the more the chances of ignorance
increasing." Dhyana is actually attained when there is, so to speak, no
dhyana practised, for by whom is it to be practised, the computerized
organism or Self, Transcendence, and for what purpose? For whom are
religion, morality, philosophy, TM, yoga, Christian Science, etc., proper?
Out of the two, one is a mere computerized mechanism and the other is the
highest living God within you! There is no movement from error to truth
or from ignorance to enlightenment as far as either the computerized
organism or Transcendence is concerned. There is no enlightenment
whatsoever which you can claim to have attained if you remember the
organism and the Self we are talking about.
The Structure of Man

The complex structure of a human being, as distinct from that of an animal

or any other lower life, comprises of: (1) the computerized organism, the
physical body, with its mechanisms; (2) memory and emotions, the estate of
(1), forming the emotional body; and (3) Transcendence. This complex
structure must necessarily have communications both ways but only one way
traffic exists at present, from (3) to (1) and (2). If the complex
material structure is not aware, i.e. (1) and (2) are not aware of (3),
it does not necessarily mean that the other way communications, from (3)
to (1) and(2), do not exist, but that such communications merely remain
unregistered.

Unfortunately man seldom, rather never, functions as (4), the `whole'

human being -- he functions normally in (1) and oft-times in (2). When in
(1), the impulse/response and habit mechanisms ((a) and (b)) rule him, and
when in (2), brooding and/or day-dreaming ((c) and (d)) rule him. Drifts
(e) attend to both (1) and (2), and, finally, all these mechanisms
function through the I-E-S-M centres (f). So at any time a man as an
individual is somewhere in (1) or in (2) or in both, and so is under the
compulsory functioning of these mechanisms, (a) through (f). Therefore he
is a computerized organism! Were it not for (3), Transcendence, he would
never be different from animals and would have been much worse off than
what he is. He is an animal as long as (3) does not come into operation in
some manner. It is the concurrent life to be lived that makes man, the
human being, a `whole' as in (4).

Now what do you want to do? All your efforts at various disciplines are
with (1) and (2) and so are useless, and no efforts are needed for (3).
This is your structure! Some call (1) the physical body, (2) the astral or
emotional body, and (3) as soul, atman or spirit. These labels are
misleading -- forget them; get rid of all meanings regarding (1), (2) and
(3)! The point is that you are neither truly here, with (1) and (2), nor
there in (3), nor do you experience any relationship between (1)+(2) and
(3). This keeps you always confused and frustrated and never yields
results. Let your thinking be clear as to what you want to do and with
whom: with (1) and (2), or with (3), or with (1) and (2) and with (3).

Live a natural life of (1) and (2) and (3)! Correct the faults of (1) and
(2), then bring in an understanding that there ought to be a relationship
between (1)+(2) and (3). Unless you clearly understand this, confusion
will prevail and your efforts of millions of years will be in vain.

The difference between the complex structures of a human being and that of
an animal or any other lower life is the presence or absence of (3),
Transcendence, in each individual case. So, if in a human being there is
no communication between (1)+(2) and (3), that individual has the same
sort of complex structure as an animal or any lower life, and we should
expect the same animal-like behaviour from such a human being and not be
surprised. Therefore it is very necessary to know how and when such
communications between (1)+(2) and (3) take place, to see that they are
both ways and also that they are registered.

But for such possibilities one has to carefully avoid all contaminated
ideas of religion, philosophy, bhajans and satsang (devotional or
religious-minded singing and discoursing), and other such subjects,
for the least hesitation brought about by such memory and emotions will
affect (2), because all that you have read or heard has already become
your memory and emotions (2) and will automatically break the
communication link either way. Otherwise, why would the Buddha stress
again and again, "Bhikshu, empty the boat!" The difference between a human
being and an animal will be obvious only in the event of established
communications both ways.

To enable you, dear reader, to know your structure from all possible
angles is necessary. It is necessary to know also that this structure is
firmer than granite. Any hasty approach will not yield the desired results
and hence, per force, our measured, methodical approach from all sides.
This total understanding is therefore brought to you so that you may know
and appreciate the method of approach. The following are the salient
features:
(a) That we are already what we are trying to be!
(b) That all matter has awareness from near zero to infinity and the
entire spectrum can be studied with the help of science.
(c) That on this scale of awareness man is on the last rung of the ladder.
Can communications be established with those higher up?
(d) That our computerized organism has high awareness and so high
autonomy, and this has to be respected.
(e) That a human being who is developed, or whole, has human traits which
should also be respected.
(f) That the autonomy of the computerized organism and the traits of a
human being must survive side by side and one may not try to rule over or
suffocate the other!
(g) That all incoming impulses (communications) are the feeding material
for all the mechanisms within, and they are drawn in, as if by a magnet,
by a magnetic point within us, built over ages of survival, life after
life.
(h) That this magnetic point ultimately builds its own design or pattern
of living and we live accordingly. This pattern of living differs from the
inherent design of living implanted in us by God and Nature that would
enable us to live like a Buddha or a Christ.
(i) That to know this magnetic point and correct it is the only exercise
worth indulging in. The method is of making a list of drifts by different
methods over a period of time and then injecting corrective methods for
the cure as will be shown. Any haste in this will only defeat and delay,
so take time to do this. Rome was not built in a day, nor have you been
built in one lifetime!

Refer to the structure shown previously. On the outside are the various
mechanisms and underlying them is our estate, i.e. memory soaked in
emotions. The latter creates this magnetic point over ages of survival.
We are helpless to act in any other manner except how we are dictated by
this magnetic point. Let your mind be clear as to this point. Various
ideas of spiritual life or asceticism must not suffocate the organism.
Trying to suffocate or overrule the computerized organism, which can act
only as per the dictates of this magnetic point, is foolishness and a
waste of time. This means that the artificial methods of preaching,
religion, philosophy, japa, Christian Science, and other such spiritual
practices and asceticism of various types are doomed to failure. So the
idea of correcting the six mechanisms is out of the question. It is
finally to be understood that the re-education of the thinking instrument
is the correcting of this magnetic point which is also anchored in the
registration area. Our approach, therefore, should now be crystal clear to
you, dear reader, I suppose! First things first: correct the magnetic
point!

Let us note the details of the computerized organism we normally

understand as the body, or personality or individual. Awareness, simple
(simple consciousness) or advanced (self-consciousness), is the primary
characteristic of the computerized organism. The energies of life and of
awareness, together with the energies of electricity and magnetism, are
all bottled or in-built (just as memory and energy sources are in-built
even in man-made mechanisms today) so that the computerized organism can
carry out its various functions; in short, we have not to plug the
organism to a socket for recharging. There is nothing supernatural or holy
about these energies. Many computers simultaneously work jointly inside
the computerized organism. It is indeed a very, very sophisticated
mechanism, but, after all, is still only a mechanism by itself, though we
may address it as body, individual or personality.

To coordinate everything, the front lobe, or registration area, and the

top soil of the left and right mid brain 1-2 mm deep -- viz. the cortex --
together manage the organism normally. The top soil is mainly for the
impulse/response mechanism, but the registration area has the habit,
drift, brooding and day-dreaming mechanisms, and even the impulse/response
mechanism ultimately reaches the registration area. In all, including the
I-E-S-M centres, there are six mechanisms of the registration area itself.
These mechanisms, like a calculator that helps us to calculate but
ultimately makes us dependent on it to add up even 5+5=10 instead of using
our brain power, have dulled and ruined the otherwise sharp awareness and
capability of the brain. It so happens gradually, due to the constant
functioning of these mechanisms, that the self-conscious aspect of the
registration area is slowly overwhelmed and then wholly governed by these
mechanisms. The organism degenerates into the simple consciousness of a
machine and misses the much needed human aspects or traits so that the
behaviour appears to be sub-standard human behaviour. These mechanisms
are, after all, mechanisms only and are devoid of human traits or aspects.
So human beings start living and behaving by simple consciousness. This,
therefore, makes it necessary for us to study the registration area and
the operations of the four centres I-E-S-M for all aspects of awareness
and behaviour. Even the functions of these centres are a type of mechanism
only and so are also devoid of human traits and aspects.

Animals are supposed to live by, or are governed by, simple consciousness,
so they are not mindful of others' needs and well-being, i.e. they live
strictly by the impulse/response mechanism. Man is supposed to live by,
or be governed by, self-consciousness, so he is expected to be mindful of
other's needs and well-being, at least in theory or as an ideal. This
means that he is not supposed to live by the impulse/response mechanism
only, but use it judiciously as and when need arises.

Now, on the road a cow passes you. She may be swinging her head or her
tail, and as she passes you she may lash you in the face with her tail;
you may be lucky to escape her horns. On the same road another passer-by
going past you may spit beetle-juice on you; you may be lucky to escape
him blowing his nose on you. If you question him, his reply is, "Did I do
this deliberately?" I write this from my experience of many such
incidents. If you were to ask the cow and if she could reply, would she
not say, "Did I do this deliberately?" Now where is simple consciousness
of the animal and self-consciousness of the human being! A human being is
capable of functioning under self-consciousness, but that does not mean
that he does function through self-consciousness.

In the morning you go from your bathroom to your dressing room to get a
new tooth brush. When you reach there your eyes fall on tablets that you
have to take every morning. You take one from the bottle, go to the
kitchen, swallow it with water and return to the bathroom without bringing
the new tooth brush for which you had specifically gone to the dressing
room. Why did this happen? All such happenings are due to many in-built
mechanisms in the thinking instrument part of our brain. The computerized
organism (the physical body) works for almost the whole time through
various mechanisms operating singly or jointly. God has given us these
mechanisms to spare us much unwanted trouble.

The other necessary mechanism of drifts, which also functions within the
registration area, is a much needed mechanism. Only because of drifts
taking place automatically and continuously is life one continuous
movement; otherwise, in the absence of this mechanism we would find life
coming to a halt time and again. Once you are through a particular
function, it would be difficult to start another. The difference to life
with and without the working of this mechanism would be equivalent to
seeing a movie of an event and seeing photographs of the event. However,
this necessary drift mechanism function is not governed by a method and in
the absence of certain re-education it bursts upon us as it likes, like a
storm, i.e. one drift follows another, never in any sequence or, as we
say, without any rhyme or reason, and does not stop when we want it to
stop.

So these mechanisms of habit, drifts and impulse/response rule us. They

set in motion the mechanisms of brooding and day-dreaming. We who are
supposed to live by self-consciousness do so hardly and even when engaged
in some important function, these mechanisms disturb us. So life rolls by
haphazardly in simple consciousness and these functions take care of all
our thoughts, actions, conversations, etc. Now if we live by simple
consciousness most of the time, then it is obvious, as stated previously,
that we are not mindful of others' needs and well-being. In so living we
must inevitably hurt in some manner those with whom we come in contact and
this creates friction and unpleasantness. And if we are so governed by
simple consciousness almost all the time, then you will agree that there
is absolutely no need for the state of `awakeness'. If we have no need for
awakeness, the idea of insight or intuition would be still further away.
In that case we can forget all about the inherent design implanted in us
by God and Nature.

So we so-called human beings of the twentieth century, of the space age,

live exactly as did our ancestors a few million years ago, and there is no
need for any surprise in this matter if we shall live the same way say
50,000 years hence, for we have never taken up this important subject of
re-education of the thinking instrument. With all these mechanisms
functioning in the thinking instrument, without a methodical approach our
thinking instrument will betray us time and again, though we may otherwise
be educated or religious. It is ultimately this betrayal that brings about
the feeling of helplessness.

So what are we supposed to do? We, as cultured human beings, ought to live
by self-consciousness to a large extent and with `awakeness' to some
extent. To be able to live so requires the re-education of all the
mechanisms, i.e. setting them right, thus re-educating the thinking
instrument. When we live by simple consciousness it is obvious we decide
on the basis of what is pleasurable or painful, and what is to our gain or
loss.

Refer again to the structure given above. Remember this structure for it
is universal in beings. In all of them, the structure is the same: outer
covering or computerized organism, then memory soaked in emotions, and
innermost is Transcendence. Below the stage of man this structure is not
to be found. In the scale of awareness, man is lowest, and amongst all the
societies of human beings in the Universe, our humanity is pretty far down
the scale. The scale of awareness, from bottom to top, is: man, planet,
sun or star, galaxy, group of galaxies, and the Universe. (In the light of
all that has been said in the first half of this book, treating the
planets, sun and stars, galaxies and the Universe as intelligent beings
should no longer astonish the reader!) All the vital energies can be
produced within each type of this series of computerized organisms.

All those who fall within this scale exhibit two qualities. They are
living and aware, i.e. autonomous, and this autonomy leads to certain
responsibility and to some purpose. Greater the awareness, greater the
responsibility and greater the purpose. Secondly, they are also violent in
their individual manner. Man, being lowest in scale, can be violent for
small and selfish reasons; those higher on the scale would be violent in
some constructive way for a higher purpose. But the structure is universal
and it is important to ensure that the computerized organism functions as
near to perfection as possible. In all cases on this scale, if the
computerized organism has not reached its needed perfection, the nature
and behaviour will remain violent to that extent. So correction of the
computerized organism plus the memory soaked in emotions parts of the
structure is vital. Corrective methods are different in this rising scale
but some type of corrective methods are always needed. Only then will
violence in the computerized organism of each type cease, only then can
peace be experienced. Please remember this much carefully.

Innumerable are the ill-effects and damage caused by the wrong working
of the thinking instrument to other human beings, to their property and
possessions, as also the ill-effects brought upon the organism and the
brain itself. In dealing with this, we shall realize that all the ills and
wrongs, all pain and unhappiness that all living beings experience is
caused only by the wrong functioning of the thinking instrument area of
the brain. Such malfunctioning of every thinking instrument has created
chaos and the sorry state of things in the whole world for which we can
blame ourselves only in the absence of re-education of the thinking
instrument. In this God has no part to play -- maybe that His infallible
laws give us what we deserve, but this is not the subject matter of our
study at present. God has given us free will, i.e. freedom to use our
brain power. To what use or abuse we put it is not the work or
responsibility of God but is our exercise of free will. For with awareness
comes autonomy and with greater awareness comes greater autonomy.

The Fragments of Transcendence

In the so-called Garden of Eden, according to the Bible, and in the very
first Universe of Creation, Janah Universe, going by the Hindu shastras,
man was then a fragment of pure Transcendence, in being by Divine Will,
and so had no need of a computerized organism -- body and brain -- and
memory. But life was very dull, being the same eternity after eternity.
Life became interesting when God allowed man to use the power of his
acquired thinking instrument and live with free will instead of Divine
Will, but then entered also the trio of mischief-makers -- doubt, fear,
and anger or irritability -- to create suspense and interest created by
the use of brain power.

We have seen that the full spectrum of vibrations ranges through the
following.
1. Satyam: God unmanifest or Transcendence unmanifest. We prefer not to
use the word `God' here for it points to a personal God, e.g. Father,
Shiva or Brahma, all of which are obnoxious ideas.
2. Tapah, or Divine Wholeness: God manifest or Ocean of Transcendence;
Nature, originally, as we can never know in Bhuh, Bhuvah or Svahah.
3. Janah Universe: Home of the fragments of Transcendence. Even if they be
innumerably many, it does not give the idea of dualism or multiplicity,
for each one of them or many of them can merge with one another and
re-emerge again, or can merge in the Ocean of Transcendence and re-emerge;
so all is one in spite of fragments. Tapah and Janah together constitute
Creation.

So up to this point is Creation. Up to here we do not expect actualization

of anything: no land- and other scapes, or any kind of flora and fauna, or
men and women who make love or fight, and no sex either. There is no night
or day, nor sleep or waking, no shades of darkness or light, or colours,
as we understand, no food or impulses, and neither mind nor thinking. It
is creation beyond our conception; yet, perhaps, from our point of view it
could be drab and colourless for there is no ambition, no possessions,
nothing to conquer or achieve, nothing to fear or doubt or get angry
about.

Now different gospels spell out differently what happens next, depending
on whether one goes by the Bible, or theosophy, or the shastras. Thus man
was thrown out of the Garden of Eden, according to the Bible, and he
stepped out of Janah Universe into the Universe of Existence, according to
Hindu shastras. The common idea is that these fragments of Transcendence
have their Home as Creation, but enter Existence to experience it. In
Existence are three universes: gross (Bhuh), subtle (Bhuvah) and super
subtle (Svahah); and accordingly, to experience Existence, they need to
acquire appropriate computerized organisms as clothing.

(4a) Svahah: the most subtle, electronic or mental universe, wherein these
fragments first descend, and take on an electronic or mental body and
buddhi for brain, and function thereby.
(4b) Bhuvah: the subtle, molecular or astral universe, wherein they descend
next, and take on a molecular or astral body and manas for brain, and
function thereby.
(4c) Bhuh: the gross, cellular or physical universe, wherein they finally
descend, and take on a cellular or physical body and brain, and function
thereby. (This is involution; the movement opposite to this is evolution.)

Some call the different computerized organisms as body, cell, cage or

prison. It matters not what we call it, but it matters that we understand
this computerized organism. As long as we do not understand it, and do not
learn how to exit it and enter it at will, the sense of being in a cage or
prison will continue.

Man can play about in any of these three universes, if he so desires, or

be a captive to any one of them as he is today in Bhuh. Even the other
universes of Existence, Bhuvah and Svahah, are to him high heaven today,
so badly fallen is he. Or he can retrace his steps back to the original
Universe of Creation, Janah, to the so-called Garden of Eden, where he
needs no body and brain, and can function once again as a fragment of pure
Transcendence with no need of a computerized organism. But the great
blessing is that whether he is in Bhuh, Bhuvah or Svahah, or in Janah,
i.e. outside or inside the Garden of Eden, he will always be a fragment of
pure Transcendence, either with or without the computerized organism! Even
the astral/molecular body with manas and the mental/electronic body with
buddhi are computerized organisms, only of a superior kind!

All the time during their sojourn in Svahah, Bhuvah and Bhuh, these
fragments of Transcendence allow the proper computerized organism to
function freely and without interference in whatever universe they are,
and the computerized organisms seem to enjoy their free will. These
computerized organism divide themselves into many groups -- Hindus,
Moslems, Christians, Chinese, etc., -- with their different, separate
places of worship and their holy books, thanks to the many existing
religions. Ultimately, though, these different computerized organisms find
themselves in deep confusion living independently of the inner
Transcendence and finally cry out for deliverance and search for a way
out, for they cannot understand Existence, and never will, their science,
religions, and philosophies being woefully inadequate and incapable. This
happens to the physical computerized organism first, then it will happen
next to the subtler astral organism and lastly to the most subtle mental
organism on the journey back Home -- a typical situation we find ourselves
in today in this world.

It is at such a time that the fragment of Transcendence within each

computerized organism would like to guide, but the organism seeks
teachers, priests, books, prayers, rites, gospels, etc., in the external
world, not believing that there is an inner fragment of Transcendence able
to guide better than anyone and anything else. Finally, each computerized
organism individually finds that the inner fragment of Transcendence is
the most exalted of all teachers! But this dawns very late on a few. How
to correlate the two, how to make this computerized organism cooperate
with the inner Transcendence is our subject of study. This calls for a
dual or two-fold path (but not two different paths), one material of the
computerized organism and the other spiritual of the inner Transcendence.
And so ultimately comes the stage of Radhe-Krishna!

See diagrams 1 and 2: this is the normal state of the computerized

organism with an uneducated thinking instrument. Now see diagrams 3a and
3b: this is the path shown by the inner Transcendence to the computerized
organism, thus re-educating the thinking instrument. Finally see diagram
3c: it shows correlation and cooperation of the computerized organism with
the inner Transcendence. The inner circuit is now complete and closed and
there is no leakage at point #7, ajna. This is the subject of our study.

We have seen that the fragment of Transcendence needs nothing, It is

self-existing and immortal. But every computerized organisms -- even the
most subtle, the mental body -- needs to be supplied with the energies of
life and awareness, and, to make existence meaningful, also has to be fed
the energies of emotion, sex, intellect, etc. So it is necessarily mortal
because these supplies diminish with time and finally end, and so the
computerized organism dies. It does not matter if this takes 3 seconds
or 75 years or a few billion years -- each is equally mortal.

If it has to die thus, it has to be recreated from a blueprint held in the

Mahah region, because the inner Transcendence is immortal and reincarnates
itself consciously with a new computerized organism, which the
computerized organism cannot do and does not know how to. Now arise the
meaningless rites, ceremonies, prayers and religions for the computerized
organisms that die as also for those that are born or recreated from the
blueprint. Not knowing the real blueprint of God and Nature, different
groups have their equally silly ideas and for which they claim to be the
chosen people.
Always, therefore, remember the dual life style, one of the computerized
organism with its thinking instrument, uneducated or educated as the case
may be, and the other of the inner fragment of Transcendence. The meeting
ground is the silent area -- bindu, point #8 in the diagrams -- the holy
ground where the inner fragment leaves coded messages for the computerized
organism to decode, understand and follow.

When this stage 3c is reached, during such inner communications one does
not go beyond step 3. In normal life, stage 3b, one does proceed to steps
4 and 5, but here too one adopts the formula given in the Geeta: "Be not
anxious for the fruits of thy actions." Finally, one also does lives the
life of an ordinary householder, as in stage 3a, and there one proceeds
from step 3 to steps 4 and 5, but one lives in good thoughts, good desires
and good deeds. Note these three stages of living, but it is not necessary
that one progresses from one to the other -- one can simultaneously live
in all three. One can be a householder at 3a, one can also have the higher
life at 3b and one can also have moments of absolute transcendence at 3c.
But at no time or stage, whether at 3a, 3b or 3c, is one in a trance or
unconscious -- one is always fully conscious. To be able to function as
and when desired in stages 3a-b-c is the mark of the whole, complete or
developed human being -- the rest are incomplete human beings. This is our
subject of study.

So our course of action will be:

(1) To be convinced that a human being is both the computerized organism
externally and also Transcendence internally.
(2) The computerized organism (if cellular or physical) will have to
function in a cellular world and universe and obey all the physical laws.
(Likewise if molecular or astral, and electronic or mental). There can be
no trespass possible anywhere ever!
(3) This computerized organism, with an uneducated thinking instrument,
will insist on living according to its own life style and will take no
guidance either from the inner Transcendence or any type of outward
preaching, which will seem unnatural to it.
(4) This computerized organism, with an educated thinking instrument, will
cooperate and change over to a life style faithful to the guidance of the
inner Transcendence.
(5) Finally we see a complete or developed human being living an ordinary
householder's life as per diagram 3a, and able, as and when desired, to
live the life style according to stages 3b or 3c as explained above.
(6) Still later an individual, by higher practices, is able to function in
any of the three computerized organisms at will and experience any of
the three universes. But when one is able to do so, one understands the
Truth, that one is in Exile, far from Home, and decides to return Home.
Some call this Home nirvana, we call It Janah and Tapah -- the Universes
of Transcendence.
As the Geeta says, "The end and beginning of beings are unknowable. We see
only the intervening formations." We have traced the intervening
formations. Do not ask what happens to fragments of Transcendence once
they finish their journey and return Home, nor why should they leave their
Home at all! Some idea of Janah Universe and fragments of Transcendence is
provided by the quotations and by Madam Blavatsky's reference to the
celestial humanity "Aisha" in chapter 1. In the preceding few paragraphs
we have summarily recapped the thoughts and ideas of the entire first part
of the book.

Man today cries about his woes, his ills and his pains, and
philosophically places that burden on God. "God's will be done!" How has
God willed? Karma and destiny are brought in. This fiction he perpetuates
through religion, philosophy, prose and poetry. But he does not own up to
authorship of all the ills, pain and misery. Why does he not take up
manfully the matter in hand and re-educate his thinking instrument which
is at fault?

Does man realize -- have you realized -- that wars and rebellion take the
lives of brave, young men and women? Can you visualize how, just in the
past 6,000 years of recorded history all over the world, the flower of
youth has been, and still is being, sacrificed because leaders' egos and
their thinking instruments would not see what is right and what is wrong,
but only decided on the basis of what is to one's gain or loss, or what is
pleasurable or painful? Imagine the nobler and the worthier, the youth of
the human race destroyed, generation after generation, and the race
begotten from the weaker, meaner and less worthy men and women who
escape,
and this being repeated as a continuous process. This is the naked truth,
do not try to evade this self-inflicted, consciously brought about
degeneration. How can one even feel surprised now that sin and crime,
cruelty and selfishness abound all over the world and keep increasing.
Mankind can only hope to get degenerated! The thinking instrument keeps
becoming sharper and meaner to accumulate gains, to indulge in that which
is pleasurable, and to inflict pain and loss on others! This is why the
sages predicted that kali yuga will ultimately prevail -- it is only a
natural consequence!

Such constant damage and degeneration all around and in each human being
ultimately makes each thinking instrument also sick, an all-pervading
sickness found throughout the world. It feels this harm itself and now
craves and longs for a solution. It wants peace but by itself can only
misbehave. This is the right time, the hour has sounded when we can yet
rescue it; otherwise mankind, like many other species that preceded it,
will be totally destroyed -- wiped off this planet as not fit for
continued existence. The need of the hour is to save the thinking
instrument from further degeneration and from reaching a point of no
return, because with more knowledge man will only become the worst type of
animal! Re-educating the thinking instrument will regenerate mankind, and
unless this is done, we shall find ourselves replaced by some other type
of life.

Will mankind awake even at this late hour? Preaching, religion, philosophy
and allied works of man have not helped and will not help. Please note we
are not preaching morality -- that has been done and enough all over the
world with no success. We are not philosophizing for even that has been
done and enough with the same null result. The thinking instrument of man
will also not be guided or goaded by faith! Faith succeeded in earlier
days only, but now the growing intellect of man is getting sharper and
meaner day by day, and if whatever we have to say is not acceptable to its
logic and reason, it will rebel. This is the reason why man has not
intellectually accepted any religion or philosophy, though many have
accepted out of fear or faith.

It is a fact that the health of man -- physical, mental, emotional and

psychological -- is at an especially low ebb today all over the world.
Stress and tension are the least of our ills and in spite of vaster and
greater strides of medical science, more men, women and children are sick
all over the world today than ever before. Some will argue that progress
in sports and games prove that the standard is improving -- the point is
of how many and how much of that is because of improved means and methods.
Remember, the thinking instrument of man will keep challenging every
statement made, so do not get involved in such argumentation.

The False `I'

We have been talking all this time about the organism which we call the
body, and we also call this organism the personality or the individual,
but when we do so we have only a hazy idea of what we understand thereby.
We get so very mixed up that we call this body `I' but are unable to
define this `I'. Therein is our confusion. So let us first see and study
this organism or body, but keep our mind or brain clear that we are still
talking about the computerized organism with its many internal computers
and mechanisms functioning within. If this is `I', it is an `I' of one
type -- the false `I'.

Without philosophizing, who is the `I' identity? Why is this `I' identity
detached from the "end products of organic neural functions"? This
functioning induces sleep in the organism. If this happens so easily and
daily, then this `I' identity has no control even in a small measure, for
it does not by itself bring about the said detachment and does not want to
be disturbed. So whatever be this `I' identity, it must be a false one
because it is not able to bring about sleep deliberately undisturbed, or
prevent sleep from overpowering the organism.

It is so because there is no `I' identity of a permanent and ruling

nature, i.e. the near-real `I' identity, in an individual. It could mean,
therefore, that any group of cells can for a time pass off, or pose, as
the `I' identity; such groups are innumerable, one following the other in
quick succession. This is the reason for our difficulty in not being able
to keep our resolutions, for one group resolves and another group
dissolves as each group is antagonistic to the other.

The design of sleep is to detach the `I' identity, or rather the `I'
identity brings about such needed detachment, in which case it should
remain `awake'. Since this is not so in the normal case, one is unaware
even of the moment when one falls asleep. Sleep overpowers the organism
instead of being brought about at will, or it just does not come however
much the `I' identity struggles, because the `I' identity is false and
sleep comes when such groups of cells have exhausted the body and brain by
their rivalry to be the `I' identity. Their individual rule as the false
`I' identity may last from a few minutes to a few hours, normally a few
minutes only. Also, in the case of normal people these false `I' identity
groups keep coming by turn and parade even during sleep, the result being
dreams, whether remembered or not. But the real state of sleep demands
that one should not dream at all!

Alternately, if the `I' identity brings about such needed detachment, the
organism falls to sleep whilst the `I' identity remains `aware' or
`awake', and is prepared and ready for certain disciplines of pratyahara,
dharna, dhyana or samadhi, depending on the individual's development.

There is no tranquility amongst the different groups of brain cells, and

even within each group, that we find among the people on our planet. With
this inner state not corrected and full rhythm not established, how can we
be free from our tensions and our main enemies, fear, doubt and irritation
-- and we hope even to meditate! The complete harmony within each group
and between all the groups to act as one true `I' identity can be brought
about only by three-step rhythmic breathing and by corrective methods.
Only then will the whole body/brain system act as one united identity; it
becomes then the `secondary identity' -- we do not now use the word
`false' for it. This is the state of `awakeness' for the computerized
organism!

The true `I' identity is the inner fragment of Transcendence, and it needs
this rhythmic secondary identity to be readied for guidance. Unless we
bring this about, there can be no communication with the inner, real `I'
identity that is eternally awake, self-existing and independent. On
achieving this state of identity, i.e. awakeness of the computerized
organism, we achieve the `posture' so very necessary for higher yoga
practices. Sage Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is for those who have achieved this
state; for those who have not, reading the sutras is a waste of time. We
refer to II(46): "The posture assumed must be steady and easy." And
II(47): "Steadiness and ease of posture is to be achieved through
persistent slight effort and through concentration of the thinking
instrument (chitta) upon the Infinite." Only after achieving this mental
posture can begin the disciplines of pratyahara and dharna-dhyana-samadhi,
as the case may be for the individual.

We have also noted that the cerebrum is not the end of the processes in
the brain. It makes uses of roughly one-third of the input, the incoming
impulses from objects and people around us. At least two-thirds of all
stimuli received at the cerebellum `vanishes', or leaks out of the
organism without being put to any constructive use, i.e. is thrown out
undigested. The analogous situation would be that two-thirds of the oral
food we take in passes out of our system undigested -- such a staggering
waste would amount to a state of serious sickness. This, too, is a serious
mental sickness, yet we are not even unhappy at this thought.

To quote Dr. Daly King: "It has astounded every competent neurologist who
has thought about it seriously. What happens at this location (the
cerebellum)? Does it just vanish or is its fate equivalent to being
drooled out of the organism non-functionally and impotently?" Further he
writes: "Thus it appears that there is a constant supply of this form of
energy to the cerebellum, but this energy vanishes completely or almost
completely ... were it there to be assimilated actively, i.e. were it to
be digested, then would be available to the organism a great
multiplication of energies as compared to the present situation." And
many, many centuries after Sage Patanjali, the thought is voiced again by
him: "The anabolic process now lacking at the cerebellar level must be
initiated by the subject himself and this can be done only by his own
activity."

Observe diagram 3c and there you will note that the leakage of outgoing
thoughts at point #7, ajna, is stopped. A closed, internal circuit is
established as an advanced state of pratyahara leading to dharna, dhyana
and samadhi. But this is only possible if first the mental posture is
attained as stated earlier, i.e. the false `I' identity is destroyed and a
completely rhythmic secondary `I' identity is established to be guided
further by the real `I' identity -- Ishvara, the Transcendental Teacher,
as Sage Patanjali calls it in the Yoga Sutra.
The next step then is to see how a relationship can be established between
this computerized organism that has now been set right with all its
computerized mechanisms and the Self, Transcendence. But before a
relationship of this type can be established, it is imperative that the
computerized organism be corrected wherever correction is needed. Let the
brain and mind be clear as regards this very important aspect. Only then
can we put our minds to the process of bringing about a harmonious
relationship between the two, and take in hand the task of harnessing this
computerized organism to the Self. Yoga is to yoke, they say, but at what
stage? We are using no such words as soul, spirit or atman -- you have all
read or heard so much about them and are so confused that it is better we
keep these words out of our discussions. On the contrary, I have to
request you, "O Bhikshu, empty thy boat!" Please unlearn all that you may
have conceived about these terms. It may be that the computerized organism
has a place for the Self to dwell
within itself, or that the Self, being attributeless and needing nothing
external to itself, is itself housing the computerized organism.
Regardless, what it ultimately boils down to is that each human being as a
`whole' is computerized organism plus the Self, or fragment of pure
Transcendence, but of the two, one is the imaginary `I' or at best the
secondary `I', and the other is the real `I'.

If the human being works only as the computerized organism we see the ills
that abound all over the world. The great anxiety of religions,
philosophy, meditation and such subjects is to make this computerized
organism become something! It cannot become something -- it cannot become
anything other than itself, it can only remain a computerized organism,
corrected or uncorrected! Also, all efforts to move this organism from
darkness to light or from ignorance to illumination are thoroughly
misconceived! It cannot be done and there is no need for it. Make this
computerized organism attain its ideal state as conceived by God and
Nature as a sophisticated mechanism first, and about light and wisdom be
not anxious, because the Self, or fragment of pure Transcendence, is also
making up the true human being who is whole.

When none of the functions and/or communications are translated into

awareness, it is a condition of deep sleep or coma or unconsciousness.
When a small number of crude functions and/or communications are
translated into awareness, it is a state of elementary or simple awareness
or consciousness. When a larger number of functions and/or communications,
both crude as well as somewhat cultivated, are translated into awareness,
it is advanced or self-awareness or self-consciousness. We have also noted
the scale of increasing awareness and where man stands thereon. Can we
take help from those higher on this scale? How shall we establish
communications?
Both simple and self consciousness is the awareness created of some sort
through functions and/or communications received, reacted to and acted
upon, i.e. communications sent out. This is a relationship of one type.
This relationship could be with objects and/or other persons around us or
with our own organism. When value is added to this type of relationship,
we have a higher state of awareness beyond self-consciousness, bordering
on awakeness or even be awakeness proper. This is the second type of
relationship, but it does not generally exist because we prefer to exist
as do plants, animals and trees! Hence some writers have said that for all
24 hours we are in a state of sleep, wherein are many layers, and during
the waking hours we are on the middle layer! We are able to move, if we
know how to, from one layer to another, like a submarine in an ocean which
changes its depth or comes to the surface when required. Gurdjieff,
Ouspensky, Dr. King and others are of this opinion.

{What are incoming impulses? Communications in coded form from persons and
objects around us. What are lines of communications? Possibilities of
understanding between two sources or persons. Do not lines of
communication imply a dialogue? Yes they do. Do they reach the thinking
instruments's registration area always? Yes they do. Is there any
difficulty in translating these dialogues. No, but sometimes there are
locks or granthis within the lines of communications and so messages are
distorted or prevented. What are drifts? Disturbances and dislocations in
the lines of communications. What is the magnetic point? The design or
pattern of living, unnaturally created over the ages, which forces an
individual to live accordingly.}

The human being is a complex structure. The computerized organism by

itself is a sufficiently complex structure. But the human being as a
whole is the computerized organism with memory and emotional structure
(memory is always soaked in emotions), plus the fragment of pure
Transcendence, as we examine it from the point of view of evolution. If we
examine from the reverse direction, i.e. involution, we are at first only
fragments of pure Transcendence, plus later a web woven of memory and
emotional structure, plus later still a prison house built of a
computerized organism to live in and experience by. It is immaterial
whether this prison house is physical, astral or mental, i.e. cellular,
molecular or electronic. The situation is always the same. Together they
form the domain of mind and are dismissed as maya; it is neither maya or
illusory. At this stage we shall not bring in philosophy or religion and
ask the `why' about such happenings. Coming from either direction,
involution or evolution, and reaching the present situation ultimately, we
have to find the best method out of this present sorry state of ours!

If the fragment of Transcendence wishes to experience any of the three

universes of Existence, Bhuh, Bhuvah or Svahah, It must clothe itself in
an appropriate physical, astral or mental body, with appropriate thinking
instrument, brain, manas or buddhi, i.e. some sort of computerized
organism, viz. nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya or dharmakaya, whether
evolutionary or involutionary. For such experiences to be consciously
undertaken, and not under the impression that they are some sort of
punishment, fate, karma, or reap as you sow affliction that we are
fulfilling (as we are given to understand by religions and philosophy),
only in that case can we bring about a relationship or understanding
between the computerized organism plus memory and emotional structure on
one hand and the fragment of pure Transcendence on the other hand. This is
the relationship of the second type -- value based -- stated earlier. Is
this clear? If this is not the understanding and if we cling to the wrong
ideas of religion, philosophy, etc., our minds will always think of the
law of karma or of punishment of some sort, and with such a contaminated
mind one will never bravely and honestly take to re-education of the
thinking instrument as the only solution to our ills!

To be able to do this we have to re-educate the thinking instrument of the

computerized organism plus memory and emotional structure. To do this
there are some straightforward steps. So where does morality, religion,
philosophy, meditation and all such disciplines come in at this moment?
This will naturally raise two questions: am I endorsing a life of no
morality, and am I against religions, philosophy, meditation and all such
disciplines? The simple answer to both questions is that a thinking
instrument plus memory and emotional structure that are not re-educated in
the functioning of their mechanisms cannot and will not accept morality,
religion, philosophy, meditation and all such other disciplines; only
after they are re-educated can they truly appreciate or accept these
disciplines, otherwise we are putting the cart before the horse. I hope I
am clear.

Desire and its Birth

What is `desire'? How and where is it born? Here we shall trace its birth
and not its characteristics. As with anything born, the process or method
of its birth is the same. Yoga is scientific and so must be understood
step by step: we shall first see how fire is created, then we shall see
how a human child is born and, if it be the same method or process, then
we shall apply this process to trace how desire is born.

When fire is created, what are the things needed and the steps necessary?
(a) Two flint stones, or a match box and match stick, are needed.
(b) Method or process: it is friction, which creates a spark. This is
important.
(c) Catching material to sustain the spark is needed; otherwise the spark,
not being physical or cellular, cannot be perpetuated and would die for
want of a body.
(d) The result: fire, of dry leaves, wood, cotton, gas, a body, etc.

When a human child is created, or conceived, what are the things needed
and the steps necessary?
(a) Two persons, one male and one female, are needed.
(b) Method or process: it is the same -- friction, which creates a spark.
(c) Catching material to sustain the spark: male sperm and female ovum,
creating the first master cell at conception. Otherwise the spark cannot be
held.
(d) The result: a child.

In the Geeta, Arjuna's question is: "My Lord! Tell me, what is it that
drives a man to sin, even against his will and as if by compulsion." Lord
Krishna's answer is precise: "It is desire, it is aversion, born of
passion... It is as insatiable as a flame of fire." Earlier in chapter 2,
Lord Krishna had said, "When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he
creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire ..." Very
clear indeed! It means that if we do not dwell on the `objects of sense',
no desire is developed.

The Lord has been very precise. He, however, uses the language of his
time. In our present day language, that which we can understand as the
`objects of sense' are the impulses entering our body/brain system from
objects and people around us, what we have denoted as incoming impulses.
By themselves they do not create desire. But as He says, "When a man
dwells on (them) ...", it means in our language that incoming impulses
from objects and persons around us enter our body/brain system, draw out
near identical memory patterns from the memory pools in the rear brain and
together they reach the front brain registration area to create
recognition which can have the quality of being painful or pleasurable. We
have thus ascertained the two vital things needed.

Based on this we shall apply the above method or process and trace how
desire is born.
(a) Two things are needed: objects of sense, or incoming impulses, and
near identical memory patterns; only then can one `dwell' on the objects
of sense.
(b) Process or method: it is the same -- friction, a coming together.
(c) Catching material to give body to the spark to sustain it: `motive'.
(d) The result: desire, which is later translated into action, in thought,
word or deed.

Why is the catching material needed in all cases? Because the spark that
takes place in each case has no body and so, in our physical world, a
physical body has to be provided to it. Remember, the catching material
that clothes is the master cell originally and the computerized organism
subsequently. The spark is always non-physical and non-material. Only
after it is clothed in a body, what we call the catching material, will
its existence show up, but the essence that is the spark is not seen. This
spark in the human being is discrimination, but discrimination that is not
verbal, not a dialogue. It is discrimination that is non-discrimination of
wisdom, i.e. Transcendence. This indeed is the moment of transcendence!
This is a tantric method also. Just as heat is the essence of the spark of
fire, so is Transcendence the essence of the spark in the human being.

But a relationship ought to be existing and continuous between the spark

and the catching material that clothes it, otherwise no catching material
is needed, for relationship always implies purpose. So there is a spark
and the original catching material that clothes it is the micro thought
picture series. Desire is not the catching material, but we can always go
from one step to another and the additional step is desire, via motive or
inclination. Desire means an inclination added to the neutral thought
picture, normally a degeneration and rarely a good thought.

This bare thought picture series can remain so or can change from one
drift to another, and we can live our normal life if we do not let the
virgin catching material degenerate into desire. It is immaterial whether
this inclination is good, bad or indifferent, resulting in good, bad or
indifferent desire. The point is, can we keep out this inclination? There
is another law of nature that adds inclination automatically. So, before
inclination is added automatically and desire comes into existence, there
exists a natural relationship between the computerized organism and
Transcendence, the Self, and this is disconnected no sooner inclination
comes in or is added to the thought picture. Once this inclination comes
in, only the computerized organism can function because Self or
Transcendence has nothing to do with any inclination, good, bad or
indifferent.

So you will realize that there is no achieving or gaining of spirituality.

We are actually structured in Transcendence, but failing thus we live as
the computerized organism! Normally we prefer to function as the
computerized organism and we have now formed a habit to so function that
the basic fact that we are structured in Transcendence seems strange or
impossible and we think it can best be a laborious achievement, which is
far from truth! Please understand this.

Some, not understanding this basic fact, prefer to kill consciously this
later birth or addition of inclination and so take up a life of asceticism
and sannyas -- their new inclination is now pious! But such people do not
realize that it matters not at all whether their inclinations are now
pious. They have already slipped away from the virgin state of thought
picture form, the relationship between the computerized organism and
Transcendence, the Self, is already broken and the profound state of soft
spoken moments has passed away, melted away forever!

Have you ever tried falling to sleep consciously? When you are engaged
thus, you are likely to remain in the soft-spoken moments, but here too
you add inclination, perhaps unconsciously -- some sort of achievement or
superiority or identification. This defeats the purpose, so that you fall
asleep and you are not aware when, otherwise you would have experienced
the soft-spoken moments of transcendence.

"Genes are the tiny elements in human cells. We are trying to identity how
this normal gene undergoes the cancerous transformation." This was the
report in a newspaper on research being conducted in America. Would it not
be better if proper research is devoted, and education is given, to the
subject of how normal thought pictures become cancerous transformations of
desires leading to actions that are unbecoming of a human being! This
research will also prevent a multitude of ailments, including cancer, for
all ailments are the result of desires put into action, as the intensity
charts in the appendix show.

All matter has awareness, and awareness means communications and

intelligence of some sort, so there are possibilities of ignorance and
knowledge. This presupposes possibilities for error which can lead to some
sort of suffering, but this error is not sin nor is suffering due to such
ignorance retribution, etc. All such contaminated ideas are to be thrown
away and the mind and brain disinfected like pest control.

To put it meaningfully, we can say that desire is that particular state of

the human brain created by two opposite opinions: aversion (a `no') and
passion (a `yes'), as the Geeta says. This creates friction, the friction
creates a spark, and this spark has to be given some catching material
which is motive. Both the materials we have noted earlier, the incoming
impulses and the identical memory patterns, reach the registration area of
the front lobe of the brain where there are four centres, I-E-S-M. M
denotes the movement centre and stands for the resulting action, in
thought, word or deed, which is the last step.

The process of friction takes place between (a) the intellectual centre on
the one hand and (b) the emotions and sex centres combined on the other
hand. (a) stands for the energy of sensitivity and (b) for the energy of
sensitiveness. Depending on how much an individual is developed does (a)
or (b) overrule the other. In the former case, (a) overruling (b),
(aversion -- a `no'), a still-born child desire is born and is disposed
off and forgotten; in the other case, (b) overruling (a), (passion -- a
`yes'), a live child desire is born. This live child is always a
mischievous child desire, for it is born because passion has overruled
aversion. The intensity chart shows that the working ratio of the centres
in such instances is 2:4:8:2 as in diagram 1.

For a good child desire to be born, the process is different. (a) gives
one opinion and (b) gives a different opinion, but then instead of either
overruling the other they together decide, taking into consideration both
the views. In this case it is the good, sensible and mature child desire
that is born and is translated only into good thoughts, words and deeds,
with the working ratio of the centres being 5:2:2:1 as in diagram 3a.

In ancient days all over the world, when people could not understand such
technical explanations involving incoming impulses, near identical memory
patterns, intellectual centre, emotions and sex centres combined, etc.,
writers metaphorically introduced the simple idea of God and the devil, or
good and evil, or right and wrong. And with this evolved the episodes of
the devil tempting Jesus, of Mara tempting the Buddha and also all of
mankind. No such external devil or Mara exist, but eternal friction
between (a) and (b) does exist in the brain of man!

A living human child has to be looked after -- it grows, it walks, it

talks, it becomes a boy or girl and later a young man or woman, gets
married, and so on; it is endless. A living, mischievous desire, once born
is endless too! As the Geeta says, "It is as insatiable as a flame of
fire." In that case it is better if the child desire is still-born or is
born a good child, as explained earlier.

As with human conception, once desire is born it is in pure state. This is

the virgin state of desire -- motive unexpressed or inclination not added.
Between this virgin state of desire as motive and the translated state of
action in thought, word or deed is one more sensitive step, normally
known as `suppression'. We call this sensitive step `diplomacy', which is
more descriptive than the word suppression. What is the step diplomacy? If
a `no' or an insult comes from father or teacher or stranger, desire in
pure motive state is the same in all three cases: either to insult or hit
back or say `go to hell'. But out of love for the father and out of
respect for the teacher, some suitable political reply is given
diplomatically, though in the case of the stranger one does say `go to
hell'.

So it is desire in pure motive state that is to be actually judged, but we

in this world, with no `insight', judge by action only. God and Nature
judge us from our pure motive state and hence karma is neither action nor
the fruits of action but the fruit of pure motive. That is why the Geeta
says, " ... mysterious is the law of action." Because of public opinion,
society, or law and order, we may be good citizens, but in pure motive
state we are very different indeed on many occasions.

No sooner is desire born, whether in the state of pure motive or later in

the state of action or in the inbetween state of diplomacy, if it is not a
good child desire, it is fire, intense fire of another type. It begins to
burn inwardly and in doing so burns the energies of emotions and sex
combined (which we call the energy of sensitiveness) in an individual.
This is described in the Geeta as, "It (desire) burns through the senses,
the mind (brain) and the reason." Very clear indeed.

Desire in pure motive state is translated into action. It is therefore

necessary that the child desire be good and not mischievous for on that
will depend right and wrong action. The Geeta says, "It is necessary to
consider what is right action, what is wrong action and what is inaction
(diplomacy), for mysterious is the law of action." On pure motive depends
translated action and the law is based on pure motive. One has to learn
consciously how the friction between two opposite opinions has to be taken
care off. Even if one is prone to wrong actions all one's life, the moment
one understands how wrong action can be prevented and how right action can
be implemented, one ceases from that very moment to be a `sinner' for one
has become wise, or re-educated; one has now seen or known the truth. Lord
Krishna in the Geeta says, "Be thou the greatest of all sinners, yet thou
shalt cross over all sin by the ferry boat of wisdom."

In the Rg Veda a beautiful thought is expressed about the birth of desire.

If Existence has to go on eternally, the live child desire has to be born
eternally in the brains of human beings, so it is created first, before
the gods and the seers and even before human beings were born. So, as
Existence came into being, the Rg Veda says, "Thereafter arose desire in
the beginning. Desire, the primal seed (child) to the germ of manas
(mind)." But you will ask, in whose brain was this child desire implanted
by God and Nature, for its birth place is the mind (brain) and no human
being was existing?

It was in the Universal Divine Mind, which sustains the whole Universe,
that it was implanted first -- all else came later. "As a fire is shrouded
in smoke, a mirror by dust, and a child by the womb, so is the universe
enveloped in desire." We know that the Universe is enveloped in Infinite
Mind and desire was implanted in Infinite Mind in the beginning. For a
long time this child desire remained divine -- vahu mano or mano nirodh in
the minds and brains of gods, seers and even human beings. Then slowly
satya yuga gave way to dvapara, to treta and to kali yuga, and this child
desire ultimately became mischievious!
We realize that whatever is born has to be sustained. The primeval child
desire was implanted by God and Nature because the first concern was to
perpetuate the species in all Existence. So all life was made dependent on
desire, automatically and eternally, translating into necessary action.
And it did not matter whatsoever whether the resulting action was good or
bad -- that is left to the discretion of the human being. (This, we have
said, could even be a moment of transcendence.) Hence almost all action is
translated thus and we denote this as automatic reflex action, it is not
thinking. If this be the concern of an individual it is re-education of
the thinking instrument. As each individual is a self-evolving being, it
is up to him or her to re-educate his or her thinking instrument.

This process of desire being born and translated into action we have
traced in an individual. It happens exactly the same way between two
individuals or between groups and nations, where one is like (a), the
other is like (b), and friction is the process. As long as automatic
reflex action type of thinking continues, i.e. on the basis of what is
painful and pleasurable, or when what is to one's gain or loss is the
deciding factor, and never what is right and what is wrong, there will be
trouble. This change in the manner of deciding is the change in the ratio
from 2:4:8:2 to 5:2:2:1. This standing by one's opinion, also called
`ego', in the firm belief that we are right and the other side is wrong,
leads to fights, legal issues, rebellion and war! Actually what is
considered right is merely what is to our gain or what will please us. The
mischievous child desire cannot see, and can never see, what is right and
what is wrong.

The whole process of desires coming into existence is automatic and

non-stop. It is difficult to capture a thought and much more difficult to
capture a part of a thought. Each thought is a small series of pictures
and the whole process with the complete series takes 1/120th of a pulse
beat. This is Nature's plan of keeping desire deeply implanted in each
living creature. In lower life we call desire `instinct' because there are
no two opposite opinions within. Besides perpetrating the species, this
makes life full of doubt and fear leading to irritability and anger. These
three feelings, or aspects of feelings, viz. doubt, fear and anger,
together burn and ruin an individual's peace of mind and body. So in an
uneducated human brain (uneducated here does not mean without school or
college education), we find sex having the highest negative intensities,
and emotions the next highest, for these two are normally the mischievous
children!

How to control and not be dominated by or crushed under this unending

process of desire is the subject of our study, i.e. the re-education of
the thinking instrument, for it is here that desire is born. If this
re-education is not applied consciously, then however intelligent and
educated, or immersed in shastras and religious rites, a person be
otherwise, he is still an animal internally. Such individuals can at best
have a non-stop, losing struggle within which drains them and robs them of
a restful and rhythmic life style.

This picture we must have clearly in our minds. This process is natural,
automatic and enforced by Nature's laws. It is no sin, no devil is
misguiding or preventing us; it is simply the weakness of an uneducated
internal structure leading to an equivalent internal spectrum. So
indulging in desires of various types, so as to give us a sense of regret
normally, is natural. Instead of regret we need re-education. Lin Chi
says, "Ask yourself why so many false thoughts arise without any valid
reason." In indulging in desires one must take care not to injure or
deprive others. In the first place we must not go beyond the stage of
enjoyment into indulgence. But such care comes only after re-education
and, when taken consciously, changes the animal ratio 2:4:8:2 to the
human ratio 5:2:2:1.

The re-education of the thinking instrument is to re-educate the child

desire, and then to so control its birth, automatically and effortlessly,
that if we were to fail later we would not only be ashamed but also
surprised! If the thinking instrument is suitably re-educated it is the
end of all unmethodical struggles within us! There will never be an
occasion in which we may act in a manner that we may be ashamed of or
regret. Lin Chi has said, "Time does not wait for anyone. One outgoing
breath does not guarantee the next incoming breath. Are there things
worthy for which your body and mind be put to unnecessary use?" Pay keen
attention to all this and take care of yourselves.

Functioning as Transcendence

To recapitulate what we have learnt: we have realized the truth that man
is structured in Transcendence. In fact, he is Transcendence itself --
"That" or "tat". He is a fragment of Transcendence which then weaves a web
of emotions and memory patterns and later takes on suitable bodies (prison
houses) to roam as if in exile (the episodes of Rama and the Pandavas) in
the three universes of Existence. He is not just body, brain, memory
patterns and emotions as is made out to be, and today he mistakenly thinks
that only by laborious methods and by renouncing ordinary life can he get
back to Transcendence, a very wrong idea implanted in the mind and brain
of man by religions and philosophies. The world at large, it seems, has
not yet learnt this lesson, and religions and philosophies have all failed
to guide humanity in the right direction.

A human being's state is indeed pitiable, not because he is miserable,

unhappy and ill, but because he is constantly in search of either
happiness, peace, spirituality or transcendence. These are not things that
grow anywhere, neither are they hidden anywhere nor are they for sale; so
all search for them must end in frustration. Either you are Transcendence
and hence must simultaneously feel and experience bliss, peace and
spirituality,or you are nothing and hence miserable, ill, unhappy and
frustrated -- a mere computerized organism, a sophisticated animal. Make
your choice! Religions, philosophies and the other isms and disciplines
only preach; some call man a sinner, slave or servant. With such
attitudes, where is any possibility of understanding Transcendence? And
what can preaching do? As if it will `obtain' transcendence as a gift
from God; remember, a gift is always a thing. All these are primitive,
silly ideas.

Every day, every minute, every second, you are given the opportunity in
various ways to know you are Transcendence, but your very own religion and
philosophy, your attitudes and beliefs, celebrated in songs and satsang,
make you forget this, your very birthright. Over the ages the mind of man
the thinker has realized that man is daily in contact with Transcendence
in three ways. (1) The more risky way of realizing this is by the practice
of tantric yoga, i.e. through the sex act; (2) the safer way of realizing
it is in the practice of ordinary day-to-day living, through the higher
aspects of scientific yoga; and (3) when falling to sleep consciously.

All that is created is the result of friction resulting in a spark. In the

first method, which is tantric, it is between a man and a woman where the
sex act is not degenerated or consummated into sexual union, a very
difficult and risky method. "At the start of sexual union keep attention
on the fire in the beginning and so continue to avoid the embers in the
end. When in such embrace your senses are shaken as leaves, enter the
shaking. Ever remembering union without embrace enter Transformation."

One may practise (1) and (3), but why waste the profuse and freely
available opportunity of common day-to-day living? There is not a moment
when thought forms are not created within your brain and yet why allow the
moment of transcendence to pass away and reach the cancerous stage of
desires which lead to action, and then, as if awakened from some uneasy
slumber, go in search of the lost `golden fleece' as did Jason! We love
to go round in circles, deliberately overlooking the straight and clear
path towards Home, and then blame our luck and our destiny, which are also
primitive, silly ideas.

This second method is the friction that leads to a spark before desire is
born and is a mental process. We have noted how thought pictures transform
into cancerous desires. The whole process takes 1/120th of a second. Out
of nearly 30,000 impulses that enter our computerized organism every
second, only about 120 reach the rear brain; the rest spread out in the
organism. Of these 120 impulses, we are aware of hardly even ten. But all
incoming impulses, whether we are conscious of them or not, create thought
picture series, but such thought picture series cannot transform
themselves into desires, for no awareness, or attention, has accompanied
them and so no inclination is added. They leak out of the organism as mere
thought pictures from point #7 in the registration area. In such cases,
the I-E-S-M centres do not function.

But there are occasions, such as when we are engaged in some routine work
aided by the habit mechanism and are lucky to be free from brooding and/or
day-dreaming, that normal thought picture series, though having our mild
awareness or attention to some extent accompanying them, even then leak
out at point #7 as thought pictures only. At such times a common man's
experience is that he is reminded of something, or has forgotten to do
something, or remembered where he had placed something he could not find
even after much search, or acquired an answer to a question he had been
mulling over previously. These are the soft spoken moments of
Transcendence!

This can be explained further: in the case of scientists and of advanced

persons, whispers from the insight centre and from the silent area,
respectively, are imprinted in the registration area, to be later decoded
by the thinking instrument. This is so when the I-E-S-M centres do not
function, for they function to transform thought picture series into
cancerous desires. So the registration area, without the working of the
I-E-S-M centres, can receive coded messages from the insight area and from
the silent area; such stages are the soft spoken moments of Transcendence,
the first being the early stage and the second the advanced stage.

To be more specific, we represent as under our total understanding of the

process of thought and desire.
Step 1: incoming impulses, plus
step 2: near identical memory patterns that are pulled out of the memory
pool, create
step 3: a thought picture in micro thought picture series.
We have as yet not reached the front lobe and the I-E-S-M centres have
not functioned yet to create fear, doubt and anger. This step 3 maintains
the relationship of the computerized organism to Transcendence. Upto this
stage 3 we are naturally structured and anchored in Transcendence and can
live a normal life with a very peaceful life style, provided we do not
proceed to steps 4 and 5 below.
Step 4: we add inclinations to step 3, which leads to
step 5: birth of desires, a cancerous transformation, as dangerous as
cancer is in physical life.
The inherent design that is implanted in each human being by God and
Nature is that such moments of transcendence be the natural state of a
human being for all 24 hours of the day. Instead of just a rare
Buddha demonstrating this in his long life, it is to be the heritage of
the common man! But the pity is that though from the state of thought
picture series to desires one has necessarily to pass the natural state of
soft spoken moments, yet we overlook this in our mad rush of life. So you
see, we have to accomplish nothing! With steps 4 and 5 enter emotions and
memory, i.e. experience of the past, and so enter fear, doubt and anger.

So it is wrong to ask anyone to be free from thoughts or thought pictures,

for even a Buddha cannot avoid this, but one can remain here in the soft
spoken moments of transcendence, a state in which the Buddha lived all the
time. But we mortals prefer to indulge in desires by transforming our
thought pictures into desires by adding inclination. It is immaterial
whether we have good thoughts or bad thoughts leading to good desires or
bad desires; in both cases we thus miss our soft spoken moments of
transcendence.

This step 4 leading to step 5 snaps the natural relationship established

up to stage 3 and leads to desires and to a tormented life style. This
addition of steps 4 and 5 is automatic because of habit over ages of
primitive living. It seems we work by a very unnatural method: we allow
ourselves to proceed to steps 4 and 5 and then bring in a pious life style
and try to kill the inclinations we have already added automatically at
step 4. We are then led to embrace a life of sannyas or ashram, and to
indulge in various denials. All these are not necessary if we understand
the natural sequence in the process of thought pictures transforming into
cancerous desires due to addition of inclinations leading to desires.

But step 3 is by now dead and gone -- we have missed the bus already! All
chances of contact with Transcendence are destroyed. Why now search for it
in ashrams or the Himalayas, in religion or philosophy? In none of these
is it to be reclaimed! Go back to step 3 and remain and live there! So you
will realize that there is no search and no achieving, and no laborious
method or practices are necessary. This realization must dawn, and your
minds and brains must be clear on this issue.

But there should be no trace of such thoughts as karma, destiny, will of

God, retribution, reap as you sow, etc., because even a sub-conscious
thought defeats the purpose as immediately will come the improper thoughts
from religions and philosophies you may have read about or learnt, for
with past memory must come fear, doubt and anger. But ages of wrong living
takes us automatically, by force of habit, straight to steps 4 and 5
instead of stopping and living at step 3 where we are naturally structured
in Transcendence. Do you realize this? Awake to this thought and be free!
It is unfortunate that in every case the catching material, being
physical, is composed of material that is made up of energies with rajas
and tamas qualities that we call emotions and sex, together forming the
energy of sensitiveness, which is highly inflammable, explosive and has
nothing to do with Transcendence. In fact, it is totally opposed to
Transcendence and so will at once drag the individual to the fourth and
fifth steps. It is therefore necessary to cultivate and improve the
composition of the catching material. It calls for a methodical approach
in re-education of the thinking instrument in which the magnetic point is
of supreme importance. Is this line of action that we are taking clear to
you?

Also please remember that the computerized organism must live as per its
life style and the human traits must coexist and live by their own life
style. This concurrent living is very necessary and one must not try to
suffocate the other. Inner dialogue that appears to be an understanding of
this fact is a mere trap, for one necessarily makes use therein of memory
and emotions. There should be no inner dialogue, for it is a sure sign of
having proceeded to steps 4 and 5.

Living in the Present

Man has to utilize his ability to think, else he or she dreams, and
normally we do dream, whether sleeping or awake. To what extent is real
thinking possible, i.e. undisturbed by any of the six computerized
functions of the thinking instrument? We have seen that in the process of
thinking, incoming impulses first meet the memory pools and make a thought
picture. If identical memory patterns are there, then proper thought
picture series, i.e. recognition with emotions, take place; otherwise, if
there be no identical memory patterns, no thought picture, or recognition,
is made, and we ask, `who are you' or `what is this?' or `I have never
seen this before?' These are the first three steps. Past memory patterns
have past emotions attached to them, whether painful or not painful, and
accordingly we react. This completes the whole thought process. Steps 4
and 5, i.e. past emotions and therefore reaction, i.e. desire and
reaction, finally lead to action in thought, word or deed. Up to step 3 no
action takes place. The question to be answered here is whether one is
able to live a normal life upto step 3 only.

Refer the diagrams. They are numbered 1, 2, and 3a-b-c, not 1-2-3-4-5,
because 3a, 3b and 3c are states of an individual in any of which one can
live as and when required. It is a mistake to suppose that 3a, 3b and 3c
are different states of different individuals, or that one progresses from
3a to 3b to 3c. One can live in state 3a as a normal householder, and in
3b for some time to get the right answers to some problems or questions
either for one's own self or for others, and in state 3c one can
experience the highest aspects of yoga for one's self as a daily
discipline as and when required. In 3a one goes upto the fifth step, in 3b
one does not go beyond the third step, and in 3c mind and brain are set
aside and are not used. This much, I hope, is clear.

An event, which has also produced sound, takes place before our eyes at a
particular place and time. To individuals witnessing the same, the
vibrations of light and sound appear to reach their eyes and ears
directly, and consequently they see and hear. Normally we are made to
understand that this is what happens; this is the obvious process.

Actually, though, the underlying fact is that the vibrations of sound and
sight, what we call incoming impulses, reach our electromagnetic field
(what is normally described as the astral body) around our physical body,
which we normally term as the computerized organism. This second fact, the
behind-the-scenes mechanism, is normally not taken into account. These
vibrations or incoming impulses pass through the bundle of nerves passing
through the spinal cord and ultimately reach the cortex, what we call the
top soil of the right and left mid brain 2 mm deep. On receiving commands
from the relevant centres in the cortex, our sense organs react and
register their reactions, also on the cortex. We are then made aware of
the event; it then becomes a memory pattern.

Both these operations, the overt and the covert, take place in less than
1/120th of a pulse beat; within this short period, besides these two
operations, (a) pure memory, or recognition, takes place in the rear
brain, and (b) noted past emotions attendant on pure memory, or reaction,
also takes place in the fore or front brain at the I-E-S-M centres. The
reaction to both (a) and (b), whether pleasant or painful (or a fresh
event), is also registered on the cortex. Both operations have to take
place simultaneously; should either not take place, because of defective
sense organs or defective sense centres in the cortex, then in such
cases there is no registration, no commands are issued and so no reaction
takes place or is registered. A person in such a situation may be either
blind or deaf or both.

The first operation takes place in time/space and the computerized

organism instantly sets the measurements. The second operation takes place
in pure experience, i.e. in pure awareness, and not in a time/space
context because it is not a mechanism! Time/space is the way of the
computerized organism and pure awareness and experience is the way of the
so-called astral body, the electromagnetic field around us. As a human
being who is whole, complete and developed, one is the computerized
organism plus the electromagnetic field enveloping the fragment of
Transcendence.

Both the operations make us aware, and we also get a sense of time/space
since our awareness is in passing only and is not a true state of pure
awareness. We are generally conscious of an event in time/space only
because our awareness in the waking state is also like being in sleep
state. If, however, we live in pure awareness, time/space ceases to have
its effects on us and we may live more and more in the state of pure
experience, when we can take incoming impulses as communications and food
and see and hear them coming in.

There is no harm in living in time/space effects, but we must know that

these are false sensations in as much as these effects of time/space are
mere translations of the experience in awareness. All our life we only
experience everything around us or even at a distance in our awareness,
but ours being a passing or shallow awareness and not pure and deep
awareness, the internal mechanisms within our computerized organism
faithfully translate each experience into time/space relationship to make
this physical life possible in this physical world.

Please remember that if science and religions ever were to say that
time/space does not exist, do not accept this at face value, because as
long as you have a physical body and live in a physical world, it is so
only in theory (though, basically, they are right as we have also
explained above). One must accept only what one can experience for
oneself, i.e. till what is stated above actually take place -- our journey
is based on facts and experience, and not on faith and belief.

Also please remember the fact that we are also fragments of Transcendence,
and clothe ourselves with a suitable computerized organism and an
electromagnetic field, and so our experience is and should be beyond
time/space effects. This dual working and dual effects should always be
remembered and traced. Do not ever get emotionally carried away and, like
a tape recorder, say there is no time/space effect.

Suppose you have been hurt by someone's remarks or action. At that moment
you do not first note at what time or place, and sometimes under what
circumstances, you were hurt -- you were either hurt or deeply hurt. This
is pure experience, and deeper the hurt deeper is the experience. This is
not yet translated into time/space for you are in the present, but this
does not last more than a moment. For our human tendency is to translate
it into time/space. Both the above operations we have noted earlier happen
so quickly, one following the other in 1/120th of a pulse beat or less,
that we can hardly appreciate and experience them separately. And in
describing the event we must take help of our memory, so it is pushed into
the past and hence time/space effects come in.
For sometime one will swing like a pendulum between time/space
calculations of the computerized organism and being in the pure awareness
state, if one consciously tries to remain in pure awareness state, i.e. in
the present, for some time. Thus over a period, by practice, a
communication is slowly established between both the states. As more and
more pure experience in awareness state is prolonged consciously, the
insight centre first opens and later a communication is also established
between the holy ground area and the insight centre. In fact, this link
always did exist, but was not registered because of our shallow awareness.

So the thinking instrument is brought in communication at first with the

insight centre, which has a link with the holy ground area which is where
the inner fragment of Transcendence leaves coded messages for the
computerized organism, actually the thinking instrument area proper, to
decode and follow. So the entire highway between the thinking instrument,
the insight centre, the holy ground area, and the inner fragment of
Transcendence is thrown wide open for all 24 hours, and one can live
according to state/diagrams 3a or 3b or 3c as and when required as
explained above. But we wrongly believe that one has to progress from
state 3a to 3b and from 3b to 3c.

Life becomes increasingly peaceful by stages as such experiences are

registered more and more, and the beauty is that such a peaceful state
does not depend on peaceful circumstances but is in spite of the most
upsetting outer circumstances. This inner peace is earned, but not by
preaching or religions or philosophies or morality, etc. You will be
surprised to find one day that all these are the by-products of your own
methodical approach, and then you will yourself be teaching morality,
religion, etc., to others.

Once again we clarify our understanding regarding mind and brain. The
brain is the organ in our computerized organism and mind is the flowing,
all-pervading Universal Divine Mind that flows through each human brain
and works as a catalyst in our thinking process. This Universal Divine
Mind being all-pervading in the entire Universe, a direct link is
established between a human brain and any point in the Universe instantly,
and, as such, time/space is made redundant. But this is to be experienced,
and until then one has no right to say that there are no time/space
effects. This will happen only when the highway between the thinking
instrument and the insight centre is open and the two are in
communication. Once this is established by conscious practice, the insight
centre in the upkeep area of the brain then picks up or reaches any point
in the Universe instantly through the Universal Divine Mind.
A Summary

Before we take up practical steps let us recapitulate all that we have

noted earlier so as to make our minds absolutely clear.

We are already what we are trying to be, meaning that the inherent, design
of God and Nature implanted in each individual (and which is the same in
all human beings) does not require from anyone of us further efforts to be
something. This means that the steps 1-2-3 lead to thought pictures and if
we live here, upto this stage, in our normal life, we are always in the
present, and only when in the present can we establish a two-way
communication between the computerized organism and the fragment of
Transcendence that we truly are. When living in the present, we are
neither in the past not in the future, and colouring through
memory/emotions at I-E-S-M has not taken place and will not take place. It
is this that brings in past and future and takes us away from the present.
It does not mean that one lives a drab and ambitionless life; rather, it
is the precondition for the higher life.

But due to force of habit because of ages of past survival, we add

steps 4 and 5 leading to actions in thought, word or deed, and thus create
external and internal conflicts leading to unhappiness and misery. Maybe
our thoughts are good, but even good thoughts require memory/emotions and
the working of I-E-S-M, and then we are not in the present but either in
the past or the future. The beauty of life is to make memory/emotions
harmless and impotent, rather than our masters!

And so no sooner are steps 4 and 5 taken, the possibility of continuing

a two-way communication, which was possible upto step 3, is lost and then
the individual can function only as a computerized organism. Why? Because
past and future are tapes fed to the computerized organism. Such a
computerized organism can be intelligent and brilliant, or good and
religious, depending on the tape recordings fed into its computers, but
still no better than our man-made tape recorders.

Religions, philosophies, theosophy, and the lot, finding human beings

as computerized organisms miserable, have suggested a pious life which
only leads to false religiosity. Different religions and different
philosophies suggest different methods, rites, ceremonies and prayers to
make the computerized organism pious and holy, whether it be bathing in
holy rivers, pilgrimaging to holy places, etc. The computerized organism
cannot become pious or holy. It appears to be pious and holy when in
constant communication with the inner Transcendence but is even then only
a re-educated computerized organism; it is a sophisticated mechanism and
will remain a mechanism. The human being is a computerized organism that
needs to be re-educated and be put in communication with the inner
Transcendence.

These organisms, as per different types of recordings (e.g. Hindu, Moslem,

Christian, Chinese, etc.) only fight amongst themselves, each group
claiming `revelation' from God directly through their prophet, claiming to
be the `chosen people' through their sacred book and gospel, having words
like `heathen' and `kafir', which mean a non-believer of their faith who
has no future after death, having religious heads who promise their
followers heaven in the after-life if certain rites, ceremonies and
prayers are followed, and some are even given a note for entering heaven
(for a price) even after living an unworthy life! How foolish we all can
be!

Some enter into this pious life, focusing on japa, tapas, bhajans,
fasts, vegetarianism, etc. Repeating japa, bhajans or prayers dulls the
thinking instrument, making it as if drugged, and, with the constant wish
of darshan being always present at the back of such minds, this pious
inclination ultimately brings about hallucinations. One sees what one
wants to see and attributes it to darshan! One can live in such a frozen
state, like prehistoric monsters buried deep and frozen in ice and snow
for an age, but one day the hot tides of real life will melt away
everything and one is then left crying and helpless, for no religion or
philosophy will be able to help and one will know that one has made no
spiritual progress! Remember the purpose of birth and life is to be free
from birth and death in an intelligent and conscious manner.

Now enters the law of matter/awareness. The computerized organism has

certain awareness and so autonomy. This is guided by the thinking
instrument part of the brain, especially the emotion and sex centres in
the front brain. The second part of the brain, the upkeep area, gives the
computerized organism some particular human traits and this is further
supported by and through the intellectual centre. So a constant conflict
goes on within. Such conflicts we also see between different religious
groups in the outside world. With such continuous inner and outer
conflicts, human beings live their lives normally half asleep (because
they dream constantly, either through brooding or day-dreaming) and add to
their lives the various preachings of different religions and philosophies
and so will never know peace and truth. How can they as long as they live
by tape-recordings and not by inner communications?

We have noted that the human structure is different, and vitally so,
compared to the animal structure. This should make every human being
totally different from any other lower life. The fact of this totally
different structure implanted in human beings means that each human being
must, and is expected to, live differently and totally differently, so
that each one of us can live like a Christ or a Buddha. And if we do not,
we have to thank our religions and philosophies, our religious heads and
our so-called sacred gospels!

Now what is the exact position? The computerized organism, by its own
autonomy, or freedom to act, and because of its own autonomy, has over the
ages created its own false design and insists on living by that design.
The second part of the brain, the upkeep area, wants to suppress this
and that makes the former rebel all the more. This is the main cause that
is not properly understood. Science, education, religions and philosophies
have not realized that part of the brain has to be convinced, and
tactfully, to itself come to the conclusion that its style of life is
wrong, and that too not by preaching but via corrective methods aimed
towards re-education.

Today, therefore, we are unfortunately convinced that we are sinners and

shall go to hell after death, and this creates a very unnatural life. We
live the so-called pious life, live like a drowning man clutching at a
straw! Nothing and no one goes to hell or heaven for there is no hell or
heaven, only different and better worlds, and one must earn the right to
live there. Have you realized that this physical body (the computerized
organism) does not go to hell or heaven, because it is disposed off before
our eyes, since God and Nature do not hold it responsible? And atman,
Transcendence -- "That" -- the highest aspect of unmanifest God, can never
go to hell or purgatory. What we need to understand today is that we are
not sinners for the simple reason that the computerized organism has to
live as per its own life style. What we have to realize is that no
prophet, gospel or religious head can help us; if there is anything to be
done, we have to do it ourselves. And first is to destroy all our old
thoughts of religion, philosophy, prayers, et al. "Bhikshu, empty the
boat!" Is this a promise?

There is no need for religion, philosophy, prayers, holy or pious

artificial living, no need of any denials and/or severe penance, for the
simple reason that you are not this computerized organism but a fragment
of Transcendence and so need nothing. This proof you will yourself be able
to seek and get if you will re-establish the two-way communication between
the computerized organism and the fragment of Transcendence. The immortal
portrayal of this link as Radhe-Krishna speaks in volumes, but instead of
understanding this beautiful episode, we only believe in it as if it had
happened between a Krishna and a Radha -- we make it historical instead of
symbolical!

Some talk scholarly about our five senses and some about the five elements
-- vayu, agni, gandha, sparsha and prithvi -- but all these concern the
qualities of the computerized organism part of us human beings and other
subtle beings in the Universe, and any amount of such knowledge will not
enlighten us about the fragment of Transcendence within. Am I clear now?
The only obstacle that can come in our way and break the two-way
communication can be the uneducated behaviour of our thinking instrument
with its six mechanisms and the central magnetic point, which has created
nonsensical ideas of religion, gospels, prayers, heaven and hell, through
wrong data fed in. Then to talk of free will and destiny is meaningless.
Correct this magnetic point and you will change your destiny and enjoy
your free will! The remedy is you, your own mental integrity, and the
method is re-education of the thinking instrument to re-establish the
two-way communication.

Let us take the example of the windmill. (1) The wind blows constantly,
(2) the big, circular wheel or blades turn round and round because of the
wind, and (3) this in turn rotates a chain of small buckets round and
round. The chain is long enough to dip into the water in a well and its
constant revolving draws out water from the well. This is step 3. Now (4)
to what purpose or use the water will be put to, i.e. for drinking or for
agriculture, is inclination added, leading to (5) desire, viz. how much
money will be earned out of this, etc. The process is constant and
unending because the wind will keep blowing, the wheel or blades will keep
turning and the chain will keep revolving.

This is an analogy for the constant, non-stop process in the top soil of
the thinking instrument. (1) The incoming impulses are the wind; (2) they
turn the wheel or blades, the memory pool and identical memory patterns;
and (3) the chain of small buckets that go round and round is the thought
picture series. This is step 3. There is one difference though: the
windmill cannot select which direction of wind will turn its wheels, but
the magnetic point (the windmill in the example) has the liberty to select
its incoming impulses.

Have you realized that your life depends on these impulses, the incoming
communications? As long as the organism is not re-educated, there is no
mastery over selection of incoming impulses and till then your memory and
emotions will keep ever repeating and give you repetitions of the same
type of fear, doubt and anger. You are bound to experience this, time and
again, and some excuse is always forthcoming to bring about what is
normally called a `hook'. One has to be free from this -- the method is
the corrective exercises as will be shown.

Am I clear now? But what about your promise? "Bhikshu, empty the boat!"
With this understanding only shall we proceed further. Please make your
mind and brain quite clear and never depend on your so-called will power
or your inner dialogue to subjugate and control the computerized organism.
You will always fail! Take practical steps instead.
Chapter 11

Practices

Preliminaries: Drift and Habit Watching

Now, finally, we come to some practical steps.

We have noted, and now understand, that a human being is both the
computerized organism and also Transcendence itself, being a fragment of
Transcendence. Transcendence is the highest aspect of God, and these two
aspects must remain in communication, only then is one a whole human
being. Normally, though, one functions as the computerized organism only.
There is no harm in functioning as one, but in that case the various
lesser computers that are installed to work in conjunction to create the
splendid computerized organism should all be set right for they are not
functioning properly. The proof? Are you free from brooding and/or
day-dreaming? Are you free from experience of various emotions? Are you
free from impulse/response type of thinking and living? Are you free from
inner dialogue between your various centres? Are you free from frequent
and unwanted drifts? If you are free from also these, your thinking
instrument is educated.

The mechanisms of brooding and/or day-dreaming are the video games of the
human brain and have done enormous damage and harm to the whole of
humanity. These games repeat whether we want them to or not, and create
fear, doubt and anger. Both mechanisms are very ably supported by the
drift mechanism which depends on incoming impulses that enter haphazardly
and at random, and so are our drifts. These drifts serve as the `hook' and
we are caught on it.

Yet, in accord with a law of Nature, each individual, due to his or her
individual structure will, like a magnet, draw in certain incoming
impulses. If two persons are walking together along a street in the same
direction, both will invite completely different series of incoming
impulses. We say it `depends on individual interest', but it is due to the
magnetic point within each of them, which has been formed and structured
and put in daily use over past ages.

(1) Make a note of various drifts that are noticed when walking down the
street. If an honest and correct registration of the drifts is made and
analyzed, the structure and spectrum of the person is gradually revealed.
Do this over a period of a few weeks.

(2) For another practice, take up any subject for study. While on it the
mind (brain) will keep drifting, so put your mind to the feeling of the
sensation of breath in the nostril. Keep to this exercise for five minutes
daily over a period of a few weeks, and note where the mind (brain) drifts
on each occasion. Note as many drifts as possible and group or classify
them.

(3) For some weeks, spend ten minutes daily on the following exercise.
Let your mind (brain) roam freely and make no attempts to control it,
allowing it to drift from one thing to another. Once again make a short
list of the drifts observed in order of maximum repetitions.

Drifts are to be noted in many different ways -- proper cooking is

possible only if the food in the vessel is turned over many times when on
the fire. If you study the lists made from time to time, it will come to
you as a revelation as to what are your aspirations, fears and doubts,
whether you tend to be intellectual or emotional, whether sex is very
strong or suppressed, whether you are superstitious or falsely religious,
whether angry or hurt often, or secretly envious or jealous of someone, or
afraid of someone or something, or some sort of known or unknown fear is
dogging you. We have here further analyzed your drifts into various
emotions. Do this and observe over a sufficient period of time. Do not be
convinced in advance that you are suffering only from such and such drift
and emotion -- study yourself!

Every time prepare a short list of the most recurring drifts in order of
importance. Then we shall follow corrective methods. The aim of the
corrective methods is to correct the magnetic point created by each
individual over the past ages. As it is corrected, the incoming impulses
that are drawn in will also change and day-dreaming and/or brooding will
lessen. It will not surprise you to know that an average human being
spends 75% of his waking and sleeping time in brooding and/or dreaming.
Both awake and sleep states are therefore only dream states -- so one is
never awake really. As you will be less and less oppressed by these
mechanisms, the chemical reactions that were earlier generated will alter
also and health will show definite signs of improvement. Our body is a
chemical factory where reactions take place. Health -- physical, emotional
and psychic -- is dependent on fear, doubt and anger.

(4) Now for some weeks note the habit mechanism: how many times daily you
express, or want to express, some particular type of thoughts, or how many
times you mechanically do a thing you had not actually wanted to do.
Again, the magnetic point sharpened by your false structure is behind
this. Over a period of time make a short list in order of most frequent
occurrences; based on this we shall introduce corrective methods.

By these methods we want to check what data is being fed daily into our
computerized organism which, however sophisticated, can only work by the
useless data fed. It does not matter if it be religious or philosophical
-- if it keeps you in the past or in the future and oppresses you with
fear, doubt and anger, and brings about the hook, even for intellectuals,
then we must feed in useful corrective data only. This is the practical
work we have to do when we deal with our computerized organism and our own
brain.

Whenever you make a list please do not refer to it or memorize it. Just
put it aside each time. After a month or two, or even more, pull out all
the lists. Group together those that are similar and separate out those
that are dissimilar. If you find that the group of similar lists is very
much larger, then only go for the appropriate corrective exercises.
Consciously understand your memory properly. This will betray your
magnetic point. Be careful in your observations.

There is nothing to be ashamed of. All humanity is sick, not taking into
consideration chronic or psychological cases. If only we can introduce
this method in schools there will be no sad cases later in life that we
encounter today. We can periodically repeat in teenage and early youth
stage for fresh improper data accumulated and correct the same. Every
grudge, hatred, fear (known or unknown) and antisocial behaviour is the
expression of causes deep down; inferiority complex, aggressiveness, and
other syndromes all point to many silent causes. Most of these are planted
very early in the child's life. If we take up this healing on war-footing
throughout the world, then in one or two generations we shall get
unmistakable signs of great improvement in human nature and health,
physical, emotional and psychic.

Once human nature is corrected, then the many negative step we take today
-- morality, human rights, anti-war or peace efforts, non-armament,
anti-crime, etc. -- will soon voluntarily not be required. We are
progressing technically and yet how could we have neglected this most
pressing problem. This blot on our status as human beings must be removed.
The whole process is to be studied, the complete circle of inner
activities and which area of the brain is involved therein should be
noted. Here we can make use of the intensity charts. As long as the
magnetic point keeps leaking, which is for as long as the thinking
instrument remains uneducated, so long we shall remain only computerized
organisms. The leak is fear, doubt and anger. This must be stopped by
corrective methods.
What happens if this leak is stopped? Refer to diagrams 3b and 3c, and
compare them with diagrams 1, 2 and 3a. When the thinking instrument is
educated, the leak will stop and the human brain will then generate a
higher type of force and energy that will lift the computerized organism
to enormous heights of understanding, and then, with no efforts at all to
be pious or holy, it will become the scared temple of Transcendence, the
highest God within!

If you believe that religion, prayers, japa, pranayama, asanas, morality,

et al., will correct this computerized organism, then, dear friends, you
either do not understand your mechanisms or you do not want to understand!
If a computer is not working properly, it has to be set right first! Do
not bring in religion, prayers, etc. If you do so in the pious hope that
these will correct your computerized organism, it will soon give you
enough proofs of its disobedience. There are thousands of specimens of
computerized organisms that are living false religious lives, so-called
pious lives, frightened by religions and philosophies or totally
brainwashed by scriptures and gospels, with the ill-conceived theories of
reward and punishment. Such unfortunate beings will live life after life
in this frozen pattern.

Remember, we have to be free from all oppressions of life and death and
also from fear, doubt and anger. One has to intelligently set up inner
communication between a re-educated computerized organism and the inner
Transcendence in each individual case. If this is not done, life's purpose
is not fulfilled. Do not make your life one long history of wasted
efforts. Do not fight with your computers for you yourself are incorrectly
feeding the data into them. Please set them right for that is the only
correct way out.

But, you will ask, what is the difference between your corrective methods
and religion, philosophy, prayers, etc.? How come you set aside all these,
which to all appearances look more promising than the corrective methods
and also have great authority behind them. What makes you think no one has
found a correct way? The answer is simple. You are dealing with your own
brain. It has lived in a particular fashion. Have you convinced it that
the way it is living is wrong? No use telling it that it is wrong. Have
you convinced it and then have you offered proper corrective methods for
it to work with?

Then also, your version of God, heaven and hell, reward and punishment
after death, etc., are unseen and unknown factors. There are no clear
proofs, none whatsoever, for these are mere beliefs only. Your prophets
are not here, your sacred books -- everyone of them -- have been tampered
with (this is a fact!), your religious heads are no better. The modern,
more mature human brain will not accept this from any religion or
philosophy. Day after day the young human mind will be more and more
disillusioned. The young man and woman of our day all over the world have
been in great rebellion. Crime is increasing and there is absolute death
of peace in the world, the sick mind and heart is apparent everywhere, and
the cause is the uneducated thinking instrument!

By the methods and notes that we have presented so far, the brain will be
convinced that there is something wrong with it, that our health,
physical, emotional and psychic, is affected. The corrective methods and
the prior method of preparing lists of drifts and habits can be tried out
and their effects experienced. The proof of the pudding is in eating it.
The results are here and now; no after-death promise or threat is held
out. This is the significant difference!

Take these thoughts for serious thinking:

"Moral and spiritual rectitude is won only after hard struggles. Remnants
of the ape and the tiger still crouch beneath the surface. They should be
brought before the conscious mind and re-educated."
"Human life is the opportunity for conscious readjustment to a higher
order of consciousness."
"Realize that the whole purpose of creation is to produce a body capable
of responding to higher and higher degrees of consciousness."

The Corrective Methods

From the list of various drifts that repeat most frequently, we select a
few of the most damaging emotions that disturb the mind, hurt the heart
and have adverse effects on bodily health: fear of death, unhappiness,
jealousy or need of wealth, hatred with or without revenge, known or
unknown or unexplained fear, deceit of some sort, anger and irritability,
and weakness for sex.

It is important in these exercises to understand the correct method as the

memory pool section and the conscious mind are linked in a conscious
effort to erase wrong memory patterns implanted sometime earlier in life,
or in earlier lives, due to faulty living. The essential technique of
voice modulation coupled with three-step rhythmic breathing is scientific
and will definitely prove useful. It would be a mistake to dismiss these
exercises as being similar to self-hypnosis through the parrot-like
repetition of cliches.

(1) Take fear of death -- the corrective is hope.

We read: `There is yet a world where souls are free, where tyrants taint
not nature's bliss; if death that world's bright opening be, oh! who would
live a slave in this?' Now think along this line: `Where there is life,
there is hope, and we find that amidst dark days, man expects a brighter
tomorrow.' Read the above quotation mentally at first, then repeat it a
little aloud, and then still more loudly. In this way, first arouse the
emotional centre; then the intellectual centre should be brought in. To do
that, think along this line:

`There is a world you say where man has free will. Men cannot function
without free will. In that world predestination by a separate authority
does not thwart man's action. If we die in this world where there is no
free will, we will be able to enter that world of free will. Therefore
would you or anyone else ever like to be man the machine in this? Now what
is this world and what is that world? There are no two such worlds
geographically. The first world is the world of man who has not yet
reached a critical certain stage. We have been satisfied to note that in
all creation God and Nature have bestowed free will and man, really
speaking, is free. The critical point is establishing one's self as shown
in diagram 3a.

`Now who are the tyrants that taint Nature's bliss? They could be the
emotional, sex and movement centres oppressing the intellect and keeping
it in bondage. The greatest of such tyrants is our perverted free will
that has already established itself so firmly, so as to do the very things
we would not like to do and forcing us not to do the things we want to do.
We can be free. We just have the simple rules of life to follow.'

Read the quotation again mentally, then a little aloud, then still more
loudly, and finally softly and very softly. Ask yourself in which world
would you like to live. When you have done this, close your eyes and relax
for two minutes. Do nothing and think of nothing else, only continue the
three-step rhythmic breathing. When you open your eyes you will see a
better person. Repeat this daily.

(2) Take unhappiness -- the corrective is happiness.

We read: `There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do
without happiness and instead find blessedness.' Repeat this quotation
mentally at first, then a little aloud, and then still more loudly. In
this way, we first arouse or work up the emotional centre; then the
intellectual centre is to be brought in. Think along this line:

`We live in this world normally for happiness. Everyone does that, man,
woman or child. Our search for happiness takes us by different roads. We
mean no actual harm even though in our search for happiness we may hurt
others. Such who hurt others are called selfish and mean, and even
criminals. The only pity is that their conception of happiness is all
wrong, but fundamentally it is in hope that they all live and for
happiness they all search. Most of us define happiness by living well,
good food, clothes, accommodation, sleep, time to spend in fun and
merrymaking. But this is a sure sign of mental immaturity. There is
something higher than such happiness. We can certainly do without such
happiness and with discipline and a balanced inner and outer life instead
find blessedness, freedom and real use of free will.'

Read the above quotation mentally, then a little aloud, then still
more loudly, and finally softly and very softly. Then close your eyes and
relax for two minutes. Do nothing and think of nothing else, only continue
the three-step rhythmic breathing. When you open your eyes you will see a
better person. Observe yourself in the mirror after both the exercises.
Repeat this daily.

(3) Do you suffer from envy or jealousy? Does a thought such as the
following one, if not to the same intensity but to a lesser intensity,
cross your mind? `Why should he have power and wealth and I be left to
plod along with the man in the street? Why must I accept this unfair
living? I will steal or do worse for I must get for me fortune.'

When reading a quotation, or creating a suitable one to suit yourself,

remember that the quotations can be of two types: displaying noble
thoughts as in the previous two cases or displaying mean thoughts as in
this case. There are, therefore, two ways of handling the emotional
centre: (i) when the emotional centre is depressed, as in the first two
cases, and (ii) when the emotional centre is already aroused to high
negative intensity as in this case. Therefore, the emotional centre is to
be taken by the hand, so to say, towards high positive intensity from two
different points in two different ways. In the first two cases, we read
more and more loudly, and then softly and still more softly; in this case
we read without emotion -- coldly, seriously and hardly audibly. This
rhythm is very important. This technique of raising low negative
intensities or reducing high negative intensities must be properly
understood and followed.

In the present case, read (the above thought) as you would a text book,
seriously and coldly. Now look into the mirror and read again. Visualize
a person you respect and in his visualized presence ask mentally, `Is
there something for nothing?' Ask again a little louder, and then very
softly. Close your eyes and relax for two minutes. Do nothing and think of
nothing else, only continue the three-step rhythmic breathing. When you
open your eyes you will see a better person. Repeat this daily.

(4) Do you suppose you suffer from hatred? Does a thought such as the
following, if not to the same intensity but to a lesser intensity, cross
your mind? `If I catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient
grudge I bear him.'

Here is shown a second method for handling aroused emotions as in case (3)
above. In this case, as in (3) above, read the following thought aloud and
with the same aroused intensity: `While yet I have time to make
restitution for all the wrongs I have done, I will undo them and ask
forgiveness from God.' Ask yourself, `Will it not be better if I ask
forgiveness from him?' Repeat this a little aloud, then repeat it softly
and then very softly. Close your eyes and relax for two minutes. Do
nothing and think of nothing else, only continue the three-step rhythmic
breathing. When you open your eyes, you will see a better person. Repeat
this daily.

(5) Do you suffer from unexplained fear? It does not matter whether it is
fear of the unknown, economic fears, fear of health or over someone's
safety. It matters not for what reason, if it is fear you experience and
experience this sensation near about the solar plexus.

Sit before a mirror and look at yourself. Ask yourself whether knowingly
and on purpose you have done harm to anyone. Search not for a reply. Now
read slowly and a little aloud pronouncing well each word: `You cannot
scare a man who is at peace with God, his fellow men and himself.' Read a
little more loudly, then softly and then very softly.

Think along this line: `It cannot be that you have done wrong to yourself
or to your fellow men or to God. No, it cannot be, at least you have never
meant it. It is childish and foolish in this world, in our time and in our
age, to even think of harm to anyone, we who are living in the age of the
atom.' Read these lines again aloud, then more loudly, then softly and
very softly. Close your eyes and relax for two minutes. Do nothing and
think of nothing else, only continue the three-step rhythmic breathing.
When you open your eyes, you will see a better person and you will not
find where that fear is. Repeat this daily.

(6) Suppose the weakness predominant is deceit of some sort.

In this case sit before a mirror, look at your face and read loudly
pronouncing each word clearly: `Every man takes care that his neighbour
does not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does
not cheat his neighbour.' Read again a little louder and then even more
loudly. Look into the mirror and read softly again, and then even more
softly.

Think along this line: `How wonderful the day when each of us will take
care of our neighbour. That day cannot be far off. We are not wild animals
in some big game preserve under natural surroundings. It should be
possible not only for our neighbour but for any other person to be
perfectly at ease and at peace with us and we with them. In our age, which
is without a doubt completely different from all that has been in the
past, and tomorrow it will be yet more grand and different, we must adjust
and change, not only outwardly but as much and more inwardly to live
truly.' Read again a little loudly, then softly and then even more softly.
Close your eyes and relax for two minutes. Do nothing and think of nothing
else, only continue the three-step rhythmic breathing. When you open your
eyes, you will see a different person. Repeat this daily.

(7) Do you, dear reader, suffer from anger and irritability? Does a
thought like, `I will never see his face again' or `I will never step into
your house again for you are accursed' or `I loathe you in my bosom, I
scorn you with my eyes' come to you?

From the sparrow, the meek dove and the domesticated dog to the king
cobra, the tiger and the lion, none is free from this greatly dreaded
disease in man. Whether he is small and weak or big and strong, man is at
once quick to temper and display anger. If this be your failing then, how
long do you wish to be listed with the birds the animals? For what art
thou a human being? But, you say, you have tried so often to curb it and
have failed; rightly so, for you have used your will and that is one sure
way of failing always.

Speak out the above thought again, slowly and coldly in a low voice. Now
think of all your trespasses, both mental and physical, all the trespasses
known to you about yourself. Think of God, or that power by whatever name
you would understand, saying the same words to you, and yet know that the
power has patience with you and can bear with you and your trespasses, but
you would not be tolerant!

Now slowly, but in an audible voice, say, `Lord forgive them for they know
not what they do.' Repeat slowly and loudly, and then yet more loudly.
Imagine the scene of the crucifixion and the compassionate face of the
Christ on the cross. Once again say it aloud and then softly and still
more softly. Close your eyes and relax for two minutes. Do nothing and
think of nothing else, only continue the three-step rhythmic breathing.
When you open your eyes, you will find a different person. Repeat this
daily.

(8) Weakness for sex: Suppose you suffer from the very overpowering and
natural weakness of sex and it is oft times so bad that you wonder why you
cannot discriminate age, family relation or social status, place and time
of day or night. You are a married man or woman with a family and yet
this weakness haunts you. Only, you are careful not to be exposed.
Mentally you try that from tomorrow it shall not be so, but you find that
`tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the
last syllable of recorded time.'

Sit in front of a mirror and look at yourself. Visualize your wife and
children around you. Then softly say, `This above all, to thine own self
be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be
false to any man.' Repeat a little loudly, then yet more loudly, and then
softly and still more softly. Visualize your wife and family around you.
After doing this look into the mirror and say: `Give me that man who is
not passion's slave and I will wear him in my heart's core, aye in my
heart of hearts.' Repeat it softly and once again more softly. Look into
the mirror and say in a firm clear tone, `I am that man!' Repeat a little
loudly, then softly and then yet more softly. Close your eyes and relax.
Do nothing and think of nothing else, only continue the three-step
rhythmic breathing. When you open your eyes again, you will see a
different person. Repeat this daily.

After all the corrective exercises are over, include this quotation just
before the final thought sets in:
"Then will come a calm such as comes in a tropical country after the heavy
rains, when nature works so swiftly that one may see her action. Such a
calm will come to the harassed spirit and in the deep silence that
follows the mysterious event will occur which will prove that the way has
been found, call it by what name you will."

The Re-education of the Thinking Instrument

What is the purpose, or rather what can result, in following the

corrective methods? The real culprit is the individual's emotional
structure. Emotions are the cause of various types of hurt that we
experience. Emotion is an energy. There are no good and bad emotions
created by God and Nature; this energy of emotions, due to experiencing
hurt or pleasure, is in turn coloured thus. Hurt breeds a desire to get
even with the individual who caused the hurt to us. This aspect, to get
even with, which is natural in a human being, is necessary, even
imperative, for all life; otherwise, without this lack of incentive to get
even (it may be for better or worse), life may seem, if not meaningless,
at least dull and boring. So we must refine this energy of emotion.

We have noted earlier that we are gifted with self-consciousness but,

thanks to the habit mechanism aided by the drift mechanism, we actually
live by simple consciousness; in functioning thus, an individual (like the
cow in the example) causes hurt to others unintentionally. So we must
shift back to self-consciousness.

But the individual who is hurt is burnt and is irritable, and hence
aggressive reaction takes place based on the impulse/response function.
The outcome may not always be an aggressive reaction, for if the source
responsible for such hurt is stronger, or a more powerful or higher
authority, or an elderly person, then such hurt is carried in the
(psychologist's) unconscious as fear or simply as hurt. Many or
innumerable such hurts makes the individual a sad, unhappy or timid person
and this leads in turn to brooding and/or day-dreaming and to a state of
unknown or unexplained fears. All this has to be thrown out of the body
system in a methodical manner.

So you see how we are unfortunately taken down the wrong road! If no one
shows us the right way (the corrective methods and our other notes, the
preliminaries) to come out of such a situation, we then take solace in
religion, philosophy, satsang, destiny, will of God, TM and other such
theories. From our adherence to such theories we bury deep within us our
wrongs and our hurts. This has been going on from time immemorial and has
come down to us from the dim past. These days drugs, alcohol and such
strong stimulants have taken root as alternatives. Both the ways are
wrong. It is like perishable food kept in deep freeze. This deep freeze
state cannot last forever; sooner or later it ceases and then we erupt
like a volcano in various ways and cause harm to others and to ourselves.

Over a period of time this has created the psychologist's unconscious, or

what we call the magnetic point. Like a magnet (that attracts only
what it can, e.g. iron and not wood) it attracts only those impulses into
one's body system out of the millions of impulses around us coming from
objects and people as suits our individual magnetic point. Ultimately it
boils down to the simple understanding that we attract to ourselves only
those causes that make us unhappy and miserable, or such as those we think
may give us happiness, or we indulge in such as those that take away our
misery. Under this mistaken notion can be included drugs, smoking,
alcohol, ashram life, meditation, false religiosity, etc. I say mistaken
notion because that which is not a corrective method is a mere deep freeze
as stated earlier and hence a false notion; all of them are, finally,
distractions from the work at hand.

So, my dear friends, you may now realize that what comes to you is not
destiny or pre-destination, retribution or karma, will of God or reap as
you sow, or any other such mistaken notions whereby we comfortably place
the blame squarely on someone or something else. What comes to you is
determined by none other than your own self!

This makes us spineless creatures and we hide behind and sink deeper into
the lifestyle of an individual who seeks escape in drugs, smoking, alcohol
or in equally harmful habits of ashram, meditation, satsang and false
religiosity. Let anyone defend the habit of drugs, smoking or alcohol, and
also let anyone defend ashram life, meditation and false religiosity, to
all such we can only say, "He who excuses himself, accuses himself!" I
have been asked by my Master to follow this advice in life and ask you to
live by it. Never defend yourself -- let your life speak!

Is your understanding now clear? Do you realize your magnetic point and
its working? Have you also been convinced that there is only one remedy --
the corrective methods, along with the three-step rhythmic breathing and
certain helpful medication we shall mention later. Above all, perfect the
three-step rhythmic breathing which is the correct breathing process (and
not an exercise!) and replace your present incorrect breathing for all the
24 hours and it will soon happen -- you will be a different person. All
creation is based on law and not on beliefs and theories, so go along
scientific lines of progress.

The dictionary meaning of `environment' says surroundings, or conditions

of life or growth. In our world, one can go to a hill-station or to an
ashram or to another country or take a trip by boat and sail the seven
seas. One does enjoy different environments, one does meet different
people, one does go away from one's own so-called oppressive usual
environment. Medical science and psychology say it does one good, so much
importance has been placed on it. Let us examine the true facts.

This so-called change in environment is a change in outer environment of

an individual. This is, however, the secondary environment; the primary,
or inner, environment is not changed thereby. The outer or secondary
environment that creates whatever seeming (temporary) changes in an
individual will soon pass and fade away. What, then, is the primary or
inner environment and why is it so important?

The inner or primary environment is the magnetic point, selecting its own
incoming impulses from the outer environment. Do not be deceived that
change in outer environment will not attract, or will make it impossible
for the usual type of incoming impulses, as the individual is prone to, to
enter the individual's body/brain system. Go anywhere on Earth and the
individual is prone to and will attract the same type of people and
impulses, and internally will enjoy no change in environment.

Our planet is surrounded by the outgoing thought forms of individuals on

this planet, now living and those who have lived before. These outgoing
thought forms usually leak out of the human system at point #7 (refer the
diagrams). These outgoing thought forms have over the ages created an
invisible envelope around our planet, and go where you will you will only
draw in through your own magnetic point the same type of incoming impulses
that you have been prone to!
This oppressive condition, which is self-inflicted by wrong functioning of
the individual's thinking instrument, has to be remedied. If this is
remedied, no condition on Earth, even the seemingly most oppressive, will
ever effect an individual. This has to be done by following the method of
checking of drifts, making lists by the four methods as shown and then
introducing and practising all the corrective exercises.

One may or may not believe it, but one has an invisible, self-created
envelope of this environment around one's physical organism, and that is
why this environment is primary and the outside environment is secondary
and so has no real effect on the individual. When this inner envelop is
corrected by corrective exercises, it forms a protective shield that the
outer environment cannot pierce, otherwise it becomes an oppressive armour
that will not be influenced by any outer environment, however good.

This invisible inner envelop around each individual is called `aura' -- we

call it the envelop of the primary environment. It is thinner than tissue
paper but stronger than granite. It can be changed entirely by correction
methods, and there is no other way it can be changed except by three-step
rhythmic breathing, the correct breathing for all 24 hours. If you can
impose both the corrective exercises as well as the correct breathing,
believe me, you will soon make yourself worthy of an environment existing
in some wonderful area of our Universe in a different galaxy, that is as
beautiful as your inner primary environment! Do not do this, do not
believe this -- it is your choice -- and you will find yourself coming and
going to and from this planet under the same type of environment you now
find yourself in for an eternity. One day you will wake up to this Truth.

Corrective methods ultimately bring about understanding plus love.

Understanding plus love creates compassion, for which the Buddha is
famous. The Buddha realized that the only way out of all misery was
understanding plus love, i.e. compassion, not as a philosophy or religion
but as a way of life, regular life that comes our way and that calls for
corrective methods and correct rhythmic breathing to bring about
understanding and love, and not false religiosity or other such escapes or
deep freeze methods.

To recapitulate, we have been talking about the computerized organism and

the re-education of the thinking instrument, because all the different
computers with their different mechanisms ultimately function in the
thinking instrument area, more precisely the front lobe or registration
area. We have also noted that there is within each of us a magnetic point
and as per the structure of this magnetic point we draw in, as a magnet
does, particular types of incoming impulses only, much as we have
vegetarian or non-vegetarian, and hot/spicy or boiled food temperaments.
So it boils down to the fact that all six mechanisms that function and
keep themselves eternally functioning are because of this magnetic point
within us in the gray matter shown as point # 7. We have also come across
another remarkable point that all the six mechanisms that function,
revolve and keep functioning eternally because of incoming impulses, i.e.
communications received from objects and people around us. This is the
constant feeding to the computers within the computerized organism. We
must time and again check this feeding. The body needs physical food
containing good vitamins, the brain needs incoming impulses food of good
texture.

So instead of correcting the six mechanisms if we can correct this

magnetic point within us, all the six mechanisms will function correctly.
We have noted the different methods of checking the drifts caused by
incoming impulses and by each method draw up lists in order of intensity
of repetitions. We have shown four methods of checking drifts and habit.
Drifts are the direct off-springs of the incoming impulses. Hence by
making lists of drifts in order of maximum repetition during each 24
hours, we trace the kind of incoming impulses, thereby betraying to
ourselves in the privacy of our own observations the magnetic point, its
structure and spectrum, and hence a design that is so far away from the
inherent design implanted in us by God and Nature. Hence our methods of
checking the drifts gives us a pointer to the incoming food to the
computerized organism.

But the observations have to be honest. The lists that are prepared one
after the other are to be set aside and not referred to; then if, without
reference, each list is the same or nearly the same, then the observations
are honest, correct and methodical. Haste will not give proper results.
Do not take anything for granted -- even what we say! Do not try to argue
or justify with your own self. This is the supreme opportunity for you to
know yourself. "Man, know Thyself," said the great Pythagoras.

Take time, a few months or more to do this -- Rome was not built in a day
and you have not been framed in one lifetime! Then will come the practical
training of corrective methods. These corrective methods have to be
sincerely practised and then you will find that the magnetic point changes
for the better and with this change will alter its structure and spectrum
and its pull of incoming impulses, and its design will slowly approach
nearer to the inherent design implanted in us by God and Nature. In this
now clear? The incoming food to the computerized organism changes and with
that the effects will change the computerized organism for the better.
This can be done methodically.

Actually, thus observing daily and making final lists by different

methods, we go back slowly into our past, i.e. we walk backwards in our
memory lane, up to the stage of conception. Whatever we do or think today
is the outcome of what we have gathered in our so-called psychologist's
unconscious, i.e. the memory pools. Thus we clean ourselves of all the
rubbish gathered and become fresh and new.

We are so careful about our physical food habits and are supremely unaware
about this food intake that is many times more important -- the mental and
psychic food, i.e. the incoming impulses or communications, that one has
to admit so carefully within our computerized organism. If contaminated
physical food is eaten we know what the consequences can be, so if we
take in contaminated mental and psychic food, can we imagine the
consequence? Will you still blame God and destiny when this is strictly
within your conscious means to control? We have to purge our thinking
instrument of such contaminated food and feed in only the selected food.
For this fortunately we have not to be on guard all the time; we have to
simply alter and correct the magnetic point which will be on guard all the
time thereafter on our behalf.

Today we are on the subject of checking what the computerized organism is

fed on and how to correct our mechanisms. Incoming impulses being incoming
communications, i.e. `food' received from objects and people around us, one
day we shall be able to see and hear these incoming impulses coming to us
from objects and people around us and we shall then realize that up to
that point in life we were really asleep and now we are really awake. At
present you can hardly realize how asleep is your waking state! Wake up
and live the life you are meant to live as a human being, hug not this
meaningless life that you are living, thanks to your religions, your
philosophies and your scared books. Would you still like to live as little
infants or as real adult human beings?

We have noted earlier that we take in three types of food, our oral
physical food being the least important. Even this, if we can intake and
digest in proper manner, we can enjoy really good health, but we normally
are not able to do this. The second and very important, perhaps the most
important, of the three types of food is the correct rhythmic breathing
replacing our present incorrect breathing. This is to be established for
all 24 hours of the day. On this depends the proper digestion of
the other two types of foods. The third type of food and very important
for our correct life style is the incoming impulses depending on the
individual's magnetic point. This magnetic point can be set right by the
corrective methods as shown and the three-step rhythmic breathing for all
24 hours.

Today, even with our practically wholly incorrect way of thinking,

breathing and eating, leading to faulty digestion of all the three types
of foods, yet our bodies are still in a position to produce, besides
physical muscular energy, the energies of emotion, sex, intellect,
electricity and magnetism within. But in such a pitiable condition our
bodies cannot create the higher energies of the first grade of the energy
of the essence of consciousness, spiritual will, the energies of insight
and intuition (for want of better words), i.e. energies giving lesser
psychic powers to higher powers of the soul.

Due to this drawback we are not able to change our external clothing at
will, i.e. change from our cellular body and brain to the molecular body
and manas and to the electronic body and buddhi, and with their use
through spiritual will experience firsthand not just the vast, physical
universe of Bhuh, but also the universe of Bhuvah which is molecular and
the universe of Svahah which is electronic. Such is possible through the
higher practices of dharna, dhyana and samadhi, but is not done sitting
with eyes closed and legs crossed as is usually understood. They require
a totally different understanding and technique.

There are no heavens and no hells. We experience again and again the same
or similar conditions which we have not made any effort to outgrow, as
naturally as a child which outgrows its toys, and so long we shall be
forced to repeat and experience in one of the universe that we find
ourselves in due to operations of certain laws -- call them laws of karma
or dharma or reincarnation. As long as we shall be forced to repeat and
experience, so long we shall not be able to fathom the plan and purpose
(of Existence and our repeated births in it). Once we outgrow nothing can
force us back again, and slowly as we move from Bhuh to Bhuvah and from
Bhuvah to Svahah in the natural course of evolution (which may require
eternities and which, through the proper processes and techniques, could
be done in a few lifetimes) we, like Rama and the Pandavas, shall finally
understand that we are in Exile and will yearn to go back Home.

Home is Creation; Home is Janah Universe and Tapah. Here we need no type
of body or thinking instrument, nor any type of energy to sustain, for we
are whole, self-existing, immortal fragments of Transcendence. Even this
state is not to be mistakenly supposedly to be heaven, for heaven must be
balanced by hell! This is our Home -- all the rest is a state of Exile and
hence the shastras call it maya. Some call this state nirvana or
Nothingness or Emptiness; this Nothingness or Emptiness is everything!!

To understand this state one has to perfect the digestion of the three
types of food methodically so as to outgrow the conditionings of Bhuh,
Bhuvah and Svahah. To achieve this no prayers, no japa, no satsang, no
religion, no drugs, no alcohol -- nothing! -- is required, for these are
all false notions, false habits and false beliefs. Just live the ordinary
life, otherwise one can waste eternities to no avail. You have already
wasted an eternity to no avail!
Our best friend and worst enemy is our memory. Without memory we are good
for nothing, but with memory we are under its oppressive rule, for it
colours and forms our magnetic point -- our fears, doubts and anger, our
`hook' on which we are caught. This memory normally functions with the
incoming impulses. When there is some damage to valves or doors of the
memory pools at the back of the brain, we complain of loss of memory or
confused memory and the person is a case for the psychiatrist or can be
insane.

We have no choice with our memory: we cannot sharpen it, we cannot do

without it and with it we are oppressed. The only thing we can do is
rearrange it, by repeated operations of making a list in different ways as
shown. In rearranging it, we make out our lists and vice-versa. In
rearranging it, we come to know the oppressive points of our memory in
order of importance. Again I repeat, make lists on paper as shown. Hence
by making such lists, repeatedly and carefully by all the different
methods shown, we get a close look of our memory store. The different
methods of making the lists are necessary: just as during cooking,
churning the food that is on the fire is an essential operation, so
churning the memory by different methods is an essential operation.

Once arranged and once having made a final note of its oppressive points
we can safely introduce the corrective methods, but we cannot introduce
them in a hurry. The lists from all the different methods over a period of
time must be clear and nearly identical. If this is all properly done,
then the magnetic point has to change for the better. Please do not make
lists from memory but from study.

Once this magnetic point improves, the choice of incoming impulses will
improve, i.e. they will be checked and selected. And then our troubles
will lessen, we shall experience a calmer and more peaceful life
irrespective of the circumstances we may have to experience. We will have
the strength to live peacefully and in a relaxed manner, even should
circumstances be painful.

Please do not ever be in a hurry to introduce and practise the corrective

methods. If the memory is not properly rearranged and if you hurriedly
introduce the corrective methods, you will not get the desired results.
Take time to make your list. As you take more time for preparing your
lists, you will be able to go further and further in the past of your own
life till you reach not only the time of your birth but of your conception
within and know what shocks were felt by your mother during pregnancy to
give you some vital weakness if there be so.

What have we digested up till now from our various previous notes?
1. That we are in fact fragments of Transcendence, either in exile or on a
journey of search through the various universes of Existence as per
different gospels. In our original state of Transcendence, we had no need
of bodies, mind, brain, food, air, birth or death; in short we were
immortal and eternal. For this search through the universes, we need
appropriate bodies, mind, brains, senses, food, air, et al., to experience
the different universes. In short, we are mortal and finite under such
circumstances.

2. If we are fully awake, we can experience a particular universe one at a

time, but we should have the ability to change the clothing, our bodies,
at will. Then we live as fragments of Transcendence, free to take birth or
die at will or function in any type of body suitable to any type of
universe.

3. But if we are not fully awake, we can experience a particular universe

but without the ability of changing the clothing (bodies) at will. Then we
feel as if we are in chains or in prison, or going through some
accumulated karma or facing retribution, and in such cases we fondly
believe in religions with their theories of heaven and hell, of God and
the devil, their rites and ceremonies, their churches and temples, and
their fear of death. We live as computerized organisms, unaware of the
fragment of Transcendence within each one of us, and as helpless,
insignificant creatures. We die and are born again, of which we have no
knowledge, and believe and repeat like a tape recorder whatever the
religion we happen to accept.

4. That we must know and understand properly the distinction between the
computerized organism and the fragment of Transcendence. After being
convinced, we must learn the way this computerized organism can function.
It cannot become pious or holy nor can it make any spiritual progress, for
it is not structured thus, being a mere sophisticated computer. So any
theories of food and practices are so much waste of time. All we can do
is re-educate the thinking instrument which guides this computerized
organism, so that it may act in a manner that is not obstructive to, but
in rhythm with and so accepting the guidance of the inner fragment of
Transcendence. This inner fragment is called Ishvara by Sage Patanjali and
is the highest of teachers or gurus.

This can only happen if the thinking instrument were to empty itself of
all preconceived ideas of religion, philosophy, morality, rites and
ceremonies, etc., for if this is not done, we shall time and again walk
backward in our memory lane and this will create, time and again,
obstruction to the guidance coming from the inner fragment of
Transcendence. So in fact, we are what we are mistakenly trying to be --
we have only to empty the boat!
When one is thus convinced and acts as above, one is also convinced
that all external gurus are not required and are incapable, and only the
inner fragment of Transcendence, Ishvara, is the worthiest of all gurus.
When this wonderful state of Radhe-Krishna is established between
the computerized organism and the inner fragment of Transcendence, nothing
more remains to be done. But this state is to be established consciously
and experienced. Slowly one comes to the stage of being able to change
one's external clothing -- the bodies -- at will, and to take birth or to
die at will in any of the three universes of Existence.

Finally, one comes to the conclusion, as an experience, that one is either

in Exile or is consciously experiencing one of the universes, that Home is
not anywhere here in any of these universes but in Janah and Tapah only
(some call this Home `nirvana') -- and the journey back Home is taken
consciously. Life is always lived with a smile. This experience is
mistakenly regarded as maya in Existence by some. If one has computerized
awareness only, one lives in misery, but if one has the consciousness of
the inner fragment of Transcendence one lives at will, free from all
restriction. How to bring about a rhythm between the computerized organism
and the fragment of Transcendence is our study. This leads to freedom or
mukti in the right sense of the word, for such freedom or mukti is to be
consciously understood and worked for intelligently.

Caution

It is not to be presumed that once we have corrected our various

mechanisms by correcting the magnetic point we are safe for all time. The
computerized organism with its many computers are mere mechanisms and tend
to go wrong again. But once having known the method of setting them right,
we have confidence that we can correct them again. But to believe that
there will be no need for caution is the greatest folly!

The best friend and worst enemy of the computerized organism is memory.
That is why again and again we must employ the different methods shown of
registering drifts and making a short list of them in order of importance.
These repeated practices will help us dig into our past. By these methods
you will be able to freshen up retentive and recall aspects of memory,
which will help you to clean up right up to the stage of your conception
and beyond, when in foetus stage you may have sub-consciously registered
the pains, fears and shocks registered by your mother and which may be
affecting you in some manner even now.

Once this memory pool is cleansed you are a little safe. Still, you
should thank your stars that section IIIb deep, carrying memory patterns
of previous lives, has not burst upon you! Those unfortunates in whose
life this IIIb has burst forth, act as chronic psychological cases or even
become lunatics, for they are not understood by sane people nor is proper
remedy prescribed. These unfortunates cannot link their fears, doubts,
anxiety, hatred, or rejected love in a previous life, for they themselves
are at a loss to draw connections. But whatever they see and hear is very
much real, as real as this life is to them.

We suffer when we experience fears, doubts, anxieties, hatred, or rejected

love in this life, which we can connect, however distant, to the past of
this life; so how much more difficult it is for those unfortunates who are
totally at a loss to find any links and cannot account for their behaviour
due to memory of past lives. All psychological methods can at most reach
the stage of conception (which too I doubt) but not go beyond, and so will
fail to cure or guide such cases.

If one had a terrible death in a storm at sea, or in a burning house, or

at the hands of a murderer at night when one was woken up from sleep, or
if a tragedy like a river flood had swept away one's whole family, and one
had seen them drowning and heard their cries and was able to do anything
-- if such past life memories come in, the person experiencing them would
be driven to madness, for apparently there is no reason for such memory in
this life. Yet one keeps seeing the same memory pattern repeat and these
scenes seen by the mind's eye are very real indeed.

The terrible relationships and experiences one may have had with family
members or from neighbours or business partners, perhaps driven to
insolvency or sent to jail on false charges, and seeing such like faces
again in this life -- though in this life there may not be any
relationship with them -- yet fears, hatred and doubts assail one and for
no foreseeable reason one reacts or even trembles as if reliving the past
in all reality!

Memory is indestructible, but the mechanism of memory, which creates the

magnetic point in us and which is the main cause of our structure, can be
re-educated by our various methods of making short lists and using
corrective methods and three-step rhythmic breathing. This is to be done
again and again. But ailments arising from past life memory patterns are
very difficult to cure after the age of 12-15 years. That is why
re-education of the thinking instrument should be undertaken in montessori
and primary schools, then again to be checked in high school and later
again in college.

Memory is our best friend, for we know what loss of memory could mean,
yet its erratic behaviour can ruin our health and happiness. All we can do
is to correct the magnetic point. This is very necessary for a peaceful
and happy life. We have lived so constantly with our brooding and our
day-dreaming, our drifts and our impulse/response mechanisms, and become
so automatic because of the habit mechanism, that we cannot even visualize
a life free from such oppression. It is a grand experience to live such a
free life. Only then is one a human being! The functioning of all these
mechanisms creates a lot of noise, until by conscious work of correcting
the various mechanisms we experience the beautiful silence and peace
within, which was the peace that Christ offered, "My peace I give unto
you!" This is nothing but the rhythmic relationship between the
computerized organism and the inner fragment of Transcendence. Such peace
once created is inexhaustible and can be freely given.

So dear friend, do you now realize how you are mislead into futile
exercises of religion, dharma, philosophy, and preachings of various
types? On the contrary these have created groups amongst mankind and
violent antagonism and wars! Equally futile are the exercise of
meditation, pranayama, asanas, Christian Science, et al., without due
preparation as explained.

But even at this stage there is need for caution, for when a relationship
is established with Transcendence, a great many psychic powers will flood
in. The computerized organism, mistaking them to be its own powers, will
be thrilled by this inflow and would love to play with such newly found
psychic powers. This new type of video games will drown you for many lives
to come before you will find yourself at the same stage of life once
again. We have come so far step by step methodically. Let us keep to our
road and not be enamoured by levitation and such dramatic acts. Our human
race of the space age should not be involved in what has accumulated
as improper knowledge and practices, even in the name of religion,
philosophy, or yoga, etc.

Cleaning the Aegean stables was a task given to Hercules; only a Hercules
can cleanse the memory pools of past lives -- and then one truly becomes a
Hercules! The computerized organism if methodically corrected can live in
proper relationship with its inner fragment of Transcendence. You too can
carry out life's duties and responsibilities and also live under guidance
of your inner Transcendence.

Allied Preliminary Practices

A. The Three -- Step Rhythmic Breathing

The three-step rhythmic breathing (3SRB) pattern is as follows:

1. Technique: both chest and abdomen are raised and lowered together and
equally. This means that the chest requires more filling than ordinarily
because of the ribs, while the abdomen must not be blown up unnaturally.
2. Volume: the breath is full from neck to navel, i.e., the upper, middle
and lower abdomen are filled to normal capacity. The quantum of air
inhaled and exhaled is what is usually normal to us, neither too much nor
too forceful, since normal 3SRB is not an exercise but a process of
correct breathing.
3. Rhythm: one complete breath takes 5 seconds or 6 pulse-beats. The
exact rhythm is to count 1--2--3 while inhaling and 5--6 while exhaling --
4 is not counted. Note that inhalation, unlike in other breathing
exercises or pranayamas but as in natural breathing, is longer than
exhalation. There is no pause between breath in and breath out. This adds
up to 12 breaths of normal 3SRB every minute.

Begin by practising 3SRB to taped music and get used to doing it in the
conventional postures -- lying down, sitting, standing and walking.
Increase the duration of practice by 5 minutes every fortnight until in 6
months time one hour of conscious 3SRB is reached. At this stage one can
begin a regimen of going to sleep while practising 3SRB to soft taped
music in an effort to transfer the establishment and continuity of 3SRB
within the system from the conscious brain to the unconscious brain. This
is the only way to establish 3SRB for at least 8 to 10 waking hours.

B. The Refining Exercises

Initially, to remove emotional debris from the granthis within the

organism and to tone up the nerves, improve circulation of blood, ease
tension, etc., the following six simple breathing exercises are
recommended to be done preferably twice a day. They are designed to work
towards clearing the residue of undigested experiences from within the
system.

1. Deep, fast breathing with only the upper lobe of the chest. By `fast'
is meant at a rate of about 36 breaths a minute.
2. Deep, fast breathing with only the abdomen and the lower lobe of the
chest.
3. Deep, fast, total breathing using both the upper and lower lobes of the
chest and the abdomen. This is performed in a sitting position, legs
stretched out together in front, head lifted slightly, and fingers
stretched towards and touching the toes or at least the shinbone.

Start with 20 repetitions of each exercise. Gradually increase by 5 or

less repetitions every fortnight or longer (depending on how comfortable
the performance feels) until each exercise can be continued for three
minutes (or 108 repetitions).
4. Staccato breathing: Five short quick inhalations totaling one full
breath followed by one forceful exhalation.
5. Square breathing: Inhale for a count of three, retain breath for a
count of three, exhale for a count of three, keep the breath out for a
count of three. Gradually increase to a count of five.
6. Bundh in the throat: Take a deep breath, close the mouth, block both
nostrils with the fingers and thumb, press the chin tightly to the hollow
of the throat and swallow five times as in the act of drinking water. Then
release the bundh and unblock the nostrils.

Start with three repetitions for each of these latter exercises. Gradually
increase by 1 or 2 repetitions every fortnight or longer (depending on how
comfortable the performance feels) until each exercise can be continued
for three minutes. In the morning, after performing exercises 1-6, repeat
the first three in the order 3-2-1.

Ideally, the exercises are to be performed soundlessly and with minimal

movement of head, torso and knees; it is breath which drives the muscles
and organs, not vice versa. Correct performance entails ensuring
awareness and control of breath all through inhalation and exhalation.

These six refining exercises tone up the nerves, correct respiration and
speech, give strength and energy, improve circulation and digestion,
remove tensions and reduce joint pains. In short, they help in preventing
bodily disability and mental inertia, which are the primary obstacles to
soul cognition. Later on, an increase in their intensity will effect
regeneration of the vayus. These practices are not normal, ordinary
physical exercises, though as a by-product they give benefits that almost
all other physical exercises do not. What is required here, and in the
practices to follow, is total involvement. These practices are designed
for a higher purpose. If that purpose is not kept in mind or drawn in
before one's eyes, the real benefits -- internal purification -- will not
accrue, just as mechanical prayers, however often indulged in daily, yield
nothing.

C. The Upgrading of Awareness Exercises

Step I: Spread a clean white handkerchief on a table cleared of all other

objects which would distract attention, place a prism on the handkerchief,
take a comfortable sitting position, and look into the prism for a period
of 5 minutes. To facilitate close watching the face may rest on the
palms, the elbows on the table. In three to six months of practice the
prism will disappear from sight.

Initially, as soon as one looks at the prism one becomes aware of drifts,
since watching the prism is really watching oneself with the aid of a
neutral object. In the beginning, there will be some reactions and
responses to the memory-associated impulses, but these will gradually
disappear leading to attention that is steady and silent. Understand that
the prism disappearing is not the purpose of the practice; the purpose is
to just look into the prism. If the prism remains invisible for say 10
seconds, which is a measure of success, continue practising until the
duration reaches one or two minutes. Only then go over to the second step.
Do not be overanxious and do not practise these steps unless the refining
exercises have been done earlier.

Step 2: Now spread the handkerchief on the floor with the prism on it, and
instead of sitting in a chair, stand or lean leisurely against a wall and
just look into the prism for 5 minutes. If short-sighted, sit in a
chair instead of standing. In six months of practice, the prism will
disappear from sight. If the prism remains invisible for say ten seconds,
which is a measure of success, continue practising until the duration
reaches one to two minutes before going over to the next step.

Step 3: Spread the handkerchief on the table with the prism on it. Stand
nearby, a foot away from the table, and in that position be aware of all
that can be seen other than the prism. The prism must disappear from
sight, yet all else around it that can be seen should remain visible at
the same time. Both the standing position and the look are fixed. Try to
get a measure of success of duration ten seconds and continue practising
until the duration extends to one or two minutes.

This step means that you are aware of your immediate surroundings and yet
are able to maintain the inner linkages for some time. Over a period of
time, this will lead to dhyana even while one is engaged in one's normal
daily duties. All eagerness and haste will be inherently self-defeating --
they will only create disturbances in the thinking instrument. The use of
the prism is now over for it has served its purpose by teaching us a
method. We proceed to steps 4 and 5.

Step 4: Stand three feet from a window and look out of it. What you see
outside the window is one picture, what you see of the room is another
picture. Now continue to just look (not stare) out of the window till you
see nothing -- the view disappears completely and it will be like seeing
the sky.

In the initial stages the room picture may also disappear, but one must
remain aware of it. It may also happen that either of the pictures will
disappear and come into view again. The window picture must disappear and
the room picture be clearly seen at the same time. Get a measure of
success, of duration 20 seconds, and continue practising until the
duration extends to one or two minutes.

Step 5: Walk on the footpath. Look in front of you and walk as if you are
walking through a narrow passage four feet wide and eight feet high (more
or less) which is visible in front of you. The rest is like sky all around
-- it must disappear totally from your vision, yet all life in the passage
in front of you for say fifty yards be clearly seen. Get a measure of
success, of duration thirty seconds, and continue practising until the
duration extends to one or two minutes.

When you are through with all the five steps and have honestly succeeded
in getting a measure of success with each, your thinking instrument will
be a finely-tuned, well-trained one capable of forming and maintaining
inner linkages. Your awareness has been refined and upgraded and made
penetrative. Besides, you will be ready for the higher practices of
scientific yoga, viz., pratyahara and onward. You are now equivalent to
stage 3b and can just enter stage 3c for higher practices. Even then,
do not be carried away by stages 3a and 3b -- it is a long journey for
the ages!

Sleep

Here we shall discuss and describe not the symptoms of sleep, nor the many
stages of sleep, but the `cause' of sleep. Let us first know the functions
of the thalamus and the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex receives and
answers impulses received from the entire organism (the physical body) so
that the organism can react suitably. If working properly, the thalamus
can normalize reactions that tend to be abnormal or sub-normal, a sort of
balancing action that keeps the organism in balance and equilibrium under
all circumstances. This will keep the organism at all times, especially
during its waking state, in a state of absolute balance. Such a state is
the state of `awakeness', as very different from the so-called normal
waking state with its sub-normal and abnormal states of reactions.

Normally the thalamus does not function thus because all the thousands of
pairs of nerves (`pairs', in layman's language, refers to one nerve fibre
of the sympathetic system and one nerve fibre of the parasympathetic
system) do not reach the thalamus from all over the body. Hence the
organism cannot be maintained in an absolutely balanced state and the
bodily reactions tend to be sub-normal or abnormal.

Should the thalamus help the organism to a balanced state during the
waking state and maintain a state of awakeness, it would automatically
lead to the absolutely balanced state of sleep. Between these two states
an individual would avoid violent dream states as well as the sub-normal
and abnormal waking state activities which could be very detrimental and
exhausting, thus enabling the individual to sleep between 3-4 hours and
lead a very active physical and mental life.

We have as yet not addressed the cause of sleep. There is a constant

electromagnetic field surrounding the secondary or physical body. This
field depends for its proper working on the electromagnetic field of the
primary body. Whenever the primary electromagnetic field tends to recede
from the electromagnetic field of the secondary, the result is sleep. But
there are also other effects besides sleep. During all the 24 hours the
two fields keep moving relative to each other and are seldom steady. On
their movements between 1/4" and 1", various moods come upon an
individual. This can also be effected by alcohol and drugs. Should they
recede by 1.5" coma or delirium is the effect; between 2-5" of separation
there are very many states and stages of sleep, from light to deep sleep,
with or without movements. It does not matter whether it be day or night,
but should it recede such states are bound to occur. Upto 5" the normal
biological functions within the organism continue with some marked
inhibitions or accelerations.

But when the primary electromagnetic field recedes substantially, or near

totally, i.e. between 6-9", from the secondary field, a state of clinical
death takes place. If it happens accidentally or due to certain biological
reasons, it calls for immediate medical attention. If, however, this
clinical death state is brought about consciously, then it is a very high
stage of yoga practices.

The secondary electromagnetic field develops within the physical organism

the energies of sensitiveness, i.e. the energies of emotion and sex, or
of rajas and tamas, in varying proportions, plus the physical energy for
movement and the energies of electricity and magnetism for various
internal functions. The primary electromagnetic field develops within the
primary body the energies of life and awareness. It therefore follows that
whenever this primary field recedes, the energy of awareness is
conspicuous by its absence, and when it recedes beyond 5" the energy of
life begins to ebb from the secondary body. But this is not so when the
movement is brought about consciously, which is a very advanced stage of
yoga practices.

This is the only cause of sleep, the rest are all symptoms of sleep.
Therefore conscious sleep is the conscious process of disengagement or
detachment of the electromagnetic field of the primary from that of the
secondary. This is pratyahara, the early stage. When sleep is thus
consciously brought about on innumerable occasions by the detachment of
the primary field from the secondary field, an ease is experienced in
detaching them at will. This stage is the very beginning stage of higher
yoga practices.

The state of pratyahara is possible only if an individual can maintain

without effort the state of awakeness, i.e. a state of absolute balance,
both when awake and when asleep. Before one arrives at this stage and
experiences it without any efforts, one has necessarily to pass through
such temporary phases, when it may come on and go off without notice, i.e.
it is not yet permanently established consciously. Many individuals all
over the world have had experience of such a state. Not knowing it to be a
possibility that can be established permanently by conscious efforts, many
are under the impression of `grace' or `darshan', or some such so-called
`inspired moments'. With such an underdeveloped understanding of the state
itself, whatever is experienced during such a doubtful state is faulty.
However their utterances or writings if dictated during such periods are
no doubt inspiring but they have as yet not experienced the `Truth'. Such
individuals are known in our world as advanced persons.

In western language, this state, if consciously developed, established and

experienced without effort, can then be termed `objective consciousness',
though the Indian counterpart, `pratyahara', is more illustrative. What is
mistakenly known as `cosmic consciousness' in the West are the advanced
stages of dharna, dhyana and samadhi that an individual progresses from
pratyahara onward, and these stages are very consciously entered into by
an individual. The Transcendental Teacher is the inner fragment of
Transcendence, what Sage Patanjali calls `Ishvara'.

Brain, Mind and the Process of Thinking

Once again, let us look at the most important factors and ingredients that
are necessary and participate in the process of thinking. In the normal
process of thinking, when the Universal Divine Mind (UDM) flows through
the thinking instruments of an individual, the brain of the physical body
and manas of the primary, astral body work co jointly, just as the physical
and astral bodies work co jointly. Incoming impulses, the first ingredient,
contact us via the electromagnetic field of the astral body. We observe in
diagrams 1 and 2 that they enter through the primary and flow into the
secondary body through the five senses and sense organs, and thence flow
in the nadis up the spine.

If the individual is not developed biologically, the block at the base of

the central spinal canal is in `closed' position, so they rise by the set
of the twin nadis, ida and pingala, i.e. through the corresponding nerves
in the physical body running up the spinal cord to the medulla oblongata,
and reach up to the base of the brain, taluka. But for those who are
developed and have become whole biologically and are now established in
stage 3a, this block is consciously put in `open' position, so the
incoming impulses will rise and flow up the central spinal canal, the
sushumna, if required. In short, if one is established in 3a one can
consciously open and close the blocks at the base of the spine and at
taluka.

Stage 3a established, as in diagram 3a, is a particular case of the

developed person who lives his normal householder's life and attends to
his normal duties and obligations, during which time he allows the
functioning of the blocks as in diagrams 1 and 2, but with the
established ratio of 5:2:2:1, with mental, emotional and sex energies
refined and spiritual will developed, and also with the energies of life
and awareness and the energy of the essence of consciousness of first
grade. But knowingly and on purpose, the individual allows this flow in
the normal course of the thinking process. So the diagrams 1, 2 and 3a
appear to be the same, but with vital differences as are clearly shown in
the diagrams and explained earlier.

During the normal thinking process, these incoming impulses reaching

taluka flow from the hind brain through the passage over the top of the
brain to the fore brain, the registration area. In doing so they pull out
the identical memory patterns, the second ingredient, from brain section
IIIa (normally) in the hind brain, and together they flow, floating in
the UDM, to reach the front brain section I or the registration area. Thus
we find that within the registration area enter (a) incoming impulses, (b)
identical memory patterns, and (c) the UDM flowing in the individual as
individual mind. Shall we now consciously allow thought forms or mind
modifications to take place, or prevent thought forms from transforming
into cancerous desires, and how?

These incoming impulses and identical memory patterns have innumerable

shades of tamas and rajas (in particular) and sattva, depending on the
stage of each individual's inner development. The intensity chart gives
but a glimpse of various shades of these three qualities and the ratio
prevalent in the registration area, showing whether an individual is at
stage 1 or 2 or 3a of the thinking process. The incoming impulses have
colour, sound and vibrations in coded form and the identical memory
patterns also have a code and are thus able to decode the incoming
impulses and together they form meaningful recognition, i.e. the negative
thought picture (in the sense of a photographic negative). Such repeated
recognition forms the basis of knowledge. Thus gathering of knowledge is a
slow and tiresome process and has great limitations. The method of direct
impressions during sleep is much faster.

These identical memory patterns give recognition to the incoming impulses

-- but without any reaction -- and as per such recognition do the four
centres in the registration area give colour, i.e. develop the thought
picture accordingly. Without such recognition the incoming impulses create
strange and unknowable pictures and normal life is not possible. This
state we call loss of memory, i.e. the valves or gates do not open and
spill memory patterns.

Universal Divine Mind is the sustaining and life-giving substance without

which the incoming impulses and the memory patterns can neither survive
nor act or germinate, i.e. they cannot form any thought forms or thought
pictures, for it acts as a catalyst. Even in its grossest state, it is
clean and most pliable. The life span of the incoming impulses and of the
memory patterns leaving their insulated protective area of sections IIIa-b
in the rear brain through the minor blocks or valves is a minute fraction
of a moment only, not enough time to allow them to reach from taluka to
the front brain. So they would die or perish if not preserved floating in
this UDM within each individual. In fact, without the UDM ordinary life as
we know it would not be possible at all -- all would be at a standstill
in the physical world and normal awareness would cease. Can we, therefore,
consciously prevent thought forms or modifications of the mind or brain
from being transformed into cancerous desires?

So this UDM, whilst flowing at non-stop at all times through the

individual, is the `individual mind', and the product is awareness,
ranging from zero awareness at nadir to extreme awareness, including
intuition, at its highest (but at no stage is it ever pure Cosmic
Consciousness)! Intuition is the product of awareness plus the first grade
of the energy of the essence of consciousness. It ends at the stage shown
in diagram 3b.

In the registration area are the four vital points: I (intellectual), E

(emotional), S (sexual) and M (movement) centres, that make thought
pictures meaningful. They suck up the (a) incoming impulses and (b)
identical memory patterns -- but not (c) UDM -- and in less than a
fraction of a moment -- in 1/10,000th of a second -- release them both
back into the registration area that is filled with the flowing UDM (that
flows out at ajna), having coloured both in the ratio that each human
being is under -- whether 2:4:8:2 in case of those who are as per diagrams
1 and 2, or 5:2:2:1 in case of those who are as per diagram 3a -- and with
such corresponding intensities and emotions as per the intensity charts
shown for all the types of people functioning as per diagrams 1 and 2 or
3a. By `colouring' of the four vital points, we mean motive and inherent
qualities predominant are superimposed.

When they drop back, the UDM takes shape accordingly and each thought form
has a shape or picture with appropriate intensities and flows out at ajna
centre, point # 7, to become the incoming impulses of someone else. The
UDM is thus involved in thought formations, which is the mechanism of the
brain and not the purpose of the mind, which is only to throw light in
dark corners. Thus the mechanical processes of the brain become the
modifications of the UDM. This admixture is what is called thinking,
whether correct or incorrect.

With such resultant intensities now in the registration area, pictures are
formed, all at immensely rapid speed, and are thrown out of the system at
point # 7 as actually mental excretions, i.e. outgoing impulses which
become incoming impulses to other persons. And so life goes on with
pictures formed in quick succession and flowing like a movie camera. This
is how, directly and indirectly, we are responsible for pouring back into
the flowing UDM our thought pictures, and as this UDM flows in all the
three universes, so we can be the cause of someone's thinking for better
or worse!

If we can send out refined pictures, how much it would help others to pick
them up. This universal ocean is sensitive and just as the merest touch
anywhere on our body is felt by our whole being, so each thought sent out
is absorbed by the all-pervading and flowing UDM. But just as the oceans
of the world, in spite of all the dirt and filth thrown in them, are
clean, so the UDM deposits such thoughts in other individual minds
depending on their individual vibrational tones. This is the subtlest of
processes of Existence. So sitting quietly at home one can do much, so
much that showing off to the world and doing social work is nothing before
it; even sick people can be cured and the sad and miserable can be
solaced.

Without the action of these four centres a thought picture remains a

negative, formed as soon as incoming impulses and identical memory
patterns meet and create recognition, but the picture can get fused or
blurred if not developed in the registration area, and it is these four
centres that develop instantly -- in less than 1/120th of a second -- to
give a finished thought picture in all its natural colours, i.e. all
emotions and intellectual gymnastics added. But all this is only possible
when the UDM fills up the registration area. Now if we temporarily keeping
out the Universal Divine Mind as one of the factors needed in forming
thought pictures, the incoming impulses and the identical memory patterns,
which normally flow with or rather float on the surface of the river of
the flowing Universal Divine Mind that keeps them alive, wither and die
before they reach the registration area. The individual would be in a
state of coma and normal physical life would not be possible.

So these four factors are needed to make thought pictures or forms and
participate in the process of thinking, from the most elementary or
primitive or sub-human to the most logical or subjective or so-called
higher thinking. In short, all so-called thinking is merely a neural
process carried out by the two computers of the brain, sections I and
IIIa-b, mechanically and automatically. The data feeding the computers are
incoming impulses and identical memory patterns, the processing material
is the Universal Divine Mind, and the processing equipment are the four
centres I-E-S-M in section I of the brain computer.

We have always associated the brain as the only instrument capable of

thinking and yet have never bothered to know how it functions. We have not
even cared to know which parts of the brain do the so-called thinking. The
whole brain is not involved in thinking, even in the logical or subjective
thinking. This process of thinking being the same for all types of
thinking instruments, we are sometimes impressed by the intelligence of
the sub-human species also because the process is the same, only the data
differs. We have also never given a thought to find out whether there is
any difference between brain and mind. Some people think that the
collective thoughts make up one's mind, but we know that collective
thoughts make up only our memory pattern pools and are lodged in the hind
or rear brain sections IIIa and IIIb.

Here, as we have noted earlier, when the incoming impulses and identical
memory patterns are sucked up by the four points I-E-S-M (in either of the
ratios), with the moment of mind-control -- via a pause or a deep breath,
which would take a second or more -- these four vital points I-E-S-M pause
for a second or more and do not colour these sucked-up incoming impulses
and identical memory patterns before dropping them back into the
registration area which is filled with the UDM. With their life-span being
a very small fraction of a moment, these incoming impulses and identical
memory patterns are then dead -- they float out as dead bodies at point #
7 and disintegrate, for the life-giving substance, the UDM, has been
withheld from them for a second or more of the pause. Thus no picture
forms are made, no modifications of the mind or the thinking instrument
take place. So we realize what this moment of pause can do -- it is a
great step and has to be cultivated consciously and diligently and this
habit is to be established. Thus we can consciously prevent thought forms
or mind modifications, can we or can we not? Theoretically it seems
possible, but the answer is `No'.

As long as a person is at the stage of diagrams 1 and 2, when the ratio

5:2:2:1 is not established, it is not possible for the simple reason that
the movement of incoming impulses is at molecular speeds and our conscious
efforts to introduce a pause is at cellular speed. So physically, or
consciously, it is not possible to introduce a pause. The incoming
impulses come at 1/120th of a second and the fastest introduction of a
pause may require half a second. Such persons have only their sympathetic
system functioning and the parasympathetic or corrective system is yet not
developed and functioning.

Those who are at stage 3a and are established in the ratio 5:2:2:1 have
their parasympathetic system also functioning and so a pause can be
introduced automatically with the help of this corrective system at the
speed of 1/120th of a second. When the flow of incoming impulses and the
introduction of the pause is at the same speed, then (like changing of car
gears) the pause can be introduced smoothly and effectively. Only then
can the thought forms and mind modifications be consciously prevented.
This is a great achievement, leading one to the next stage, 3b.

On Awakening And Keeping Awake

We cannot understand what it is to remain awake in one hour of talking

about it and what it entails cannot be described in one volume. To remain
awake is, over all and everything, the hidden meaning of the great mystery
of organic life on Earth. We are here interested in the life of `man', and
one should not expect subjective wisdom which has been hidden for ages to
be easily understood.

Stop thinking and be content to be! Awakening has many facets: taste the
wine, look at flowers, hear the music. Remaining awake needs no special
way of life -- in all the simple activities of life, let us be present and
not perform automatically. Your mind must be where you are or in
whatsoever you are engaged in. It is strange, it is always quite close; it
is an external consideration, a non-identification, non-expression of
negative emotions. Above all, transform all suffering. One's self can be
evoked during moments of great danger or amidst great beauty.

One can equate remaining awake to remaining constantly aware of 3SRB

(three-step rhythmic breathing, or the all-purpose yogic breath, the
correct natural breath we are born with). 3SRB and remaining awake are the
same, for only 3SRB established for all 24 hours can keep you awake, even
in sleep. To be, or to remain, awake is a 24 hours a day endeavour, just
as 3SRB is! There is no substitute for remaining awake or for 3SRB. It is
not mind or brain activity, and knowledge cannot be a substitute for it
either. Any activity that hinders one from remaining awake or makes one
forget 3SRB is wrong activity. 3SRB is something objective that can be
experienced and which can help you to remain awake if you can keep it in
observation from time to time. It is also important to know that 3SRB by
itself will not go on because it has also no momentum, till it has been
established. So remember your practice of 3SRB and remember to practice
many, many times daily.

Remember to remain awake, because this state by itself has no momentum of

its own. It has to be consciously pushed continually, one must make
efforts moment to moment. The moment you cease to do so you are asleep,
and if you are asleep you cannot carry on with 3SRB either, because 3SRB
is a proof of your remaining awake, just as early light is proof of the
sunrise! If you are awake, you need no friction from higher powers in your
life, because friction is introduced to remind you that you are asleep. We
cannot rely on accidents to produce awareness of a higher order.

One must not meditate under special circumstances and at certain times,
but under all circumstances and each waking moment -- this we may describe
as true "meditative attitude". It is never possible to evolve without
experiencing this state, without being awake. We must be able to
distinguish between wakeful sleep and being awake. The self is always
awake, the body/brain system knows sleep. "I look through my eyes, not
with them." We are what observes, and not what we observe. What observes
one's body/brain system is one's self, the fragment of divinity within
each one of us.

Awareness has degrees, like the moon, from no moon to full moon. True or
pure awareness can be divine; otherwise, low awareness can be degrading
and negative. Awakening can or must originate in the intellectual centre
as well as in the emotional centre. It is an emotional process and
friction must be emotional. It does not mean being emotional is better
than being intellectual, but let not being intellectual dry your higher
emotions or suffocate them. Friction, i.e. 3SRB, can seem to be a curse,
until we begin to realize the great idea behind it! What is the great
idea? -- Immortality! Restoring the dead to life is the true meaning of
remaining awakened or truly awakening others. We have within us the
beginning and the end of creation. To remain awakened is not a sensation,
it is an immortal process. Each time you remember it, you produce a flash
of eternity that will not perish. We are foolish when we value the
tangible above the intangible.

How do I get you to understand what I understand? Unnecessary talk kills

the state of being awake. Silence is our business. Walt Whitman said, "And
now the profound lesson of reception, neither preference nor denial." Just
accept what each moment offers. Also remember that to remain awake is a
private business not worth talking about. When that state appears,
experience it instead of talking about it. If you are awake and other
people cannot see it, then you are truly awake. Talking about awakening
is not awakening. It is beyond words. Time appears to stand still when one
is truly awake. When intellectual types first learn about how to remain
awake, they often speak too much! Speech destroys this state or the
oncoming of this state.

What do I need to do? -- the million dollar question on your lips! When
you eat, taste your food; when you listen, actually make your ears work.
Divided purposeful attention is a state of remaining awake, divided
unconscious attention is sleep. Your heart will lead you and it knows what
is right if your brain does not interfere.

In the end nothing stands between you and the state of being awake but
yourself. Anyone not in the business of self-remembering is in the wrong
business. Do not sacrifice the state of being awake for anything else in
the world because everything else is secondary. No experience can compare
with one's awakening -- it is the great truth amidst the great lie,
everything else is false.

At a certain period in our evolution (that point in time!) everything is

nonsense. When you are asleep everything is worth achieving or having;
with awakening, material life becomes zero. Are you afraid of that? Death
sweeps everything away, but it cannot touch the acquired state of
remaining awake, and so we can die consciously and be born consciously.
The awake state is a never to be forgotten state. St. Paul said, "Behold I
show you a miracle, we all shall not sleep." Humanity must remain under
the law of accident because it does not know what is the state of
awakening. To be awake means that one is aware both of one's self and what
one is doing or viewing. Remaining awake frees one from the law of
accidents.

The whole of Existence groans to be delivered. Everything in nature is

driven to exist, but does not know where to go. YOU are not the role you
are playing. Two things become apparent as one awakens: (1) that there is
truly no hope without the acquired state of being awake, and (2) how great
is this state!

Although one must be emotional to awaken, it does not require an emotional

centre of gravity. Avoiding sentimentality does not make one insensitive;
it makes one sensitive to finer states and to nobler values. People
without substance continually require novelty. What a breakthrough it is
when our ears begin to hear and our eyes begin to see! But results do not
come easily. It builds character, sanskaras, structure. Being awake is
difficult, precisely because it is the key to a new world! So if you would
rule all, rule yourself above all.

If one has the aim of remembering one's self, i.e. to remain awake, that
is the first force; imagination that poses a denial is the second force,
and friction, brought by higher forces, is the third force. When two
forces oppose one's mechanical life, one's higher aim can be met; one then
understands the need of receiving outside help to awaken. It may be a
painful experience! Omar Khayyam wrote, "And when the dark angel with his
darker drought draws up to thee, take that and do not shrink." This means
that in material life one is made a zero, yet do not shrink. The awake
state is sought eternally in books, in places and with external gurus; all
that is needed is to remember your self always and everywhere.

The state of being awake is a nuisance to the body/brain system which

wants to live its own life, would rather have its own wishes and remain
blissfully asleep. False personality is opposed to the state of being
awake. The body/brain system cannot remember itself because the state of
being awake is not mechanical and the body/brain system is mechanical.
Contradictions exist within our body/brain system because we are not ONE.
We have many brains. So much of our day is composed of our body/brain
system in wanton consumption of precious energy. It would be foolish to
think that the state of being awake is easily attainable. Different
subjects interest the different many brains or the different many parts of
the body/brain system. Will the body/brain system ever give up the idea
that it is missing something? And so it continually seeks this or that. It
will attempt to use excessive fear or doubt to undermine one's work.
Simply correct the situation by remaining awake, or keep the state of
being awake.

We normally think of the brain as one solid mass. We have many minor
brains within this brain as well as in the body itself. We do not know
which minor brain is working at what time and so it happens that one of
these brains will make a resolution and another would not want it or care
for it. We have to first become one within. The many minor brains that
create the many `I's should first be made into one co-ordinated brain and
one co-ordinated `I'. If this does not happen, or rather till this
happens, there will be conflicts within, and `will', which is the outcome
of one co-ordinated `I', does not function. This happens in an individual
over innumerable lifetimes as one proceeds: from neutral will (i.e. a
will that is able to do nothing) through intellectual will (i.e. useful in
the objective universe) to spiritual will, capable of doing much,
subjectively and objectively, when one is properly established. This state
of spiritual will within removes all inner conflicts and gives one the
strength as well as the purpose to remain awake and not be lost completely
and be unaware, i.e. sleeping and/or indulging in day-dreaming or
brooding. The practices that help are the refining exercises, the
corrective exercises which are applicable, the upgrading of awareness
exercises (with or without the prism), the phase exercises, and, of
course, unfailing 3SRB.

Thus the contradictory state of an average human being: a human being is

structured in transcendence: that is, all the required energies and higher
centres are all structured within and provided for functioning, so
that should one sincerely apply and work, the result must follow. Yet, at
the same time the body/brain system is `designed' to sleep and remain
asleep. The minor brains remain separate and demanding their pound of
flesh and the many `I's make inner confusion worst confounded. It is
easier to sleep, it is easier to remain involved and to identify, it is
easier to day-dream and/or brood. These two contradictory aspects of a
human being within are both strong; one downgrades and the other upgrades
us. In life we experience that it is easier to go down and difficult to go
up. The choice is yours -- one road leads to oblivion, the other to
immortality! To help awaken those who are asleep, nature brings in
friction in their lives, and in some cases shocks.

How can we correctly concentrate our sex energy? The holy ground in our
body/brain system is not in the heart or in the brain -- it is the sex
centre, the area in the region of the perineum (the prana circulation at
muladhara -- swadhisthana). This area is in the astral body and coincides
in the physical body. It is a depository for energy in the body/brain
system where nature quietly generates precious energies of life, awareness
and will. It is a mechanism designed to refine materials, including food,
air and incoming impulses. Its higher, invisible, purpose is to be
utilized in always remaining awake.

Scientifically, this area forms the fulcrum or the centre of gravity of

the body/brain system. We are born here and we die here, not in the heart
or in the brain or in the lungs. The first breath in the lungs is possible
only if two sparks take place at birth, one at muladhara and the other at
swadhisthana. The heart's first throb (on its own volition) then begins,
for till now, as a foetus, it throbbed with the help of and in conjunction
with its mother's heart. If the two sparks take place, all is well and the
child lives. It is also this area that will stop at death; when death
overpowers the body/brain system, the heart and the pulse may last
fractionally longer.

On one level sex energy is designed to perpetuate/procreate, on a higher

level it is intended to ignite by transmuting/sublimating it. It
transforms crude energy into finer energy (ojas) through the process of
being awake. But for such a generation to begin, one must have control
over one's sex. It does not mean that we deny healthy sex, but its misuse
or overuse must be controlled judiciously. Wrong work misuses sex energy.
One can profitably use sex energy by remaining awake for longer periods,
preferably always. Sex, like religion, keeps a man asleep.

In the awakened person, a finer and higher energy is processed here -- the
energy of the essence of consciousness. It is not consciousness, it is the
energy for the formation of essence -- an `in between ground' -- between
the body/brain system and the Self. This substance which is processed, and
which is actually the higher type of energy, is sometimes called `the
essence'. Some misunderstand essence as Self, but remember it is an
`inbetween ground', the connecting link between the material and the
spiritual aspects of a human being. Without formation of essence the
body/brain system cannot wake up. In the beginning stages its quality is
little, and whenever in a spurt of conscious progress it is utilized one
is lukewarm again. In later stages with dedicated practice, it is produced
abundantly and the source never dries up.

Conscious efforts to awaken and regenerate this area would start the
regeneration of higher energies and when these energies reach the brain
via the spine centres, higher centres open and transformation takes place
in an individual because it is all structured thus in a human being by God
and Nature. There are other methods followed by many different schools on
this subject but this is the most potent method of all. Remember each
human being is structured for transformation, but we have to make it
happen -- it is not given as a gift to some few. But these few have worked
day and night to make this possible. It gives natural control over (a)
memory, (b) lower emotions and (c) negative states of mind, and will
generate essence. One must not identify and/or involve oneself with one's
negative state of mind and must practise 3SRB. To this effect one must
practise voluntary suffering for a little while.

We do have an incredibly intelligent body/brain system. But do we ever

think that there is some greater intelligence behind this body/brain
system. Still, we must not underestimate our body/brain system, especially
its capacity for playing mischief. But it cannot remember itself because
it thinks it has nothing to gain from it. If it can, then Soul or Divine
Fragment would be redundant to it!

We can to a certain extent calm the beast, our body/brain system. Also
never underestimate the instinctive centre, the solar plexus, the remnant
of animal instincts. It is always poised to undermine any efforts to
remain awake. This centre attempts to destroy hope; it pretends to the
state of full awareness. To expect this centre to be able to experience
the awake state is to expect the cow to jump over the moon. Yet when
eating, this centre is very receptive and one can work on this centre.
Because one dines 80,000 times in one's lifetime (not including snacks),
it is the best time to remain awake. Perhaps this is why ancient wisdom
required that whilst eating one must observe silence. But eating in excess
prepares the body/brain system for sleep!

The Bible says, "For now we see through a glass darkly," which means that
we experience the world through our body/brain system as if through a dark
glass, that of false personality. False personality is a compilation of
unconscious acts acquired from others. The real part of us is strong.
False personality has numerous masks. If friction were not given by higher
forces, one would remain automatic and asleep always. When higher centres
will develop, false personality will question them because its existence
is then threatened. It does not see itself as false.

Every situation can serve one as an opportunity for making an effort to

remain awake. You have to examine what takes its place and experience an
internal civil war. To help you in fighting this internal civil war, which
each sincere aspirant has to fight, various techniques have been evolved,
like 3SRB, the preliminary exercises, etc. Why does this civil war take
place? Slowly in life after life one progresses from brute, automatic,
unthinking reflex action to correct, all-considering, self-remembering
thinking and feeling. One is able to generate the higher type of energy --
the energy of the essence of consciousness -- in a small trickle. When it
dries up the aspirant fails and civil war takes place. Again the energy is
generated and the aspirant gets a little success, and when it dries up
again the aspirant fails again. There are regrets, there are resolutions
-- all to no avail when the energy dries up. It happens thousands of times
in life after life. In some one life as the struggle continues one meets
or comes across a book or a teacher, and many a teacher there be who would
mislead. These are the symptoms of one who has begun the path of
awakening, of self-remembrance; it is a long journey.

Initially one's centre of gravity (structure of acceptance or sanskaras),

the state prevailing at the perineum is a major denying force. If essence
is aware both of itself and of the object viewed, higher centres will
start functioning. Essence has no value unless it is accompanied by
serious and continuous efforts to remain awake.

Why do we wish to concentrate on a talent we have instead of on our own

awareness? If we could put the same efforts into trying to remain fully
awake, what would we achieve? -- Immortality!

It is tragic that one stands in one's own way through one's own `I's. By
resisting the inclinations of our body/brain system our true self will
emerge. It takes many lifetimes to transform essence, to make higher
centres work, and it takes many lifetimes to form essence. The road
that leads to establishing the state of awakening is very long; a few
hundred thousand lifetimes is average.

Fear and resentment can extend one or two minutes of suffering into hours
and days. Real grief is not a negative emotion when there is restraint and
silence. One must use voluntary suffering to awaken but other people
should not know. Keep irritating the body/brain system. Use voluntary
suffering for fifteen minutes and then find something else. But be within
means and do not defeat your will by trying to do too much.

Almost anything is an excuse for preventing the state of being awake. It

is much easier to imagine, daydream, brood, be identified or negative than
to be awake. We still have not gone to the bottom of things as long as we
are blaming someone or something else. These substitutes are active when
we are asleep. However we can function without them. We awaken by removing
excuses and illusions. The many `I's bewilder the simplicity of being
awake. The intellectual centre does pose questions indefinitely
distracting one from the need to be awake. Self-pity is the greatest
enemy. One needs to study other people as well as oneself to understand
how features like vanity or fear manifest.

What replaces the efforts to remain awake is a variety of non-important

phenomena. We should struggle to prevent the state of being awake from
disappearing behind our daily petty routine, just as 3SRB also disappears.
One must understand that one gains something real and eternal when one is
really awake. We have something within us that is immortal. Do you also
believe so? -- Then why the hesitation? Higher forces gradually corner
one into living in the present by gradually removing a series of lies.
However, being awake is not a mind activity.

It is not the event, the people, or the time of life, that is the
obstacle, it is one's own many `I's. Think of the great chaos that exists
each day within us. We have random brains that move from one area to
another and we call that `man'. "It is a generous title for a divine
comedy." It is amazing what floats around in our brain. We go through
periods of extreme behavior and during these times our work is to remain
awake and persevere in doing so till the period lasts, no matter how long.

It is useful and necessary to think about what interfered with our state
of being awake today. We can observe that many of the situations that
brought sorrow or joy were not worthy of these states. It is sad one is
to be taught to remain awake. One can forget a coat or an umbrella, but to
forget one's self or 3SRB is unpardonable, even after knowing what we can
gain and achieve thereby!

Our major problem is how to avoid identifying with our problems. For
example, try not to identify when the body/brain system is lying! Because
it does not matter what one's body/brain system is doing if one is asleep.
Our bodies were and are designed to sleep, not to remain awake, so we must
go against nature. The body/brain system thus requires a push every
moment.

Identification masquerades as humility! If one is not careful one can

spend one's entire life in identification and this is what we usually do.
Some of the things we take seriously you could not sell for a rupee. But,
it is understandable that one cannot severe old bonds without pain; at any
time one's self may cease to move on the path of evolution and that is
truly death.

We know awareness has degrees. Identification is a state of madness, maybe

a little less than actual madness. Very small things catch us: he did
not remember my birthday! One must remember that a higher right exists:
the right to be! One has difficulties with others because one has
difficulties with oneself. Identification (getting involved), regardless
of the subject, is a negative emotion. It is not possible to evolve
without confronting one's deepest identifications.

What is the strongest force against keeping awake? Imagination, which is a

natural state of a man. It is a state we have to struggle with throughout
our lives. Imagination consumes energy and intrudes into all circumstances
so that reality seems to be a foreign experience. Does not 3SRB seem a
foreign experience today in comparison to our wrong breathing? When you
yield to imagination, i.e. day-dreaming or brooding, and similarly to
wrong breathing, something great disappears behind something small -- your
state of being awake suffers. Do you realize what 3SRB can give? Total
rhythm and peace, and yet you would allow that to disappear behind your
daily routine or your dreaming.

One can see how desperate is one's condition when one discovers oneself in
imagination while reading the topic of being awake! One can remember
oneself only when one sincerely and ardently desires to remain awake or to
awaken.

We must struggle with all forms of imagination as with the sexual. False
personality does not wish its false life of imagination interrupted by the
reality of the state of being awake. Is it not odd that we have to be
taught to breathe correctly? Is it not odd that we have to be taught to
live in the present? When one awakens and discovers that it is the
body/brain system speaking, a sense of alarm passes through one, because
one realizes that one's body/brain system functions adequately only in
sleep!

These two familiar adversaries to being awake, imagination and

identification, will haunt one throughout life. One of the sad things
about friction is that it passes away -- and we prevail -- not learning
anything out of it! There must be tension in one's life to awaken, but
most or all people are asleep and they do not want to be disturbed. When
friction is intense and extreme, it is difficult to control internal
storms, we tend to succumb or become indifferent, but it is also true that
if friction stops, the state of being awake also stops. Under real stress,
all philosophical wisdom gives way to the silent bearing of the ruling
faculty. When friction is intense we may forget that it is a play, when it
subsides we realize it; but the shock was intended to reveal
identification and develop higher centres.

How can one attract more friction to be more awake? By introducing

voluntary suffering in life. One is fortunate to receive friction in the
form of large shocks. They help us to evolve. Jesus said, "The son of man
hath nowhere to lay his head." What do you think is the greatest
friction? Awakening is a moment to moment struggle -- don't wait for the
friction to end. "When will this end?" wrote Rilke; "How dear you are to
me, you nights of sorrow! Why do I not kneel more to receive you and give
myself more unto you? We are wasters of sorrow! How we gaze beyond them
into some drab future to see if they may end there!"

You receive friction when you need it. Trials force sincere students to
surface. One's mechanical morality thinks friction is punishment. Some
even say, God is testing him or her! The aim is to transform. If we are
awake when experiencing friction we assimilate suffering. But no inner
mental dialogue is necessary! It is mechanical to resist friction, but
divine to transform it. One can become exasperated under pressure, yet one
must try to allow oneself to reach that point. The only way out is to
change one's level of being (our structure) through not identifying.
"Submit in Silence!" The only answer is to remain awake! Everyone gets the
crunch but we come through our trials the stronger for them. We cannot
escape through thinking (inner mental dialogue), we cannot escape through
laughter or crying. We can only escape if we are awake.

Life is sleep and we are going against the stream if we keep awake. Like
salmon with a strong homing instinct we must swim against the strong
currents of life's sleep to remember ourselves and to develop. What is it
to be a man, to be human? We cannot awaken unless we have verified that we
are asleep. When one deeply and truly understands that one's time is
limited, then regardless of one's age one will try to awaken. Higher
forces become more serious with one as each year progresses.

Almost no one realizes the enormity of what can be gained or lost during
one's life time. One gains immortality or suffers oblivion or worse. Every
moment that you are awake you pierce eternity. No one provides enough
pressure on oneself to awaken which is why higher forces provide the
necessary shocks. It takes more to awaken than one knows and more than the
body/brain system is willing to admit. Remaining awake is a challenge we
have to accept even though at times it seems almost too much and beyond
our capacity and our level of being. Courage can have limitations, but
awakening requires no courage, only perseverance -- simply endurance!

Never lay aside the state of being awake. Higher awareness is not given,
it is earned through one's efforts, aided by higher forces. In trying to
awaken one has to realize that there are no guarantees. If you want to be
immortal, you will be; if you want something else, you will get that. The
choice is yours. What does it mean to make extra efforts? "There is not a
moment without some duty. One must work beyond one's capacity daily to
change one's level of being."

What is the origin of tension in our body/brain system? How can it be used
for remaining awake? We live in a mechanical age that produces tension
within one's system, only it helps to awaken. One way to avoid words for
registering impressions is to employ the just-look exercise -- merely to
look into the prism. Or while walking, one can concentrate one's attention
on an object that is within reasonable distance and try not to allow
thoughts to manifest until one has passed that object.

If one were to act consistently one would be acting consciously. How can
we be in the present when we plan for future needs? To everything there is
a season. There is need to plan for future needs, but do not prolong the
process and once it is finished, focus on the present. We must have a
total commitment to awaken. The most beautiful achievements are within our
reach, but because of man's own neglect they are seldom attained.

Never allow yourself to be so busy, to be in such a hurry, that you forget

your precious self. How can we include the element of surrender in our
moment to moment effort to remain awake? We should not need external
events to urge us to remember ourselves. We push ourselves to the limit to
remember. Why is it harder to do this the farther we go? Because we stop
being satisfied and have stopped fooling ourselves about our condition.
The real work starts from the realization that man is only a body/brain
system. It is a very rough road, but the only one worth traveling.

When Nature wants to drill a man,

When Nature wants to mould a man,
Watch her methods, watch her ways!
How She ruthlessly perfects,
How she hammers him and hurts him,
And with mighty blows converts him
While his tortured heart is crying
And he lifts his beseeching hands!
When Nature wants to make a man
To create him large and whole,
With what cunning she prepares him
Bid him struggle harder yet.

Angela Morgan.

One must become somewhat accustomed to suffering. Men require formidable

suffering to make them men. One must experience pain and rise above it,
only then one truly understands what one has suffered. Awakening is not
intended to be a pleasant process. One must pay the awesome price. It is
necessary to accept suffering as a life-giving principle. One can bend or
buckle under pressure. Do not wish for it to end, but try to transform,
"for in much wisdom is much grief." An element within us wishes that
suffering will or may occur to someone else instead of to us; it is the
solar plexus that is speaking.

There can be no victory without battle. One reason people suffer is

because they think of themselves too much. Higher forces are then assured
of having created a compassionate identity that will serve, rather than
selfishly abuse. One must suffer the same trials to achieve the same
spiritual results in any age. The same inexorable price must still be paid
for the same great purchase. Each must have the fortune and the misfortune
to verify that.

No man can know himself without carrying a heart that has endured despair.
One must strive for what is inaccessible, for that is where reality
dwells, and only despair can scale the great walls. Let us be touched but
not consumed by suffering. Remember when feelings of helplessness arise,
you have help, but for such who have really suffered. "While I thought
that I was learning how to live, I have been in fact learning how to die."

In the face of suffering, one of our prevalent weakness is resentment.

Rilke described such a man as a "water of sorrow." The best way one can
serve higher forces is by remembering oneself continuously. One of the
important functions of negative emotions is to distract us from
remembering our state of being awake. How can one prevent self-pity from
misusing the work of higher forces? How can we increase voluntary
suffering? Do what your body/brain system does not want to do or give the
body/brain system what it does not like.

Is voluntary suffering an artificial pressure or is it legitimate? It is

both. It produces results. It contains an element of will, but it must
constitute a small fragment of one's day. Do not overdo it (not more than
20 minutes a day). Is it easier to remain awake when one is relaxed or
tense than when one is feeling neutral? All three states are good for
remaining awake. "One's self and suffering must often wend a lonely,
mystical path and make no attempt to conceal this fact, for there is light
at the end of the tunnel."

Awakening is divine and higher forces use altogether different rules. They
do however love us consciously. It is wisdom's everlasting law that truth
can only be learned by suffering it. Transforming suffering requires the
state of being awake. There is really nothing we can do about suffering
except transform it. Life has many unpleasant moments that one must endure
with or without a system. Do not try to run away from suffering. Do we
bring about our own suffering? There is an irrevocable `play' written for
each person and each of us has to pay for receiving our awakening. You
lose nothing but your illusions. Sadness has its place but one needs to
nip it in the bud. "I trouble deaf Heaven with my fruitless cries."

The foe of real progress is sleep and so remaining awake is very necessary
at all times. "Nothing can make man so like God as suffering." One's
attitude towards events, and not the events themselves, determines whether
or not one will suffer. Maintain silence in the face of suffering. Giving
thanks sincerely -- true prayers -- is a state of being awake.

There must be friction always of sufficient magnitude to produce higher

awareness, though at times massive suffering forces one to question the
meaning of existence! Do not waste time in thinking thus. Friction is
given to all types of persons regardless of their centre of gravity. How
will you weigh or decide what type of suffering is greater? Few men who
become conscious know their alchemy, centre of gravity, or body type.
Although the methods used by higher forces may seem uncivilized, one must
attain the higher understanding that transforming suffering creates life
and peace. If one assimilates suffering correctly, there is no time to
indulge in self-pity. Self-pity does not prevent suffering, and neither
does rebellion.

Nothing is more noble, nothing is more important than transforming

negative emotions. One's wish to awaken increases with each lifetime, as
does one's intensity of friction. Few men have the strength to bear
awakening. Something is always trying to distract us from the present.
"Behind all negative emotions lies our permission." People who are
mechanically positive are not different from those who are mechanically
negative. How can one work without losing one's temper? Anger is a real
disappointment when it occurs. "Endure my heart, far worse hast thou
endured."

Everyone is not the same and one's soul is the result of his experiences
and suffering. As our goal is immortality, I wonder why we are not given
more suffering! All men require friction of all levels to improve their
level of being. One meets one's fate on the road one took to avoid it! So
do not think about escaping.

Transforming negative emotions must become a habit. If one is awake one

does not need friction, but if one is asleep one needs. It is a law that
one must transform negativity in order to awaken. Negative emotions are
always concerned with something small. A mere trifle consoles us because a
mere trifle distresses us. "I argue not against Heaven's hand," said
Milton. This is an example of transforming suffering. He said this only
later when he had awakened, for earlier he had rebelled against Heaven. In
his poem `On His Blindness' he asks, "Does God expect day labour light
denied?"

No surer sign of sleep exists than a negative emotion. Imaginary pressures

are responsible for many negative emotions, most of which originate in the
solar plexus, the centre of animal instincts in human beings. Experience
helps as time passes. It is a miracle to turn water into wine, i.e.
knowledge into understanding. The expression of negativity is mechanical
and deeply programmed into our body/brain system. Buddha used to eat
whatever fell into his begging bowl. We can transform negativity only when
we understand that we gain nothing by expressing it and gain everything by
resisting it. What a waste negative emotions will have been to us at the
end of our lives to have wasted a part of our precious life that way.

Some shocks show us how much potential we have and are not using. There is
no dwelling on one's loss. To be awake and yet to experience hatred cannot
occupy the same space within us. "Leave me then to fulfill the will of the
gods and to follow whither they lead," said Socrates.

The body/brain system has many subjective and objective states, but they
all can be illusions that take away our precious time. The non-expression
of negative emotions gives one energy -- it is silence under trial. One
reason it is difficult to awaken is because we are surrounded by six
billion people who are asleep and snoring. What does it matter if the
whole world cries out against you, if you are right! Relinquishing
negative emotions is indeed a matter of life and death.

Suffering itself is a waste, but transforming it is precious. Our human

heart is so great that there is almost no limit to what it can transform.
Regardless of what action one takes to develop one's essence, one's
efforts must also be accompanied by remaining awake. But one must
sufficiently increase the value of being awake. "When the object to be
gained is sufficiently valued" -- one may be able to extract moments of
wakefulness in a day; nevertheless, these fragments are your real
possession.

The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, though it
can be harsh enough, rightfully demanding its pound of flesh. If we are
not awake, we escape from it into the past or the future, by brooding or
day-dreaming, tinged as they are with regret or sorrow, and hope or
ambition. Six billion people on earth have not discovered the value of
3SRB, the one sure factor leading to being always awake, and what is worse
for them they do not want to hear or practice. They do not know what they
are missing. And some even on being told endlessly the benefits of 3SRB,
are yet asleep! It can take away all negativity and give precious energy
to progress. It is a reward unto itself but one would still prefer to
remain asleep, i.e. be busy with one's daily routine in preference to be
aware of 3SRB.

It seems that the more one knows, the more one does not know. Our job is
not necessarily to know but to be. Awareness has degrees and you must find
ways to increase it. Subjects like alchemy and essence do not mean much
compared to entering the path and seeking to remain awake. People seem to
forget and not understand that words are only symbols that point to a
silent reality. Symbols cease to be important when we have discovered the
reality.

We penetrate the present by not thinking of ourselves, by avoiding self

indulgence. You must find other things interesting besides yourself,
otherwise we strive to keep up a frail and feverish being. We identify
with trivial events and perpetuate illusions of reality. It is painful to
observe men as they are because they are capable of greater achievements,
yet they accomplish so little. If one does not keep moving towards one's
aim or goal to awaken and remain awakened, one is lost. Realizing that
one's time is limited regardless of age and being repelled by one's sleep,
these are two precious thoughts for increasing the value of remaining
awake. Man has within him that which can surpass the galaxies. But you get
ultimately what you want. Keep plunging into the unknown, knowing it is
the only direction -- Home.

Time brings all physical phenomena to an end. We can create moments that
are out of time. Remaining awake creates a timeless state. The older one
becomes the more one favours slow growth. Man can escape time by
transforming suffering. I do know that time does not exist for higher
centres. The word `immortality' means just that. It is appalling to
witness how people waste time, even after knowing that life is so short.
It would seem that you who are timeless and eternal are content to live by
the sense of eternities and so would make no effort to awaken.

Death is something very few people talk about and fewer prepare for. Being
awake alone can confront death. Death is one way to see one's nothingness.
To be awake seems a flaw in organic life on Earth. One must therefore make
great and ceaseless efforts to remain awake throughout life, even in sleep
at night. We must gather our awareness at the moment of death, but how can
this be possible to one who has been asleep his whole life.

We must study the idea of repetitions, i.e. cycles. To verify this, one
must study and one must remain awake. Credentials are deceiving and death
is not impressed by them. But death is a live experience to one who has
remained awake in life. Ordinary people are shocked into limbo in death.
Even humanity as a whole is not immortal and is periodically expunged by
higher forces. The man who has remained awake all life is imperishable.
Most aged people creep towards death, helpless and complaining. We too
will die, but we must do our best to remain awake at all times, and not to
complain and waste time but to transform and gain the ultimate experience
of death, the final act.

One may understand something clearly today and not comprehend it tomorrow
because awareness has degrees. The more fully one understands that one is
asleep, the more one will desire and make efforts to awake. When one is
not awake, where one goes one knows not. One simply disappears, robbed by
the thief of day-dreaming or brooding. We are fortunate our body/brain
systems are so delicately structured that we can readily enter immortal
realms! But the efforts are sadly wanting.

Nature, at the same time, does not encourage one's aim to awaken and has
arranged a variety of alluring deviations, otherwise awakening would be a
simple matter. We are like a drunken man staggering towards our goal, but
on the way we fall innumerable times. There are many lamps to guide one
on one's painful path, yet there are few who wish a light to penetrate
their darkness. One cannot have a conscience without awareness; I mean not
here the awareness of the sleep state. Regardless, one must work with what
one has. Being present here is not your state of presence!

One positive aspect of great shocks is that they lift the veil and we see
more, but this is true for those who do not buckle under. One is confused
if one is not awake. If you want to awaken, nothing will stand in your
way; if you do not want to awaken, `you' will stand in your way. The word
`want' is not `wish' -- it is a great determination. How can one
strengthen that tiny part in us that wants and is interested in awakening?
We receive shocks because we are asleep and we have no other purpose. If
you want to avoid more shocks, remain awake. Again I say, want is not
wish.

One must be sincere with oneself and know that one's soul is in a vessel
(the body/brain system) and one must always remember that awakening is not
for the vessel, but for the release of the soul from the vessel.
Nevertheless, it amounts to the vessel being awake to the thought of
releasing of the soul. Our many, many births have been mechanical, but at
least let this or the next one be a little conscious!

The intensity and duration of one's work will determine the level of one's
development. When one attempts to awaken, the many mechanical `I's will
start taking control. Be firm. One may have an emotional realization, but
in order to understand one must be fully aware. To awaken one must be
beyond the emotions and the intellect. The non-expression of negative
impressions is the major key to awakening. Higher awareness is not
mechanical, thus it must be earned. We are all naive to the requirements
of awakening -- it boils down to being crucified innumerable times. Take
nothing seriously but your aim to awaken; do not count on anything but the
present.

There can be awareness without functions and it is understandable. But

when there are functions without awareness, that is mechanicalness and it
is dreadful. How can we learn to relax? We are not here necessarily to
relax but to work on ourselves. Do not take the wrong things seriously.
Great attempts at esoteric knowledge do not improve our awareness, nor are
we a little more awake.

When higher centres function one is awake. The human body/brain system is
a very complex structure that hardly anyone understands. But it has
supreme potential. Do not be fooled looking at the primitive modern men.
The presence of higher centres is a gift of great value. It is because God
and Nature have structured a human being in transcendence -- if only he
would awake! And that state is not possible if one is thinking about one's
own self -- this is ordained. Our future bodies will be nearly the same in
future lifetimes, but our higher centres will progress and their progress
will improve our bodies. One must be the fourth dimension to understand
the fourth dimension, for time does not exist for higher centres.

Learning to bear discomfort produced by silence is a necessary step in

one's development. Awakening is mathematical -- it calculates the efforts
put in and the depth of sincerity. The very process of awakening alters
one's inner chemistry and one turns slowly from being entirely mechanical.
The intellectual centre cannot become awareness. We may describe and
define, but awareness remains awareness.

How tumultuous and pathetic our inner life is. The prism exercise is one
of the best ways to stop that chaos, or at least reduce it. We confuse the
physical form with life. The machine, the brain/body/mind system,
mistakenly thinks it is real. You will ultimately understand that the only
thing that holds you back is yourself. "Nature holds up to God nothing so
high as the finished and perfected man." Nature and higher forces cannot
and do not give the gift of awakening to one who places himself first.
Again I say, make a total commitment to awakening. Take constant help of
three-step rhythmic breathing. Understand that your life is at stake, so
work more painstakingly. Ask again and again, am I awake or asleep, am I
practising 3SRB?
Chapter 12

Pratyahara --- The Most Important Step

Sage Patanjali mentions the following eight steps of scientific yoga in

II(29): "The eight means of yoga are: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama,
pratyahara (abstraction, or withdrawal, of the senses from the sense
organs), dharna, dhyana, and samadhi." Of these, none are practised as
they should be by the exponents of yoga either in or outside India; those
who follow are the unknown, accepted disciples, quietly and sincerely,
under the guidance of their own Transcendental Teacher as per `oral
instructions' received as outlined in preliminary form in the fifth book
of the Yoga Sutra.

Of the first four steps we have already said a little in the preceding
chapters and in a previous book, `Yoga Sutra of Sage Patanjali --
Exposition and Practices'. For better understanding of these elementary
principles and before continuing from here onwards, it would be worthwhile
for the reader to study them well again. So far the disciple is
approaching the stage of diagram 3a and will then prepare for stages 3b
and, later, 3c. He or she has also accepted the fact that the only true
teacher is not to be found in the outside world and that the best of all
teachers is the Divine Fragment within -- Ishvara, the Transcendental
Teacher.

Such prepared and accepted disciples approached Sage Patanjali to receive

direct instructions from him; hence his opening sutra, I(1): "Now we shall
begin exposition of the science of union (yoga)," which clearly indicates
that such disciples had, by their sincere and ceaseless preliminary work
of yama, niyama, asana and pranayama, met the approval of the Sage and
were ready for higher scientific yoga practices. The biological growth
leading upto stage 3b is a prerequisite, otherwise we cannot begin our
higher practices.

We have observed earlier that there are many practices which help to
develop objective and subjective concentration, and which, if prolonged,
may give one some satisfaction in calling them meditation, but by no stretch
of imagination can this be termed dharna or dhyana. In short, for anything
known to us even remotely, we cannot translate the words dharna and
dhyana as `concentration' and `meditation' respectively. They mean
something quite different. We shall therefore use these words `dharna'
and `dhyana' as and by themselves and leave it to the reader to understand
what we mean by them.

In this chapter we shall begin with the stage pratyahara and then proceed
ahead. Even what we mean by pratyahara is completely different from the
traditional meaning attached to it. So before we proceed further, we have
to request you, the reader, again to set aside, indeed forget, all
preconceived ideas whatsoever you may have learnt and not mix them up with
all that we have to say here. You are at perfect liberty to deny and
refuse to accept anything that we have stated so far or shall state
hereafter, but when you read, for that time at least keep a free and open
mind. With this clear understanding we shall proceed ahead.

II(46): "The posture assumed must be steady and easy". II(47):

"Steadiness and ease of posture is to be achieved through persistent
slight effort ..." II(49): "When right posture has been attained, there
follows right control of prana and proper inspiration and expiration of
breath." There is no mention or emphasis in these sutras on any particular
posture or asana from amongst the many equally important postures known to
the great hatha yogis, who practised and were capable of extremely
difficult and complex postures. It is true that some of them are greatly
beneficial to all-round health, physical, mental and emotional, but that
they are able to take one on the path to higher scientific yoga, we are
not convinced. We may say, it is not worthwhile on the path unless it
helps one to be biologically whole; otherwise, indulging in these posture
as a possibility to reach higher stages is merely a waste of time.

Sage Patanjali recommends only one posture: that of the mind. He is

concerned with the disciple's brain and mind only, and so when he is
satisfied that this posture of the brain and mind is attained, i.e. that
the stages in diagrams 3a and 3b have been reached, he proceeds ahead
with them, for the simple reason that the brain and mind has now accepted
the Divine Fragment as the Transcendental Teacher. Naturally, peace of the
chitta has been achieved and should be maintained persistently, and this
should not take more than `slight effort' now.

IV(3): "The practices and methods are not the true cause of the transfer
of consciousness, but they serve to remove obstacles, just as the
husbandman prepares his ground for sowing." Beautifully said! The Sage
wants us to keep before our eyes the `purpose'. If the purpose is to
`redeem', know that it is so and in that case dissociate your thinking
from any angle of causation, otherwise there will be continuing confusion.
To that end, all that was practised earlier and will be practised
henceforth was and is only to remove animal instincts left over in the
human system and to be biologically complete.

Even beyond this purpose, i.e. after `redeeming', one has not to tarry
anywhere in Existence, not even in the Ring-pass-not, the Mahah region,
posing as an all-knowing Buddha, but to go beyond and reach the source --
Creation, Janah Universe and Divine Wholeness -- from where we, the Divine
Fragments, have come. So whatever we practice would not be the cause of
taking us to our source, but it constantly removes all bindings on us so
that we can reach the source, our Home. This thought is fundamental and
must be kept uppermost in mind, and practices may be varied for
individuals as suited from this angle only.

Transcendental meditation (not the bottled and advertised variety!) is

neither easy nor cheap. The hours are strictly laid down in the earlier
stage which is fairly long. Any disciple, to be sincere, has to be a
householder, fulfilling his or her normal duties and obligations, for
there is no need for anyone to run away from participation in worldly
activities to an ashram or to the Himalayas, for that is a
misunderstanding. This is to be faithfully understood. "You are permitted to
refuse matrimony in order that you may live
incessantly adhering to God. If, however, as one knowing the battle you
are willing to fight, take a wife and beget children."
"The procreation is the union of man and woman and is a divine thing, for
conception and generation are an immortal principle in mortal creation."
"The happiness of solitude is not found in retreats. It may be had in busy
streets."
"Unless and until the understanding of the web of life or the body of
vitality (the astral body) which underlies every human form and links
every part of a form with every other part, is recognized and known to be
a fact in nature, the problem will remain unsolved."
"There must be some means of exchange or communication between the
spiritual Self (cosmic consciousness, the Divine Fragment) and the
physical self. In other words, there must be some places or points within
the human body where the conscious self can transmit its consciousness,
authority and central control into the grosser elements of nervous energy,
blood and vitality."
"A man is a psychic entity; a life, through vibratory influence, has built
a form, coloured it with its own psychic qualities, and thus presented an
appearance to the environing world which will persist for as long a time
as he lives in form."
"There are no trifles in the life of a disciple; an unspoken word or an
unfulfilled action may prove a factor which is holding him from an
initiation."

Before we proceed further, we would like to clear some misconceptions

regarding `pranayama'. This word pranayama was coined even before the age
of the Upanishads. It was always associated with the technique and science
of prana direction within the primary body and the physical body had no
part to play therein. It is no breathing exercise -- during true and
proper pranayama, breath is not even taken as will be apparent later! A
normal person today is not even convinced and aware of the primary body
and the circulation of prana in the primary body. An external guide, if
good and sincere, can lead a disciple only upto the stage of pranayama,
and if anyone were to claim to teach the last four steps be on your guard.
Nor do we prefer to teach but will give you a fleeting idea!

One who has not had `oral instructions' of Sage Patanjali's `Fifth Book'
will never know the three-step rhythmic breathing (3SRB), for we are all
breathing incorrectly. However much we may indulge in other yogic
breathing exercises, please remember that an exercise is for a duration
only, and after it is over we go back to our incorrect breathing and undo
whatever good we may have done. So unless we have mastered 3SRB -- which
would mean that we have replaced our present incorrect breathing with this
correct rhythmic breathing and thus imposed the essential inner and outer
rhythm between the two bodies, physical and astral, so that they jointly
progress as a system -- no further progress is possible.

The astral/molecular body is cojoined to the physical and is the primary

body in sub-stages 4-5-6-7 of Bhuh on the upward arc. This physical body
has to synchronize its breathing to the prana intake rate of the astral
body. In chapter 11 this three-step rhythmic breathing is explained in
detail. When one masters this three-step rhythmic breathing, one replaces
inner conflicts with inner bio-rhythms. The vibrational rate of the bodies
is also superbly increased which is very essential for withstanding the
effects of the higher practices; one is then ready for pratyahara and
other higher practices and steps under the ablest guidance of the
Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara, the Divine Fragment within.

Further, through the astral body as the primary body, we have to practise
and perfect the movements on the astral planes, otherwise in the after
death state one finds oneself unsuited to function on these astral planes.
So these exercises are vital and they prepare the personality to `open
up', i.e. to separate consciously into two distinct bodies on purpose, the
physical from the astral; this means to `detach' the bodies, and from this
ensues detachment, or pratyahara -- not detachment from worldly goods, but
that is expected as a mental state of the disciple.

The astral body can be compared to the beams and pillars of a structure
from the foundation upwards and the physical body to the bricks, walls,
windows and doors that cover this structure. Just as we ordinary people
see only the outer form of the structure and appreciate it as we see it,
but are unaware of the state of these beams and pillars, the load factor,
so we see only this outer form of a human being that is the physical body.
But a civil engineer will check to evaluate the structure and not just
admire its outside form, unlike us ordinary people who admire only what we
see, the outer form, for we cannot see beyond. Likewise, the experienced
disciple will study this primary body to evaluate a person. "You see
things as they are and ask why? But I dream things that never were and ask
why not!"

True pranayama will be possible at the stage of pratyahara and beyond

during higher practices, and true pranayama practices relate to the
direction of prana in the primary body upon the completion of biological
development, without which it is not possible to direct prana, nor for
spiritual will to function, nor for conscious operation of the blocks or
valves, nor for the mid-brain's important development and generation of
vital energies which also cannot take place.

Just as for breathing we have the left and right nostrils, so for prana
intake are two important nadis or nerves in the primary body: the left one
is ida and the right one is pingala. (Refer to the diagrams.) The majority
of prana goes to muladhara centre where the energies of `life' and
`awareness' are generated and some 10% of the prana reaches swadhisthana
centre and generates the third grade of the energy of the essence of
consciousness. This process, as does our breathing, begins at birth and
continues automatically and incorrectly, and also like our breathing has
to be consciously corrected.

Not until a person is biologically whole will 50% of prana intake be

diverted to swadhisthana, and when this is achieved the first grade of the
energy of the essence of consciousness is generated and the emotional,
mental and sex energies refined and sublimated. Now this first grade
energy of the essence of consciousness can form a link or bridge between
awareness of body/mind/senses and pure consciousness of the Divine
Fragment. Let it be clear that pure or Cosmic Consciousness is not an
energy -- it is indescribable. But only now is awareness conscious of pure
Cosmic Consciousness, the Divine Fragment, but this must not be just a
mental grasp but an experience. The higher stages of scientific yoga lead
to these experiences.

The energy of life and awareness at muladhara is `cool' but the energy of
the essence of consciousness at swadhisthana is `hot'. "O Ishvara! O
supreme God! Explain to me the inner meaning known to Thee! There are two
breathing which arise from the vital centres; why is one breathing cool
and the other hot?" This latter energy, after being generated, is
redirected to muladhara and these energies flow together, not as a
continuous stream but as packages or puffs, or quanta. At muladhara the
process of fusion takes place and at swadhisthana the process of fission
takes place. We have as yet no idea of atomic fusion and fission, though
we may think we know. How this generation could be silent, non
destructive and highly exhilarating, not in the next ten thousand years
will our science approach this level of technical perfection.

Together with this energy of life and awareness, the energy of the first
grade of the essence of consciousness is directed through the lower end of
the central spinal canal. This central passage, sushumna, is in between
ida and pingala, which wind around it (refer diagrams 3a-b-c). The major
vital block or valve, which for eternities was in closed position, is now
consciously opened and the energies are made to rise in the central
passage, sushumna. The other major block or valve at taluka, the base of
the brain, which for eternities had been in open position, is now closed
consciously. This is automatically so because both these major valves work
like a two-way switch: if one is open the other remains closed. This
conscious operation is possible due to spiritual will being generated with
the first grade of the energy of the essence of consciousness. All this is
still only early pratyahara stage, leading to advanced pratyahara stage.
Unless a disciple is thus ready, he is not an accepted disciple and no
oral instructions are ever given.

Observe points (1<-->2), the region of muladhara-swadhisthana in the

astral body, in diagrams 3a-b-c. As a first step on the journey, the
energies are directed from here up to the level of manipura chakra or
centre (point #4) in the central canal in the primary body. The other
major centre near manipura, touching it so as to appear as one but, in
fact, a separate and distinct centre, is kundali (point #3); though
separate, they are together known as the solar plexus area. This area, the
manipura chakra, is a centre of animal instincts and has to be totally
cleansed of all `psychic nature'. All memory patterns pertaining to this
centre are to be destroyed, obliterated like pest control by the rising
energies. This takes some time for it amounts to cleaning out "the Aegean
stables". When this manipura centre is cleansed, kundali centre begins to
work and not otherwise. For a prolonged period the energies are made to
rise up to this point and return to (1<-->2) for regeneration. The passage
as well as the centre manipura itself is thoroughly cleansed and
thereafter the energies themselves keep refining daily. This is still one
long period of pratyahara, for much work has to be done during this stage.

Why are points 1 and 2 considered for regeneration? When at conception the
first master sex-cell is formed, it then breaks into two. This first
breaking apart forms the cardinal nodes or points which then keep
bifurcating, and the main spinal cord is formed, followed by brain
formation, etc. From this important role of the two nodes (1<-->2), very
difficult and far-reaching tantric practices have been developed. But a
true tantric teacher is a near impossibility to find.

In this stage of pratyahara, non-attachment or detachment takes place, but

what actually is detached? The primary body is detached from the secondary
body. Why? "The sense organs are not the senses themselves." Whereas the
sense organs are in the physical body, the senses, namely the incoming
impulses that enter the primary body at the rate of 120 per second and
form the electromagnetic field of the physical body, flow in the primary
body. We are taking into account only those impulses we are concerned with
in the thinking process, for otherwise, as Dr. King has said, nearly
30,000 impulses enter our system per second. But as long as the two bodies
are cojoined, the flow of senses into the sense organs and thence to taluka
is seamless and seemingly unbroken. Earlier, before this stage, the
major block or valve at taluka was always in open position, so these
incoming impulses enter the passage over the top of the brain and in doing
so pull out identical memory patterns from section IIIa normally, and these
two together proceeded to section I, the registration area with the four
vital points I-E-S-M, where mind modifications take place. In the case
of ordinary persons, now and even tomorrow will this be the same old story,
but in pratyahara there is a total change.

The stage pratyahara is a pretty long one. What happens when detachment of
the two bodies take place? We can ask what happens when detachment of the
retina takes place -- it results in loss of vision. But detachment of the
primary body, the astral, from the secondary body, the physical, means a
`clinical death' of the physical body! Please do not mix this up with any
type of trance, for unlike in a trance there is awareness all the way --
absolute awareness throughout! When the astral is detached from the
physical body, contact is maintained directly at the front brain section I
of the physical brain, the registration area, where all later
transcendental experience will also be registered to become knowledge and
experience of the `personality', for then alone is redeeming is possible.

"True non-attachment does not consist in separating one's self from one's
possessions, but to possess as if one did not possess." The man who is
capable of true detachment is described thus: "This man is known by some
signs. He never complains, never makes excuses, when accused he leaves
facts to vindicate him, there is nothing he wants on Earth or in Heaven
but what God wills. He is joy itself, he is knowledge without study,
richness without money, joyful company without companions."

In this way, pratyahara and other still higher practices are to be

practised under a Transcendental Teacher. The hours of practice are at
night, for a person so practising must live a normal life, the
householder's life, and so can not afford to practice during his working
and waking hours -- it is enjoined thus. And no running away to the
Himalayas or to an ashram is indicated or even allowed. "He works in the
world of men, he loves, comforts and serves; he pays no attention to his
personality, likes, dislikes or attachments. He stands as a rock of
strength and a strong hand in the dark to all whom he contacts."
The other reason for practising at night is that the physical body gets
the much needed sleep, sound sleep that revitalizes it, whilst the astral
body begins the study of astral planes, of astral plane travel and the
difficulties arising therefrom. The coded messages are transmitted to the
brain section I directly instead of though the usual route as in diagrams
1, 2 or 3a, and for proper interpretation of all that is, at first,
strange in a new dimension. Thousands of such nightly visits under the
safe and able guidance of the Divine Fragment are conducted. Normally,
many lives are required to have a detailed scientific knowledge and proper
understanding; no hasty glimpse in trance-like condition will ever do and
is never possible.

Every night the disciple consciously watches. He separates his primary

body from the secondary and, leaving his physical under the care of his
Transcendental Teacher as if in deep sleep (actually in a state of
clinical death), continues his nightly studies. And what are the studies?
The disciple now understands that the physical body is only an Earth
module and that the Kennedy Base, the launching-pad, is beyond Svahah
universe in the Ring-pass-not, from where both the bodies were launched and
from where they are also operated, and where all thoughts, motives and
acts are recorded faithfully in the three super micro recording monitors
in the causal body.

But in the case of the ordinary person, on reaching this Earth this
Earth-module forgets its main purpose of being a module only for research
and scientific work, and for fulfilling the only purpose, viz. redeeming,
which should be completed in as few visits as possible, so as to return to
the base for good. Instead, the module settles here on Earth under the
impression that this is home, and when time after time it is recalled
(death) and time after time it is sent back (birth), the module, instead
of working out its main purpose, starts a philosophy of its own, its own
tale of woe, transitoriness, frustrations and misery in which it has to
live, not realizing that if it were not to work incessantly on the
purpose, then at every step it will be met with frustrations (a natural
way of reminding) till it works out the purpose and fulfils it. No sooner
does it realize and fulfil its purpose then the module is destroyed on
the last visit for all time to come, together with all the sophisticated
instruments attached to it for they are needed no more. The first true
release or mukti from physical births and deaths is thus obtained.

During this initial period of refinement, when the individual is at the

stage of diagram 3a and is progressing to 3b, every night after detaching
the primary body from the secondary, the disciple learns all that is
necessary. This daily detachment `induces' and brings about non-attachment
of all senses from the sense organs, i.e. an actual state of detachment
from all worldly things and people, for the treasures and persons that
were drawing him cease to draw him any more, and though he now lives
amidst all that which earlier made him attached, no more have these any
effect on him for he has now seen greater riches. He does not even have to
resist -- there is no temptation left in him for the objects of his senses
for he now sees that which is much more superior and vital. Understanding
grows each night, contentment is his lot, and his mind therefore is at
peace.

We are of the opinion that the episode of `Mara' tempting Buddha and
`Satan' tempting Christ are absolutely false stories, all built-up. They
are only the imagination of later and lesser writers, for even if they be
gospel writers, you will realize, dear reader, that at this stage of
pratyahara, which is not yet completed, a disciple has to be free from all
temptations, and Christ and Buddha must certainly have achieved a much
higher stage indeed! Unfortunately, such misleading episodes we find all
over the scriptures and shastras because they have all been tampered with
by our priests and past scholars.

The activity of such a disciple (diagram 3b) is now free from attachment
and Sage Patanjali describes him thus. IV(7): "The activities of the
liberated personality are free from the pairs of opposites. Those of other
people (refer diagrams 1 and 2) are of three kinds." IV(8): "From these
three kinds of karma emerge those forms which are necessary for the
fruition of effects (i.e. births and deaths)." II(15): "To the illuminated
man all existence (in the three worlds) is considered pain owing to the
activities of the gunas. Their activity is threefold, producing
consequences, anxieties, and subliminal impressions." II(25): "When
ignorance is brought to an end through non-association with the things
perceived, this is the great liberation."

According to the rules of the game of Existence, much remains to be

done as yet, but the hold that Existence had on body and mind, the
personality, is now broken in this stage of pratyahara. Non-attachment has
set in naturally, not by denying or giving up or by unnatural piousness;
the objects of the world simply cease to attract him though he now lives
amidst them for he has seen and experienced things far superior. "Can
earthly things seem important to him who is acquainted with the whole of
eternity and the magnitude of the Universe?" "Our purpose is not merely to
be sinless but to be gods."

In chapter 2 of the Geeta, this stage of pratyahara, or non-attachment,

that comes as a natural consequence to one who has progressed
methodically, is contrasted thus with people who are not yet biologically
complete and live as per diagrams 1 and 2: "The objects of sense turn
away from him who is abstemious. Even the relish for them is lost in him
who has seen the Truth." "The mind of him who is trying to conquer it
(sense attachments) is forcibly carried away in spite of his efforts by
his tumultuous senses." This will happen repeatedly to one who tries
unmethodical practices before achieving biological wholeness.

After the vital energies are refined further and manipura centre is
totally cleansed, and after proper study of the laws of the astral plane
and astral bodies and understanding the new dimensions by regular practice
every night under the Transcendental Teacher, the disciple, still in the
pratyahara stage, is ready for further progress.

"Discipline must precede philosophy." The energies now rise in the central
spinal passage and reach the organ, the heart, or anahata centre (point
#5) in the primary body, and clean both the left and right lower halves of
this centre for a prolonged period, the energies rising and returning to
(1<-->2) for regeneration till emotions and thoughts are refined. This
centre, known as the dark incubating chamber, is the seat of emotions and
thoughts of lower nature and progress depends on earnest endeavours. The
disciple, still in pratyahara stage, develops great psychic powers at the
heart centre.

Now with the strenuous practices every night under guidance, the refined
energies are raised to vishuddhi centre (point #6), anterior half, in the
primary body, which is now totally cleaned, the energies rising and
returning to (1<-->2) for regeneration. This centre is responsible for
various changing moods, and the personality thereafter ceases to be moody
and has a very relaxed and constant temperament. When this centre is
thoroughly cleansed the energy is now directed to taluka.

At taluka (point #0), the vital block or valve is closed tightly from the
earlier open position so that incoming impulses cannot enter the brain
area, thus also making redundant, for such time as the block is closed,
both ida and pingala. If these incoming impulses do not enter the rear
brain area, no identical memory patterns are drawn out to proceed to the
front brain to become thought forms or mind modifications. Instead, this
refined energy proceeds to adjust the minor blocks or valves in sections
IIIa and IIIb on both sides of the passage on top of the brain; it also
cleans this passage, and reaching the front brain completely realigns the
four vital points I-E-S-M and cleans them also.

For some prolonged period of time, these refined energies return to

(1<-->2) repeatedly for regeneration and also open up and cleanse the
passages on the sides of the left and right mid brain, which up till now
were closed for want of regular use. Thus, a new route to the registration
area is now opened up, reaching from taluka via these new passages to the
front of the brain, the registration area section I, which means that no
more are the memory patterns activated, only if so desired and as and
when. The refined energies then finally reach sahasrara (point #8) and for some
time regenerate this centre. When this is done a very vital part of one's
yoga training is fulfilled. All this is not easy -- though progress after
the vishuddhi centre is faster, it may take innumerable lives to achieve
this. Only very exceptional disciples do it in a matter of years or in
one life time, but that is very, very rare indeed.

Now the totally refined energies flow down to ajna centre (point # 7) in
the primary body, clean it and awaken it to its purpose -- so far it only
threw out of the system all the thought forms that were generated by
modifications of the mind. The super micro transmitting monitors are also
tuned up and they transmit to the super micro recording monitors the new
state of the personality so that the fresh body may be fabricated
accordingly for further birth.

Now the refined energies flow on their downward return journey further
down to vishuddhi, the posterior half which is the higher part of
the centre, then down to the right and left upper halves of anahata, down
to kundali, the twin centre at manipura, and finally back to (1<-->2),
muladhara and swadhisthana, thus completing the first full circuit. The
disciple is still in pratyahara stage. Very dedicated persons have done
this in a matter of years, whereas normally it takes innumerable lives,
depending on the intensity of efforts put in.

Till this circuit is completed for the first time, the disciple develops
many psychic powers. Some, or rather many, disciples think they have
achieved the ultimate and keep playing with these enormous psychic powers.
If used or manipulated, these powers become an obstacle to further
progress, and in that case the Divine Fragment of that personality cuts
off all communications and leaves the personality alone for many lives
till the personality, seeing his or her mistake once again, comes to
senses, once again surrenders and promises to abide by and carry out only
the directions of the Transcendental Teacher. To play with psychic powers
is a clear indication that such a person is yet at the stage of pratyahara
and so far away from achieving any real progress. For such we find those
beautiful lines in "Light on the Path": "Even though the disciple waver,
hesitate and turn aside (use psychic powers), the voice of the silence
remains within him and though he leaves the path utterly, yet one day it
will resound and render him asunder and separate his possessions from his
divine possibilities. Then, with pain and desperate cries he will return."

Once the circuit is completed and revolutions takes place, faster and
regularly, so the disciple applies himself whole-heartedly. Up to this
stage, a sort of burning sensation is felt in the secondary or physical
body wherever the energies are stationed at a particular centre. Till this
completed circuit revolves a certain number of times per minutes, the
pratyahara stage is not over.

For this `closed circuit', refer diagram 3c. Nothing flows out at point
#7, ajna, unlike in diagrams 1, 2, 3a and 3b. The prana is revolved
without leakage within the primary body. Every time the circuit completes
at (1<-->2), it regenerates itself. This whole process sometimes lasts for
hours, and there is a complete cessation of breathing in the physical body
during these hours of practice, a state of clinical death of the physical
body ensues. This is a difficult and dangerous practice and cannot and
should not be done alone but in the presence of and under guidance of the
Transcendental Teacher.

Now that the internal seven vital energies have completed their respective
circuits, astral travel of the sub-stages of Bhuh can begin. Now the
disciple studies the Earth, passing through mountains and oceans, and
through her bowels deep into her core, and thus gathers very vital and
valuable knowledge about our planet and our solar system. Space and time,
distance and speed have a different meaning and possibility for him, for
he is now familiar with a new dimension about which we have no idea, i.e.
of passing through time and space, but not as we do in physical form.

At first the revolutions are slow. In pratyahara the highest speed of

revolutions within the closed circuit is 60 cycles per one minute of Earth
time, or per 60 pulse beats of the disciple (whose pulse beat has slowly
dropped from 72 to 60 per minute during normal waking hours). Once the 60
rpm speed of revolution is reached, the pratyahara stage comes to an end.
It generally takes many lives for these revolutions to keep increasing
from 1 to 60 rpm, but earnest students do attain in a few years, and
visits to all the parts of the Solar System are completed.

The dharna stage is faster in speed of revolution and dhyana stage is

faster still. In dharna, the revolutions are between 60 and 600 cycles
per minute, in dhyana the speed is between 600 and 1800 cycles per minute.
Like a space ship acquiring the requisite thrust to counter Earth's
gravity, the speed of revolutions of the closed circuit generates
sufficient thrust to enable the primary body to propel at enormous speed
and penetrate deeper to study the Bhuh universe, sub-stage by higher
sub-stage. New speeds and new dimensions are to be experienced to be
believed, for the seen universe of Bhuh is an immeasurable expanse. All
this is conducted over an extended period lasting many years, or even many
lives, depending on the disciple, which same progress a normal person
would require eternities to cover in normal manner from the fourth
sub-stage of Bhuh that we are in upto the end of seventh sub-stage of
Bhuh.
The states of heaven and hell (refer chapter 8) are for those who have
had no practice of astral life and astral travel. But a disciple, who has
practised diligently every night the symptoms of death and conscious
separation of the primary from the secondary, is ready because for him
death is nothing new. He lets the Divine Fragment separate and go, but
remains under guidance and continues his or her practices consciously.
Having done these practices, the astral body of the disciple is therefore
not in dream state after death but actually continues to practice and
progresses considerably from where the disciple left off during his
earthly, physical life, also taking advantage of this waiting period to
learn further with the added benefit that in this disembodied state he can
work full time! Depending on the progress made, he can consciously reach
higher sub-stages and if during the Earth life had penetrated Bhuvah would
also do so now and progress further, fully knowing that the ideas of
heaven and hell are fictitious!

It means that if conscious at death, the departed can, through the

astral body, experience the heavenly states (as compared to our Earth
state), but if not conscious at death would be in a swoon and will miss
this grand opportunity, this exceptional experience. Let it be clear,
that the aspirant or individual has to learn all by himself to be able to
understand, but not by a single or a few visits will it be ever possible
to grasp the fourth dimension and beyond, and surely in absence of such
experience never at all possible.

In Tibet certain ceremonies do take place at the time of death, but the
priest has to be in the first place an advanced disciple, able and
experienced in astral travel, as well the departing individual also should
be a disciple, able and experienced. Only then does what is stated as
various heavens and later as various hells have any meaning. Otherwise the
priest will mechanically recite and the departed in swoon will never hear.
`The Tibetan Book of the Dead' is now a mere caricature shorn of its
original contents; perhaps the original may be hidden somewhere.

"If an ordinary man, when he is about to die, could only see the five
elements of (awareness) as void, the four physical elements as not
constituting an `I', the real Mind as formless and neither coming nor
going, his nature as something neither commencing at his birth nor
perishing at his death, but as a whole and motionless in its very depths;
his mind and environmental object as one -- if he could only accomplish
this, he would receive enlightenment in a flash." -- Huang Po. It is
easier said than done.

At the end of the cycle, i.e. when time is due for disintegration of the
old primary body, the disciple then lets the primary body disintegrate
completely. The Divine Fragment then goes over to the causal body and
awaits the time for the fresh personality to take birth. The disciple is
thus consciously able, with the help of the Divine Fragment, to leave the
physical body at the moment of its death and then to let the primary
disintegrate. These are the last stages of pratyahara.

In accord with the laws of birth, the astral counterpart of the physical
body is first freshly fabricated as per the latest recordings in the super
micro recording monitor. No sooner is it formed than the Divine Fragment
takes it under Its guidance and sets about its training seriously before
actual birth takes place. So the birth of the personality is conscious,
and with the purpose being quite clear the new born very soon in early
childhood thus begins the practices. It is a formula that the more
advanced the personality the earlier the beginning of such practices and
even earlier the display of psychic powers as a child, or even as an
infant.

This whole stage of pratyahara is the most important stage, more important
than even the later higher stages, because it is during this stage that
the personality comes across an area of experience with the maximum
temptations for psychic power, and complete elimination of all attachment,
and cleansing of all the vital centres of all animal instincts and lower
emotions, transmuting lower energies and generating the vital seven
energies and refining them to a maximum. None of these hard-won results
are to be laboured for in the higher steps of dharna, dhyana and samadhi.
But these three higher stages have been so glamourized by people who have
no personal experience, otherwise this stage of pratyahara would have been
proclaimed as the most vital and most magnificent, for only after all
these preparation the higher steps become quite easy for the disciple.
Thereafter begins the dharna stage -- it means that the revolutions within
are now over 60 per minute.

Stage 3b and the Universal Divine Mind

In Existence, the godhead is Universal Divine Mind (UDM). This immense,

infinitely vast ocean of UDM flows in all Existence and engulfs all its
three universe. All the three universes together are floating within this
all-pervading Mind, that is why Existence is called `the domain of Mind'.
It only differs from sub-stage to sub-stage to that extent that it is
subtler or coarser, because of the great and steady drop in vibrations,
but is still all-knowing and all-powerful in all the three universes that
form the domain of mind.

This UDM has all possible shades of tamas, rajas and sattva, in myriad
permutations and combinations. But by itself, in its all-pervading state,
it creates no thought pictures or forms at all and so is termed `Divine'.
Some call this the natural state of the Mind for in this state it remains
all-knowing; some call it the primordial mind and some call it primordial
matter. It is also termed in this state as the "unborn realm". In this
natural state it holds all the possible shades of tamas, rajas and sattva
in potential form and not in a functional state. It all becomes functional
when it is the individual's self-mind working with the individual's brain
processes. Like the all-pervading atmosphere which, when it is in our
lungs, we call our breath, so this all-pervading UDM, when flowing through
our thinking instrument, we call our mind or self-mind.

The UDM has the power to flow through rocks and through our bodies, like
the electromagnetic rays that enter through closed doors and windows and
fill our rooms, making our radios and television sets work. But only
appropriate thinking instruments of whatever type and grade will show its
working -- and it all then becomes meaningful. Thus the UDM pervades all
and flows through every type of thinking instrument, whether human,
sub-human (i.e. animal, bird, fish, reptile, etc.), or super human (higher
humanity's manas of the astral world Bhuvah or the yet more refined buddhi
of the mental world Svahah), and each such instrument could be unique and
individual in spite of there being myriads of thinking instruments, since
each individual's vibrational code can be very different.

So we see that this UDM is absolutely necessary, flowing through each

individual's thinking instrument as the self-mind to make that thinking
instrument work, otherwise the computers of the brain, sections I and
IIIa-b, the incoming impulses and the identical memory patterns would all
be useless. For the UDM as the individual's self-mind acts like a catalyst
in whose presence everything happens -- though it itself does not do
anything -- and in whose absence the brain is not able to work.

What are the characteristics of this UDM? In the first place, though we
use the word `Divine', it does not necessarily mean that it is free from
all aspects of tamas and rajas. For were it so, none of the thinking
instruments can function at their own level. Some of the thinking
instruments, depending on their state of existence, could be very vicious
and such would be deprived of their free function to act and think as they
would desire to and make up the varied and different types of creatures in
the Universe.

God and Nature have given free will to each and every created thing that
exists in all of Existence, so if the UDM is so necessary for the thinking
process, it should have the full imaginable range of tamas and rajas in
particular with sattva. This basic understanding ought to be clear. People
divorce God and Nature, or UDM, from such an all-inclusive state of God,
Nature and UDM; we separate good from evil and then seek an imaginary
devil or Satan. Here we quote to show such perplexed state of even great
minds: "How, with the conception of a perfect, just and merciful Deity,
can be reconciled the existence of the imperfect and the evil."

The correct reply, however, is as given by another great mind: "The

perfect never becomes the imperfect. It become nothing. It is all spirit
and matter, strength and weakness, knowledge and experience, peace and
strife, bliss and pain, power and impotence. The All includes
manifestations and non-manifestations. The puzzle arises when man asserts
separately one of the inseparable pairs of the opposites." This
all-inclusive state has to be understood and so UDM holds all
possibilities of tamas, rajas and sattva in potential state, suspended as
ghee or butter is held potentially suspended within milk and under
appropriate conditions of extraction yields butter or ghee. So does UDM,
when it is the self-mind of an individual and mixed up with the brain
processes of thinking, yield whatever shades of tamas, rajas or sattva
that are needed. For this reason, Sage Patanjali warns in IV(27): "Through
force of habit, however, the mind will reflect other mental impressions
and perceive objects of sensuous nature."

The greatest and most remarkable characteristic of UDM is that in all the
three universes, there is nothing it does not know! So the UDM is
all-knowing in its natural state. It is free from all shades of all the
three qualities of gunas, which only come into play appropriately when
mixed up with incoming impulses and identical memory patterns, i.e. the
brain computer processes. Sage Patanjali uses a special descriptive term,
`mind stuff', which is the contaminated state of the UDM as self-mind in
an individual engrossed in brain processes.

In "The Song of Mahamudra" it is written :

"In space shape and colours form,
But neither by black or white is space tinged.
From the self-mind all things emerge, the Mind (UDM)
By virtues and by vices is not stained."

"Do nought with the body but relax,

Shut firm the mouth and silent remain,
...Like a hollow bamboo,
Rest at ease your body,
Giving not nor taking,
Put your mind at rest ..."

"Cease all activity ... let thoughts rise and fall

As they will like the ocean waves."

"If without effort you remain

Loosely in the natural state
Soon mahamudra you will win
And attain the Non-attainment."

"Whoever clings to (self-)mind sees not

The Truth of what is beyond the mind.
And stare naked (without brain processes!)"

"Staying thus in the unborn realm

All appearances will dissolve.
The supreme undertaking transcends
All this and that."

What is mahamudra? It is a teaching that leads to the realization of the

primordial mind, the UDM or the dharmakaya, and to know and experience the
Void, Nothingness or Emptiness. It is "to let the mind remain in its
own natural state. ...If to this Mind one adds or subtracts anything, it
is then not the ordinary mind (the UDM flowing through the individual),
but the so-called mind-object (the self-mind)." Therefore, as long as you
can keep your self-awareness, or rather wakefulness, no matter what you
do, you are still practising mahamudra! This is possible in stage 3b.

Mahamudra practice is awareness or wakefulness without content, i.e.

without unnecessary brain processes. UDM is wakefulness by itself and in
that state it is all-knowing and all-wise. Wisdom and light being
synonymous, it then shines with great radiation and teaches the individual
concerned instantaneously by pictures. Neither incoming impulses nor the
identical memory patterns mingle with the UDM in this stage -- the brain
computer processes do not take place -- hence `without content'. Sage
Pantanjali describes this stage as free from brain computer processes.
This is stage 3b proper.

(We have talked about the natural state of the Mind. We have suggested the
exercise of looking inside the head, arms, legs and body, as if the body
is all completely hollow like a bamboo. We have seen the practice of
ceasing all activity and letting our thoughts rise and fall as they may --
the upgrading of awareness practices are just that. We have agreed to do
these for five minutes of mental exercise daily.)

In the Yoga Sutra, Sage Patanjali explains what is incorrect thinking,

what is correct thinking, what is the process of correct thinking, what
are the obstacles to correct thinking. That is, he leads the reader step
by step from stage diagrams 1 to 2 to 3a, and then describes the stage of
diagram 3b, which is free from all brain computer processes and free from
factors like incoming impulses and identical memory patterns. In short,
the UDM, when in its natural state, is described as follows:
I(47): "When the yogi reaches this super contemplative state, he acquires
the pure spiritual realization through the balanced quiet of the chitta
(mind stuff)."
I(49): "His particular perception is unique and reveals that which the
rational mind (using testimony, inference and deduction) cannot reveal."
I(50): "It is hostile to or supersedes all other previous impressions."
I(51): "When this stage of perception is itself also superseded (i.e. when
3b stage is left behind and one reaches stage 3c), then is pure samadhi
achieved."

We have noted earlier that the incoming impulses and identical memory
patterns have colour, sound and vibrations, and these bring recognition.
But the very high vibrations of UDM by itself, if unmixed, are so high
that radiation takes place in the registration area and one learns and
understands by pictures and sounds; so recognition, or the slow process of
accumulating knowledge, is not needed. This is termed `intuition'. It
means that for those few moments when the UDM is in its natural state, as
well the individual's self-mind is in its natural state, one can learn
anything for one is in tune with the all-knowing and all-pervading UDM and
can know anything worth knowing in all the three universes, Bhuh, Bhuvah,
Svahah. The noise of the registration area and of sections IIIa-b is no
more, and in this silence within a transformation slowly takes place and
one day suddenly it takes a firm grip as if the whole being is enveloped
in a pale pink-gold coloured light.

The introduction of a pause, the elimination of drifts, the corrective

methods, et al., do change negative intensities to positive, i.e. make a
person progress from diagram 1 to diagram 2 stage and with continuous
practice reach diagram 3a stage. But this correct, logical thinking with
plus intensities, which seems a very correct state, is itself a limited
and incorrect state. Thinking, right or wrong, automatic or logical, binds
a person in some manner, for such processes involve the mind and as long
as mind is involved, modifications of mind take place. For the absolutely
correct state is one that leaves brain and mind separate, each to work in
its respective sphere. How can this be done? One of the ingredients, viz.
memory patterns, that are by the trillions extending into past eternities,
are to be disintegrated. These memory patterns are seeds. Till they are
totally disintegrated this unnatural physical birth to live an unnatural
life will be forced on us. If one cannot disintegrate them, then one must
freeze or bypass them.

In the absence of memory patterns, the incoming impulses are not

recognized nor understood (only a question arises, `who or what is this?')
and so are not acted upon; so no thought formations take place. The
result is that there are no modifications of the mind and the UDM flows
out uncontaminated. It is only when this state is achieved, when these
modifications cease, then can one have the clean mind of the Buddha of
later stage 3b. In this state normal life is possible and yet no thought
forms are created. If this state is constantly held, all past memory
patterns die away and one is freed from repeated physical births. But for
memory patterns to die takes more than a few eternities if no conscious
steps are take. Even state 3c is possible only if state 3b is first
obtained and held, i.e. cultivated and then established.

In the shastras, it is said that sattvic manas is in a state of mano

nirodh. Sattvic manas is very near Purusha, Ishvara, but the impression
that they are one and the same is ignorance, a misconception that leads to
many other errors. This fact is to be clearly understood -- read these
lines over and over again till they are very clear as to their right
meaning. That is why we call the first grade of the energy as energy of
the `essence of consciousness'. It is nothing else but sattvic manas --
and yet it is only the essence of the energy of consciousness, whereas
pure cosmic consciousness is the Divine Fragment, Ishvara or the Purusha.
This energy, sattvic manas, is the only useful product that can form a
bridge over the gulf that exists between awareness of body, mind and
senses that form the personality and pure consciousness, the Divine
Fragment, Ishvara, the Transcendental Teacher within, i.e. between
Existence and Creation.

The shastras also say further that sattvic manas is consciousness in

motion, or that sattvic manas at rest is identical to (though it is not
the same as) consciousness. Consciousness can be in motion, but it must be
remembered, as the shastras also say, that there is no motion within
consciousness. Yet it can move as an `entity' if so required or can
merge. And when moving can move enormously faster than light, as to be
instantaneous. On the other hand, awareness can be at rest but there is
always motion within awareness, however slow. Motion within presupposes
change of state; no motion within is a changeless, permanent state.
Consciousness is the only Reality. This subtle point that makes all the
difference between awareness that is mortal and pure consciousness that is
immortal should be understood. In these few lines is based the whole super
structure of UDM, down to individual mind with all its differentiations,
as also the relationship between awareness and consciousness. To
understand this much is to understand all knowledge available!

Sattvic mind has the least inner movements. Tamas has extremely wild and
uncontrolled movements, rajas has great movement within, and sattva has
slow movements that become slower as all traces of rajas and tamas
disappear, till it becomes wholly clean and refined. This sattvic mind, or
the first grade energy of the essence of consciousness, is equivalent to
mano nirodh or vahu mano and is the nearest thing to pure consciousness,
(but this `nearest thing' is still light years removed from pure
consciousness). And so it is not indestructible, immortal and changeless
like pure consciousness -- because there is yet some movement within,
however sattvic and imperceptible -- and so is ultimately destructible,
mortal and transitory, even if it should last for eternities.

Can such closeness be brought about within the individual? Can the
individual maintain mano nirodh or vahu mano? For once this UDM flows
through an individual, it never flows out the same as it was when it
entered the individual but is influenced or contaminated to some extent
and this has gone on and on for eternities. It is said that the Buddha
maintained this UDM flowing through his thinking instrument as clean mind
(and celebrated as "the clean mind of the Buddha"). It flowed out at point
# 7 just as it was when it entered his thinking instrument --
uncontaminated. So did Christ and Krishna and some few great sons of
humanity. This is the difference between us mortals and the great Buddha.
Try it and you will find out how impossible a state it is. Can it be done
by practice and by methodical steps? If yes, you and I and the man in the
street have divine possibilities of becoming a Buddha, a Christ or a
Krishna, one day and soon.

In simple language, we pollute not only the atmosphere but also the
all-pervading ocean of UDM by throwing our thought forms into this ocean.
This pollution is a thousand times more serious and far-reaching in the
sense that it will touch all the points in the vast expanse of Bhuh, our
seen universe. The pollution that of late we are becoming aware of, that
of water and the atmosphere, of disturbing the ecological balance, is just
insignificant, for this pollution can exterminate totally and faster. Do
we have any scientific remedy? Is science even aware of this pollution
that has reached enormous dimensions? Scientific yoga practices is the
answer.

Refer to diagram 3b. The first grade of the energy of the essence of
consciousness, which is sattvic manas (in a state of mano nirodh or vahu
mano) with the flowing UDM does not flow the normal way. Firstly, it
opens (because of `spiritual will' now developed) the major block or valve
at the base of the central spinal canal and consciously flows though it,
and not through the pair of the twin nadis, ida and pingala, up to taluka;
then, because the main entrance leading to the usual passage across the
top of the brain as in diagrams 1, 2 and 3a is now closed consciously at
the major block or valve at taluka, via perforated apertures through the
side passages around the mid-brain left and right (which get cleared due
to scientific yoga practices). Now in the absence of the flowing UDM in
the passage at the top of the brain, the incoming impulses, finding no
entrance, wither and die, and the memory patterns, which valves are
allowed to open consciously, reach out and not finding any incoming
impulse or the flowing Mind, also wither and die. No thinking or reasoning
is now necessary for the sattvic mind uses its highest ability, intuition,
and arrives at exact and correct knowledge instantly. These are the
possibilities of stage 3b.

But in diagram 3a, this sattvic manas, in a state of mano nirodh or vahu
mano, is allowed to flow through the normal channels and observes the
normal processes as in diagrams 1 and 2. In this case the incoming
impulses and the identical memory patterns, if they are not of the high
vibrational tones that this sattvic manas has, suffocate and die
immediately though floating in UDM, and only those of the same high
vibrational tones form thought forms that are thrown out of the system at
point # 7, as clean as possible. A person established in stages 3a and 3b
follows either of the methods stated above as required.

Due to misconception, mula-prakriti is supposed to be the highest

or the most basic form of matter from which all that we know as matter has
germinated. But this is not so! As stated earlier, in Svahah universe only
the `gentle substance' prevailed and this gentle substance, due to immense
fall in vibrations at a steady rate in Svahah and after passing through
the first minor ring-pass-not, is then mula-prakriti or primordial matter
in Bhuvah. We have noted earlier that this flowing UDM is also termed
Manas, and so we find in the shastras the statement, "prakriti evolved
into manas." Does it not mean that this mula-prakriti can become the
gentle substance found in Svahah, where there is yet no mula-prakriti?

So the UDM is mistakenly called `mula-prakriti', which when flowing in an

individual is contaminated to a small or large extent (as per conditions
prevalent in that individual) when it flows out ultimately. Thus the
contaminated, outward flowing mind from point # 7, ajna, (refer the
diagrams) is known as manas and ceases to be the UDM -- it is the
individual's out-flowing mind and as such is much different in quality
from that which flowed in as the UDM. This happens from a limited to a
large extent in different individuals as per diagrams 1, 2 and 3a, the
reason being that in the usual channel as in diagrams 1-2, and to a very
limited extent in 3a, it has to get mixed up with incoming impulses
together with memory patterns, which in 3b are kept out at taluka at the
base of the hind brain by the block or valve now in closed position. And
when the UDM is not involved, as in diagram 3b, and flows out
uncontaminated, the shastras say "manas resolved into prakriti."

The mid brain is altered from within; all the vital points therein are
activated and are now pulsating. No more are the ordinary computers of the
front brain section I and the rear brain section III in use and one can
remain in the state of mano nirodh or vahu mano as shown in diagram 3b.
Due to mano nirodh, sattvic manas is free from the contagious incoming
impulses and identical memory patterns, which no longer meet the flowing
UDM as a required condition of thought formation, and the UDM is not
contaminated because thought forms are not created. So a new and different
process is put in operation within the primary body and thinking
instrument, and the physical body and physical brain, as well the emotions
are refined, sex is sublimated and the ratios are changed.

Actually allowing the UDM to thus flow uncontaminated as in diagram 3b is

the natural constant state of the mind and involving it with the incoming
impulses and memory patterns is the incorrect and unnatural state of the
UDM. No `will' is involved, nor what is mistakenly called making the mind
blank, for whoever says so does not know what mind and thinking is.
Inventors, scientists, poets, and such creative people enter this state
temporarily and unconsciously. With stage 3b ends the need of mind for
intellectual illumination.

The individual who can reach the state shown in diagram 3b has arrived.
In such a one, the UDM, the gentle substance, sattvic manas, is generated
and, in mano nirodh or vahu mano state, allows the free flowing mind to
flow as the UDM, without the least contamination, like the clean mind of
the Buddha. This intuition -- mano nirodh or vahu mano -- makes possible
instant, correct knowledge, because the inflowing, all-pervading UDM knows
all and everything in Existence, and is able to give instantly all the
replies to all the problems without the usual process of logical thinking
that is so necessary and indulged in stages 1, 2 and 3a. and so the
individual also can know all and everything in Existence. This instant,
total knowledge is free from noise, the noise of mind modifications and
contamination of the mind.

But to do this is as impossible as breathing in clean mountain air and

breathing out the same clean mountain air. But in states 3b and 3c state
it is possible, just as the case of clinical death of the physical body of
a disciple is virtually the same as, and yet very different from, an
ordinary person's state of clinical death. The air does enter the lungs in
extremely small doses and comes out as the same clean air, but the volume
is insignificant and unnoticeable. This happens only in the case of a
disciple under training and in a state of conscious clinical death.
Perhaps we could call this the `ground state' of the disciple.

Stage 3b is the correct and final state of pratyahara, fully attained and
consolidated, and this cannot be done without guidance from the
Transcendental Teacher. It means that under guidance the disciple has by
now studied all that exists in the solar system. All this prepares the
disciple for the advanced steps of dharna and dhyana, the transcendental
experience which takes place neither within the movements of the physical
body nor the agitations of the astral body or mind modifications. Such a
person, though not appearing on the surface in any way different from an
ordinary human being, is indeed in fact a different species of humanity --
a yogi, a master.

All this is done consciously, under care of the Great Guide, and after
devoted practices over many lives (this is normal, though some special
cases make very fast progress) during which the disciple is now able to
discard his old and worn out body consciously and take on a fresh body
consciously. These are various steps that point out such individuals as
one of their kind, a different species, and only after all this is done is
one ready for the next important and yet more difficult step of dharna.

At this stage, detachment of the astral body from the physical body is
practised every night over a period of time and mastered -- separation of
the two bodies and reuniting them with ease, so that the senses no longer
flow automatically from the primary body into the sense organs of the
physical unless permitted, and so a state of total mental detachment is
brought about. No fuss is made about the superfluous outer detachment, to
show the world how high-minded, clean-living and religious one is. You
would be fooling your own self first before you think you can fool others.
It does nobody any good.

In our present day when people talk of dharna and dhyana and sit
cross-legged and with closed eyes, God knows what they are doing if they
have not practised the prior stage of pratyahara as described herein.
When transcendental meditation is advertised like cold coffee and sold
like coca-cola, we don't know where it will all lead to? Godmen are
plentiful, heaven is advertised for sale, and thousands pay for it and buy
ultimately God alone knows what! Let not these godmen and others give a
bad name to yoga practices, the only scientific way of life.

Material knowledge has accumulated by tons on every subject, including

religion and philosophy, and many intellectuals have a firm grip on such
knowledge and appear very wise and convincing in their statements, but
unless one has practised all this consciously in pratyahara or other
advanced stages and gained experience firsthand, it is to no avail.
Knowledge and wisdom are totally apart. Those who have not practised and
realized will go on arguing, for self-hypnosis can create many a trick and
even many yogis get wrong impressions. I bow my head before the immense
accumulated worldly knowledge in all faculties and fields, yet I know
their limitations.

The Formal Practices

It must be clear that prana rotation in the complete circuit as given

below cannot be attempted without preparatory preliminary stages of
practices. The reader is referred to a previous book, "Yoga Sutra of Sage
Patanjali -- Exposition and Practices", especially phases 5 and 6 in Book
V rearranged, for a step-by-step approach leading a sincere student to the
point where he can attempt what follows.

The numbering of the chakras/centres is in accord with the diagram in the

appendix showing the force centres. Bindu is a dimensionless point but is
shown in the diagrams.

Remember always to keep the flame of self-remembrance in the mind's eye

constantly -- this flame is the symbol of the Divine Fragment within, in
whose presence you are practising. Ask for guidance and help, and practise
the entire pathway with full veneration.

So we begin:
Rotate prana anticlockwise in muladhara (1) for 1 normal breath, go over
to swadhisthana (2) and rotate clockwise in (2) for 1 normal breath, and
return to (1); repeat this procedure for 24 normal breaths (2 minutes),
-- take 1 normal breath to reach manipura (4) and rotate anticlockwise in
manipura for 12 normal breaths (one minute),
-- take 1 normal breath to reach anahata (5) and rotate clockwise (two
rotations, left and right halves) in anahata for 12 normal breaths (one
minute),
-- take 1 normal breath to reach vishuddhi (6) and rotate clockwise (two
rotations, posterior and anterior halves) in vishuddhi for 12 normal
breaths (one minute),
-- take 1 normal breath to reach taluka (0) and rotate anticlockwise in
taluka for 12 normal breaths (one minute),
-- take 1 normal breath to reach sahasrara (8) and rotate anticlockwise in
sahasrara for 12 normal breaths (one minute); then
-- proceed to bindu (9) in one normal breath and rotate clockwise in bindu
for 12 normal breaths (one minute),
-- proceed to ajna (7) in one normal breath and rotate clockwise in ajna
for 12 normal breaths (one minute),
-- proceed to vishuddhi (6) (via bindu, sahasrara and taluka) in 1 normal
breath and rotate clockwise (a single rotation only) in vishuddhi for 12
normal breaths (one minute),
-- proceed to anahata (5) in 1 normal breath and rotate clockwise (a
single rotation only) in anahata for 12 normal breaths (one minute),
-- proceed to kundali (3) in 1 normal breath and rotate clockwise in
kundali for 12 normal breaths (one minute), and
-- come down to muladhara-swadhisthana (1<-->2) in 1 normal breath.

This completes one full cycle of the pathway requiring about 13 minutes.
It may be performed not more than twice a week. After three months of
practice, the time for completion of one circuit should be brought down to
12 normal breaths or one minute: one breath to cover (1<-->2), one breath
each to reach and complete each of the centres in order on the upward and
downward journeys, ending at (1<-->2) again. The entire circuit is to be
practised in this manner for an additional three months. This much is to
be done consciously.

Thereafter, much will depend on the individual's determination to

increase further the speed of traversing the circuit. But only the divine
grace of Ishvara will make it happen! Sutra II(52), which says, "Through
this, that which veils the Light is gradually removed," must be
experienced and is most essential. Nothing should be practised unless
inner vision and luminosity has set in.

Beyond the Mind --- Transcendental Stage 3c

There is the process of thinking and there are the ingredients of

thinking, and together they create thought forms. But this constitutes the
working of the brain computers only -- the brain sections I and IIIa-b,
computers of a unique nature, though they do not constitute the whole
brain. These processes of the computers are made possible by the Universal
Divine Mind which flows through every thinking instrument, whether human
or sub-human or superhuman, and includes both correct and incorrect
thinking processes. The modern man of today is yet not free from incorrect
processes of thinking.

The flow of UDM makes the digital clock inside the computer section I to
note and be aware of time and so of space. With the awareness of time and
space one becomes aware of here and there, now and then, myself and the
other person and/or thing. Thus a fascinating world is created which is in
fact a fictitious world. To further help in such a grasp, each person is
given senses which make this fictitious world look so very true and
natural that the very thought that this world is fictitious is laughed at.
How can it be otherwise? Sage Patanjali's Yoga Sutra tells us a lot as to
how incorrect thinking can be changed into correct thinking, but even
should thinking be correct, it is instrumental in dragging us deeper into
this fictitious world made more realistic by our senses.

The enjoyment of this fictitious world through our senses has over the
past eternities created an unending measure of past memory patterns and we
do not come out of this eternal play of memory patterns. It has now become
the eternal play of God and Nature's video cassette in full colour within
us. If enjoying a television show or a video cassette is real life or the
real world, by all means do continue. But we know it is not so. Why then
indulge in this God- and Nature-given eternal video cassette and think
that it must be real life or the real world? Sage Patanjali then proceeds
to instruct us -- if we are convinced that it is all a play of a video
cassette -- as to how we can bring an end to this eternal play
consciously, i.e. go beyond stages 1, 2 and 3a.

Our progress from one state to another is scholarly expressed by Sage

Patanjali in his Yoga Sutra. The diagrams 1, 2 and 3a show how from crude,
automatic reflex action with violent emotions and sex and cunning
intellect, we proceed to a state of logical thinking with emotions and sex
refined. The intensity ratios change from 2:4:8:2: to 5:2:2:1, but even so
we are still indulging in thinking. Thinking of any sort, however noble or
scholarly, is merely an automatic mechanical process of the computers, and
all such expressions are but the output of the data fed in at sometime or
the other. A good man, a noble man, a primitive man, a bad man are all
equally mechanical and equally interchangeable if the data that is fed in
their computers is changed over a period of time. Hypnosis is one of the
methods of doing this, brain washing (indoctrination) is another, and
there are many more methods, both crude and sophisticated, to bring about
such a desired result.

Sage Patanjali's method of pause and other instructions do take a person

from stage 1 to stage 3a, but the methods and the practices ultimately
amount to memory patterns also, i.e. data fed into the computers, sections
I and IIIa-b. As per the intensity charts the individual shows progress,
the crude emotions and sex do become refined and will does become
spiritual, but it is an equally mechanical process, always subject to
change at any time, even for the worst. That is why repeatedly Sage
Patanjali gives warning to this effect -- refer III(51) and IV(27) --
because all the bodies, all the thinking instruments and all senses act
purely mechanically, so that going forward is as much possible as going
backward because both are mechanical processes depending on a push of such
a nature.

Internal work on one's self over a long period of time, sincerely

performed, brings about an ability to operate the important blocks or
valves within the system, which can then be opened and closed at will --
this ability is described as `spiritual will'. Till stage 3b it is not
only mechanical, it is prone to or subject to any push, even in a wrong
direction. In stage 3b there is some measure of safety because the brain,
its computers and the senses, which are much more mechanical than UDM
itself, are rendered unfunctional, and the UDM is not contaminated by the
mechanicalness of the computers or by the incoming impulses and identical
memory patterns. But the danger still remains here, for it is one thing to
prevent by block or valve and another thing to disintegrate the memory
patterns altogether.
One now shows the ability to operate the valves or blocks, the most
important ones being at the base of the skull (taluka) and at the base of
the spine, these two valves working as a two-way switch. It means a person
has reached a stage when and where one not only knows the process but can
consciously change this operation of the process which normally is
automatic or mechanical. In fact everything that happens within the human
frame is automatic or mechanical but one is not aware of it at all. If all
that happens within the human framework were to be known, i.e. a person
were to be conscious of all that goes on within the body system, then one
is consciously able to operate any of the processes for one is a complete
being. Inner development and inner cleansing are words used which actually
mean that one is aware of internal operations which are otherwise
mechanical and one is able to alter such operations as desired for the
better.

It all takes time. We are rooted in our deep and unknown past and to come
out of all this past jungle is not easy because whilst living such a
mechanical life from ancient past, we have developed certain muscles,
tissues, nerves, valve positions and processes, etc., for the express
purpose of carrying out the processes as were required for survival; now
we have to first destroy all such unwanted growth and processes and
replace them with other such muscles, tissues, nerves, valve positions and
processes, etc., as are now required.

With this inner changeover (development) and inner cleansing, the earlier
registration area is now, besides what it already is, also developed as a
super sensitive `experiencing mechanism' -- not through the senses, but
directly. On this sensitive film, the UDM, due to it now being in its true
and natural state, i.e. uncontaminated, now produces pictures directly by
radiation and not by a thinking process, however correct, as was done
earlier through the senses in the registration area, to convey all answers
to all problems and questions. This state, shown in diagram 3b, is the
human mind's highest stage -- intuition -- where no thought processes take
place. The human brain processes cannot go beyond this point. The
individual has now come to a stage where the UDM, being all-knowing, can
inform him of whatever he wants to know through pictures by radiation,
i.e. coded language. One is now the equal of the Universal Divine Mind!

But even this life and this world of stage 3b, though less fictitious, is
nevertheless not the real state. Sage Patanjali then proceeds to instruct
us -- if we are convinced that it is also a play, only more sophisticated
and more subtle -- that we set aside this UDM and know our own real
Nature, viz. Transcendence. This is stage 3c. Time and space cease to
enthrall and encircle us. We enter the ultimate state and be one with that
state of `Nothingness' or `Emptiness'. And persistent and prolonged
experience will teach us that all of the above is meaningless, that
Nothingness or Emptiness is the best state, and to merge in Nothingness or
Emptiness is the best remedy -- samadhi without seed, the path of no
return to this fictitious world.

So now we understand that the further stage as shown in diagram 3c is to

be reached, wherein is a different state of inner conditioning. We have
noted that UDM flows through each individual, upto and including stage 3b;
in stage 3b both the incoming impulses and the identical memory patterns
are kept out and only the UDM flows through the individual and educates by
intense radiation. But it does not flow in the case of an individual who
reaches the stage of diagram 3c, rather one who consciously, as and when
required, enters this stage. Now even the UDM voluntarily withdraws and so
an even more intense situation is created within. In state 3c, direct
contact with the Self or atman or Ishvara takes place, which was not the
case in the earlier stages. This is the natural state of the atman, Self
or Ishvara, in relation to the body and mind in 3c. (Refer the Yoga
Sutra.) With this direct contact, the intermediary, the UDM, recedes in
the presence of the Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara, the Divine Fragment.

There are three natural states of the human body systems: (a) the
natural state of health, (b) the natural state of the mind and brain
processes, and (c) the natural state of atman, the Self or Ishvara, the
Divine Fragment within. We are what we are because neither of (a), (b) or
(c), or all of them are ever in their natural state, and we call a person a
realized person if in him or her we find all these three aspects in their
natural state. The natural state is the state of their natural
relationship. So we find that (a) our health is polluted, (b) our mind is
polluted, and (c) atman, the Self or Ishvara, is not in communication
with the computerized organism.

For instance, if the atmosphere is clean, the content, gases oxygen,

nitrogen, CO2, ozone, etc., are in their proper proportion and
relationship with each other; when the atmosphere is polluted, the content
gases deviate from their natural concentrations and proper natural
relationships to each other.

How is health in its natural state? When the relationship between the
organs, nerves, tissues and muscles with the brain is in a natural state,
i.e. they all carry out functions as directed, because a certain portion
of the brain is responsible for looking after the well-being of the entire
body system. And this relationship is free from any outside medical
interference or any bias for special types of food or special long hours
of rest and sleep, etc., because the body system in its natural state is
capable of putting in hard and intelligent work without getting tired or
exhausted.
What is the natural state of the mind? To remain free from all pollution.
And how does it get polluted? When it is mixed up with brain processes.
And how can it be kept free from these processes? It must be maintained in
the diagram 3b state, so that it can be in 3a state as and when required
and be switched back to 3b state and maintained as such all the time. And
what actually is state 3b of the mind? It is that in which the brain is
not allowed to do any day- or night-dreaming. Have you tried to do that?
To do that means to be awake and to be awake means to be in a natural
state of mind.

What is the natural state of atman, the Self or Ishvara? Suppose you
possess a car, a plane and a boat for private use; say you also have
enough money and can move about on land, sea or air as you wish, without
any restrictions from the laws of the country or any legal restrictions.
You are then in a natural state of life and your relationship with your
possessions are natural. Any restriction of any sort and your relationship
is constrained or disturbed and then it is not in its natural state.

In the same manner, atman, the Self or Ishvara, possesses the physical,
astral and mental bodies, along with the brain, manas and buddhi as the
respective thinking instruments, and the senses appropriate to each body.
Now if the atman can make use of these possessions as and when required
without any restrictions, whether through ignorance (no inner
communication) or due to the unhealthy condition of its possessions (inner
processes not properly taking place), `It' is in its natural state;
otherwise atman does not enjoy the natural relationship with its
possessions. To have any and all of these three natural states at one's
command, we use the word `insight' to describe this condition -- and there
is no other dictionary meaning attached to this word.

We see, we hear, we speak, but this is the unnatural state. But in an

unnatural part of the physical universe, we have to survive by unnatural
means. But fortunately this unnatural part of the Universe is a very, very
tiny part of Creation and if we have to live naturally in the entire
universe, we have to give up these unnatural outer senses. These physical
senses are like long feelers that we employ to feel around and sense in a
groping manner. We as human beings are no better than a cockroach or a
blind bat.

What is the natural relationship between the natural universe and

the natural way of life? Again we use the word `insight' -- it means a
natural way of life in the natural universe. Our only desire is to ignite
this insight in others, and once this is ignited then there will be no
need for a teacher -- one will be able to find one's way and the progress
will be sure and unhesitant.
These states 3a, 3b and 3c are achieved very slowly over a long period and
take many lifetimes, yet they form one continuous state of an individual
when biologically complete, being the three states available to one as and
when required. State 3a is the state when the individual lives as a
householder and performs the duties and obligations, 3b is the state when
that individual wants to have solutions to questions or problems either
for oneself or for others, and 3c is the state known as `transcendental'
for further progress on the path. Even state 3c is possible only if the
state 3b is first obtained and held, i.e. at first cultivated and then
established. Stage 3c is a very long journey, requiring many, many lives,
stretching from pratyahara to samadhi with seed state. But once achieved,
one can remain in either of the three states as and when required.

So, to summarize: (a) diagrams 1 and 2 are the first stage on the path,
(b) 3a is the second stage, (c) 3b, when only the UDM flows free from
incoming impulses and memory patterns, is the third stage, and (d) 3c,
where direct contact with Ishvara, atman, Self is made and the
intermediary (UDM) voluntarily withdraws, is the fourth stage, turiya. As
long as the UDM flows, as in (a), (b) and (c), there is only awareness
however subtle; only in (d) is Cosmic Consciousness pervading.

3c is a stage when the entire physical body and brain are not made use of
and the UDM voluntarily recedes so as not to cause any interference of any
sort. Though it is now in a state of no modifications -- there are not
even tiny wavelets -- nevertheless it voluntarily keeps away for the
simple reason that besides its radiation, there is now the radiation from
atman, Self or Ishvara. As full moon in daytime is redundant so UDM's
radiation is redundant; for now the Self, atman or Ishvara, is in the
natural state. In 3b UDM is in a natural state and in 3c atman or Ishvara
is in a natural state.

The block or valve at taluka, which was permanently in `open' position up

to phase 2 (refer diagram), can be closed consciously as and when required
to make states 3a, 3b and 3c possible, for nothing in scientific yoga
practices is achieved unconsciously or accidentally. Stage 3a is a
conditioned clean stage, a prelude to 3b stage. In states 3b and 3c,
incoming impulses along with identical memory patterns are prevented from
rushing in beyond taluka, as was earlier possible, and so no identical
memory patterns are drawn out to form thought images at the registration
area. By conscious disuse of the memory patterns they slowly disintegrate
and die, never coming back to the individual; but some scientific yoga
methods besides are also necessary, for these seeds, the memory patterns,
are by nature nearly indestructible.

In this stage 3c, prana after being drawn in is bottled up and rotated in
various ways and in various positions for inner cleansing of nadis and
centres. The cleansing process is by itself a very long process and takes
many lives. Now that the incoming impulses and identical memory patterns
are kept out, both the nadis in the astral body system, ida and pingala,
which so far were operative upto state 3a, are also rendered inoperative,
and the block or valve at the base of the spine opens the sushumna which
is cleansed step by step, from one centre to another. After this cleansing
process is over, the revolutions of the inner circuits begin. This is the
more advanced stage of 3c and leads from pratyahara onwards to the stage
of samadhi with seed.

The preliminary cleansing process is done by opening the block or valve at

the base of the spine, which till now was permanently in closed position.
At a time, in stages, prana is raised: (1) from swadhisthana to manipura
via muladhara, and back; (2) from swadhisthana to anahata via muladhara
and manipura, and back; (3) from swadhisthana to vishuddhi via muladhara,
manipura and anahata, and back; (4) from swadhisthana to taluka via
muladhara, manipura, anahata and vishuddhi, and back; (5) from
swadhisthana to sahasrara via muladhara, manipura, anahata, vishuddhi and
taluka, and back; (6) from swadhisthana to ajna via muladhara, manipura,
anahata, vishuddhi, taluka, sahasrara, and back.

Thereafter begins the downward journey, wherein prana, after reaching

ajna, moves down to the right half of vishuddhi, the right half of
anahata, then to kundali, on to muladhara and back to the right half,
swadhisthana. Till it reached ajna, it retraced its path in reverse order,
touching only the left half or equivalent of each centre; now after
reaching ajna, it reaches the left half and then goes over to the right
half of each centre before descending as stated above. During the first
full circuit the left and right halves are properly maintained while going
up and whilst coming down. This cleanses all the inner passages.

Each centre has a left and a right half, but manipura has kundali, a
separate centre, as the right half, and sahasrara, similarly, has bindu as
right half. All the left halves of the centres are linked with the left
mid brain and all the right halves of the centres are linked with the
right mid brain. Only when the right mid brain is fully developed and
functioning does it make an individual a complete being. This cleansing
process is misunderstood as rising of the kundalini; actually, only when
closed circuits start revolving is power generated within the system,
which now amounts to spiritual will.

Thus when the first circuit is completed, prana that is drawn into the
body system (physical plus astral) is refined, and during such periods
physical breathing is suspended, i.e. the physical body is in a state of
clinical death. Such practices are performed only in the presence and
under guidance of an advanced guide. Only when 3600 circuits per minute
are reached and rotated for at least 3000 nights is one then able to
maintain 3c condition simultaneously besides the normal physical condition.
But such a stage is mighty difficult.

The `experiencing mechanism' is, in addition, developed besides within the

registration area of the computer. This computer is now shut off as a
registration area for thought formation, and instead the newly developed
super sensitive film -- the experiencing mechanism -- unending and
limitless, on which is projected various pictures through the medium of
super Cosmic Consciousness, atman, the Self or Ishvara, beyond the limits
of the domain of Mind itself, is ready to illuminate the organism or body
system of what is beyond. The pictures are the result of intense
radiations, the intensity of which is greater than thousands of hydrogen
bombs.

Similarly, in stage 3b the intense radiations of the clean UDM is able to

do likewise to a lesser degree. In the Geeta, Arjuna is shown as having
reached stage 3b, and temporarily with the help of Lord Krishna reaches
the stage 3c (but not by his own efforts and so is unable to maintain it
longer) under the guidance of the Transcendental Teacher (Lord Krishna),
and returns to 3a stage because he has to live and fight the battle of
Kurukshetra.

Upto this stage, i.e. the boundary of the domain of mind, this super
sensitive film receives pictures. This happens during the higher stages of
pratyahara, dharna, dhyana and samadhi with seed. Once an individual
crosses over this boundary of the domain of mind, i.e. the entire field
of the UDM, and goes beyond the seen universe, Bhuh, the unseen universe
Bhuvah and the very subtle universe Svahah, this sensitive film snaps the
link with the physical body and brain, and so the physical body and brain
therefore die a physical death consciously, thus achieving samadhi without
seed, which differs from natural death that simply happens and in which
the individual can do nothing nor know anything.

The super cosmic consciousness, atman, the Self or Ishvara, gathers itself
at bindu, and not at sahasrara as happens in the case of normal people at
normal death, and departs forever, to be in its natural state in Janah
Universe, never to be again cojoined to any body or brain or mind, not
even the most subtle. Thus, we repeat, is samadhi without seed achieved.

This conscious separation is conscious death and final departing, but is

other than in the earlier stages of pratyahara, dharna, dhyana and
samadhi with seed, in which case also an individual consciously brings
about death, but which is followed by conscious birth. This chain of
conscious births and deaths is now not necessary for no further experience
is needed. In Tibet the Dalai Lamas used to take births and deaths
consciously, but for over the last hundred and odd years such has not been
possible any more (and neither can the present Dalai Lama do so).

Early Inner Scientific Yoga Experiences --

Some Glimpses of Sage Patanjali's Yoga Sutra

`Experience' is a word that is not defined properly. Experience, as is

understood, brings in and involves a mind and brain combination, and
however subtle be such type of experience yet in this type of subtlety is
involved the unique human computers of experience. Hence this sort of
experience is treated as gross, and so another word, not fully meaningful,
is used, namely `non-experiencing'. This means that those pictures that
are projected by Cosmic Consciousness on the super sensitive film, the
experiencing mechanism, in place of registration area is non-experiencing
due to intense radiation.

There are two types of intense radiations but one cannot be compared with
the other. In 3b it is of the clean UDM, free from all incoming impulses
and memory patterns, and in 3c it is of the Cosmic Consciousness itself --
of atman, the Self or Ishvara -- when the UDM voluntarily quits so as not
to create interference. This radiation, when intense and continuous, is
seen by psychic persons as light around the head.

Let it be clear that in diagrams 1, 2 and 3a, it is plain experience with

the involvement of both the computers, i.e. sections I and IIIa-b of the
brain, together with incoming impulses and identical memory patterns. In
3b it is experience without the involvement of these two computers, only a
super sensitive film, the experiencing mechanism, receiving photographs
in colour and sound effects from the UDM flowing with intense radiation.
The incoming impulses are blocked at taluka by the valve there in closed
position and the noise of the computers, sections I and IIIa-b, is shut
off. But this is still subtle experiencing. When on the sensitive film,
the experiencing mechanism, pictures are received directly from the super
Cosmic Consciousness, i.e. atman, Self or Ishvara, and the flowing UDM is
left behind is the so-called (true) non-experiencing.

Unless this is done as per scientific yoga practices, one cannot have the
inner silence so very necessary for higher processes. This silence is
termed peace of mind -- even state 3b is called peace of mind and
silencing of mind and brain. Though the pictures on this super sensitive
film, the experiencing mechanism, are in the usual coded language, we have
to use such description to convey our understanding. This is all
difficulty of language to express clearly.

We must first clearly understand the difference between consciousness and

awareness. There can be no movement within consciousness and therefore the
shastras say, "Manas is consciousness in motion," to differentiate it from
Consciousness. For Consciousness has no motion, however subtle, within
itself, but itself could be in motion; but such motion is instantaneous
and so is not seen or experienced.

Earlier it was stated that the study of the diagrams will reveal the long
chain process, how progressing from diagram 1 to 3b is like going from
gross structure to subtle concept, but even in the end, i.e. in 3b, upto
the stage of intuition, it remains some sort of concept. Conceptual
structure -- fabrics woven by thought forms -- ends with 3a, but the
true so-called non-experiencing is possible only in 3c. 3b is also a
subtle non-experiencing, both being radiation processes of different
intensities. All thinking, including intuition, is movement within the
mind, though in intuition it be very little movement, but in 3c there is
no such movement because mind is not involved. Brain and mind simply do
not function nor interfere!

The near end of thinking comes in 3b and is total in 3c. All movement
within is other than pure Cosmic Consciousness, where the unique
computers, sections I and IIIa-b, and the UDM are not involved, and there
is no thought formation nor movements of the natural digital clock in the
brain, which depends and works on the flow or movement of the UDM, and so
does not register time and hence space in 3c. In 3b too there are phases
when time and space are not registered, but are short lived. Upto 3b is
awareness at its best and in 3c it is Cosmic Consciousness by itself.

Thoughts end with 3b. Causality comes to an end in 3c for such periods as
the individual is firmly entrenched in 3c condition -- one adds no fresh
karma when in 3c. There is no happening and so no experience of any
happening. There, near the end stage of 3c -- for 3c is a vast stage and
takes many lives to fulfil, starting at pratyahara -- the computers, all
thought forms (the product of the computers), all incoming impulses and
inner movements of manas end, and so also all experience of time and
space.

Science knows of no such substance that can act on any other substance but
is not acted upon by anything or any substance. Such a `substance' or
vibration (if we can call It such) is pure Cosmic Consciousness of 3c.

It is at times asked, what is the experience of an individual as one

progresses on the path. But this path is to be understood as that of
scientific yoga practices, not as dramatized all over the world including
India.

In stage diagram 3c we see the complete individual having worked through

sub-stages 3a and 3b. The complete man is not the perfect man, for
perfection belongs only to Reality. Perfection is changeless, hence it is
pure Cosmic Consciousness itself. The complete and the incomplete are
stages, i.e. how far or near one is from being complete. The flower, the
gem, the tree, and man can all be structurally or biologically complete,
or nearly complete, or far from being complete.

Now our assumption is that we start from a state of incompleteness shown

in diagram 2 stage and then proceed to diagrams 3a, 3b and finally 3c. The
trouble is that our position on cosmic scale on this planet Earth is in
Bhuh, and we seem to be progressing to Bhuvah and then Svahah. We have
this impression that one is progressing from the lowest to the highest
sub-stage of Bhuh, then one moves on through the seven sub-stages of
Bhuvah, then proceeds to the sub-stages of Svahah, and then one goes
beyond, crossing the domain of body-mind-senses and arrives at our
original complete state in Janah Universe.

But to convey the right idea clearly, one has to take this wrong approach
to understanding; so like Khalil Gibran we say, "Half of what I write is
meaningless, but I write it so that the other half may make sense to you."
The other half is that the atman -- the Self, Ishvara, the Divine Fragment
-- has always been the real Being, the complete Being. It can sport in
whatever bodies, with whatever shades of mind possibilities and senses
accompanying the bodies.

There has not to be and shall never be any change in the original super
cosmic consciousness of the Being, the complete man, as the Being always
was, is and will be! It only seems that due to some factors, this
consciousness of the Being and the awareness of the body and mind, the
outer coverings of the Being, have failed to maintain a clear
communication and understanding; both have been mistakenly superimposed as
one and the same thing. This misunderstanding is of the awareness only.

The Being is the super Being -- Satyam, the Absolute -- the complete man,
without divisions or multiplicity. But when the complete man, the Being,
passes through a phase of different rates of vibrations, these stages are
known as Janah, Mahah, Svahah, Bhuvah and Bhuh. The change in vibrations
can be enormous and so the outer coverings can change enormously so as to
be misleading if inner communication fails. But the rates of vibrations
from highest to lowest are also in rhythm: -do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si-do- or
-v-i-b-g-y-o-r-, and to suit this rhythm of vibrations and to experience
all the states of vibrations, the Being clothes himself consciously, and
this clothing is not different or outside of the Being. It is like a
spider's string and web emanating from the spider's saliva; so too it all
comes out of the Being and is withdrawn into the Being. So actually there
is no clothing and no regions and no states. All comes out of the Being
and is withdrawn into the Being, as nothing can exist outside of the
Being.

So once this state of the complete man, the Being, is realized, then from
thereon one would laugh at the idea of the eight steps of yoga as if these
steps were responsible for creating the complete Being. It would be like
the Lord Rama learning from the Sage Vashishtha! The Being, complete in
itself, needs no steps, but can flow up and down the stages of vibrations
which are also the states of the complete man, the Being. All else that
one can understand is but the understanding of the incomplete man!

So what is experienced in early stage 3c? The numerous inner circuits, or

revolutions of prana -- their speeds, sensations, sounds, types and nature
-- as experienced within by the incomplete man on his way to becoming the
complete man, as our understanding of the complete man implies. Such
understanding is described hereunder in detail.

When the circuit is not complete and the movement of prana is from
swadhisthana to one of the centres and back (the early advanced steps
under a Transcendental Guide, for even the early steps require an advanced
guide), on reaching manipura centre a peculiar sound is heard, best
described as the sound of a very fast train passing by one at a railway
platform. One hears this sound loud and clear above the ears on either
side of the mid brain. Some mistakenly call it the hissing of the
awakening kundalini, but it is not so because the kundalini makes no sound
or noise. Once higher practices begin, this noise dies away but is heard
till all the centres are reached and the first circuit is complete.

Before the first circuit is completed during scientific yoga practices,

during pratyahara stage sounds of each centre with kaleidoscopic colour
reflections on the retina are experienced even with the eyes closed. Once
the first full circuit is completed and the speed of revolutions within
reaches one per minute, these experiences of sound-colour images
progressively diminish. The higher the stage of progress the lesser such
experiences of sound-colour or images, for such are the signs of a
beginner. This is the stage of darshan also.

Now as one full circuit per minute continues, a physical sound as of the
falling of a large body of water over a small height is heard clearly over
the noises of the outside world and is registered at the top of and mid
way between brain sections IIa and b. This sound also dies away once the
number of closed circuits increases. As the closed circuits increase from
0 to 600 per minute, on nearing 600 per minute (but depending on the
actual speed of closed circuits), sounds like that of one's heart beats, or
of a swiftly rushing river heard from a short distance, or like the
humming of bees, can be made out upon concentrating when outside noises
are least disturbing.

This is all language. It is heard by intuition rather than through the

sense organs (because they are not involved, the incoming impulses having
been blocked off at taluka). These sounds also slowly die away.

When the closed circuits are building up from 600 to 1800 per minute and
as one nears 1800 per minute, the surface of the physical body feels as if
it is receiving electrical tremors and the flesh keeps vibrating. If the
ears are closed, these tremors can be heard (with the ears closed) at the
navel when awake and working, but when awake and resting they seem to
spread from the navel towards the heart. At this stage, the solar plexus
or manipura centre area is now entirely deadened, no more can the animal
nature and instincts be traced in the man -- all such animal-like memory
patterns are erased from memory sections IIIa and b. True inner detachment
now takes place, not requiring one to leave one's family and go to the
Himalayas. Eventually they become fainter till they die away. Again this
is but language.

On nearing 3600 closed circuit revolutions per minute, one gets an

unbearable, piercing feeling from bindu to muladhara, as if a vertical
shaft only fractionally wide has been drilled -- a deep, soundless,
inaudible, but intuitively experienced sound. This sound is heard as if
one is moving away from a place where a high-speed drill is operating. As
it then slowly fades away, there is no feeling in or of the body, and a
total silence prevails, a sort of feelinglessness. When once again the
speed of closed circuits drops to zero, all that was earlier experienced
slowly comes back till one regains the normal phenomenal experience of
earthly life.

It is not possible to describe and convey by language as all this is felt

intuitively and is not the outcome of any sense perceptions, i.e.
experience through the five senses and sense organs. These experiences are
very fast and difficult to record properly unless repeatedly experienced.

There are seven precise areas. In each area, depending on the state of
one's experience at a given time, will be experienced a unique sense of
well-being and exhilaration, less or more. The seven areas are :

(1) below and behind the root of sex organ: muladhara--swadhisthana;

(2) the navel: manipura--kundali;
(3) the parting of the ribs in the lower chest above the diaphragm, a
little below the point of the heart: anahata, left and right halves;
(4) the hollow of the neck between the collar bones, an inch or so under
the skin: vishuddhi, anterior and posterior halves;
(5) the base of the nose, where the bridge starts, about an inch under:
ajna;
(6) the end of the hair parting at the back, an inch or so under the crown
of the head: sahasrara;
(7) deep within the mid-brain, in the centre: bindu!

The last three are very sensitive and difficult to be aware of (sometimes
it appears that our intuition to locate them starts them, but it is not
so), and are extremely sensitive to thoughts and emotions. In all cases,
if thoughts and/or emotions come in they fade away. Bindu is most
satisfying. Vishuddhi is also sensitive and eluding, even the sense of
satisfaction makes such experiences fade away. The first three are felt
more easily but are gross when compared to the last three. Grosser, yes,
in the sense we may call yellow, orange and red grosser compared to
violet, indigo and blue.

All the centres have electrical tremors, mostly vertically, up and down.
(4) has electrical tremors from side to side, and the first three have
backward and forward tremors. All are points of radiations that seem to
recede to a point and then enlarge into a circle of half an inch diameter,
sometimes apparent and sometimes not, depending on the sensitivity of each
occasion which changes from moment to moment.

Sound, vibrations and sensations are like three sections of one stick: one
section is sound, one is vibrations and in the middle are felt the
sensations. Sound, subtle sound, is produced at different centres with
different rates of vibrations, but the pitch -- the rate of resonance --
of this soundless sound can be high, higher, and even higher. Sensations
are felt in the physical body in the corresponding areas described above.
A feeling of elation, well-being and peace is felt, but such feelings are
to be kept in abeyance and the experience allowed to continue and fade
away naturally.

This is registered in the gross physical brain and body. If this is not
registered, then whatever is happening and experienced intuitively will
not be known or remembered and will amount to deep sleep only. So to
dismiss sound and vibrations as of no consequence and importance is not
correct, and gross and subtle are only relative terms.

The beauty is that though soundless sound is produced at various centres,

especially at manipura, the vibrations are the result of the speed of the
inner closed circuits and are all-pervading all over the body, though they
are felt less in the lower limbs and have a tendency to go out of the body
system into the ground or earth, and there can be no insulation to these
vibrations as in the case of electricity. So in yoga practices the legs
are crossed over and kept closely tight to the main body, which is seated
on a deer skin or tiger skin, and the toes are held in the inside of the
knees.

During an experience, these three -- sound, vibrations, whether high,

higher or still higher, and sensations, of whatever type -- are all
clearly registered. The experiencing mechanism of section I is open to
register directly any experience -- objective, subjective or
transcendental -- provided it is consciously taken into service, but
sections IIIa and b are consciously closed during practices (refer
diagrams 3b and 3c).

During these higher practices under a very advanced guide, the older
method of thoughts formation and their registration in the registration
area is temporarily stopped and there in direct registration on the
unending, sensitive film developed in the registration area, on which
photo pictures of subtler experiences are transmitted. The very nature of
the earlier registration area is transformed into this super experiencing
mechanism because of inner changes. The two process are completely
different, the method of registration is also completely different, and
without this sensitive film development higher practices are not possible.

So we realize that the brain is totally quiet. As long as the computers

work, as in case of diagrams 1, 2 and 3a, there is internal noise of
functioning, sometimes more and sometimes less -- refer the intensity
charts and our notes. But now these computers do not function at all
during higher practices, like they normally do in normal awareness.

The Self, atman, Ishvara, which is pure Cosmic Consciousness, merely

conveys and whatever is conveyed is photographed (i.e. in universal coded
language), and instead of the normal registration now the super sensitive
film, the experiencing mechanism, constantly receives clear pictures
even in inky blackness conditions which are then sent to memory section
IIIa as memory of the experience in this life. These photographs are clear
and understood after a great length of time and labour, depending on the
persistent labour of the individual, but once clear they are so even in
absolute inky black darkness conditions and are seen as on a clear
television screen in colour and sound.

What is Reality ?

The entire body mechanism is based on the principle of (relative)

perpetual motion. This (relative) perpetual motion is the same as the
(relative) perpetual motion found in planets, stars and suns, galaxies and
the entire Universe itself. The powerpack, the prime mover, in the human
body mechanism is the diaphragm, not the heart. Once this fly-wheel of the
human mechanism is set in motion at birth, then the ratio of the
generation of energy to the consumption of energy (along with cosmic laws)
determines the so-called life- or time-cycle of the human mechanism. For
the human mechanism and all other mechanisms, e.g., planets, stars and
suns, and galaxies, are a combination of a generator and an engine.

For the generation of energy, much stress is laid on food. Some even talk
of sattvic food and a vegetarian diet. It is a normal human way of
thinking that belies proper knowledge. But the need of saving energy is
not even thought of, for spending does exceed generation, leading to
diseases, old age and death. Other sources of generation of energy,
besides the obvious oral food, are not taken into account, viz., correct
breathing and correct digestion of incoming impulses.

Let us consider the real source of generation of energy that moves the
powerpack, the diaphragm, to (relative) perpetual motion. Movement of this
powerpack is the original motion which sets all the various synchronized
movements into gear; all these secondary movements come into motion, gear
by gear, within the human mechanism.

But, first, it is more important to know some vital factors. (i) What
makes the powerpack organ, the diaphragm, to be in (relative) perpetual
motion within the human mechanism? (ii) Is `it' a mechanism or a power,
and is this power within the human mechanism? (iii) What relationship has
this mechanism or power (which may or may not be within the human
mechanism) with a similar mechanism or power in the Universe, which gives
the Universe its (relative) perpetual motion? (iv) Do planets, stars and
suns, and galaxies also have such a mechanism or power individually, which
keeps each of them in (relative) perpetual motion? (v) Is there a
possibility of having any access to or control over this mechanism or
power, and also, thereafter, over the other similar mechanisms or power?
(vi) If yes, how; and if not, why not? Are there really answers to these
questions?

Yes! On realizing the answers to these questions, one would come to

realize that the human body is merely a sophisticated mechanism of
infinite possibilities -- and is nothing beyond that. An excellent
computer not fully known to science or religion or philosophy! Once having
known the mechanism or power within or without the human mechanism and
then having known its relationship with the similar mechanism or power
that keeps the planets, stars and suns, galaxies and even the Universe in
(relative) perpetual motion, one would come to the conclusion that with
all its immense wonders, enormous size, all possibilities and
probabilities, the Universe is also merely a sophisticated mechanism of
infinite possibilities, equally as mechanical -- and is nothing beyond
that. A grander, vaster computer, not at all known to science or religion
or philosophy! And further, all entities that are included within the
bounds of the Universe are, likewise, merely computers not yet fully
understood.

Having come to such conclusions, the ancient sages rejected as being of no

consequence both the human body mechanism as well as the infinite
mechanism of the Universe and all that is contained within its bounds.
Further investigations along these lines over an age, showed that the seen
universe stretched into a more subtle and vaster expanse of Existence
beyond our seen universe. Our seen universe was described by the term
Bhuh, or cellular, and the more subtle expansion beyond was termed Bhuvah,
or molecular. Still further investigations over an age along these lines
revealed that beyond the subtle was yet a vaster, even more subtle expanse
of a universe and this was termed Svahah, or electronic. The so-called
`matter' of our universe became more and more subtle reaching the
anti-matter state, or equivalently prakriti reaching mula-prakriti state,
and so on. But they all proved to be merely more and more sophisticated
mechanisms of (relative) perpetual motion, all being grander and vaster
and more subtle computers only. And so were classified under `maya' also
-- what we have called the Bubble (Existence)!

Thus did the popular term `maya' originate. Maya does not mean an
illusion, but it conveys the thought of being illusory or transitory,
meaning that which exists but is of no importance. In this category are
placed the human body mechanism, the Universe and all that exists within
the bounds of the Universe, because they all exist on this basis. Only
later did maya come to be understood as `illusion' only, meaning not
existing. But who feeds the data and how is the data fed to all these
computers remained unsolved!

So the sages finally placed more importance on this (relative) perpetual

motion. What would happen, they asked, if this (relative) perpetual motion
were to stop or cease? Ages of one-pointed thought along these lines gave
the reply that with the cessation of the (relative) perpetual motion, the
whole Universe -- gross, subtle and yet more subtle, and all that is held
within its bounds, i.e. all the various mechanisms -- would cease to
exist, it would collapse into one single centre! The human mechanism, when
once the (relative) perpetual motion ceases, does collapse into a single
point (bindu) and the human body mechanism is pronounced `dead'. All
other mechanisms would also likewise cease to exist. As above, so below!

Motion, (relative) perpetual motion, is vibrations, and vibrations mean

life, awareness, sound, heat, light, colours, magnetism, gravitation and a
host of other such effects at different rates of vibrations, some of which
are known to physics. All these characteristics are very commonly
associated with the human body mechanism as well as with trillions upon
trillions of other mechanisms like the planets, stars and suns, and
galaxies. For what in the human mechanism we describe as love, affection,
etc., we describe as magnetism, gravitation, etc., in planets, stars and
suns, and galaxies. With the cessation of this (relative) perpetual
motion, therefore, also cease all these effects, leaving only inky
blackness (does it mean a black hole?), or in ancient language, the Cosmic
Night!

However, it is clear that (relative) perpetual motion needs a (relative)

perpetual ocean of energy. Everything can then be ultimately reduced to
this (relative) perpetual ocean of energy operating through each
mechanism, whatever its size and structure. Not only is this (relative)
perpetual ocean of energy the source of the gross, subtle and yet more
subtle universes and of all that they hold within their bounds, it is also
the intelligent cause of all (relative) perpetual motions of all the
masses of matter, gross or subtle, which are but the condensations of the
same (relative) perpetual ocean of energy. It is therefore the (relative)
perpetual cause of all the vibrations and motions within the Bubble,
leading to the various effects like light, sound, colour, etc., in all the
mechanisms, human or otherwise. And this diversity of mechanisms and
phenomena is endless.

So it stands to reason that all these mechanisms need the proper type of
sense organs for registration, i.e. to be able to exist in that
particular strata of Existence, within the unlimited and varied conditions
of Existence. What would happen if the sense organs of a particular
mechanism were not to be operative? In that case, that particular part of
the Universe in which that mechanism exists will cease to exist for that
mechanism! So it is that our sense organs make us aware, at first, of our
body mechanism (`I am') and, thereafter, of all other sorts of mechanisms
found in trillions in each universe, gross, subtle and yet more subtle,
depending on which universe we happen to exist in, in a particular
time-cycle. These time-cycles are not simply linear as we may imagine!

The sense organs are suitably given to (or developed by) each mechanism to
experience each type of universe. It is also true that one mechanism may
have one set of sense organs functioning to register one type of gross
universe, within which the variety of experiences and types of sense
organs is endless. Another mechanism may have another set of sense organs
functioning to register the subtle universe; yet another mechanism may
have both sets of sense organs functioning. There may be a mechanism that
may have all sets of organs functioning and in some other cases, some set
of sense organs may not be operative, what we may call dormant or
defective, so that in spite of their presence in a mechanism, the
mechanism would not be able to register the subtler universes.

So one mechanism may differ from another in very many ways, some to little
extent and some radically, i.e. some may be able to register exceedingly
well, some more or less, and some others not at all. Nonetheless, all are
mere mechanisms of endless variety, shapes and textures, whether humans,
planets, stars and suns, or galaxies. None can be considered holy, sacred
or advanced if the sense organs work exceedingly well, and none can be
considered vulgar, mean, or undeveloped if they don't. For different
mechanism serve different purposes, that is all! Just like man-made
mechanisms, viz., heater, freezer, radio, etc. Together they function as a
grand orchestra!

But to come back to (relative) perpetual motion, which has to be fed by

the (relative) perpetual ocean of energy. This energy is termed cosmic
energy for lack of a better term or understanding. Could it be termed
original unique force-field, all-pervading and all-knowing, which makes
all mechanisms seem intelligent and aware and keeps all mechanisms in
(relative) perpetual motions? Its qualities or characteristics or gunas
are countless, inconceivable, and contain all the pairs of opposites. It
ought to be so for it contains innumerable shades of sattva, rajas and
tamas in all conceivable measures, permutations and combinations. Hence,
one mechanism will differ from another depending on whatever qualities, or
range of qualities, a particular mechanism encompasses and exhibits, at a
level of detail far beyond the scope of today's orthodox and limited
theory of genes and heredity to describe.

This (relative) perpetual ocean of energy cannot be divided or classified

into good and evil; neither can any part of it be so divided. Hence there
can be no absolutely good or absolutely evil type of mechanisms. Can we
call this (relative) perpetual ocean of cosmic energy, which is
all-pervading and all-knowing, sacred? No. Is it then evil? No. It is
neither sacred or evil or vulgar because none of the trillions upon
trillions of mechanisms in the three universes can exhibit characteristics
or qualities or gunas that are not contained within this all-pervading
(relative) perpetual ocean of cosmic energy in which all the varied
mechanisms have their individual (relative) perpetual motions and their
existence. Since all mechanisms move and have their being in this
all-pervading ocean of cosmic energy or space, they all ultimately
dissolve into it also, being mere condensations of the (relative)
perpetual ocean of cosmic energy or space, leaving behind, perhaps, only a
`black hole' or cosmic night in this cosmic energy or space in certain
regions of Existence, our Universe.

Shall we term this (relative) perpetual ocean of energy or cosmic energy

as space? In that case, space is living, vibrant, all-knowing and
all-pervading, unlike `space' as understood by science today! Can this
all-pervading ocean of cosmic energy or space, with all its known and
unknown characteristics be termed Universal Divine Mind, Chittie? Can
we then say that the terms cosmic energy, space and Universal Divine Mind,
are in fact synonymous? It appears so, does it not?

Can this (relative) perpetual ocean of cosmic energy (or space or

Universal Divine Mind) be said to emerge or flow from yet another unknown
and unknowable source? Cannot all these three universes, together with
their full contents of mechanisms, together with this all-pervading ocean
of cosmic energy or space or Universal Divine Mind, be contained in a
Dimensionless Point of Cosmic Consciousness? Can that (magnitude-less)
Dimensionless Point be termed Seed or God or That? Does It give rise to
the vast tree of Existence, with its roots high up in an unknown or
unknowable source and Its countless branches and leaves hanging upside
down?

Can this Dimensionless Point by Itself exist perpetually? Is there motion

within or outside It? Which mortal eye has seen, which mortal mind has
understood this Dimensionless Point? It is said in the shastras or
scriptures, that which has motion within or without is mortal and subject
to change and time-cycles, and so is subject to dissolution; that which
has no motion within is immortal and not subject to dissolution. Can this
Dimensionless Point be such?

Is it not so that this Dimensionless Point which contains All, i.e. the
infinite possibilities, projects all the universes with all their contents
and their time-cycles? `Project' not in the sense of projecting on a
screen, for then one would require a screen of (relative) perpetual
existence outside the Dimensionless Point (which does not make sense for
nothing can be outside of It). Is it not so that this projection is itself
cyclic? Does this, then, not give rise to the sense of involution and
evolution, i.e. alaya and pralaya, or cosmic day and cosmic night? Does
this cyclic projection conjure up the idea of maya or illusion in the
right sense of the word? Is it not so, that these cyclic movements,
however imperceptible, within this Dimensionless Point also would subject
It to time-cycles and thus to dissolution? And this Dimensionless Point is
God or That, or does all this pertain to the Bubble?!

How, then, would this Dimensionless Point, in the measureless distant

future, again substantiate Itself? But, then, did not It substantiate
Itself at one time in the dim forgotten past from Nothingness? Therefore,
can we say that Nothingness precedes this Dimensionless Point? So is God,
That, the Dimensionless Point, or Nothingness the Reality? Shall we term
the Dimensionless Point as the Bubble and shall we term Tapah, the
manifest Absolute, as Nothingness.

What purpose, then, have these trillions of numberless mechanisms of the

three universes? What purpose have all these three universes? What purpose
have their (relative) perpetual motions? What purpose has this (relative)
perpetual ocean of cosmic energy or space or Universal Divine Mind? Do
they have any purpose? Are not all these then just `maya'? Are not all
these illusory? What place, then, do religion, rites, ceremonies and
prayers have? Is it not all a fiction of our fragmentary intelligence and
mind, thus creating all such concepts out of fear and/or doubt because we
know so little or nothing!? How long would we imprison our God in our tiny
temples, churches, mosques and synagogues? Do we still want to believe
that It (or That or God or Nothingness) created us in the same image?
Which image is that? When shall we come out of all this make-believe and
enter into the true spirit of the space age as we once entered into the
true spirit of the Upanishadic age. Or as Lord Krishna says in the Geeta,
chapter III(26), "But one should not perturb the minds of the ignorant
who are attached to action."

Should we still trace the cause of this (relative) perpetual motion? And
will such an exercise prove profitable? Or shall we separate our sense
organs from our senses (pratyahara, if understood properly) and
momentarily know the Truth (Satyam), in an infinitesimal fraction of a
moment. Shall we and can we experience the Truth thus? And is it not that
this experience of Truth shall render us free from our (relative)
perpetual bondage? This momentary Cosmic Consciousness (being out of our
ordinary awareness), or rather this identification with Truth, with the
Dimensionless Point, is not that the moment that contains all eternities
and time-cycles, as well as timelessness, space, cosmic energy or
Universal Divine Mind?! As Lord Krishna in the Geeta, chapter 11,
offered, "Here, in Me living as one, O Arjuna! behold the whole Universe,
movable and immovable, and anything else that thou wouldst see!"

The shastras or scriptures say that there is no motion in Cosmic

Consciousness, i.e. within It, That, or the Dimensionless Point. But who
would dare say it is or it is not -- that mano nirodh is very near Cosmic
Consciousness! Is it or is it not so?

But since this (relative) perpetual ocean of Cosmic Energy or Space or

Universal Divine Mind has motion within, it ought to be mortal and subject
to change and time-cycles, and hence subject to dissolution, however
immense and incalculable be the duration. And so all must ultimately
collapse into the Dimensionless Point. So all that `is' is totally and
seemingly different from this Dimensionless Point, and this Dimensionless
Point finally has to collapse into Nothingness or the Reality. The
Nothingness! The Reality!

So, ultimately, except for this Nothingness, all else is considered maya,
illusory, transitory, non-existing and subject to total dissolution. Is
this the experience of nirvana? So this Dimensionless Point within
Nothingness is advaita, and space or ocean of cosmic energy or Universal
Divine Mind, should it originate, even in discussion, is dvaita and hence
unacceptable. Nothing else is taken into consideration, let alone the
infinite varieties of mechanisms!

But it is also true that in the absence of these time- and space-bound
trillions upon trillions of mechanisms, all these fragmentary condensates
of myriad sizes, from anu to the universes, that have (relative) perpetual
motion and relative awareness, there would be none to appreciate and
register, i.e. have a mental concept (if not the experience) of the
existence of this timeless, ever-existing Dimensionless Point. For that
Dimensionless Point to be `meaningful', all these `meaningless' mechanisms
must exist `forever' along with their illusory ideas of space/time! Is it
not so? Unfortunately, is it not so? Or should it not be that Nothingness
alone must exist? Is this philosophy or partly religion? But the salvation
is to experience this identification, this Truth, in the barest possible
moment, through scientific yoga.

What has scientific yoga to say? To know the Truth, i.e. to arrive at the
source of all wisdom and power, if it could be stated thus in human
language, is it necessary to go through all the outlined practices and
through so much work on one's self? Is there no direct method, what some
call the leap beyond or the breakthrough, sudden and immediate?

Yes and no! No, for almost all of us, because the physical vehicle along
with the brain cannot bear the shock and would in almost all cases end in
common death, swoon or unconscious state that makes an individual a
vegetable for life, or makes an individual completely insane for life. All
these are to be avoided, for these three results imply a negation of
efforts, that the leap has failed to materialize. What is worse, such
individuals will be reborn sub-normal or abnormal and many such lives may
have to pass before such individuals reach the same condition as was
before the leap was attempted. In effect, normal progress is delayed.

Yes, in rare cases where the body and brain can bear the shock without
damage or becoming unconscious, for being unconscious even for a short
while is to defeat the purpose.

How is it then done, what is the experience? The answer is: stare naked,
for Truth is naked! It has no covering, no qualities, no shape, no
texture. To stare naked means to complete the circle -- it ends in you,
yourself. Light bends and so does sight. The stare is naked and fixed.
Fixed means of long duration; naked means slowly all the sights and sounds
fade away, and even though it be broad daylight, it is not registered --
for light is not Truth! Truth is named Nothingness or Emptiness (for the
sake of language to be meaningful) and so it can have no sound, no light,
no shape, etc. When this world and all the Universe disappears in broad
daylight, then one is surrounded by inky darkness -- one feels not one's
body or breath.

If the naked stare is accomplished, in broad daylight, not only does one
see or experience nothing, but one is also not seen by others! For the
naked stare, as said earlier, ends in you, yourself, and when you become a
part of Nothingness or Emptiness, how can you be seen, how can you be
different and separate? "When one's mind is thus known in its nakedness,
this doctrine of seeing the Mind naked, this self-liberation, is seen to
be exceedingly profound. Seek, therefore, thine own wisdom within this. It
is a vast deep." And when you will experience this, the wealth of the
whole Universe will be as nothing to you, though you may possess such
wealth.

Chapter 13

Dharna -- Dhyana -- Samadhi

The studies and practices of these stages are not given in book form, nor
are they performed under the guidance of an external guru or teacher. The
instructions relating to them are to be found, it is said, either in Sage
Patanjali's `Fifth Book' of the Yoga Sutra or are given only by `word of
mouth', and the actual practices are to be performed under the guidance of
the Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara.

So far, the developing and raising of the vital energies to cleanse and
regenerate the various centres in the primary body, then building within
the body a closed circuit, and then increasing the speed of revolutions
within the circuit till they reach 60 cycles per one minute of Earth
time, or per 60 pulse beats (which is now the normal pulse rate of the
disciple), is the total path and practices of scientific yoga of the
pratyahara stage. Now begins the stage of dharna proper.

When the primary astral body is detached from the physical, the link
between them is through a slender but near indestructible cord, the silver
cord or `sutratma', connecting the primary rear brain and the physical
front brain. Hence also the `Yoga Sutra' of Sage Patanjali. We have stated
that the physical body is in a state of `clinical death', but there is a
great difference between this state of the disciple and the actual
clinical death state of an ordinary person. In case of normal death this
cord is snapped and the physical body decays rapidly, but during these
practices the sutratma is intact and the physical body continues to
receive vital energies and so does not develop the haggard, yellowish gray
shade to the skin even after hours or days.

As for the advanced transcendental experience of Bhuh, neither the old

route of diagrams 1, 2 and 3a nor the new route of diagram 3b is made use
of -- instead the closed circuit route 3c is adopted for all higher
practices of yoga, including those of advanced pratyahara, dharna, dhyana
and samadhi. This is done every night during sleeping hours, without any
fuss or knowledge of others, and during the day the disciple acts and
works like an ordinary person, carrying out the duties and obligations of
a householder's life. Nor does one not run away to the Himalayas or to an
ashram, because one is convinced that such escape is no solution, for if
such practices are not possible within the safety of the four walls at
home, they are not possible anywhere else.

The second major and vital reason is that when a person runs off to the
Himalayas or to an ashram as a young man or woman and does not marry in
the misguided hope and mandate of brahmacharya, it is a sure sign of
selfishness! On this path one can never hope to progress alone! If the
selfish motive be progress for oneself only, it will ever be defeated.
Refer to the diagrams, for in what manner can such a disciple best help
the revolving wheel of samsara? By giving of one's developed and refined
bodies, both male and female, for off-springs, i.e. advanced souls who
have yet to take birth to continue their practices and fulfil their
redeeming, and who need such clean bodies; otherwise they would have to
make do with unprepared, unhealthy, unclean minds and bodies, and be
reared in homes of drunkards, profligates, materialists and playboys, and
the pain through which they pass unnecessarily due to the wrong attitude
of such selfish disciples, such aspirants will have to settle!

So please know that life's greatest duty and happiness is to prepare our
developed bodies and make them available to off-springs, i.e. individuals
to come, and it is a thousand times more blessed to live by such life than
by the misguided mandate of brahmacharya. By all means, the sex is refined
and not unnecessarily indulged in. In the early chapters of the Mahabharata,
we are informed that Brahma himself failed on occasions to prevent his
seed falling or spilling out!! Try to fathom out what that means.

So every night the individual takes a conscious exit, as if at the moment

of so-called death, and therefore knows what it is to die! "He who dies
not before dying perishes when he dies." It is obvious that the primary
body -- finer, speedier and endowed with greater freedom, which the
disciple makes use of under guidance -- has learnt about conscious death
and conscious birth.
And what are the lessons learnt? And how are they learnt? All knowledge of
the Earth and the Solar System is experienced and understood so that
during one's normal waking hours the disciple can guide anyone who needs
and will benefit from his or her guidance. The more important task is of
meeting events before they come to the disciple as events. Please note
that no law is negated, for no one can negate any law in-as-much as there
is actually no causation and no punishment. Were it so, then these
conscious practices would not help and would also not be necessary, but
this being the process of `redeeming' the events can be decoded from
within the super micro recording monitor and the message learnt.

And who can do this impossible job, since the disciple has, as yet, not
gone beyond our solar system in his practices of pratyahara and the super
micro recording monitors are in the causal body in the Ring-pass-not
region? That is why no external guru can do this -- only the
Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara, who alone can reach the region of akashic
records and can decode, for nothing can be hidden from pure Consciousness.
And what, indeed, can stop pure Consciousness from going anywhere, even
entering Janah Universe straightaway or merging in Divine Wholeness? (Only
the rules of the game sportingly accepted when entering Existence can and
do prevent this.)

One may advertise meditation -- objective and subjective meditation and

concentration -- for peace of mind or for greater opportunities in
material life and success. But TM, when so prescribed, advertised and
sold, and that too for mere peace of mind, means that both, those who
offer and those who accept, are like the blind leading the blind. In
diagram 3c, where is mind involved? Mind has limitations and beyond its
limits, mind becomes a dead weight, a mere obstacle. For all human beings,
the boundary of mind is diagram 3b. Try to logically understand the
structure within the brain and individual's mind and Universal Divine
Mind, and act accordingly.

By repeated practices during the long period of pratyahara, the disciple

becomes adept in the technique of separating and realigning both the
bodies, which practice can also continue during actual so-called death and
birth, due to continued guidance of the Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara.
The disciple's knowledge is very useful in making both these events
conscious, and so the disciple enters the very, very small and select
group who have made their earthly, mortal existence `immortal' and now
have no such unconscious intervals as birth and death. Other individuals
have their awareness coming to an end after death because their awareness
does not accompany them, but now the energy of the essence of
consciousness has fabricated a bridge (does it sound like the bridge
Hanumanji's army constructed?) under the blessings of pure Cosmic
Consciousness (Rama) between pure Consciousness (Rama) and the
awareness
(Ravana), and so all this is now made possible!

Nothing worthwhile is ever gained without paying equivalent price. In this

case willing and conscious unceasing efforts towards progress, and
following the guidance of the Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara, the Divine
Fragment, is the price to be paid. One does not just sit by the wayside
and keep playing with psychic powers, as little children play with
marbles.

Now begins the dharna stage of practices and a very different type of
preparation is necessary. This stage of dharna is an extension of
pratyahara stage, the main difference being in the speed of revolutions of
the inner closed circuit, which increases from 60 to 600 cycles per minute
by the end of this stage, thus enabling the astral body to penetrate
deeper and with greater speeds into vaster dimensions and learn therefrom
what future eternities will be like. The disciple will no more confine
himself to the study of the Earth, the planets, and the Sun of our solar
system, but will now reach out beyond and study all the sub-stages of Bhuh
both on the upward and downward arcs. In doing so, he is actually
travelling vertically, ascending or descending, through time, and thus
comes to know under guidance of the Divine Fragment all that is worth
knowing in the seen, cellular universe, Bhuh.

So would you say now that this stage and these practices of dharna stage
are mere `concentration'?

Every night the primary body is detached from the secondary body, and
while the physical body is in a state of clinical death the primary body,
under guidance, meets the events that would otherwise come upon the
disciple later and `redeems' the individual's acts, thought and motives.
The disciple meets the persons involved, wherever they be, 99.9% of whom
are usually still ordinary human beings and will not know that they have
been contacted by the disciple. But they will sense by an instinctive
understanding that something good has happened to them. Alternately, the
disciple may experience this sensibility, in which case he will know if
such a person is ahead of him and whether the disciple is excused already
by a much superior person.

When the dharna stage of study is over, the physical body, brain, senses
and motives are all redeemed, a process which ordinarily would need
innumerable births. According to the law, the disciple is free after this
stage from the bondage of physical births and deaths in Bhuh universe.
But he or she may, if so desired, continue his life in Bhuh, even on this
Earth itself or in any other galaxy, to help fellow human beings, for in
many ways was he earlier involved with them, though nothing can now bind
or force one to take birth and all his actions are free from any
contamination.

The major work has been done during pratyahara stage, which completes the
biological development within. The detachment of the primary body from the
secondary body, i.e. detachment of the sense organs in the physical body
from the senses flowing in the primary body, thus creates a natural mental
state in the disciple of true detachment. The values of life change and
the individual becomes a totally changed personality. In the Geeta, such a
one is beautifully described: "The self-controlled soul who moves among
sense objects, free from either attachment or revulsion, he wins eternal
peace."

It is a very important psychological fact that revulsion is as sure a sign

as attachment of a particular trait in an individual. One ought to be free
from both, and by the law of vibrations, "the objects of sense turn away
from him" who has truly achieved the high water-mark of true detachment --
who does not run away from objects of sense, who makes no outward show of
detachment, yet is neither drawn to nor shows any repulsion for any object
of sense. There are no unwanted modifications of the mind, for even
repulsion creates mind modifications. Such an individual is truly at
peace. He realizes the true value of each object; this change in values
brings about a complete transformation.

In the dharna stage, the disciple learns to let the astral and the
physical bodies interchange their relative positions of being primary and
secondary on the upward arc and the downward arc respectively, for we must
not forget that on the downward arc in Bhuh, the physical is primary and
the astral is secondary, while on the upward arc in Bhuh the physical is
secondary and the astral is primary and could be mayarupi. These skills
are of vital necessity and only under guidance of the Transcendental
Teacher, Ishvara, is all this possible. They also gives an intuitional
understanding of free space and free time, and the other dimensional
understanding of what is loosely called space and time. An individual can
travel through Bhuh, Bhuvah and Svahah as a time-and-space capsule.

Memory pool section IIIb deep is not dormant but the valves or blocks are
shut tight in case of normal people, for their accidental opening can
create very complicated cases of weird and split personalities. This
section is an unending tape of past memory patterns of millions of
lifetimes and constantly keeps rotating within. The point (or
configuration) at which it is at the time of death takes an individual to
that corresponding area in the Universe, i.e. a time-field with the planet
having corresponding conditions of life. Hence the common belief that at
the time of death the thoughts prevailing are to be selected, but such is
not this person's belief.

Section IIIb deep is a fascinating region if consciously made use of, but
can lead to dreadful experiences if unconsciously subjected to. It is
timeless, most ancient, and capable of instructing one in the mysteries of
life and death, karma and causality, and redeeming processes. By a process
of antithesis and correspondences it can project one as much into the
future as into the past, into the corresponding time fields and worlds.
One experiences the many facets of time -- linear, vertical, diagonal and
woven. These are descriptive terms which mean different dimensions, again
a difficulty of language to express. This is the fascinating world of
yogis and masters, who study the way our Universe cannot otherwise be
studied in any other manner.

In the vast, seen universe there are areas and time-fields most ancient of
the past and far ahead in the future. By a process of alignment of the
sensitive film in section IIIb deep, a corresponding area or time field in
the Universe can be approached. And this is instantaneous! We appreciate
now that space travel even at the speed of light is too slow in the mighty
Universe for the simple reason that light takes approximately 90,000 years
to cross the diameter of a single, average galaxy such as ours and we are
talking about billions of such galaxies in all the three universes. This
seen physical universe, like the physical body, has a cojoined astral or
subtle universe, and has the possibility further of cojoining the more
subtle universe, like an aspirant who can use astral and mental bodies as
and when required.

This section IIIb deep has memory patterns or pictures of all the
universes, for during the downward journey or the arc of involution,
every one of us started with the most subtle forms and went through less
subtle to gross forms, and we are now retracing our earlier steps. As
such, all time-fields of the subtle and more subtle universes also, which
will seem to us as distant future or dim past, are available for
examination. The technique of consciously adjusting the section IIIb deep
memory tape at any desired time field is part of scientific yoga
practices, and instantaneously one is millions of years, indeed
eternities, into the dim past or in corresponding eternities in the
future. When such experiences are gathered consciously, what passes in the
name of yoga looks very frivolous indeed.

It is fascinating but most prone to creating misunderstandings and giving

wrong conceptions and one must guard against one's self from fixing any
idea or theory unless guided by our Transcendental Guide. During the
stages of dharna and dhyana one is instructed in detail and one learns
firsthand the laws of the Universe, as operative in all the three
universes therein. One learns of the past links and how one can
consciously dissolve them. Aspirants do appear absorbed working like this,
but to term such education -- and indeed this learning is education -- as
mere concentration and meditation is an unforgivable error indeed.
Objective and subjective concentration have their place in the material
world and are good practices, but have no connection or bearing with these
transcendental experiences of dharna and dhyana.

But repeated, and much repeated, experience under a Transcendental Guide

is essential for two reasons. (1) There are forces, from negative and
neutral to even super positive, that may harm the aspirant if not guarded
and guided through their vibrations. (2) The dimensions are not
understandable through common sense or intelligence unless explained by a
guide, otherwise a very wrong understanding follows and wrong
interpretations is the result on regaining phenomenal or earthly
awareness. Both these reasons are sufficiently important to require the
presence of such a Transcendental Guide, otherwise the translated
experience will misguide. But such a guide will offer aid and guidance
unasked for -- there is no need to be in search -- but only if the
aspirant is honest, wants nothing out of inquisitiveness, and is a true
student only. When the disciple is ready the master appears -- the final
master, the Divine Fragment!

Our normal vision and earth experiences can be compared to a colour

television set and such conscious experiences of section IIIb deep as
video tape experiences. But it is not amusement or recreation, it is
serious and strenuous study, for in that state the physical body and brain
are in a state of clinical death and physical breathing is suspended. So
unless properly guided and guarded, it could be not only fatal but
dangerous to one's well-being as well, as the aspirant could lapse into
total coma for the remainder of one's lifetime or may become totally
insane, and these effects may last for some lifetimes. These are the
unguarded dangers.

Now begins the dhyana stage, more difficult as compared to pratyahara and
dharna, and for which a completely different type of preparation is
necessary. The disciple will now study the subtle and molecular universe
Bhuvah, all the sub-stage on the downward and upward arcs of Bhuvah. In
Bhuvah universe, the two bodies that are cojoined are the astral, or
molecular, and the mental, or electronic, which is primary on the upward
arc of Bhuvah.

So in the final stages of pratyahara, during the closed circuit practices,

the vital points in the mind and brain, and the super micro transmitting
monitor, are informed. The super micro recording monitors had worked
diligently to fabricate a super mental body, realizing the progress of the
disciple and the need of the disciple for further study of Bhuvah universe
during the practices of dhyana. Eternities earlier on the downward arc in
the last sub-stage of Bhuvah, the mental body was disintegrated as it was
not needed in Bhuh, and all the recordings were noted and coded
faithfully. Now as per those recordings, plus whatever the disciple has
learned since, a fresh mental body is fabricated so that the disciple can
now travel in Bhuvah under guidance. But they are certainly no mere
pleasure trips or joy rides!

Now in dhyana, the rate of revolutions is raised from 600 cycles per
minute to as many as 1800 cycles per minute by the time the disciple
approaches the end of his training in dhyana. The two bodies have to be
cojoined to make deeper penetration into Bhuvah universe possible and
hence a better, more powerful space ship than what was made use of in Bhuh
is needed. The mental body has its own inner workings and these are looked
after by the Divine Fragment, and the disciple is guided accordingly
before the nightly visits can begin. All this preliminary work is
completed before nightly visits begin in advanced pratyahara stage.

The mental body will have to absorb or insulate against certain rays of
Bhuvah universe coming from the 21 major and 28 minor vital fixed points
in Bhuvah which we have earlier noted. So further preparations are to be
made, much highly technical work is to be done (refer the diagram of the
cross/chakras with all the cardinal points) before the first travel night
in Bhuvah universe or dhyana stage is to begin.

Dear reader, would you still translate this stage of dhyana as

`meditation'? So dharna is, as we have said, dharna, and now dhyana will
be dhyana -- leave it at that and do not use other misleading words that
mean nothing or worse.

There is nothing new that science will be able to do. There are past
memory patterns in the mind of each individual, right from the earliest
sub-stage of Svahah as we entered Existence, so a scientist will think of
or recall his astral or mental body stages, eternities upon eternities
before, and though he may not know how yet in dream state he will get
ideas that get translated in his working hours. All discoveries are
nothing else but this.

Previously, the disciple had to detach only his primary body from his
secondary. But now in earthly life his mental body is not with him as
are his astral and physical in his pratyahara and dharna practices, when
he could leave his physical in a state of clinical death and the astral,
like our rockets, soared away into the space of Bhuh universe and came
back to earth repeatedly. So a new technique is to be practised and
perfected now.

The mental body will be at the very beginning of Bhuvah universe on the
first sub-stage; it cannot exist in Bhuh due to the lower vibrations
there. This is now the space station under guidance of the Divine
Fragment. As in pratyahara and dharna stages, the astral body is to be
detached from the physical, the connection to it maintained only via the
sutratma, and the physical body remains in a state of clinical death.
After soaring away into space, at many times greater speed for the
revolutions of the inner circuit are appreciably faster than in pratyahara
or dharna stage, and reaching the first sub-stage of Bhuvah, the astral
`docks' here with the mental body, the space platform, and this, as a
moving laboratory, zooms away into Bhuvah under guidance of the Divine
Fragment for detailed study of Bhuvah universe. On returning after the
practices with the lessons learnt, it has to `unhook' or detach from the
mental at the same stage, and in astral body reach Earth and home safely,
and dock with the physical once again.

In the Geeta, each chapter ends with, "... in the Science of the Supreme
Spirit, in the Art of Self-Knowledge, in the colloquy between the Divine
Lord Sri Krishna and the Prince Arjuna ..." In chapter 11, entitled "The
Cosmic Vision", what do we find and learn? Arjuna, the accepted disciple,
finds that Krishna is the Transcendental Teacher, Ishvara, the Divine
Fragment within him now taking him along the path.

Arjuna offers: "Whatever insult I have offered to Thee in jest, in sport

or in repose, ... alone or in a multitude, I ask Thy forgiveness for them
all..." For eternities the thinking instruments, brain, manas and buddhi,
with bodies and senses have had their way of life and totally disregarded
the inner Fragment, Ishvara the Gurudeva, and did not seek any guidance.
But in this life of the accepted disciple comes a day when he or she is
sincerely sorry for all this and does ask forgiveness, for, after all,
this inner Gurudeva, Ishvara, is the highest Reality.

In chapter 4, Lord Krishna says: "This imperishable philosophy I taught to

... It is this same ancient Path that I have now revealed to thee." Each
Ishvara, Gurudeva, shows the same path to each individual. Arjuna finally
says: "I believe all as thou hast declared it..." To this Lord Krishna
replies: "Not by study of the scriptures, not by sacrifice or gift, not by
ritual or rigorous austerity, is it possible for man on earth to see (Me)
... Only by tireless devotion can I be seen and known."

During his first visit under guidance of his Transcendental Master, Arjuna
is not able to understand all that he sees, and is also frightened and
says, "O Lord! I am overwhelmed with fear. Please take again the form I
know. Be merciful, O Lord! ..." He also passes through Bhuh; in Bhuh he
sees, "All these sons of Dhritarashtra, with the host of princes, as well
as the other warrior chiefs, I see them all rushing headlong into Thy
mouths." In Bhuvah he sees, "The troops of celestial Beings enter into
Thee, ... with folded palms; the Great Seers and Adepts ... the divine
Healers ..." And he also sees on the downward arc of Bhuh and Bhuvah "...
and hosts of Mammon-worshipers, demons as well as saints, ..." At what
enormous speeds are these vital space travels possible, science will be
unable to match after centuries of technical progress, for the lines along
which science is moving is incorrect, for the physical matter used in
their space ships can never exceed certain speeds, as has been mentioned
earlier.

In dharna stage, the full redeeming of the physical body, the thinking
instrument brain, senses and free will are accomplished and, going by the
rules of the game, the Divine Fragment has earned the right to demand that
the individual now be free from all birth and death processes in the seen,
physical universe Bhuh. Some disciples do and some do not exercise this
choice, each for their own specific reasons. We shall consider here
further those who do not demand cessation of all births and deaths in Bhuh
and how they continue.

During redeeming in dharna/dhyana stage, the disciple meets those

individuals and, in almost all cases, finds those he had harmed greatly by
his thoughts, acts and motives as ordinary individuals still. And though
they may not actually experience the presence of the disciple, the
disciple totally redeems his acts, motives and thoughts, and now the
redeeming process of Bhuvah begins in accordance with the higher laws
permitting the process of redeeming.

For such an individual who has decided to continue in Bhuh on this Earth
his further births and deaths, which are consciously taken, we find that
the practices continue and the redeeming process of the astral body and
the thinking instrument, manas, and senses is now taken in hand and the
study of all the sub-stages of both the upward and downward arcs of Bhuvah
is completed. It may require many lifetimes. This will entitle the
individual to be free from the births and deaths of the astral body in
Bhuvah after totally redeeming all acts, thoughts and motives of the
downward arc of Bhuvah. So with completion of this work freedom from all
births and deaths of Bhuvah universe is now also obtained and the
individual is now free not to take birth -- ever -- in these two universe
of Bhuh and Bhuvah, as he has redeemed both the physical as well as the
astral bodies, the thinking instruments, brain and manas, as also the
senses as well as motives and thought. With this accomplishment the
individual has completed the stage of dhyana. It is equivalent to reaching
the seventh sub-stage of Bhuh universe and passing on to Bhuvah universe,
and then reaching the seventh sub-stage of Bhuvah and qualifying for entry
into Svahah universe. The mass of humanity will take eternities upon
eternities to achieve what such an individual has achieved consciously in
a few lifetimes.

Normally, most individuals pass out of Bhuh universe and practise in

Bhuvah universe by taking birth there, but the option is with the
individual to continue his birth on this Earth with the intention of being
of help to his fellow beings, to whom he does belong, though now, by his
accomplishment, he belongs much higher up the scale.

The revolutions of the internal closed circuit has reached 1800 cycles a
minute and the dhyana stage is completed. The individual continues to take
birth in the physical body and continues to be in this world of humanity,
which right the individual cannot be denied for it has been justly earned,
and much good work the individual does quietly. In ancient days, hundreds
and, in particular periods, thousands of such individuals were practicing
this right to continue in their physical body and be born here on this
planet Earth amongst this humanity and continue their practices and also
the redeeming process. Being so advanced from birth, the theory of `gods
incarnating' was the natural consequence.

Now the individual prepares for the samadhi practices and redeeming of the
mental body and buddhi with senses, and of all that happened on the
downward arc in Svahah universe. Thus the individual has accelerated his
progress and has continued to help other human beings besides redeeming
what was to be redeemed. He has achieved what Sage Patanjali states in
II(16): "Pain which is yet to come can be warded off." Only in the process
of redeeming is this possible. If it were causation, karma or retribution,
then this is not possible at all for one must then meet one's karma for
fulfillment.

The Buddha said, "There is pain, there is a cause of this pain, this cause
can be removed." This cause can be removed by redeeming. In case of
causation, karma, destiny, retribution, the cause cannot be removed -- it
is to be suffered. All these statements refer to redeeming. But those who
would not redeem have to suffer. Karma means past deeds, acts, motives.
It does not mean suffering to come, it actually only means wrongs or
rights committed. And pray, tell us, what can you and I and all of us do
on the downward arc where each day the lowering of vibration made our
thinking duller and avidya just kept on increasing? Besides it was
dictated thus, or rather that it was the result of ignorance plus the very
inherent constituents of matter, especially of rajas and tamas qualities.
So do not be perturbed, for there is a way out. The trouble is that we all
of us are so mixed up in our minds. In India the two words, karma and
dharma, are quite literally the blank cheques of Hindu philosophy.
Now at the end of dhyana practices the individual has reached a stage
where he needs no teacher, but the Divine Fragment stands firmly by the
side of the awakened disciple till the end of the journey. To advance thus
far and to be born in Bhuh is normally not possible, because if the
redeeming is done during the individual's lifetime in the seen universe
Bhuh, as far as the physical body and the thinking instrument brain are
concerned the Bhuh universe ceases and the individual is free from the
gravitation of this Bhuh universe. The same laws hold good for redeeming
in Bhuvah and one is then free from the gravitation of Bhuvah universe,
but as stated earlier, the individual has the right to continue, if so
desired, to be born in Bhuh universe and be on this planet Earth as long
as one so desires, for the individual has a greater link with this
humanity on Earth than anywhere else, but not always and in all cases.

Now that the stage of dhyana is over, the individual prepares for samadhi
stage, to redeem the mental body and buddhi, the thinking instrument of
Svahah universe. The new mental body has been fabricated and refined
further by practices. In Svahah, we have noted earlier, that there is
a single body encasing the Divine Fragment, and so the individual now has
a completely new experience.

The disciple has need of neither the physical nor astral bodies
for transcendental experience, as the astral has no possibility of
entering Svahah because of the difference in vibrations, and so now the
the revolutions of the closed circuit are increased, both in the astral as
well as in the mental body, from 1800 cycles per minute and rising
to 3600 cycles per minute for yet deeper penetration during the practices
of samadhi.

The beauty of this samadhi stage is that the disciple, whether during
daytime or at night, lives on two different planes of awareness
simultaneously. He carries out his duties and obligations and helps
others; at the same time, the mental body under guidance from the Divine
Fragment continues to study sub-stage after higher sub-stage of Svahah, on
both the ascending and descending arcs, plus he continues his main purpose
of redeeming his mental body and buddhi, senses, motives and acts that had
been committed and recorded during Svahah's seven sub-stages on the
downward arc. And yet he lives a normal life on Earth. What actually
happens now in the case of such a disciple can be described as: "If only
we could develop an essence of life or consciousness can we begin to move
in that other world, and yet be alive in this." This is now actually made
possible!

Now the disciple needs not even the silver cord which was the link
maintained between the physical and the astral and for transmitting
directly to the registration area (section I or the front brain) of the
transcendental experiences, for both the astral and mental bodies of the
disciple are now so tuned that all experiences and redeeming done by the
individual is transmitted faithfully even during waking and working hours
to the personality without any cord or sutratma. The astral and the
physical are both free from bondage of any sort, and so extremely perfect
and whole, as good as they were when given in the beginning of Bhuvah and
Bhuh along with their thinking instruments. So this part of the bargain
entered into at nadir by the Divine Fragment is fulfilled!

The last of the bodies the mental is now under the cleansing process and
redeeming continues, and help to fellow beings is continued till the
mental body with buddhi is redeemed and all the sub-stages are
experienced, and freedom from any sort of bondage in Svahah universe is
also obtained.

At the end of the dhyana stage the individual is a yogi or master in the
right sense of the word. At the end of the samadhi stage, the individual
is a mahayogi or adept in the right sense of the word. But such
individuals live a quiet, unassuming life in this world for they are not
bothered with all that happens for they are so free from all laws and
events that they can brush aside anything -- they have redeemed and
fulfilled their part of the bargain.

Now the Divine Fragment gives back, i.e. returns with thanks to Existence,
the three bodies and their equivalent three thinking instruments as well,
along with their sense organs, free will, motives -- everything. The
individual, i.e. the Divine Fragment, will not be asked or forced to take
birth anywhere any more in any of the three universes, but if the
individual thinks fit, will take a mayarupi body, either physical or
astral or mental, wherever he thinks he can serve and help. Such adepts
and mahayogis, when they take birth, in this world can work like God in
our universe and are regarded as divine incarnations, but be sure God does
not incarnate.

This individual has now attained the stage of samadhi with seed but
actually cannot enter Janah Universe, yet. He has to reach the stage of
samadhi without seed, which is most essential, for as long as the seeds
exist their germination is still a possibility!

He may then if he so desires enter the major Ring-pass-not and tarry

there, like the all-knowing Buddha did, or pass on to Janah Universe
whence once upon a time he had descended to play the game of life or
Existence. He is back home -- the prodigal son has returned -- but there
is one little act yet pending before the Divine Fragment can return to
Janah universe. Before entering Janah Universe, whilst in the
Ring-pass-not, as a final deed of emancipation the Divine Fragment
disintegrates the near immortal and indestructible causal body along with
the near indestructible three super micro recording monitors that have
stopped pulsating and were slowly withering away. For nothing is now
required -- the game is over, played out to a finish as per the rules of
the game. The individual has now achieved seedless samadhi! The individual
is once again the Divine Fragment with no outer covering of any sort.
The Divine Fragment has accomplished thus and pierced through all the
universes and also the Ring-pass-not to reach Home, sweet Home, the Janah
Universe.

After the stage of samadhi, an individual is also termed an arhat or a

bodhisattva, till the Mahah region is reached and final emancipation is
attained in the Mahah region, whereupon one is now the all-knowing Buddha.
One may tarry here, or may take birth in any one of the universe, or enter
Janah Universe and merge with Divine Wholeness. The game is truly over.

Chapter 14

The Sum and Substance of our Understanding of the Text

Our Universe is very vast indeed, but not endless. There is a definite
limit to our physical universe. But our sense organs and our scientific
instruments yet being very faulty, we get a distorted, endless view. Only
after much proper knowledge and very much improved instruments which are
yet to be invented may we get a more correct view and idea about our
Universe. It may take some thousands of years more at the speed and the
manner in which modern science is progressing.

The more advanced and more sophisticated knowledge and instruments of the
future will find and prove as a fact that a more subtle universe, much
vaster than our physical universe, exists. That besides this physical and
the other subtle universe, science will also be amazed to find a universe
yet more subtle and vaster still, vaster than both these universes put
together. These three universes can be described as (1) cellular or
physical, i.e. Bhuh, (2) molecular or astral, i.e. Bhuvah, and (3)
electronic or mental, i.e. Svahah. All three form one intermingled `whole'
known in the shastras as the `domain of mind', i.e. they form part and
parcel of the Universal Divine Mind or Chittie. It can be termed a unified
field or a unique force field. It is immaterial how we describe it, but
this all-pervading and intelligent substance is the cause of all Existence.
Science will, in the distant future, prove all this to be fact.

There is a gentle substance, we term as Universal Divine Mind, which

ultimately forms the basis of the structure and form of all the three
universes and all that exist in them, that makes one unified `whole', from
the grossest to the most subtle. It includes force and energy,
intelligence of the highest order, and awareness from near zero to
infinity. At near zero we term it inanimate and rising in scale are the
various animate objects and kingdoms. This gentle substance, which is not
understood by the logical mind of man is mistakenly termed `matter'. There
is no such thing as matter as ordinarily understood, because the whole of
Existence rests on pairs of opposites to be intelligently grasped and
understood by man. Hence the word `matter' conjures up the opposite in
the logical mind, viz. `spirit', another wrong and opposite equivalent,
but there is neither matter of any sort nor spirit, for all is one. All
human knowledge, being based on pairs of opposites, normally conveys the
opposite meanings too, instead of understanding them as two sides of the
same coin and not two separate, contradictory things.

The structure of this substance, ranging from the grossest to the most
subtle, depends on ascending and descending rates of vibrations, from low
to medium in the cellular universe, from medium to high in the molecular
universe and from high to exceedingly high vibrations in the electronic
universe. These vibrations, from low to medium to high to exceedingly
high, are responsible for giving extremely different and varied
conditionings on millions of planets throughout the three universes, viz.
throughout the `whole' Universe, and are responsible for light, colour,
texture, heat, magnetism and various `fields' of science. These
vibrations give rise to gross and subtle energies and gross and subtle
rays as well, and so we get gross energies and rays in the cellular
universe, gross to subtle energies and rays in the molecular and subtle
universe, and extremely subtle energies and rays in the electronic
universe.

Similarly, human beings are also the product of the gentle substance in
three grades, which is mistakenly known as matter, primordial matter and
the gentle substance in the cellular, molecular and electronic universes
respectively. So they differ likewise in their structure and are composed
of either matter or primordial matter or the gentle substance,
respectively. Thus there are millions of societies far-flung in the three
universes in millions of differing conditionings.

In the entire physical, cellular universe Bhuh, human beings have a

cellular body which is based for structure on an astral or molecular
framework. In the molecular universe Bhuvah, the human beings have an
astral or molecular body which is based for structure on a mental or
electronic framework. In the electronic universe, the human being, through
advanced practices of scientific yoga, can weave a mental or electronic
body for highest experiences and to be biologically complete or whole.
To make such body conditionings in the three universes possible,
differently structured thinking instruments, viz. the cellular-structured
brain in the cellular universe, the molecular-structured manas in the
molecular universe, and the electronically-structured buddhi in the
electronic universe, accompany the relevant bodies. Without such
structures and knowledge of their use no higher yoga practices are ever
possible. These thinking instruments suitably cojoined to suitably
structured bodies are operative only if suitably structured sense organs
also accompany them, and these sense organs can operate only if the senses
in them can flow from outside of the human bodies to inside the human
bodies for necessary reaction and inevitable actions, whether physical,
emotional, mental, psychic, higher psychic, and such others. The senses
and sense organs are suitably structured and textured to fit in either the
cellular, molecular or electronic universes as required.

To make all this possible in each type of human body, suitable centres are
provided in the respective thinking instruments, whether brain or manas or
buddhi, to coordinate the different organs, senses, etc., of each body, to
send and receive messages for necessary reaction and action. So are they
thus structured.

In the cellular body, brain, nerve systems and centres that bring about
this coordination and action which can be expressed in words or acts,
coloured with suitable emotions and reactions, from automatic reflex action
to intuition, is a very wide spectrum of reactions and actions and scope
of awareness; but 97% or more of human beings, even at the present day,
are not beyond the elementary automatic reflex action stage. How to reach
the ultimate intuition or perception stage are the practices of scientific
yoga.

Similarly, for the molecular body and manas there is also a very wide
spectrum and it is coordinated by centres in the thinking instrument,
manas, through various sets of nadis and chakras, and can range from gross
telepathy to clairaudience and clairvoyance, psychometry to higher psychic
possibilities, and there are scientific yoga practices to improve and
sharpen the astral sense organs and senses.

Similarly for the electronic body and buddhi there is also a very
wide spectrum and every important centre in that body is coordinated
directly by buddhi. This body, being so sensitive and rarefied, needs no
nerves or nadis or organs as such; yet coordination between every point in
the body and buddhi is essential, and the broad spectrum is from intuition
to wisdom to instant knowledge to soul power (atman shakti) and is covered
by still higher practices of scientific yoga. Those who can function in
this body with buddhi, i.e. thousands of such societies of human beings,
are like gods to human beings in cellular bodies with brains, howsoever
intelligent.

In the cellular universe, the body and brain carry out a ceaseless,
non-stop process of thought-form-making, reacting to the same, and
translating it into action by word or act. It is like a movie camera that
is never shut off even in sleep and keeps on going, and the product is
dreams both at night and by day. This continuous, non-stop thought form
making process is very necessary to experience the ceaseless, moving
panorama of life, otherwise it would all cease and life as lived normally
can never be possible. But to be free of this continuous process as and
when required forms scientific yoga practices, because a normal cellular
human being is never able to stop this process.

In the same way another process goes on in human beings in molecular

bodies with manas as their thinking instrument, and like the never
stopping thought form making process of the cellular body and brain is
the never stopping psychic process of manas. To be free from this
continuous process as and when required forms higher scientific yoga
practices. In the same way another process goes on in human beings in the
electronic body and buddhi, of concepts, and howsoever advanced they be
(in comparison to us) their super perception and process of concept is
also continuous and non-stop, and to stop it as and when required would
call for still higher practices of scientific yoga.

Now a human being on planet Earth, i.e. in the cellular universe, can go
up in the air in an aeroplane, into space in a spaceship, under water in a
submarine, over water in a ship, and on land can move about in a car or
train. These are different vehicles each suited as a particular mode of
transport for a particular purpose. So it is little wonder that God and
Nature have provided human beings everywhere in all the conditionings of
the three universes with proper vehicles and proper thinking instruments
with relevant sense organs, etc., so that all human beings of whatever
type and conditioning should not be confined as prisoners to the narrow
confines of a single planet, but can be everywhere and anywhere and be
like gods.

But without having acquired proper vehicles and properly trained thinking
instruments, with relevant sense organs, etc., we are therefore virtual
prisoners. We can, for example, with difficulty move about on the surface
of our planet on land or sea, and then with recent knowledge can move in
the air and on the water, but to a very limited extent only. On scale,
taking into consideration the nearly 4000 miles radius of the Earth, we
are not able to go more than a few miles up comfortably, nor a couple of
miles down into the oceans or into the bowels of the Earth comfortably,
which means that we are tied down with long chains, prisoners in an open
jail.
Even within such very narrow confines (we are not considering those who
are so close-minded as not to think beyond their state provinces of world
citizenship) many have further handicaps of no sight or hearing or speech.
So our condition on this planet is pathetic and pitiable in comparison to
what it could and should be!

To be able to move at will in all the three universes is to demand our

birthright and that is our normal way to live. So God and Nature have
always provided every possibility within the human framework and system to
enable anyone who dares and works for it to so live like a god. And when
one is so able to move and live one will realize that one is in exile,
even moving around in the three universes like a god, and that the true
and proper home is beyond these three universes which are serving one as
forests to roam around in. One's innermost nature one then realizes and
knows that one needs no body or thinking instrument of any type, nor
centres or sense organs, for one is, in reality, Reality itself!

This present helpless and poignant human state is not imposed by God and
Nature. It is self-inflicted, otherwise God and Nature would not have
provided the necessary brain and body centres and nerve systems capable
of being developed for such a purpose. Like certain species losing their
wings or their ability to live in water or on land, this clipping of the
wings in the case of all societies of human beings to lesser or greater
degree is self-inflicted by non use or disuse or abuse. All that is
required is the correct know-how of scientific practices for the
regeneration of sense organs, nerve systems and centres within the
thinking instruments and the body systems, and proper coordination between
them.

But when our minds are so closed that we refuse to believe that other
societies of human beings can live and prosper, as we do, in completely
different millions of conditionings, that there is possibility of
knowledge elsewhere, and that there could not be anything better than the
human frame like the one we enjoy, and we are skeptical about other types
of bodies like the molecular and the electronic, with their thinking
instruments, manas and buddhi, then we have no hope of achieving anything.

Even in our cellular universe and on this planet, our sense organs and our
senses are too poor as instruments to give us any idea of our Universe,
and so we create and improve upon the various instruments and equipment
with which we hope to enlarge our penetration and understanding into this
cellular universe. But on the modest thought that light requires about
90,000 light years to traverse the diameter of the galaxy in which our
solar system floats, and that it is just one of the millions upon millions
of galaxies, and for our poor spaceships of the future, crawling at utmost
67,000 miles per hour, even to cross one galaxy is out of the question,
and to move around, visit and study even one such galaxy is an
impossibility, unless and until we set aside the present methods of
seeking outside of our body systems and start looking and studying within
our body system. But such scientific practices that penetrate inside the
body system are today looked upon by science as so much nonsense!

Pratyahara is that stage of practices that brings about the internal

development of the body system, to make bodies and their thinking
instruments whole and biologically complete. Dharna is that stage of
practices that enables one to be anywhere in the cellular universe and
penetrate at speeds which are much beyond the speed of light by moving
through time and space vertically. Dhyana is that stage of practices that
enables one to go anywhere in the molecular universe and penetrate at much
higher speeds than earlier possible in dharna, by moving through time and
space in a different dimension, and reach the status of a yogi or master.
Samadhi is that stage of practices that enables one to go anywhere in the
electronic universe and penetrate at even higher speeds than earlier
possible in dhyana, by moving through time and space in yet another higher
dimension, and reach the status of an adept or mahayogi.

This entire scope is scientific and is an advanced faculty to be rigidly

followed and practised. One gets graduated in such education and then can
go for yet higher education. It should not be understood either as fancy
or philosophy. It is the most difficult faculty from among all the
faculties for which we have schools and colleges, and it needs very highly
trained teachers and professors and honest, hard-working students, and the
more difficult it is to find proper guides.

In this faculty, the whole course of education is so difficult, and

authoritative universities, like the ancient university of Nalanda, not
being available, self-appointed teachers taking on the title of maharshi
and bhagwan mislead honest seekers who normally are not well qualified by
elementary work and knowledge on the subject. Thus in this faculty a lot
of misconceptions are also introduced, viz. brahmacharya, ashram life,
detachment from worldly goods, psychic powers, etc. All this is well and
good but the student is not told or explained the proper place and scope
of each of the above. Sincere students go from one teacher to another and
from one book to another, and in the end this most advanced faculty gets a
bad name. People become skeptical and the whole subject is classified as a
lot of hocus-pocus only.

Mostly in this faculty at the advanced state, proper and correct

instructions are given by `word of mouth' and not in book form, which
makes it even more difficult for sincere seekers to find proper guides --
not that proper guides are not available! To make this most advanced
faculty a subject of proper study, Sage Patanjali has laid down in the
`fifth book' of the Yoga Sutra (which is not in circulation as a book
and so the only instructions are by word of mouth) all the methodology
step by step. He says that human beings of all types everywhere are no
doubt superior to all the lower life, not because of the erect form or the
use of limbs or the possibility of the use of language or speech, but
because only to a human being is given the possibility and use of the
three sets of centres, the three thinking instruments and the three bodies
for living a more complete, satisfying and grander life.

Instead, what do we find? We see human beings out-doing the animal and
lower life in living an animal life-style. Naturally with such coarse ways
of life, the loftier possibilities have, in course of time, become
dormant, and so the bodies, thinking instruments and centres have gone out
of use due to non use or disuse or abuse.

The further trouble for a sincere student is that, much incorrect

knowledge passes off as secret or sacred! All religious texts -- the
scriptures and shastras -- all over the world over the ages have been
tampered with, especially by the priests and by scholars who would
interpret and manipulate only from their limited understanding. So much
contradicting methodology in the name of religion not only increases the
confusion and bars all possibility of giving a systematically laid down
reading and practices, as the other faculties of science do, but have
brought about the most heated differences of opinion, and with that war,
killing and hatred. And this continues even today.

All the societies of human beings are so isolated from each other in their
typical conditionings in the three universes -- on an average not even in
1500--2000 cubic light years would we find one society of human beings --
that each society unfortunately firmly believes that no other life form
can be superior. It is therefore taken for granted that whatever is
prevailing in each conditioning in the name of science and religion is
supreme, being the latest, little realizing that there are innumerable
such societies and many of them are thousands upon hundreds of thousands
of years technically ahead and more advanced in many ways, and their total
central pool of knowledge, wisdom and experience is open to sincere
seekers and students. This is ancient knowledge and wisdom! How shall we
take advantage and benefit ourselves of their enormous knowledge, wisdom
and experience from this total central pool?

But the trouble is that this so-called human being of the modern day and
modern science does not do his breathing correctly nor his thinking
correctly. This breathing and thinking correctly forms the basis of
elementary knowledge that all sincere seekers and students must know and
practise. Even this knowledge is by word of mouth and not given in book
form, which leaves all sincere students stranded for higher practices, and
higher studies cannot begin if this basic elementary study is not
perfected.

Hence the need first to study and perfect the knowledge of correct
breathing and correct thinking. First we take up correct breathing, known
as the three-step rhythmic breathing (3SRB); this is to be followed by the
correct method of proper thinking, so that one proceeds from automatic
reflex type of thinking to correct, non-disturbing and non-interfering
type of thinking.

Please know that all thinking is merely the neural processes of the brain.
These processes have four different intensities of thought formation. They
are determined by (a) whether dictated by crude emotions and sex, denoted
by ratio 2:4:8:2 as in diagram 1; (b) whether dictated by normal, mixed
emotions and sex, denoted by the ratio 5:2:2:1 that time and again slips
down to 2:4:8:2 as in diagram 2; (c) whether dictated by refined emotions
and sex, denoted by the ratio 5:2:2:1 that does not slide down and is
established diagram 3a; and (d) thought forms in dream state, depending on
(a), (b) or (c) states during daytime, and having a different intensity.
So there are four noticeable rates of thought waves in the gray matter of
the brain. These are the normal waves, there are other more sensitive
waves also.

All these four rates of waves are due to neural processes of the brain
that we normally call thinking. All these types of thinking are only
disturbing and interfering types of thinking. What then is meant by
non-interfering and non-disturbing type of thinking? Disturbing and
interfering type of thinking proceeds in its process of thought formation
from the hind or rear brain to the fore or front brain, i.e. from taluka
or the base of the skull to the front brain. In doing so it pulls from
memory pools IIIa-b memory patterns that are near identical with the
incoming impulses and reaches the fore brain through the passage at the
top of the brain, and in doing so are picked up by the four centres,
I-E-S-M, in the fore brain, depending on the ratio prevalent as in (a),
(b), (c) or (d) intensities of waves, and coloured accordingly. All
reaction is based on this. Most of the time we continuously throw out our
thought forms back into the atmosphere as we receive our incoming impulses
from the atmosphere; in some cases we do suppress -- file away -- our
reaction as memory pattern. Even as we throw out one copy in the
atmosphere, we file another in our memory pool; 90% of such thoughts
wither away from our memory pool, 10% remain with us for some time.

This non-stop, unobserved process of incorrect thinking goes on

incessantly, like a flowing river. All intensities (a), (b), (c) and (d)
can be classified as wrong thinking or mere neural process, based on past
memory patterns for reference, that are disturbing and interfering types
only. The difference between (a), (b), (c) and (d) is only in their
refinement. The one improvement from (a) to (c) is that the ratio improves
from 2:4:8:2 to 5:2:2:1, which is now established, and much inner
development has taken place as seen in the sequence of diagrams 1, 2 and
3a. The one important gain is that the doors of sections IIIa-b no more
open unconsciously and at random and pour any series of memory patterns.
But it is yet not non-disturbing type of thinking.

Non-interfering and non-disturbing type of thinking is pure thinking or

pure knowing, or perception, and neural processes of the brain have no
part to play therein, i.e. near identical memory patterns are not drawn
out for reference and in the fore brain or the registration area, the
I-E-S-M centres do not colour accordingly, i.e. the two computers of the
hind and the fore brain are not in use and so there is silence within,
i.e. the non-stop brain modifications and the four types of waves of the
endless process of so-called thinking are silenced, as in diagram 3b. What
can we expect now?

As long as the fore and hind brain computers are involved, life was linked
to emotions and sex of past memory patterns, and so, in a way, was biased
and no true picture emerged, i.e. no correct answer to a question or
problem, nor was anything analyzed correctly, being always under the
influence of past memory patterns with past experience.

Now refer diagram 3b. Henceforth the route of incoming impulses changes
and does not proceed from taluka, i.e. the hind brain, go over from
sections IIIa-b over the top of the brain channel to the fore or front
brain, nor does the front brain computer work and the centres I-E-S-M add
their own colouring. By 3SRB, other corrective methods, and physical and
breathing exercises, certain passages are cleansed and opened, centres so
far dormant are regenerated and certain centres which are of animal type
are deadened. These are some of the elementary practices of scientific
yoga.

When this happens the two bodies, viz. the cellular/physical and the
molecular/astral work as one body system. So far they were not correlated.
They worked unconsciously together to a certain extent and by themselves
to a large extent, but never, as now, consciously as a body system. They
now coordinate and cooperate at every step. This internal rhythm requires
a lot of internal changes and this forms the elementary step of
pratyahara, for making one ready to be able to carry our the higher
processes of pratyahara and beyond later.

We say non-interfering and non-disturbing process of thinking as distinct

from the process we observe as per diagrams 1, 2 and 3a, though in 3a this
neural process is consciously allowed for such periods to fulfil the
duties of a householder's life as and when required.

Non-disturbing and non-interfering from or to what? The Universal Divine

Mind, or unified field or unique force field, with its characteristic of
being all-knowing, flow through each thinking instrument, our brain. The
now developed centres in the brain for perception of pure knowing or
intuition can now contact `it' and get from `it' the correct answer to a
question or correct solution to a problem. But this is possible if we have
very carefully worked sincerely to develop ourselves from the stage of
diagram 1 to the stage of diagram 3b, otherwise this contact with
Universal Divine Mind does not take place and we are forced to depend on
neural processes for getting our answers and solutions, which are normally
not correct.

The difference between disturbed and interfering type, and non-disturbed

and non-interfering type of thinking is that in the former we make use of
the neural process of memory patterns and the computers of the fore brain
and hind brain, whilst in the latter the developed and regenerated centres
in the right mid-brain get into direct contact with Universal Divine Mind
and the answers and solutions are absolutely correct and dependable. There
is a world of difference between the two approaches.

Unless we so-called modern human beings learn these two processes, viz.
correct thinking and correct breathing, we will never be civilized human
beings in the right sense of the word, and only after such elementary work
is done are we ready for the higher scientific practices of pratyahara,
dharna, dhyana and samadhi. Once having achieved this, all higher training
is possible; without it, it amounts to fooling ourselves if we think we
can carry out the processes of dharna and dhyana, or rather achieve the
states of dharna and dhyana with our normal undeveloped faculties.

All that is in this Universe, from dust and rocks to thought forms and
mental concepts and beyond, is termed and understood as matter. This
shows clearly that matter is in many grades and has its spectrum from near
zero at nadir, i.e. at the end of the last sub-stage of Bhuh on the
downward arc, to near infinity at the seventh sub-stage of Svahah on the
upward arc. The action on the part of Existence to raise the vibrational
rate (by way of redeeming) at the exact rate it was lowered during
involution and for as long a period brings about a natural state of
evolution of all matter, forms, life and awareness. Hence the terms
involution and evolution, and such cycles thereof have been for eternities
on eternities without end at different times in different parts of the
three universes.
All matter, from the crudest and most opaque to the most subtle,
transparent and invisible to human eyes, is matter or form with some
degree of awareness. Matter and awareness of the same grade or rate of
vibrations are always found comingled. All Existence is an orchestra of
different rates of vibrations. Normally we understand matter with 1-5% of
awareness as inanimate, but such matter also has awareness if we can
trace it, and so actually nothing, strictly speaking, is inanimate or dead
matter.

All creation with infinite number of forms -- gross, subtle, seen and
unseen, from the minutest to the vastest -- are at various stages of
matter/awareness structure and so with their corresponding spectrum of
possibilities and potential. This includes our body/brain system and all
that we know, see, or understand. Hence we come to the obvious conclusion
that our evolutionary progress, conscious or unconscious, depends on
building our body/brain system with matter of higher and yet higher
matter/awareness, so as to be able to fathom the purpose of Creation and
Existence and of our own life.

Matter, and so awareness -- since both always remain comingled (at the
same intensity of vibrations) -- have three qualities, viz. intellectual,
emotional and sex, or, following the shastras and scriptures, we may term
them as sattva, rajas and tamas, respectively. As forms of all types are
by myriad permutations and combinations, so the mixture of these three
qualities is also by myriad permutations and combinations. One such
combination is the vibrational rate or tone, a code which we term
`inherent structure and design', giving a certain spectrum within which
each form, matter, life or awareness can function.

In our body/brain system perhaps the lowest grade of matter/awareness we

ascribe to a cell, meaning that a cell is also autonomous to a degree,
i.e. it can have some independent functions by instinct and memory
ingrained in it due to the structure of matter/awareness it is composed
of. Human beings show some sort of self-awareness which may seem higher in
comparison to a cell, but the present level of human beings as they are
about to enter the twenty-first century is not even anywhere near the
halfway mark. Human awareness is fragmented because of innumerable false
`I' identity groups within the body/brain system. Unless we consciously
create a concerted and whole secondary real `I' identity (refer to the
text), our fragmented awareness will not be able to improve. And this has
nothing to do with academic knowledge, for all knowledge is only a store
of memory!

In our body/brain system there are groups, smaller groups, and even
smaller centres -- all are clusters of cells. They carry out most of the
vital functions of our body/brain system and mercifully need no
interference from us. But there are other equally vital functions of
behaviour and thinking that need our active awareness, and in the absence
of such awareness (which is so even today in our normal waking state) such
vital functions are also carried out by the other smaller groups or
centres. This has made man, the human being, a machine, living
automatically with simple awareness, and now if we start to live like
human beings with self-awareness and try to control and guide these
groups, they naturally rebel and make our life miserable and fail us at
every attempt.

In case of such a human life, automatic and dependent on the

impulse/response system of inner groups, the structure, i.e. the rate of
vibrations of matter/awareness of the body/brain system, is very poor
indeed. Tamas and rajas qualities prevail and suffocate the quality of
sattva -- emotions and sex suffocate the intellect -- and the ratio of the
working intensities of these qualities is 2:4:8. This is the state of the
modern human being, quite besides `psycho' cases. In such cases, many a
time sedatives are given to lull some of these centres and break their
normal, usual memory patterns, which are their lines of communications,
and then hope to lay fresh ones.

It means that our conscious efforts should be to change the ratio 2:4:8:2
to 5:2:2:1 (refer to the intensity chart), which means we must replace
false lines of communications with correct lines of communications, by
checking the drifts of the mind by the four methods shown and thereafter
adopting proper corrective methods. This also means that we have to live
more and more in the world of events and less in time/space relationship
(refer to the text).

To achieve this, many mistakenly take to a life of ashram or monastery, or

go to the Himalayas, and also follow the misunderstood and misrepresented
concept of brahmacharya. But by doing so they defeat the purpose, for no
one can live or progress alone, and in such cases they cannot receive into
their body/brain system all the incoming impulses that reach a common
house-holder and give one the opportunity to progress.

We normally get involved with the vital functions that need our active
awareness but do not ourselves remain detached and aware. If we can do so,
it is the state of awareness. The functions of matter, according to
science, cannot go beyond the electronic stage, just because science has
no equipment to measure and to know, neither does science suspect that
there could be such possibilities. But at the cerebellum level in the
human brain something happens beyond the electronic level of function, and
so nothing here can be registered or known. This area is termed the silent
area where, in the words of Dr. Daly King, it is presumed two-thirds of
the total input merely leaks out of the human system.
Since the human body/brain system today is also a mere computerized
organism, it automatically translates all events in space/time
relationship, and so we are able to experience events as experience only.
This makes us think that even the Universe, and all that is in it, is also
existing and limited by space/time relationship. Have we thought what our
experience would be if we could go consciously beyond the electronic level
of functions. Hence "we seek a physical home instead of our celestial Home
(Janah and Tapah Universes)."

But to be able to sense and function with matter/awareness of stages

beyond the electronic stage, it stands to reason that we must cease to
live as computerized organisms. It calls for much better lines of
communications within and our ability to live in events -- more and more
in experience and less and less in space/time relationship as we do today.
This means we must consciously progress from the stage of diagram 1 to
diagram 3b by practices of higher scientific yoga. Then it will mean the
difference between "a life which has to be endured and a life which is
serene, peaceful and creative, and one which we can consciously bring
about." But this is not dependent on religion, prayers, satsang, etc., for
conscious efforts to that end are explained in the text.

So till we remain and function as computerized organisms we are subject to

avidya or ignorance, leading to many mistakes and shortcomings, but this
should never be mixed up with the idea of sin. These conditions will
prevail depending on the matter/awareness structure of which our
body/brain system is thus formed. And it is also true that as long as we
make mistakes through ignorance and our shortcomings, whether in the
material field or in other aspects of life, we have to face the
consequences of the error committed, but again, like sin, we must not get
mixed up with the idea of retribution, destiny, or punishment of some sort
either. Hence we repeat, "Bhikshu, empty the boat!"

All this leads to the fact that in the entire Universe there are areas or
conditionings of matter/awareness depending on the rate of vibrations
forming their structures, or areas of innumerable grades of tamas, rajas
and sattva, from nadir to zenith conditionings. And we have to pass
through all these areas to reach the zenith. To achieve this is not
possible in one lifetime, it is obvious, but would require a long series
of repeated births and deaths. Birth and death presupposes states in
between -- discarnate, or what are termed disembodied states -- which
states are of different matter/awareness and forms and will depend on the
state of the vibrational rate of the body/brain when alive and existing.

It also means that to progress and experience the better and better states
existing in the vast Universe, our constant efforts should be to improve
the vibration rate of our body/brain system. And if we are not aware of
such higher states it does not mean that such higher state areas do not
exist. If we do not experience or sense or register (though we do receive)
higher and higher communications, it does not mean that such coded
communication do not reach us, we who are psychically blind and deaf.

It is also obvious that if we do not improve the rate of vibrations of our

body/brain and make it possible for ourselves to reach higher and higher
areas in the Universe, then we must return to our Earth conditions or
reach such equivalent conditions prevailing elsewhere in the Universe.
Such is understood as transmigration of souls. It is not true that we must
pass through all the stages on the upward arc if we work consciously and
methodically, otherwise we have to. But instead of philosophizing let us
take constructive and conscious steps.

Finally it also means that we who have to take repeated births need
parents of such equally high rate of vibrations. But such parents with
high rate of vibrations are not the socially high or the aristocracy; such
are God's and Nature's aristocracy, though materially they may be poor
and, by the standards of the world, not be having necessary academic
qualifications. But such parents with high rate of vibrations of the
body/brain system must not have the misunderstood ideas of ashram and
brahmacharya, and after preparing their bodies and brains must beget
children and not selfishly believe that they can progress alone.

All communications (including the higher), i.e. incoming impulses that

enter our body/brain system, come in code; but if we are too engrossed in
only the material life or mistakenly run away to ashrams or monasteries
(both the roads being unnatural) we have to suffer the consequences
arising form such an attitude, a fact that is overlooked by many. It is
also obvious that we must accept our Earth conditions, read in them
whatever is presented to us in code, and consciously work for a better
tomorrow. In the Yoga Sutra, Sage Patanjali calls this "spiritual
reading."

When we shall reach stages of higher vibrational rate -- when we shall

progress from diagram 1 to 3b -- we shall know and sense the enormous
possibilities that can be ours by right, but such conditions can never
come to us as grace or accident. Keep such childish thoughts out of your
mind.

Above all, never live in fear of sin nor with the thought of making God
angry. Fear of sin does not make us pious. When we expect human beings to
be free from the weakness of anger, should not our God be ever free from
such infirmity? If we endow a Buddha with compassion and understanding,
could not the Creator of the Buddha be yet more compassionate and
understanding? Let us live and think with a clear mind.

But from birth the idea of sin haunts us and our lives are thus based on
false values and hopes, even for the after-life state. If one word has
done incalculable damage to all humanity and still persists in doing great
harm, it is the idea of sin and punishment. With such mental states, with
the ideas of being sinner or slave or servant or machine, how can we ever
get nearer to God, how can God be intimate with us? We can then only find
a wide gulf between us and God, while in fact no such gulf exists. We are
born with wrong ideas, or lines of communications, i.e. with faulty memory
patterns, which is our only sin, and we can consciously correct these
memory patterns.

We have noted the relationship of matter with awareness. Now we have to

understand the relationship of matter/awareness of the body/brain system
to consciousness, or the Divine Fragment within each computerized
organism. Repeated births and deaths presupposes that something eternal,
something other than the body/brain system, whether physical, astral or
mental, at death repeats birth and death cycles, and for a purpose,
because the body/brain system is totally destroyed at death before our
eyes in different manner according to different religions! What is this
eternal something and what is its purpose of repeated births?

But we must first know that we are units of consciousness, or Divine

Fragments, and that we possess a body/brain system. Whether we say super
consciousness or cosmic consciousness does not mean different grades of
consciousness; they are but different words used by writers who mix up
consciousness with awareness. Only awareness has grades by million and
billions. Awareness, whether passive, active or pure, belongs to the
body/brain system. It has phases like the moon -- it can be anywhere from
5-100 degrees and constantly fluctuate, never being the same, even during
the day with the same individual. Consciousness is same always and
everywhere, whether as a fragment or as the ocean! This unit of
consciousness is eternal, and the purpose we shall try to find out.

Universal Divine Mind, Chittie, and so the individual mind, chitta, is the
ocean of high powered pure awareness, and chitta is reduced to the passive
awareness of the individual. The units of consciousness, though in
millions and billions, do not mean multiplicity or divisibility or
many-ness, because each of these units of consciousness can merge, emerge
and remerge into and from the infinite ocean of consciousness, the Divine
Wholeness, and this ocean of consciousness is in no way different from
each unit of consciousness except in the enormous, unending size, like
Chittie and chitta, i.e. the ocean and the individual.

So the body/brain system has fluctuating awareness and such awareness is

passive and automatic. By disciplining, it can be kept active and even
high powered pure awareness, which is the structure of the Infinite Divine
Mind. Our brain has three important areas: (a) the thinking instrument
area and (b) the administrative or upkeep area both fluctuate from
passive to active awareness. Both by practice can be made to function all
the time on active awareness, which would amount to a state of awakeness.

The third area of the brain, called (c) the silent area, is structured to
remain at all times, even during sleep, at the high powered pure awareness
state. The Infinite Mind is also always structured thus. So with both
these being on the same wavelength, whatever the Infinite Mind knows It
flashes the relevant information to this area (c), or whatever this area
(c) would require to know the Infinite Mind would flash back instantly. We
have noted earlier that this area (c) flashes information received to the
area (a) without any line of communication because it is communication far
superior to the electronic stage of communication. This is the state of
diagram 3b.

So the technique is positing a question or problem in (a) the registration

area or the thinking instrument area, to keep it for a moment and then
dismiss it, and in the silent area (c) the Infinite Mind will flash the
answer or solution in a fraction of a moment, and this will be sent by (c)
to (a) area of the brain. All such communication are, we repeat, far above
the electronic stage.

We know of some lower life that is able to merge its colour with the
surrounding area of foliage; the method is the same, but in their case the
different parts (a) and (b) of the brain work instantly, for such life do
not have area (c). But in the case of human beings the link is between
areas (a) and (c) of the brain, instantly with pure awareness. But in (a)
there should be no attempt at thinking about the question or problem, only
accept whatever is sent back by (c) to (a) without any analysis, however
improper the reply or solution may seem to be. If this is done repeatedly
and faithfully, the individual will start receiving the most correct
replies to questions and solutions to problems instantly.

To prevent this communication from being washed away, the important factor
needed to be kept in mind is that one must be at stage 3b to be able to
close the block at taluka, or the medulla, for this alone will prevent the
four centres, I-E-S-M, from functioning in the registration area. This is
needed for only a fraction of a moment and the answer or solution will
come in words (audio) or in pictures (visual), and with progress will be
audio-visual.

What and where is the seat and source of awareness? High powered pure
awareness is created at muladhara and is diffused or spread throughout the
computerized organism; at places it reduces itself to active awareness and
in some places further to passive awareness. This high powered pure
awareness, when it reaches the silent area (c), remains as undisturbed
high powered pure awareness. In the upkeep area (b) there are pockets of
active awareness, but in the thinking instrument area (a) the pure
awareness reduces itself to passive awareness. By certain practices we can
prevent this pure awareness from being reduced to passive awareness. So,
actually, we find that we are at no stage creating or converting something
to higher grades or states, but we can prevent higher states from being
totally ruined and wasted as unregistered.

Our nervous system is a network of communication at the electronic level

and does exceed this sometimes to give us a yet finer network of
communications. Such a system of communications could be more efficient
and could communicate to vast distances in the Universe, both seen and
unseen. Such communications are two-way, incoming and outgoing. But for
this the Infinite Divine Mind has to recede and let direct communication
enter from the unit of consciousness, the Divine Fragment, only. This is
the state of diagram 3c.

We are not aware as to how many levels of communications exists in the

body/brain system besides those known, i.e. between diagrams 1 and 3b. We
must not even regard that the human conditions of awareness are the
highest, for they are not, even at stage 3b; it all depends on
matter/awareness both above and below us in the entire Universe, and the
universes of Bhuvah and Svahah beyond. These can be brought about only
when communications are established between the body/brain system and the
unit of consciousness, the Divine Fragment, in state 3c.

All that is known as matter is (1) communication and (2) structure. "We
normally analyze structure; instead, can we analyze communication for what
it may have to convey?" Sage Patanjali calls this "spiritual reading." If
such spiritual reading is not possible, then our inner lines of
communications are faulty or wanting in expression of our full range of
spectrum.

So the Universe of matter is also a universe of communications, because

the structure of matter at each level implies awareness, communication and
purpose. There are matter/awareness beings and areas far above the
matter/awareness of our body/brain system and "sub-atomic levels of matter
may show much higher levels of awareness", and such matter/awareness areas
may indeed be in some other parts of the vast Universe!

As Existence extends from the highest level of Svahah to the lowest level
of Bhuh and back to the higher level of Svahah, matter/awareness
communications must exist at all levels within this range. Besides, matter
has a constant urge during evolution towards higher levels of awareness
and communication. At its lowest levels it crystallizes and seems not to
be autonomous -- it is inert. "Matter is conscious of its condition but
not of itself, and the same is the case at the human being level of
awareness."

Let us forget this matter/awareness concept and simply remain units of

consciousness, for within us are many levels of awareness and
communications and possibilities of communication with higher
matter/awareness. "As far as we are concerned, this signifies the fact
that the higher order signals are largely drowned in the noisy lower order
signals, which are like the jamming devices used in radio broadcasting";
because we have as yet not established communications between the
body/brain system and the Divine Fragment within us.

"If we wish to hear what these higher order signals are saying we must
train our lower order bodies to be quietly responsive instead of noisily
responsive. That is to say that we must not allow our physical channels of
communication to become over excited, for if they do they run away with us
and we tend to become completely identified with them."

This brings us back to the communication that can take place, but not as
neurological processes -- the communication at that level which is higher
than the electronic level. It is here and now that the link between the
body/brain system and the Divine Fragment within takes place!

So besides such questions and problems that we can pose, more intriguing
questions like, `who am I?', `is there rebirth?', `what happens at death?'
`cannot birth and death be made conscious?', etc., can be placed and
answers asked for. All such questions can be put in area (a) of the brain
and replies will flash back. There is no neurological link involved
between areas (a) and (c), i.e. between the registration area and the
silent area and this, we repeat, is communication between the body/brain
system and the Divine Fragment within, the eternal something.

Thus one can be in meditation and yet live the normal life of the
householder -- the two-fold path of Geeta -- and no one can even suspect
that one is different in any manner from the common man in the street as
one mixes with the crowd. In fact this is the true meditation and there is
no need for sitting cross-legged and keeping the eyes closed. This is the
state of the complete or fully developed individual, who does not waste
life by roaming in area (a) of the brain, but keeping it under control can
inform himself about any subject in the vast Universe. Thus one becomes a
Buddha or a Christ.

The exercise of observing the stream of thought formations and the erratic
behaviour of the organism, as also the exercise of binding the area (a),
the thinking instrument, to a set task can slowly help you to maintain
active awareness, and later on you will be able to maintain high powered
pure awareness.

Should this high powered pure awareness be maintained throughout the

computerized organism, then the whole organism from head to toe is in a
state of pure awareness and does not need the five senses and their
communications system. This state of total high powered pure awareness
filling the whole organism is mistakenly called the sixth sense -- it is
the established state of 3c, or the early stage of pratyahara.

This state of total high powered pure awareness then, by mere touch or
proximity to another organism, whether human or lower life or even any
form of matter, immediately understands its structure, i.e. communication,
spectrum and inherent design, and so also understands the physical,
emotional and mental states of any form or organism. Later still, this
total high powered pure awareness can be made to radiate to any distance
and from a distance can understand thus any organism or form of matter.
Such high powered communication is audio/visual and is beyond the
electronic stage. It is also fully detached from space/time conditions.

As the two sides of a coin do not create two coins, and the front and back
of a human being do not create two human beings, so the totality of a
thing always has two sides to it, i.e. two ways of understanding it. The
worldly life that culminates in proper and pure action, and the higher
life that culminates in full illumination are both the same and equally
necessary to a whole and complete life. This is what the dualistic brain
of Arjuna is unable to understand in what Lord Krishna wishes to convey.

In chapter 3 of the Geeta, Arjuna asks, "If wisdom is above action, why
dost thou advice me to engage in this terrible fight? Thy language
perplexes me and confuses my reason." To this Lord Krishna replies, "In
this world there is a two-fold path. There is the path of wisdom for those
who meditate and the path of action for those who work." "Only the
unenlightened speak of wisdom and right action as separate, not the wise.
The level that is reached by wisdom is also attained through right action
as well. He who perceives that the two are one (i.e. two sides of a coin)
knows the Truth."

It will so happen that by daily right living one could and would
progress from lesser truths to higher truths, but it does not mean that
truths are many -- it means that more of the ultimate Truth will be
understood by us progressively as our inner inherent structure will keep
improving and absorbing more and more with right living and right
thinking.
Only one who can contentedly live in the physical world in a physical
body, neither being attached nor getting repulsed, nor considering it as
illusory, is a Buddha. With the same equanimity that person should be able
to live contentedly in the other two universes and in the other two bodies
with their thinking instruments and senses -- such a one is a Buddha.

Nothing is illusory and nothing is worth striving for. Everything is

blessed as it is! The physical world Bhuh with physical body and brain,
the astral or molecular world Bhuvah with its molecular body and manas,
and the mental or electronic world Svahah with its mental or electronic
body and buddhi are all equally divine and blessed, and one should be able
to live contentedly in any or every one of these, neither praising one nor
running down the other, nor running away from any of them!

After having lived and experienced all the three universes contentedly and
realizing -- not just having only a mental concept -- that these universes
together do not form our original home, that Existence is not our original
home, then we must return with thanks these bodies and take leave of these
three universes, thanking them for having kindly tolerated us for
eternities, and not as unmannerly upstarts say, `It is all illusory!' We
then consciously step into our true, original Home, Janah Universe, and at
that time return with thanks all the three bodies, their thinking
instruments, senses and free will to the source, i.e. the central pool,
the Mahah region, from where we had borrowed them eternities earlier, to
experience these three universes.

But we must first learn the `know-how' of how to change from physical
body to astral body and then to mental body, and with that possibility
experience new dimensions of awareness, i.e. higher and higher truths.
Sage Patanjali says in IV(1): "The transfer of awareness from a lower
vehicle into a higher is part of the great creative and evolutionary
process." But this is to be consciously performed. There is the slow and
unconscious evolutionary process and there is also an evolutionary, fully
active and conscious process, which Sage Patanjali explains to his
accepted disciples by word of mouth -- in the fifth book of the Yoga
Sutra, not traceable so far.

These bodies and their thinking instruments are not needed in our Home,
Janah Universe, for we are true Divine Fragments there. To understand this
we have to understand the divine structure of Creation. Bhuh--Bhuvah--Svahah,
form the domain of mind, Infinite Divine Mind, and this whole domain of
mind is dismissed as illusory by those who have had a fleeting glimpse of
what is beyond. Do not say so parrot-like, for only after experiencing
does one have a right to say thus -- and then one will not say so!
Encompassing this domain of mind is Mahah region, the central pool and
central resting place of memory of each individual from the beginning of
our roamings and of all humanities in the three universes.

Beyond this Mahah region is our Home -- Janah and Tapah. Tapah is Divine
Wholeness, we being its Divine Fragments! Our language brings to our
mind the idea of many-ness, or multiplicity. But just as millions of
buckets of water drawn from the ocean do not fragment the ocean or the
water, for as soon as they are poured back into the ocean we cannot know
or differentiate one bucket from another or from the ocean itself, and all
is again one ocean only -- so are we Divine Fragments, one with Divine
Wholeness, and we can separate from or merge into this ocean of Divine
Wholeness, for Divine Fragments are one and the same thing as Divine
Wholeness.

And whenever these Divine Fragment deign to experience what Existence is

like, they borrow these outward coverings and experience the many ways of
Existence. Thus do we find ourselves with bodies, mind, senses, etc., in
Existence. No sin or fall is involved, such are child-like ideas expressed
in the dim past and our present maturing humanity must come out of it all.

Appendix 1

The Rearranged Sutras

Book I Rearranged

I(1). Now we shall begin instructions in the science of union (yoga).

I(2). Yoga is achieved through the subjugation (healing) of the psychic
nature and the restraint (calming) of the chitta, the thinking instrument.
I(3). When this has been accomplished, the yogi knows himself as he is in
reality.
I(4). Up till now the inner man has identified himself with his forms and
with their active modifications.
I(5). The mind (the thinking instrument) states are five and are subject
to pleasure or pain; they are painful or not painful.
I(6). These modifications (activities) are correct knowledge, incorrect
knowledge, fancy, passivity (sleep) and memory.
I(7). The basis of correct knowledge is correct perception (understanding),
correct deduction, and correct witness (or accurate evidence).
I(8). Incorrect knowledge is based upon perception (mere seeing) of the
form and not upon the state of being.
I(9). Fancy rests upon images which have no real existence.
I(10). Passivity (sleep) is based upon the quiescent state of the vrittis
(or upon the non-registration of the senses).
I(11). Memory is the holding on to that which has been known.
I(12). The control (calming) of these modifications of the internal
organ, the thinking instrument, is to be brought about through tireless
endeavour and through non-attachment.
I(13). Tireless endeavour is the constant effort to restrain the
modifications of the thinking instrument.
I(14). When the object to be gained is sufficiently valued, and efforts
towards its attainment are persistently followed without intermission,
then the steadiness of the thinking instrument (restraint of the vrittis)
is secured.
I(15). Non-attachment is the freedom from longing for all objects of
desire, either earthly or traditional, either here or hereafter.
I(16). The consummation of this non-attachment results in an exact
knowledge of the spiritual man when liberated from the qualities or gunas.
I(30). The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental
inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion,
erroneous perception, inability to achieve concentration, and failure to
hold the meditative attitude (one-pointedness) when achieved.
I(31). Pain, despair, misplaced bodily activity and wrong direction (or
control) of the life currents are the results of the obstacles in the
lower psychic nature.
I(32). To overcome the obstacles and their accompaniments, the intense
application of the will to some one truth (or principle) is required.
I(33). The peace of the chitta (or thinking instrument) can be brought
about through the practice of sympathy, tenderness, steadiness of purpose,
and dispassion in regard to pleasure or pain, and towards all forms of
good and evil.

II(3). These are the difficulty-producing hindrances: avidya (ignorance),

the sense of personality, desire, hate and the sense of attachment.
II(4). Avidya is the cause of all the other obstructions whether they be
latent, in process of elimination, overcome, or in full operation.
II(5). Avidya is the condition of confusing the permanent, pure, blissful
and the Self with that which is impermanent, impure, painful and the
not-Self.
II(6). The sense of personality is due to the identification of the
knower with the instruments of knowledge.
II(7). Desire is attachment to objects of pleasure.
II(8). Hate is aversion for any object of the senses.
II(9). Intense desire for sentient existence is attachment. This is
inherent in every form, is self-perpetuating, and known even to the very
wise.
II(10). These five hindrances, when subtly known, can be overcome by an
opposing mental attitude.
II(11). Their activities are to be done away with, through the meditation
process.
II(12). Karma itself has its roots in these five hindrances and must come
to fruition in this life or in some later life.
II(13). So long as the roots (or sanskaras) exist, their fruition will be
birth, life and experiences resulting in pleasure or pain.
II(14). These seeds (sanskaras) produce pleasure or pain according to
their originating cause being good or evil.
II(15). To the illuminated man all existence (in the three worlds) is
considered pain owing to the activities of the gunas. These activities are
threefold, producing consequences, anxieties and subliminal impressions.
II(18). That which is experienced has three qualities, sattva, rajas, and
tamas (rhythm, mobility and inertia). It consists of the elements and the
sense organs. The use of these produces experience and also eventual
liberation.
II(19). The divisions of the gunas (or qualities of matter) are fourfold:
the specific, the non-specific, the indicated and the untouchable.

Total = 20 + 15 = 35 sutras

Book II Rearranged

I(34). The peace of the chitta (or thinking instrument) is also brought
about by the regulation of the prana or life breath.
I(35). The chitta can be trained to steadiness through those forms of
concentration which have relation to the sense perceptions.
I(37). The chitta is stabilized and rendered free from illusion as the
lower nature is purified and no longer indulged in.

II(28). When the eight means or steps to yoga have been steadily
practised, and when impurity has been overcome, enlightenment takes place
leading up to full illumination.
II(29). The eight means of yoga are: yama or the five commandments,
niyama or the five rules, asana or posture (especially of the thinking
instrument), pranayama or right control of life-force, pratyahara or
abstraction, dharna or attention, dhyana or meditation, and samadhi or
contemplation.
II(30). Harmlessness, truth to all beings, abstention from theft, from
incontinence and from avarice, constitute yama or the five commandments.
II(31). Yama (or the five commandments) constitutes the universal duty and
is irrespective of race, place, time or emergency.
II(32). Internal and external purification, contentment, fiery
aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara constitute niyama
(or the five rules of life).
II(33). When thoughts which are contrary to yoga are present, there
should be the cultivation of their opposite.
II(34). Thoughts contrary to yoga are: harmfulness, falsehood, theft,
incontinence and avarice, whether committed personally, caused to be
committed or approved of, whether arising from avarice, anger or
ignorance; whether slight in doing, middling or great. These result always
in excessive pain and ignorance. For this reason, the contrary thoughts
must be cultivated.
II(35). In the presence of him who has perfected harmlessness, all enmity
ceases.
II(36). When truth to all beings is perfected, the effectiveness of his
words and acts is immediately to be seen.
II(37). When abstention from theft is perfected, the yogi can have
whatever he desires.
II(38). By abstention from incontinence, energy is acquired.
II(39). When abstention from avarice is perfected, there comes an
understanding of the law of rebirth.
II(40). Internal and external purification produces aversion for (or
desire to be free from) form, both one's own and all forms in the three
worlds.
II(41). Through purification comes also a quiet spirit, concentration,
conquest of the organs, and ability to see the Self.
II(42). As a result of contentment bliss is achieved.
II(43). Through fiery aspiration and through the removal of all impurity,
comes the perfecting of the bodily powers and of the senses.
II(46). The posture assumed must be steady and easy.
II(47). Steadiness and ease of posture is to be achieved through
persistent slight effort and through concentration of the thinking
instrument (chitta) upon the Infinite.
II(48). When this is achieved, the pairs of opposites no longer limit.
II(49). When right posture (asana) has been attained there follows right
control of prana and proper inspiration and expiration of breath.
II(50). Right control of prana (or the life-force) is external, internal
or motionless; it is subject to place, time and number and is also
protracted or brief.
II(54). Abstraction (or pratyahara) is the subjugation (calming) of the
senses by the thinking principle and their withdrawal from that which has
hitherto been their object.
II(55). As a result of these means there follows the complete subjugation
of the sense organs.

III(9). The sequence of mental states (of the thinking instrument) is as

follows: the mind reacts to that which is seen; then follows the moment of
mind control. Then ensues a moment wherein the chitta (mind stuff)
responds to both these factors. Finally these pass away and the perceiving
consciousness has full sway.
III(10). Through the cultivation of this habit of chitta there will
eventually occur a steadiness of spiritual perception.
III(11). The establishing of this habit and the restraining of the mind
(calming of the thinking instrument) from its thought-form-making
tendency, results eventually in the constant power to contemplate.
III(46). Symmetry of form, beauty of colour, strength and the compactness
of the diamond constitute bodily perfection.

IV(2). The transfer of consciousness from a lower vehicle into a higher

is part of the great creative and evolutionary process.
IV(7). The activities of the liberated soul are free from the pairs of
opposites. Those of other people are of three kinds.
IV(8). From these three kinds of karma emerge those forms which are
necessary for the fruition of the effects.
IV(10). Desire to live being eternal, these mind-created forms are
without known beginning.
IV(11). These forms are created and held together through desire, the
basic cause, personality, the effective result, mental vitality or the
will to live, and the support of the outward going life; when these cease
to attract, then the forms cease likewise to be.

Total = 3 + 23 + 4 + 5 = 35 sutras.

Book III Rearranged

I(21). The attainment of spiritual consciousness is rapid for those whose

will is intensely alive.
I(22). Those who employ the will likewise differ, for its use may be
intense, moderate or gentle. In respect to the attainment of true
spiritual consciousness there is yet another way.
I(42). When the perceiver blends the word, the idea (or meaning) and the
object, this is called the mental condition of judicial reasoning.
I(43). Perception without judicial reasoning (or intuition) is arrived at
when the memory no longer holds control, the word and the object are
transcended, and only the idea is present.
I(44). The same two processes of concentration, with and without judicial
action of the mind (the thinking instrument), can be applied also to
things subtle.

II(1). The yoga of action, leading to union with the soul, is fiery
aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.
II(2). The aim of these three is to bring about soul vision and to
eliminate obstructions.
II(22). In the case of the man who has achieved yoga (or union) the
objective universe has ceased to be. Yet it existeth still for those who
are not free.
II(23). The association of the soul with the mind and thus with that
which the mind perceives, produces an understanding of the nature of that
which is perceived and likewise of the Perceiver.
II(24). The cause of this association is ignorance or avidya. This has to
be overcome.
II(25). When ignorance is brought to an end through non-association with
the things perceived, this is the great liberation.
II(26). The state of bondage is overcome through perfectly maintained
discrimination.
II(27). The knowledge (or illumination) achieved is seven-fold and is
attained progressively.
II(44). Spiritual reading results in a contact with the soul (or divine
One).
II(45). Through devotion to Ishvara the goal of meditation (or samadhi)
is reached.

III(12). When mind control and the controlling factor are equally
balanced, then comes the condition of one-pointedness.
III(13). Through this process the aspects of every object are known,
their characteristics (or form), their symbolic nature, and their specific
use in time-conditions (stage of development) are known and realized.
III(14). The characteristics of every object are acquired, manifesting or
latent.
III(49). The man who can discriminate between the soul and the Spirit
achieves supremacy over all conditions and becomes omniscient.
III(54). This intuitive knowledge, which is the great Deliverer, is
omnipresent and omniscient and includes the past, the present and the
future in the Eternal Now.
III(55). When the objective forms and the soul have reached a condition
of equal purity then is At-one-ment achieved and liberation results.

IV(1). The higher and lower siddhis (or powers) are gained by
incarnation, or by drugs, words of power, intense desire (obsession) or by
meditation.
IV(3). The practices and methods are not the true cause of the transfer of
consciousness, but they serve to remove obstacles, just as the husbandman
prepares his ground for sowing.
IV(4). The `I am' consciousness is responsible for the creation of the
organs through which the sense of individuality is enjoyed.
IV(9). There is identity of relation between memory and effect-producing
cause, even when separated by species, time and place.
IV(12). The past and the present exist in reality. The form assumed in
the time concept of the present is the result of developed characteristics
and holds latent seeds of future quality.
IV(13). The characteristics, whether latent or potent partake of the
nature of the three gunas.
IV(14). The manifestation of the objective form is due to the one-pointedness of
the (long-prevailing) effect-producing cause (the unification of
the modifications of the chitta or mind stuff the thinking instrument).
IV(16). The many modifications of the one mind produce the diverse forms
which depend for existence upon those many mind impulses.
IV(17). These forms are cognized or not cognized according to the
qualities latent in the level of awareness.

Total = 5 + 10 + 6 + 9 = 30 sutras.

Book IV Rearranged

I(17). The awareness of an object is attained by concentration on its

fourfold nature: the form through examination, the quality (or guna)
through discriminative participation, the purpose through inspiration and
the soul through identification.
I(18). A further stage of samadhi is achieved when through one-pointed
thought the outer activity is quieted. In this stage the chitta (the
thinking instrument) is responsive only to subjective impressions.
I(19). The samadhi just described passes not beyond the bounds of the
phenomenal world; it passes not beyond the gods and those concerned with
the concrete world.
I(20). Other yogins achieve samadhi and arrive at a discrimination of
pure Spirit through belief, followed by energy, memory, meditation and
right perception.
I(23). By intense devotion to Ishvara, knowledge of Ishvara is gained.
I(24). This Ishvara is the soul, untouched by limitation, free from karma
and desire.
I(25). In Ishvara, the Gurudeva, the germ of all knowledge expands into
infinity.
I(26). Ishvara, the Gurudeva, being unlimited by time conditions, is the
teacher of the primeval Lords.
I(38). Peace (steadiness of the chitta, the thinking instrument) can be
reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give.
I(39). Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is
dearest to the heart.
I(46). All this constitutes meditation with seed.
I(48). The yogi's perception is now unfailingly exact (or his mind
reveals only the Truth).
I(49). This particular perception is unique and reveals that which the
rational mind (using testimony, inference and deduction) cannot reveal.
I(50). It is totally different from, or supersedes all other impressions.
I(51). When this state of perception is itself also restrained or
superseded, then is pure samadhi achieved.
II(20). The seer is pure knowledge. Though pure, he looks upon the
presented idea through the medium of the mind.
I(21). All that is exists for the sake of the soul.

III(1). Concentration is the fixing of the chitta (the thinking

instrument) upon a particular object. This is dharna.
III(2). Sustained concentration is meditation, dhyana.
III(3). When the chitta (the thinking instrument) becomes absorbed in
that which is the reality (or the idea embodied in the form) and is
unaware of separateness or of the personal self, this is contemplation or
samadhi.
III(15). The stage of development is responsible for the various
modifications of the versatile psychic nature and of the thinking
principle.
III(16). Through concentrated meditation upon the triple nature of every
form, comes the revelation of that which has been and of that which will be.
III(17). The Sound (or Word), that which it denotes (the object) and the
embodied spiritual essence (or idea) are usually confused in the mind of
the perceiver. By concentrated meditation on these three aspects comes an
intuitive comprehension of the sound uttered by all forms of life.
III(22). Karma is of two kinds: immediate karma and future karma. By
perfectly concentrated meditation on these the yogi knows the term of his
experience in the three worlds. This knowledge comes also from signs.
III(23). Union with others is to be gained through one-pointed meditation
upon the three states of feelings -- compassion, tenderness and dispassion.

IV(18). The Lord of the mind, the perceiver, is ever aware of the
constantly active mind stuff, the effect-producing cause.
IV(19). Because it can be seen or cognized, it is apparent that the mind
is not the source of illumination.
IV(20). Neither can it know two objects simultaneously, itself and that
which is external to itself.
IV(21). If knowledge of the mind (chitta) by a remoter mind is
postulated, an infinite number of knowers must be inferred and the
sequence of memory reactions would tend to infinite confusion.
IV(22). When the spiritual intelligence, which stands alone and freed
from objects, reflects itself in the mind stuff (chitta), then comes
awareness of the Self.
IV(23). Then the mind stuff, reflecting both the knower and the knowable,
becomes omniscient.

Total = 15 + 2 + 8 + 6 = 31 sutras

Book V -- Part 1 Rearranged

I(27). The Word of Ishvara is AUM (or OM) . This is the Pranava.
I(28). Through the sounding of the Word and through reflection upon its
meaning, the Way is found.
I(29). From this comes the realization of the Self and the removal of all
obstacles.
I(36). By meditation upon Light and upon Radiance, knowledge of the
Spirit can be reached and thus peace can be achieved.
I(40). Thus the yogi's realization extends from the infinitely small to
the infinitely great and from anu (the atom) to Atman (or Spirit) his
knowledge is perfected.
I(41). To him whose vrittis (modifications of the mind stuff) are
entirely controlled, there eventuates a state of identity with, and
similarity to that which is realized. The knower, knowledge and field
of knowledge become one, just as a crystal takes to itself the colours of
that which is reflected in it.
I(45). The gross leads into the subtle and the subtle leads in
progressive stages to that state of pure spiritual being called Pradhana.
I(47). When the super-contemplative state is reached, the yogi acquires
pure spiritual realization through the balanced quiet of the chitta (the
thinking instrument or mind stuff).

II(16). Pain which is yet to come can be warded off.

II(17). The illusion that the Perceiver and that which is perceived are
one and the same, is the cause of the pain-producing effects which must be
warded off.
II(51). There is a fourth stage which transcends those dealing with the
internal and external phases.
I(52). Through this, that which obscures the Light is gradually removed.
I(53). And the mind (the thinking instrument) is prepared for the
meditative attitude.

III(4). When concentration, meditation and contemplation form one

sequential act (the meditative attitude) then is sanyama achieved.
III(5). As a result of sanyama comes the shining forth of the light.
III(6). This illumination is gradual, it is developed stage by stage.
III(7). These last three means (steps) of yoga have a more intimate
subjective effect than the previous means.
III(8). Even these three, however, are external to the true seedless
samadhi which is not based on an object. It is free from the effects of
the discriminative nature of the chitta (the thinking instrument).
III(18). Knowledge of previous incarnations becomes available when the
power to see thought-images is acquired.
III(19). Through concentrated meditation (the meditative attitude), the
thought images in the minds of other people become apparent.
III(20). As, however, the object of those thoughts is not apparent to the
perceiver, he sees only the thought and not the object. His meditation
excludes the tangible.
III(21). By concentrated meditation upon the distinction between form and
body, those properties of the body which make it visible to the human eye
are negated and the yogi can render himself invisible.
III(24). Meditation, one-pointedly centred upon the power of the
elephant, will awaken that force or light.
III(25). Perfectly concentrated meditation upon the awakened light will
produce the consciousness of that which is subtle, hidden or remote.
III(26). Through meditation, one-pointedly fixed upon the sun, will come
a consciousness (or knowledge) of the seven worlds.
III(27). A knowledge of all lunar forms arises through one-pointed
meditation upon the moon.
III(28). Concentration upon the Pole Star will give knowledge of the
orbits of the planets and the stars.
III(29). By concentrated attention upon the centre called the solar
plexus, comes perfected knowledge as to the condition of the body.
III(34). Understanding of the mind-awareness comes from one-pointed
meditation upon the heart centre.

Total = 8 + 5 + 16 + 0 = 29 sutras

Book V -- Part 2 Rearranged

III(30). By fixing the attention upon the throat centre, cessation of

hunger and thirst will ensue.
III(31. By fixing the attention upon the tube or nerve below the throat
centre, equilibrium is achieved.
III(32. Those who have attained self-mastery can be seen and contacted
through focusing the light in the head. This power is developed
in one-pointed meditation.
III(33). All things can be known in the vivid light of intuition.
III(35). Experience (of the pairs of opposites) comes from the inability
of the soul to distinguish between the personal self and the Purusha (or
Spirit). The objective forms exist for the use (and experience) of
the spiritual man. By meditation upon this arises the intuitive perception
of the spiritual nature (the Purusha).
III(36). As the result of this experience and meditation, the higher
hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell are developed, producing
intuitional knowledge.
III(37). These powers are obstacles to the highest spiritual realization,
but serve as magical powers in the objective world.
III(38). By liberation from the causes of bondage and through their
weakening and by an understanding of the mode of transference (withdrawal
and entrance), the mind stuff or chitta can enter or synchronize with
another body.
III(39). By subjugation of the upward life (udana) there is liberation
from water, the thorny path, and mire, and the power of ascension is
gained.
III(40). Through subjugation of the samana, the spark becomes the flame.
III(41). By means of one-pointed meditation upon the relationship between
the akasha and sound, an organ for spiritual hearing will be developed.
III(42). By one-pointed meditation upon the relationship existing between
the body and akasha, ascension out of matter (of the three worlds) and the
power to travel in space is gained.
III(43). When that which veils the light is done away with, then comes
the state of being called discarnate (or disembodied), freed from the
modifications of the thinking instrument. This is the state of
illumination.
III(44). One-pointed meditation upon the five forms which every element
takes, produces mastery over every element. These five forms are the gross
nature, the elemental form, the quality, the pervasiveness and the basic
purpose.
III(45). Through this mastery, minuteness and the other siddhis (or
powers) are attained, likewise bodily perfection and freedom from all
hindrances.
III(47). Mastery over the senses is brought about through concentrated
meditation upon their nature, peculiar attributes, egoism, pervasiveness
and useful purpose.
III(48). As a result of this perfection there comes rapidity of action
like that of the mind, perception independent of the organs, and mastery
over root substance.
III(50). By a passionless attitude towards this attainment and towards
all soul powers, the one who is free from the seeds of bondage, attains
the condition of isolated unity.
III(51). There should be entire rejection of all allurements from all
forms of being, even the celestial, for the recurrence of evil contacts
remains possible.
III(52). Intuitive knowledge is developed through the use of the
discriminative faculty when there is one-pointed concentration upon
moments and their continuous succession.
III(53). From this intuitive knowledge is born the capacity to
distinguish between all beings and to cognize their genus, qualities and
position on the evolutionary ladder.

IV(5). Consciousness is One, yet produces the varied forms of the many.
IV(6). Among the forms which consciousness assumes, only that which is
the result of meditation is free from latent karma.
IV(15). These two, consciousness and form, are distinct and separate;
though forms may be similar, the consciousness may function on differing
levels of being.
IV(24). The mind-stuff also, reflecting as it does an infinity of mind
impressions, becomes the instrument of the Self and acts as a unifying
agent.
IV(25). The state of isolated unity (withdrawn into the true nature of
Self) is the reward of the man who can discriminate between the mind stuff
and the Self, or spiritual man.
IV(26). The mind then tends towards discrimination and increasing
illumination as to the true nature of the one Self.
IV(27). Through force of habit, however, the mind will reflect other
mental impressions and perceive objects of sensuous perception.
IV(28). These reflections are of the nature of hindrances, and the method
of their overcoming is the same.
IV(29). The man who develops non-attachment even in his aspiration after
illumination and isolated unity becomes aware, eventually, through
practised discrimination, of the over-shadowing cloud of spiritual
knowledge.
IV(30). When this stage is reached then the hindrances and karma are
overcome.
IV(31). When, through the removal of hindrances and the purification of
the sheaths, the totality of knowledge becomes available, naught further
remains for the man to do.
IV(32). The modifications of the mind stuff through the inherent nature
of the three gunas come to an end, for they have served their purpose.
IV(33). Time, which is the sequence of the modifications of the mind,
likewise terminates, giving place to the Eternal Now.
IV(34). The state of isolated unity becomes possible, when the three
qualities of matter (the three gunas) no longer exercise any hold over the
Self. The pure Spiritual Consciousness withdraws into the One.

Total = 21 + 14 = 35 sutras.

Appendix 2

Are We a Synthetic Humanity Created by an Advanced Humanity ?

We wish to state here an aspect of love and death, or birth and death. An
earnest student will understand much from what follows.

Creation is love. All of Creation -- Divine Wholeness with Janah Universe

-- is love, not of self but for love's sake. With such love there can be
no death, no limitation, no separation or even a sense of separateness.
Such is pure love; true, divine, satisfying love is immortal!

This love is reflected in Existence in the beginning but, being fractured

whilst passing through the major Ring-pass-not and further fractured (like
sound) as it passes through the two other minor rings-pass-not, it does
not go on forever -- it ceases to be immortal on entering Existence. This
creative force, in Existence, does have in its germ a tinge of sex, which
eventually could be sublimated again, for the sublime aspects of sex,
besides the act itself, are innumerable. This love, like light in Bhuh,
has seven different rates of vibrations or energies and so demonstrates
these seven aspects, each having a different rate of vibrations. But even
the lowest aspect is tremendously high and needs a developed body to hold
its vibrations. In all Existence, only humanities, i.e. human beings, can
hold such vibrations -- the frail-looking, `finite', physical body of man
in grossest Bhuh, even in sub-stages 3-2-1 and 1-2-3 of the descending and
ascending arcs, is capable of this, but in the vast universe of Existence
there is no other material known that can hold them!

These vibrations, even at their lowest, are tremendously high, in the

middle range are unbearable, and at their maximum are immensely impossible
to hold -- and yet are held by the frail body of a human being, if `whole'
or developed. Why -- because within the frail human body is the Divine
Fragment, a fragment of the Unique Original Force Field, which makes it
possible. These three grades of intensities of love are (1) worldly love;
(2) parent-child love; (3a) maximum negative self-love, and (3b) positive
spiritual love.

All three types of love, except for grade (3b), create fatigue. What
happens to the human body is what happens in case of metal fatigue -- just
as metal gives way, so does the human body fail, or give way and die.
This fatigue daily creates sleep which to a certain extent reinforces the
body. Even if the sleep is of the required quality and at particular hours
only, it is scarcely enough and creates a debit account. This daily debit
balance brings on old age. Daily, temporary sleep creates complete,
temporary unawareness and, with the daily increasing debit balance, one
day brings about a very long, complete unawareness and with it a total
loss of memory and non-functioning within -- this we call death.

To understand this very long total unawareness we must study the `daily'
unawareness. But the world has coined a different word, a dreadful word --
`death' -- for the former without bothering to study the latter, sleep.
And around this word `death' the world has woven an atmosphere of
depression, artificial sadness and grief, as well as meaningless rites,
prayers and ceremonies, not one of them worthwhile perpetuating but,
thanks to our priests and religious leaders, indulged in daily. This is
the result of ignorance.

Why do we forget that death is a natural thing to happen, as natural as

our breathing and as unavoidable! Some wise persons have said, "That which
is born must die," that life is transitory and illusory, and thousands of
sayings, songs and stories are in circulation to this effect, not
realizing that life and awareness are only energies created in the body
and must some day cease being created. The worst part of all is that it is
stressed (of course, from the point of view of material possessions) that
we go empty-handed, i.e. that we carry nothing away, and that we also come
empty-handed. But do mortal eyes see how much is brought and how much is
carried away? If they did, they will be surprised, for it is all in
molecular coded material which our mortal eyes are unable to see.

When love creates a human body, that child feeds on love, it grows on
love, but this relationship of love does not go on forever in Bhuh. It
stops sooner or later, more often sooner than later, for the intensity
slows down and, in many cases, completely disappears. On the quality of
this relationship and how soon it starts to slow down depends the
emotional maturity of the child. Physical growth is not so important, and
neither is intellectual growth, because both have other sources and
factors that take care of them. But the emotional growth of the child has
only one source, and that is the parents -- not child and mother only,
otherwise it leaves a vital gap, but both parents!

The human being is, first and last, an emotional entity because the
primary body, the astral or molecular body, is the body of emotions.
Emotions are chemicals, they are vibrations that can build or break. In
this fine sensitive human body, energy exchanges and chemical reactions
and transformations take place continuously. When these take place
properly, they make the human body biologically complete or whole; even
so, this parent-child relationship should be total and complete for it is
the most important factor.

The critical periods are between the ages 0-3 years, 3-7 years, and from
7-14 years. If, for some reason, love from either of the parents is
neglected in any one period, compensatory love must be given later to fill
that gap. This is extremely important and essential. Whatever is missing
is felt but is not easy for the growing or grown-up child to express, even
after adult age. This missing is felt throughout life and the individual
seeks for its fulfillment but knows not how to, nor what nor where; he
only feels it deep down in the so-called sub-conscious, i.e. in the memory
pattern where it is registered. All such `missing' is also recorded in the
super micro recording monitor as characteristics.

So the individual is in constant search in many ways. Many social

activities of men and women are dictated by this missing aspect. The
individual may even go round the world seeking it but never finding it,
only feeling its loss. In many cases, this loss creates some kind of
peculiarities and eccentricities: some resort to drugs and some to the
solitary life of ashrams, some love lower life and animals, and some
follow cults.

This search, today, is widespread, acute and more pronounced because in

the last 50-60 years this aspect of love has been missing more and more as
the child is left in the care of servants or strangers. All over the
world, life has reached such a tempo that none of the parents have time
for the child. They say `we have to make both ends meet' and `so we both
have to work', little realizing what hurricanes and tempests they leave
behind in the heart and mind of the child. Do parents realize that this
damage is more than what they could earn jointly! If parents are not able
to devote fairly reasonable time and love, and this in plenty, they should
use preventive measures and not have children, rather than give life to a
child and then not nurse it themselves, as it ought to be, but leave it to
baby-sitters, nurses, creches, etc.

Why is the thirst so great in the present generation and growing daily?
Which of the seven aspects of love is missing? How does one find out?
These aspects have vibrations, i.e. color, texture, sound, form, and the
four elements, each from crude to most refined. What, or who, can provide
this something missing? On this are religious faiths, schools of thought
and faculties all over the world based. How shall we know what remedy is
actually right?

As creation begins in love, so life begins in love -- then why is this

something missing? Why are products of love miserable and unhappy? Is God
indifferent? Are we indifferent towards God and towards ourselves? Why is
something missing from love? If it is love it should be complete, and if
it is complete, we can be again what we were in Creation!

The search in the name of religion, theology, philosophy, yoga, zen and
other such disciplines is only a search for what is missing from love.
One full note is missing, not just a semitone! This makes an individual
biologically incomplete. In studying the diagrams, we have noted how very
important it is to be biologically complete. If one is not biologically
complete, whose fault is it? The answer is not easy to give: "Master who
did sin, he or his forbear, for he was born blind?" "Neither hath this
man sinned, nor his forbear, but that the law of God should be made
manifest in him." -- Lord Jesus Christ.

At this stage we raise another pertinent question, not because it is only

a hypothetical question but because truth is stranger than fiction and
this is a fact in Existence, though only in the universe of Bhuh. There
are innumerable humanities in our universe Bhuh from sub-stage 1 to
sub-stage 7, and also innumerable in each sub-stage, both on the downward
and on the upward arcs. So vast is the gulf between them that humanities
even at the end of sub-stage 4 would appear to us who are in the beginning
of sub-stage 4 as supermen, and those in the seventh sub-stage would
appear so far ahead, there can be no comparison at all.

It is sad but true that in the entire expanse of Bhuh scattered in various
galaxies, for every ten humanities reaching the fourth sub-stage on the
upward arc, seven proceed normally, two out of ten develop psychic powers,
retain a special fondness for such psychic powers and play around for a
very long time, and one out of ten advances greatly technically and
becomes godless, emotionless and heartless, like the societies of ants and
bees, and lives and progresses thus. This decision to go psychic or to be
technically advanced is taken in sub-stage 4 on the upward arc of Bhuh
and in each case, after the decision is taken or made, evolution continues
strictly as per that decision and it comes to each humanity as a natural
characteristic.

When such a technically advanced humanity reaches the sixth sub-stage of

Bhuh it is able to create synthetically every type of lower life --
animals, reptiles, fishes and birds. The body texture of parts and organs
fabricated for the human body are such as to be indistinguishable from
those of the real and natural human being as created by God and Nature.
Human limbs, organs and tissues are created very natural-like and are used
in case of accidents or mutations or abnormal birth with nary a difference
found between them and the natural ones. So transplantation of any limbs,
organs and tissues is not at all necessary; even blood is not needed for
it too is made.

Like electrical energy, the energies of life and awareness are created
with great force and potential by the technically advanced humanity, for
even in the natural humanity these energies are not spiritual energies.
Only, they are more subtle and more potent than electrical energy. So the
energies of life and awareness are generated and channeled as required,
i.e. they are bottled for use. And by the seventh sub-stage this humanity
is able to create a synthetic humanity not different in any way from the
natural humanity.

(Our humanity, too, will one day be able to bottle these energies for use
in emergency; it will be possible even by our late sub-stage 4. In a few
years, our scientists will be able to create electricity within an
instrument -- a sort of `built-in' mechanism -- so that the instrument can
work endlessly without being fed with any energy from an outside source.)

Even so is the synthetic humanity with the energies of life and awareness
`built-in' and also given certain memory and behaviour response patterns.
But synthetic individuals are not robots -- they are all as good as
natural humanity, with flesh, skin and bones, organs, tissues, blood and
gray matter, with a thinking instrument and senses, but with no free will.

It is strange, but true, that by the early seventh sub-stage, this

humanity, their pride and vanity and ruthlessness and egoism knowing no
bounds, suddenly finds itself becoming unisexed, i.e. all the children
born are only females. Of course, at first the ratio of female to male
children is high, but eventually no male child is born at all, because now
God and Nature take a hand to correct such a wayward humanity -- advanced
sons of humanities of Svahah universe and those Divine Fragments that did
not enter Existence but are ever ready to render services, such who are
much beyond in power and wisdom compared to this technically advanced
humanity, however great be the progress of this humanity. Is this humanity
the Lucifer referred to in the gospels who would challenge the power of
God and Nature?

Such a technically advanced humanity is completely all female and all such
technically advanced humanities are all females. The female species is
more complete biologically and more resistant also. Even today, in our
humanity, the female is really tough; this male has so far only made a
show of being tough. The male has, from the beginning of the seventh
sub-stage, ceased to dominate; he becomes subservient, is first relegated
to second place under female rule and then slowly becomes extinct. Between
these two stages, Nature prepares her plans to deal with this humanity.
Remember that each sub-stage is an eternity and so there is limitless time
between these two stages.

In spite of their extremely advanced technical progress no solution is

found to this problem, i.e. no male child is born to them. So they decide
to experiment with a synthetic humanity. Even their planet, which was
pleasant, stable and beautiful, starts becoming arid and dry; the
conditionings change enormously and their knowledge is helpless to prevent
it. They had already started experiments in the sixth sub-stage with all
types of lower life on a planet in a distant, primitive-looking solar
system, and when the female ratio starts going up alarmingly, on that
planet in that solar system they now plant a synthetic humanity.

This synthetic humanity is an exact `replica' of their humanity,

individual for individual, i.e. for every male and every female is created
as counterpart a synthetic male and a synthetic female as they were in the
early seventh sub-stage when males were amongst them normally. So their
synthetic humanity, like the natural humanity, has both sexes and
procreates; but whenever the males are transplanted to their own planet,
they fail to reproduce a male -- they reproduce only females and die
early.

What is actually the difference between the natural and synthetic

humanities? A synthetic individual has only the physical, cellular body;
it has no astral double, nor within is the Divine Fragment, It being a
fragment of the Divine Wholeness. No humanity, however advanced, can
fabricate a Divine Fragment -- It can never be duplicated. The technically
advanced humanity sees no need for all these other complications, because
there is no need or intention to perpetuate this humanity. So the
synthetic individual needs no causal body nor the three super micro
recording monitors, for there is no need for karma or causation or
redeeming. These are the main differences, but such differences only
advanced adepts can see and find out, so natural otherwise is this
synthetic humanity.

So the technically advanced humanity, being technically advanced compared

to us by a few eternities, creates, from its point of view,
a not-so-advanced technically advanced synthetic humanity. Even then, this
synthetic humanity is at least thousands of years technically more
advanced, or ahead, in comparison to us as we find ourselves today. This
synthetic humanity, like their masters, are godless, heartless and
emotionless. With each sub-stage being an eternity, this technically
advanced humanity has time to do their best to survive.

One such planet and one such solar system that appeared to them as
woebegone and primitive and which they had selected for their earlier
experiments with lower type of life and later had planted a synthetic
humanity, happens to be (believe it or not!) our plant Earth and our Solar
System. So are we that synthetic humanity? This happened more than 65
million years ago, and for a very long period of years the synthetic
humanity is maintained by the technically advanced humanity in the hope of
finding a male sperm capable of procreating and begetting a male child
when transplanted to their planet.

God and Nature have taken care to bring about such upheavals later as to
obliterate any trace of and every vestige of their civilization by
creating land in place of water and submerging land to create oceans. Yet
somewhere or the other at times, we will get proofs of this civilization,
of this synthetic humanity that was planted on our planet by a technically
advanced humanity millions of years ago.

But in inflicting the restriction of making the technically advanced

humanity single-sexed, so that a potential Lucifer is destroyed and
prevented from further mischief, for this would indeed be better than
letting such a society of humanity survive and create much evil, God and
Nature would stand to lose one full natural society of humanity, wayward
though it had been. So God and Nature evolve a different plan to counter
the activities of such a society of humanity, because Tapah, Divine
Wholeness, was aware of the possibility of such an exigency to be expected
some day in Existence, what with gross minds, bodies, thinking instruments
and senses prevailing, with utter free will operative, and with
accumulation of knowledge on the upward arc.

In millions of places in Existence, Nature --Divine Wholeness -- also has

economic cycles where one thing disappears apparently to create something
else, and these economic cycles, by the thousands, maintain biological and
ecological balances in the cellular universe, as on our Earth for
instance. Our science is not aware of all such economic cycles of
preservation. On our planet we see the cycle of oxygen and carbon dioxide
between human and animal life on one hand and plant and vegetation on the
other hand. We see water evaporating from the oceans by the heat of the
sun's rays, clouds being formed, rain and snow failing on the Earth and,
by streams and rivers, returning to the ocean again. Such cycles are
simple, apparent and observable. There are innumerable, complicated
ecological and other cycles that each planet in each solar system is
intelligently able to maintain, and we know nothing about them at all.
Slowly we shall learn and then be amazed at what the Earth and the Sun do
know compared to our technical knowledge and their superior intelligence
will be apparent then.

In our own body system, there are economic cycles and balances. For
instance, the heart sends blood to all parts of the body system and this
blood returns to the heart through a system of veins collecting all the
dead matter. The heart then pumps this dirty blood to the lungs where it
is oxygenated, whereby a part of the body heat is produced, and this
cleans blood once again reaches the heart to be send back to the body
system.

The synthetic humanity is the replica of the original advanced humanity,

individual for individual. So Nature, through the advanced sons of
humanity from Svahah and the Divine Fragments who did not enter Existence,
plans to `transplant' in each new-born child that is synthetic with the
assigned Divine Fragment and the assigned causal body with its three super
micro recording monitors of each individual dying in that advanced
humanity. This plan is ready and waiting for an opportune moment. Of
course, the recordings in the three super micro recording monitors are
extremely brutal, but a full society of humanity is to be saved; later,
care can be taken of these recordings also.

The right time arrives when the technically advanced humanity fails in all
its efforts to find a `sperm' that would give them male offsprings from
amongst all the males born and grown up as synthetic humanity and
transplanted by thousands to their original planet in hope of the miracle
to happen. And when nothing succeeds, it seems impossible to survive. Now
they use their technical knowledge to extend their own life span
enormously.

Now totally frustrated, the technically advanced humanity decides to

destroy the synthetic humanity as the experiment has been wholly
unsuccessful, to that extent that those males born to the synthetic
humanity could procreate only female offsprings with the females of the
original humanity, and later these males just could not even procreate
with the original females. To destroy this synthetic humanity a novel and
cruel method is made use of that suits their cruel nature. This was
decided perhaps a little more than 65 million years ago.

So advanced are the technical humanity that they never fail in anything
they undertake. They implant in each synthetic individual a lethal
chemical which immediately enters the body system. It is also injected in
the waters, plants and lesser life on the planet and in the atmosphere. It
is not meant to be immediately fatal. This chemical creates an individual
who is restless, depressed, anti-social, aggressive, jealous, always in
fear and tension, and will kill and destroy in self-preservation. And so
the synthetic humanity begin to destroy each other and each would not rest
till the other is destroyed. This restlessness is prevalent in all the
kingdoms now also due to the effects of this chemical.

It was expected that this chemical would act and finish off in a matter of
months leaving not one alive. After it is done, this technically advanced
humanity forgets all about this synthetic humanity for nothing in
Existence can now save this synthetic humanity. And it would have happened
just as planned had not God and Nature, with willing volunteers, not come
to the aid of this synthetic humanity -- but divine intervention comes
thus to aid, without prayers, when required according to law.

But from their distant planet, the technically advanced humanity could
have disintegrated this planet itself by a single flash of a ray. This
would have created a lot of complications for the entire solar system
would have been unbalanced. But we have earlier noted that volunteers by
their own silent methods directed the technically advanced humanity to
take recourse to the chemical option which was equally fatal, rapid and
unerring, and, above all, in keeping with their very cruel nature. In
doing so, an opportunity was created to work against the plan and for
which preparations were ready.

To solve the problem of having to redeem innumerable brutal memory

patterns, Nature decided that the new-born synthetic individuals with
transplanted Divine Fragments and other materials like body, thinking
instrument, senses, etc., should begin as primitive human beings starting
as a natural humanity of very early fourth sub-stage of Bhuh on the upward
arc. It was decided thus, for it was at a little later than this stage
that the technically advanced humanity had decided to take the wrong road
earlier during their progress. So Nature starts from nearly the same point
in time so that the transplanted and synthetic (now made original)
individual may not have to `redeem' such brutal and horrible patterns
recorded which, after all, are not of the saved individuals.

The result is that primitive man starts out on our planet as a natural
society of humanity at the beginning of sub-stage 4 on the upward arc, at
least 65 million years or more before our time. This process is slow
because the technically advanced humanity tried to extend the life span
of all its individuals indefinitely, and as one by one of that technically
advanced humanity died, their replica in synthetic were replaced by the
primitive society of humanity. During this long transition period while
the transplanting continued to the last individual, the entire synthetic
humanity became a natural society of humanity, but extremely primitive.
Thus the technically advanced humanity slowly disappeared but Nature's
economy saved a whole society of humanity from being destroyed.

It was at this stage that great cataclysms started to take place all over
our planet, because the synthetic humanity that was planted on our Earth
was more advanced on a technical scale than what we are today by at least
15-20 thousand years and their civilization covered the entire Earth.
So every vestige of their civilization was also destroyed, along with
their synthetic monster animals.

The fatal effects of the chemical were reduced as much as possible, but
deep down they had penetrated the system, the planet and the atmosphere,
and so remained to some extent. Even after a fresh start as a primitive
society of humanity as far back as 65 million years or more, these effects
are largely still there even today. The shielding effects of the planet
Jupiter and our Sun and the advanced state of our Earth were all
responsible for the success of this immense task. But we do carry in our
system the effects of that lethal chemical, and we, who were once
synthetic, became a primitive society or the earliest specimens of
humanity of sub-stage 4 on the upward arc of Bhuh. And our civilization
from our days as a synthetic humanity lies buried deep in the bowels of
our Earth, one day to be made apparent, though that day is far off indeed.

Some may ask, is Jupiter such an important planet? And if a planet like
Jupiter were not there in a solar system, is that society of humanity
lost? Yes, in a solar system where a society of humanity exists in any
area of the Universe, if a planet of the type of Jupiter is absent, that
humanity can never have any inclinations towards God, towards return to
the source, and other noble emotions, and ultimately becomes a brutal,
advanced humanity. And wherever such a planet is in a solar system, that
society of humanity is safe to advance as a natural humanity. And a planet
like Jupiter can save and salvage a fallen humanity also.

Jupiter has certain spots, small and very large, both on the surface and
deep inside, that send certain types of energy rays which create a
force-field of a type that has the power to raise the lowest and most
brutal vibrations to high spiritual intensity, always towards
spirituality. One day, similar spots, but smaller in size, will be found
in the Himalayan region, both on the surface and deeper down, and these
two planets, Jupiter and our Earth, work like large super transmitting and
receiving monitors respectively, forging a link through these spots. So
our Earth is receiving rays, both highly helpful and damaging, and in her
laboratory at the core she works on these rays and energies. With her own
ability to produce healing rays and with great help from Jupiter and the
Sun, she maintains us (refer to the Earth's core chart), of which we have
hardly any knowledge now -- all we know is to abuse her. This is how our
Earth is redeeming her past.

Do you still think that these planets are lifeless orbs that keep moving
mechanically?

Some may raise the question that our Sun does not stand in a high category
among other suns and stars, so what could a mere planet like Jupiter be?
To this we say that out Sun is very senior and highly advanced. Just as we
cannot judge a book by its cover, so we may not judge our Sun by its size
and luminosity. There are innumerable suns and stars that are far bigger
and brighter; some are giants in size and brilliance compared to our Sun.
So also, our Jupiter is very special in some ways, very senior and highly
advanced, though it may appear as nothing before other stars and suns, and
even other planets.

Some may even point out that our Sun with its Solar System goes round the
star Sirius as if it were a captive, so Sirius must be ruling our Sun in
some ways, just as our Sun dominates over the planets that go round it.
But the truth and fact is completely different: our Sun is parent to star
Sirius! Sirius is a binary star, with one large, bright orb and the other
a dark, very heavy `dwarf'. Slowly, with each revolution of our Sun round
it in 25,000 years, these two orbs of Sirius are brought closer to each
other. (A formula exist for such calculations.) This will continue till
the dark dwarf will fall right into the center of the bright star and in
doing so will create its own family of planets -- a solar system. There is
a direct link and push with each revolution of our Sun round Sirius.

When our Sun was at the stage that Sirius is now today, i.e. a binary
star without its solar system, another advanced senior star with its solar
system did the same work that our Sun is doing today -- a few eternities
before our time! The humanity that lived in that solar system then was in
the fourth sub-stage of Bhuh and now that humanity is nearing the sixth
sub-stage of Svahah. Hence the link between that humanity and ours in
salvaging Earth from synthetic into natural humanity and sending their
sons to our humanity to guide us. We call them incarnations of God --
humanity like the Christ, the Buddha, Krishna -- but they are actually
from the sixth sub-stage of Svahah; they have now have gone into the
Ring-pass-not and are preparing to go beyond. That solar system exploded
ages ago to leave a black hole of utmost power and potential from which
future generation became possible.

The advanced sons of that humanity helped us and are still helping us in
many ways. When star Sirius will merge its two orbs and have a solar
system of its own, and later its own humanity, our Sun would by then have
become a red giant, dissolve the whole Solar System within its body, from
where it had once emerged, and disappear completely leaving behind an
intense force field. And much before that, our whole humanity will be
somewhere else on the upward arc in the vast expanse of Existence. By then
we would be in the Mahah region, the Ring-pass-not, ready to go into
Creation and later merge into Divine Wholeness forever, and our planet
Earth likewise also.

Our Sun, Jupiter and our Earth are all very senior, highly developed and
on the upward arc. We as humanity in this solar system should consider
ourselves very fortunate and stop bragging about our science and the talk
about conquering Nature, but rather set up communications with our Earth
and through her with Jupiter and the Sun; our progress then will be a
thousand times faster. But we think we know so much! And of what help can
these senseless and lifeless orbs be to us! Are we not the only self
conscious beings in all Existence!

In passing, we may mention that the Moon is the negative karma of our
Earth. Science will bear out that in proportion to the size of our Earth,
the size of the Moon at a distance of a quarter of a million miles is far
heavier a load than any other bigger planet, or even the Sun itself, has
to maintain. It is the negative vibrations of the Moon that have caused so
much evil on our planet. The Moon is a highly negative entity and, though
much good is done by our planet Earth to neutralize these effects, is the
cause of many shattered nerves and tensions, diseases and ailments that
prevail upon our Earth. The dark side of the Moon harbors lone astral
shells of those dead persons who have strong, crude emotions and
unfulfilled desires. Such negative, vicious astral shells dwell there till
their disintegration takes place.

So our Earth carries a great load of negative karma -- this is her

process of `redeeming'. We have a misconception of considering the Moon as
a luminary in astrology. The Moon has no light of its own, and by way of
reflected light Venus, and more than Venus our Earth, would look brighter
than the Moon and very much more beautiful if seen from deep space.
Another misconception in regard to the Moon is that new Moon and full Moon
(pournima) are considered auspicious in astrology, and no Moon (amavasya)
is regarded as inauspicious, while quite the opposite is actually the
situation. The eclipse of the Moon has no negative effects on Earth, but
only beneficial effects on the Moon and raises its high negative
intensities to less negative intensities. On the other hand, during a
solar eclipse, the Moon in return intensifies its negative intensity on
Earth. So the best day of the month is the no-Moon day on which the
negative intensities and effects are not there.

Our Planet Earth

Refer to the Earth's core chart. In the diagram is shown a thin border
which is the crust of the planet. This thin crust is the skin of the
planet; it holds the highest mountains and deepest oceans, and nurtures
all life, on land, in water and in the air, from the microbe to the blue
whale and all human beings. The rest is continuous upheaval and movement,
as explained below, but all according to a meticulously laid-down plan.
All recorded and unrecorded history and geography of the human race of the
present and the past is buried deep down below this crust of the planet
and cyclic upheavals leave no trace behind of what has been!

Notice that from the centre towards the surface of the Earth are shown
sixteen segments or circular belts, or rings. Each ring is approximately
250 miles deep, some a little more or a little less in width. Four such
rings comprise a section; there are thus four sections, each nearly 1,000
miles deep. These sections are marked A, B, C and D, and are shown in
different colours. Each section is different and serves a different
purpose.

Section A is the floating section and includes the skin or crust we call
solid ground. Section C maintains (strange as it may seem) the balance in
the atmosphere and the water content in the crust, i.e. in the oceans and
on land. It is the pressure area of the planet, equivalent to the upkeep
area in humans, and takes the help of section B. Section B is a silent
area of the planet, playing a quiet but very important part, while section
A is the continuously changing, turmoil area of the planet, like the
thinking instrument in humans. Each section does its appropriate work.
Adjacent sections whirl in opposite direction to each other: section A
whirls anticlockwise, section B whirls clockwise, and section C whirls
anticlockwise.

The topmost ring of section C is prepared and then moved to enter section
A, and in due course, say from 2-3 million years, becomes the crust of
section A of the planet in large patches, and so an absolutely different
type of flora and geography is created by stages. Continents are mere
floating leaves on her waters! The planet changes its poles every 25,000
years.

All the sections, A, B and C, including the crust, are maintained by

section D, the planet's core, extending approximately 1000 miles in radius
from the very centre, and the main laboratory of the planet. Here she
works wonders! Whereas section C has all the different gases and liquids,
section D is the fire of the planet, ignited by fusion and fission, where
all the cooking, digesting and filtration (besides many other processes)
of the rays received from the Sun and the Galaxy is done.

From her boundless resources, which are continuously replenished by the

Sun and the Galaxy, it is easy for her to maintain ecological balances on
the skin or crust. The planet has a continuous process of rotating
elements that keep land, water and air reasonably clear, or she would
alter the geography, which she has periodically every 12,500 or 25,000
years, the actual final, visible and faster process lasting about 5,000
years.

Our planet, like a snake, throws off her skin periodically. Nature's
tides on our planet, like the tides of the ocean which has high and low
tides, are of 12,500 or 25,000 years duration. In such periods one full
ebb and flow of tide takes place in, say, 12,500 years. We are at present
on the crest of the high tide and this coincides with one complete round
of our Solar System around the star Sirius, which takes 25,000 years. The
smallest fraction, or one of the twelve zodiac houses, is about 2083 odd
years.

Huge and forceful bubbles from this section C rise regularly and passing
through sections B and A reach the crust. These periodic bubbles, which
rise not at random but as per an intelligent order, keep the large masses
of water deep in the oceans moving regularly, create rivers at various
levels and flowing in different directions, and also move large bodies of
water trapped in deep land contours, deep down in the oceans; otherwise
these waters would remain motionless and become death traps for all life
on this planet. The bubbles then escape from the oceans into the
atmosphere as small bubbles. All these actions go on continuously all over
the planet, from the surface to deep down in section C. The core chart
shows such a continuous chain of processes taking place between sections C
and A, upto the surface crust of the planet.

So we need not be unnecessarily perturbed about our careless and even

reckless ways of polluting the planet's land, water and atmosphere. We
think we can do a lot here in this direction, but we forget that we know
so little that our little knowledge to help her would be rather more
dangerous than not helping her at all. For this is her domain and she
knows infinitely more as to how to maintain the ecological balance than we
will know in the next 5,000 years and more, and our present civilization
will not be anywhere on the surface of the planet at that time! What she
would appreciate most would be an effort on our part to take care of our
mental pollution, which is far more dangerous and which we can do
consciously!

Like the ebb and flow of the tides of the oceans, humanity on this planet
increases and then decreases considerably for reasons of soul
transmigration. The planet has ways of doing so as per a cosmic plan, for
she has reached a stage of being conscious and able to take active part in
the cosmic plan. (We human beings have not found time to come out of our
illusions yet.) Our planet is a school -- as are all life-bearing planets
-- for humanity reaching the fourth sub-stage of Bhuh and being prepared
for the fifth sub-stage. On reaching it, souls are made to migrate in
groups to other areas of the galaxy to progress further.

Earlier have been civilization even better and more well spread out than
our present day one, but she can bring about upheavals that leave no trace
of them, for she is not bothered with our material civilization but only
with our spiritual progress! The next coming upheaval, which will take
anywhere from 2,000 to 5,000 years, will leave nothing of our present day
civilization, and a new skin or crust will replace the present one and
cover the surface of our planet. Our so-called great civilization, our
wealth, our history, geography and science, our minerals, all life that we
know of, will undergo change, a sort of annihilation, that will leave
nothing recognizable, and all this happens and results on the skin or
crust of our planet. If we can realize our insignificant and perilous
position, our size and our puny abilities, we would be wiser by far!

Humanity in sub-stage 4 of Bhuh, as we are, is in no position to cooperate

with the planet's inner workings, for today's science is primitive and not
competent to work with the inner workings (even of the human body). The
civilization of the next 2,000-5,000 years will, like our present day one,
be too anxious to know what deep space has to uncover and will probe
deeper and deeper there because it is so glamorous, rather than go deep
under, about 4,000 miles within, towards the core of the planet and learn
really vital facts.

Neither do we probe and go two inches deep within our own brain and
search. No wonder we go in search of God to all the sacred places and to
the Himalayas, but we do not go down deep within ourselves, a mere two
inches, and reach our silent area, the holy ground! But that is human
nature, and only those who can go within these two inches -- on planetary
scale it is 4,000 miles -- can know and learn the great secrets and wonders
of creation awaiting in these areas. If humanity and modern science can
do so it would then be possible to plunge into space many, many light
years deeper. But we want to put the cart before the horse always, for we
always appreciate the glamorous and Nature and God has never denied free
will to anyone. On cosmic scale, why or where is the hurry, when a million
years are not even a few moments of Earth time or human time!

Each section from the surface of the Earth to the primary core is to be
divided into 16 segments each of 22.5 degrees angular width as shown in
the chart. Certain movements in the body of the planet and within the
environment of the Earth makes the planet swing from side to side, like a
spinning top, i.e. from left to right and right to left, or towards the
Sun and away from it, by about 22.5 degrees

Seven vayus (like the vayus within the primary body of a human being) --
one for lower life, one for plant and vegetation, and five vayus especially
for humanity and, to some extent, for all the flora and fauna -- circulate
constantly in the body of the planet and have a distinct effect on the
physical planet and all that exists thereon. Each day of the week, these 7
vayus in 16 different permutations and combinations rotate from core to
surface and back to the core. Each one, on reaching the surface, throws
into the atmosphere and the waters of the oceans its particular
characteristics, and on returning to the core rebuilds and refreshes
itself to start its journey again.

Each of the 16 rings from the core to the surface has a different shade
and quality of vayu as it rises from the core, travels towards the
surface of the planet and throws its various different types of effects
into the oceans, surface soil and atmosphere. Thus 16 different
vibrational tones, i.e. colourings and effects, are thrown out on all
substances and kingdoms, viz. mineral, vegetation, animal and lower life,
and human beings, simultaneously all over the Earth. Human beings are most
affected to react more strongly, because compared to other kingdoms they
are biologically more complete and chemically more sensitive. These
influences can be for better or worse. Only those who have reached the
dharna stage (as explained in the text) can be totally free of these
influences; others are bound to absorb and react accordingly.

The three-step rhythmic breathing corrects the five vayus within the human
primary body, and upon building one's own prana circulations one can then
work consciously with these influences as desired. During one's progress
they are at first felt by such individuals and later also seen through
their psychic sight. A rhythmic influence and coordination has to be set
up between (1) the first five vayus (which concern human beings)
circulating within the planet and also the prana circulation within
the core, with (2) the prana circuit within the disciple's body and later
orbiting within the human primary body consciously built up by an
individual, as explained in the text.

Our planet Earth also takes in prana forces reaching her from the other
planets, the Sun, and certain stars and galaxies. These are incoming
impulses for our planet Earth, received at the same rate (as for a human
being) of 30,000 per second of Earth time. They are sucked in at the core
and, after being working on them there, are sent up to the surface as
explained earlier. The effects of this prana pervades the whole body of
the planet, the oceans and life within the oceans, and also has such
effects on all life on the surface and in the atmosphere.

So besides the vayus, the Earth's atmosphere is charged with the prana
that circulates at the core of the planet at the rotational speed of 3,600
cycles per one minute of Earth time and which is responsible for the
planet's rotation on its axis. This whirling of prana in the primary body
of the Earth is clockwise, and so the secondary or physical body of the
Earth rotates anticlockwise, i.e. from west to east, and so the Sun
appears to rise in the east. This great circulation and manipulation of
prana within the core of the planet is closely linked to and also aided by
the Sun and planet Jupiter in particular, as sustaining and redeeming
influences, respectively, in coordination with our planet's magnificent
performance.

When one progresses further beyond the dharna stage as explained earlier,
one is able to see the mighty rivers of prana rushing toward our planet
Earth, the coordinated movements and circulation, the psychic and chemical
reactions and other influences that are created between our Earth and the
Sun and Jupiter in particular. Much of the two vital energies of `life'
and `awareness' are created in abundance, for our planet has herself
reached the stage of dhyana and is now going beyond.

If only one can see and experience this living, vibrant circulation in the
body of our Earth -- the prana whirling within the core of the planet,
rising from the core to the surface and returning to the core, and the
radiation in the atmosphere with negative and positive magnetic, electric
and other discharges, with all the colours, rhythms, movements, effects,
sounds, etc., from very gross to most subtle, undoing all the wrong
created by living creatures inhabiting this planet. Of all creatures, man
who has maximum potential, does maximum damage either willfully or out of
ignorance or indifference. The planet thus sets right everything in her
own way. We would be amazed, and in awe and reverence and esteem bow
our heads.
We shall then know in what a living, vibrant, immeasurable ocean of rhythm
we are living, as so many unconscious, automatic, half-dead beings! We
shall then know that our planet and other stars are living entities,
forming humanity of a society of planets, stars and galaxies (as explained
in text) but far more advanced, eternities ahead of us. This wonderful
panorama extends to the limit of the seen universe Bhuh, penetrating the
unseen universes of Bhuvah and Svahah, and yet we feel `isolated', all
alone as on a small island in the midst of empty space with nothing in
sight. Our spiritual and psychic blindness, along with our disbelief, is
the main cause. But after seeing and realizing all this one will then know
what is meant by `maya', and till then one can go on repeating the word
like a parrot without understanding.

When the individual, after consciously bringing about the adjustment of

the five vayus and the rotation of prana within the primary body,
coordinates one's mechanisms with this great mechanism of our Earth (and
later with Jupiter and the Sun), what indescribable vistas open before the
human eyes and mind! One then does not look or feel `insignificant', not
through pride but because of knowledge. This is the real `transfiguration'
which the Christ attempted, a truly gracious act of the Christ, but his
disciples not being prepared were safely asleep, and his followers
preferred to emphasize the crucifixion to the transfiguration.

Truly then the Atman -- Ishvara within, the Transcendental Teacher, or the
Absolute manifest, the Divine Wholeness -- can be One, and this is
known and understood as an experience and not as philosophy. The mind
ceases to be the guiding factor, even as in stage 3b, and the inner Self,
Ishvara within, the Cosmic Consciousness, merges with the ocean of divine
Cosmic Consciousness -- Divine Wholeness -- if so desired.

Just as one can consciously set up in the human body an inner closed
circuit of prana and reach 3,600 cycles per one minute of Earth time, in
the same manner note the inner closed circuit with clockwise rotation
within the core of the planet Earth. This produces nada in four
fundamental stages, from para-nada at the core, passing on in its movement
from the core to the surface to pashyanti-nada, becoming madhyama-nada as
it rises further, to burst out at the surface into vaikheri-nada or gross
sounds. The para-nada is protected and kept within the core, where the
Divine Fragment of the Earth is. A similar effect takes place in each
human body when the inner closed circuit is established, and with
para-nada one is then able to disintegrate both physical body and physical
seed atom at will, if so desired, otherwise protected by the Divine
Fragment within.
Appendix 3

The Intensity Charts

The intensity charts, leading to holistic health and to Transcendence,

tell clearly that a human being is structured in Transcendence. If that
were not so, not one human being would have attained to the status of a
mahayogi or a maharshi, or a saint or a prophet. All the other life, even
including the gods of the shastras, are not so structured, and to attain
to the Supreme they would have to ask first for a human birth.

And what is more significant, it matters not if a human being is asleep or

has gone wrong, because the positive side of the four centres,
Intellectual--Emotional--Sex--Movement (I-E-S-M), for thought formation
have all the omnipotent force and omniscient wisdom if properly directed.
These are the very four centres whose negative side makes a human being
roam for eternities, sad and miserable. Sage Patanjali says in the Yoga
Sutra, II(18): "That which is experienced has three gunas (or qualities)
-- sattva, rajas and tamas. It consists of the elements and the sense
organs. The use of these produces experience and also eventual
liberation." This eventual liberation is the right of a human being only!
Refer to the columns for `positive attributes' in the charts and see what
is expected of a human being and what a human being is capable of. There
is nothing to be added from outside, either from books or from teachers or
gurus, nor are difficult pranayamas and/or asanas to be practised.

But, as Yoga Sutra also says, I(30): "The obstacles to soul-cognition

are bodily disability, mental inertia, etc." The Sage implies that bodily
disability that leads to mental inertia is the most damaging factor to
Transcendence. As such, a human being is directed to such practices based
on Nature's rhythms as would keep one in excellent health that would not
only prevent mental inertia but make the brain and mind all-attentive.
These simple practices are based on certain rhythmic breathing. All of
them need only a few minutes daily, so that the ordinary human being can
live one's sansaric life and yet attain to Transcendence. Those who
advocate difficult practices have not properly understood yoga. Strenuous
practices are understandable if one has to `achieve' Transcendence, if we
were not already so.

Here the counter question arises, what about the prevalent negative human
nature active since the beginning of time? How can that be corrected? The
answer is, if a room is dark will you sweep the darkness away or bring in
light? If you bring in light, the darkness has to disappear! In the same
way, as regards the negative human nature that has collected darkness
through conflict in the mind and brain, simply bring in Nature's rhythm.
The practices recommended by Yoga Sutra are the six refining exercises,
each for one minute duration, plus the most important, the three-step
rhythmic breathing (3SRB), also shown in Yoga Sutra, to go along with the
corrective methods set to the rhythm of 3SRB.

How come all previous translations of Yoga Sutra all over the world have
no reference to such practices. We have given an exposition -- it exposes
what is hidden, or found between the lines. And such an exposition can
only be found at the feet of the Transcendental Teacher strictly under
guru-shishya parampara!

It would be better if we stop further arguments and begin at once -- the

proof of the pudding is in eating it, so too the proof of the rhythmic
practices will be apparent within the first conscientious attempts at it.
(We can hasten the removal of certain ailments created within the
body/brain system due to persistent negative emotions by introducing
rhythmic flower medicines of nature's positive emotions to counter all
negative emotions.) Once rhythm enters, all conflict has to go, meaning
the entire negative side of a human being will at first be subdued and
later abolished. Soon the positive side will so result and come into play,
at first on a moderate key and then, as the practices together with 3SRB
continue, the plus intensities of the four centres I-E-S-M as shown in the
charts will rise to a crescendo to burst forth into Transcendence. The
basic structure of a human being will shine through!

To these practices will later be added bhakti, the early steps to which
are the upgrading of awareness practices also previously shown. Together
the combination will blast away mountains of negativity. The road is
simple and easy but has to be methodical. If God and Nature had not
structured a human being in Transcendence then carrying out all the most
difficult practices for eternities would give no results.

So the charts are laid out as follows: There are four centres: I, E, S and
M, and for each there are four columns. These columns are for positive
attributes, negative attributes, their intensities, and ailments
prevailing thereby in a human being. The intensities are of the various
brain states or mind modifications, the output of the I-E-S-M centres. The
diseases and ailments shown refer only to the negative intensities. They
are shown here with the purpose of making it clear that our constant wrong
thinking and our constant wrong breathing are responsible for our
suffering, not some arbitrary destiny forced on us by some autocratic
power called `God'. There are two such charts.

In chart I, the ratio of intensities in the I-E-S-M centres is 2:4:8:2, as

found in normal human beings, in whom the negative side is prevalent
before the start of rhythmic practices. It denotes internal imbalance and
greatly chaotic inner conditions. Imbalance signifies failure on the part
of the individual who is carried away by his emotions and sex force. As
the Geeta says, such persons "are carried away by their tumultuous
senses." Negative intensities are mostly operational; positive intensities
may result on rare occasions. The essential remedy is mental integrity.
Wrong breathing is to be corrected and replaced by constant, continuous
3SRB. Wrong thinking is to be corrected by self-observation and
self-analysis, by watching one's drifts and honestly analyzing them.

In chart II, the ratio of intensities in the I-E-S-M centres is 5:2:2:1.

It signifies that internal imbalance has changed towards balance to an
appreciable degree -- the emphasis now is on the positive intensities. As
the practices begin and continue, thus the noble attributes become nobler
and the vulgar ones become weaker and die out. People at this stage are
good with fine characters. There is a corresponding change in the quality
of prana circulation in the primary body and, with it, chemical changes in
the physical body. Breathing tends towards being slow and rhythmic. This
brings about changes in the afflicting ailments for the better, resulting
in some ailments getting cured. This condition ought to be free of
diseases and ailments. However, the laws of karma and the laws of cycles
are still operative and will visit the individual; the ailments,
comfortingly, will be of reduced intensity and over a shorter duration.

Some people seem good, some people are good; some people appear religious,
some people are religious; some people seem gentle and kind, some people
are gentle and kind. Such illusions and facts of seeming and being are all
betrayed by the ailments, their intensity and duration, as shown in the
charts. Let it also be understood that the laws of karma and the laws of
cycles (the configuration of the influencing planets and stars repeating
to produce the fruit of karma created in past lives) are always
operational. It is all so complicated that even the Lord Buddha would only
say, "It is all wheels within wheels."

The characteristics of the breath are indicated atop each centre, based on
svara-nadi shastra. Changes in heat, humidity, strength and frequency of
breath occur often in those functioning as per chart I and much less often
in those on chart II, depending on the moods, emotions and reactions of
the individual. To understand the charts clearly, various cases must be
studied, permutations and combinations of intensities must be worked out
for all kinds of ailments, intense or mild, of short or long duration.

What is the situation with the ordinary, average person? Refer the text.
As we came down the cycles of involution in Bhuh universe, imbalance
between the four centres came about. Earlier, balance meant that the
intellectual centre was at one time able to balance the total force of the
emotional, sex and movement centres, and so all our actions were balanced.
This balance we denote by the ratio 5:2:2:1. It was ruined while coming
down the cycles because during involution reaching the grossest point
nadir where humanity was to be of brute form and behaviour, such balance
was not required. Leave alone balance, the intellectual centre was totally
overwhelmed and surrendered to the combined force of the emotional and sex
centres, and so the movement centre only obeyed them and disregarded the
intellectual centre.

Now once again on the upward arc -- evolution -- in sub-stages 1, 2, 3

and early 4, the human brain was in near brute state, what we term the
primitive man. We are now just coming out of this state today, and so for
the majority of mankind this imbalance prevails yet. This imbalance we
denote by the ratio 2:4:8:2, where 2 of the intellectual centre is
confronted by the joint power of the emotional and sex centres (4+8=12).
This is described in diagram 1.

Then comes the in-between state of a person who struggles to change this
ratio and tries once again to establish balance but fails again and again.
This is described in diagram 2. Finally, persons who have succeeded in
their struggles or who are always on their guard and are now able to
maintain the balance shown by the ratio 5:2:2:1 are described in diagram
3a. Here the 5 of the intellectual centre is more powerful than 2 of
emotions plus 2 of sex put together, so that the movement centre now obeys
the intellectual centre. How this is to be done is fully explained in the
text.

Those established in 2:4:8:2 we know as criminals or anti-social persons.

Those who cannot help behaving as per this ratio are sent to jail instead
of showing them the right method. But all those having the ratio 5:2:2:1
we cannot call good, because those who are firmly established in 5:2:2:1
are very, very rare indeed -- the others are, as stated earlier, `on
guard'. And such are 99% of those who are good because of law and order,
society, family and friends. Such pressures keeps them good, but during
war, riots, anarchy, etc., they let go their guard.

An individual, even if he be an illiterate farmer but with the 5:2:2:1

ratio established, is according to us educated and cultured, while a
person with academic qualifications and coming out of a finishing school
but with a 2:4:8:2 ratio is according to us an uneducated and uncultured
person. And in life we come across millions of such specimens -- they
carry this mask of culture and education.

Now to the actual use and working of the intensity charts. Each thought
can be expressed as a mathematical sum, whether plus or minus in resultant
intensity, according to the charts. If, as per chart I, the thoughts are
(i) strong hate and vengeance (--3850), (ii) alcoholic and prone to sex
(--6100), and (iii) fond of painting (+5900), the final sum is --4050. If,
as per chart II, the thoughts are (i) understanding (+5000), (ii) selfless
love for all (+1825), and (iii) abnormal sex (--1625), the final sum is
+5200.

Please remember that a person with 2:4:8:2 ratio can at times have
thoughts of plus intensity and a person with 5:2:2:1 ratio can have
occasional thoughts of minus intensity at times, but in 99% of the cases
individuals will be dictated by their ratio. This brings out one very
important point. Those who are firmly established in 2:4:8:2 and belong to
diagram 1, and those who belong to diagram 3a where the ratio is 5:2:2:1
firmly established (though such are very rare), they will act accordingly,
normally and always. But for those who are struggling between diagrams 1
and 3a -- those who are as per diagram 2 -- and fail again and again to
achieve the ratio 5:2:2:1, the fluctuations from minus to plus and vice
versa are enormous. Such are the mentally miserable people who are very
sensitive, and such are by millions all over the world, indeed the average
human being. These persons are victims of religion, philosophy, preaching,
threat of hell and lure of heaven, Christian Science, etc., because there
is no practical way shown, only faith and belief are held out! In the
text, you will find practical guidance, so that such people will soon be
able to establish the ratio 5:2:2:1 and be free from their miserable
state.

Continuous negative intensities beyond --1500 in magnitude makes an

individual prone to serious diseases as shown in the chart, and continuous
positive intensities keeps a person healthy (not taking into account left
over, or pralabdha, karma). Karma is the shastras way of saying that
someone's past life total at the time of death was over --1500, and so one
is born accordingly. Prayers, japa, satsang, et al., are not going to
reduced this negative sum; it is to be consciously altered to positive as
shown in text (and not out of fear and beliefs).

In case of people belonging to either of diagrams 1, 2 or 3a, should a

sudden thought of great positive or great negative intensity bring the
resultant answer between 0 and 15, death would ensue, as the charts show,
by cardiac arrest or apoplexy or brain malfunctioning.

How do the intensity charts work? For the human brain computer, the data
is memory patterns, whether of this life or of all the previous lives.
already collected in the pools. This data, our memory, will give the
answer and make the person act accordingly. Thus the intensities refer to
the relative strengths in functioning of the four I-E-S-M centres in the
brain computer, working incessantly and colouring all answers, with the
movement centre faithfully carrying out whatever final conclusion these
computers have come to as an answer. In the Indian shastras this answer
will be according to an individual's dharma! Here dharma means the
individual's inherent qualities -- sanskaras, or structure. (The dharma of
a snake is to sting, one cannot philosophize with a snake.) What the
shastras term as qualities of rajas and tamas are the qualities of the
emotional and sex centres combined, and sattva is denoted by the
intellectual centre.

So does the Geeta say, "Whenever spirituality decays and adharma prevails,
I am born from age to age, O Arjuna." This means that whenever the
intellectual centre is overwhelmed spirituality decays, because imbalance
cannot show the path to right action. This suggests that balance will show
the path to right action.

We have noted that all incoming impulses, all collected memory patterns,
all thought pictures (whether in negative or developed state), all forms
in the universe, both seen and unseen, gross or opaque, subtle or
transparent -- all that is created and exists -- follow a universal code.
This universal code is composed of billions upon billions (innumerable)
shades of tamas, rajas and sattva, in varying proportions in all
conceivable permutations and combinations. The Infinite Mind, the ultimate
catalyst for all thinking processes, encompassing the entire Universe is
the cause and source of this universal code -- it holds the code in
perfect balance and rhythm.

Each human being's own code and spectrum is dictated and determined by
one's magnetic point formed over ages of wrong living and thinking. Each
individual and each object has a magnetic point with a code and a spectrum
of this code. So only those incoming impulses that fall within this
spectrum -- maximum and minimum limits about a mean intensity -- will
enter one's body/brain system and correspondingly draw out nearly
identical (within the spectrum) memory patterns that meet the near exact
proportions of its qualities. One cannot escape from this rigid law of
resonance. One is thus guided or misguided to objects, persons and places
falling within this spectrum. So the final answer will always be coloured
by these four centres and they will work as per their ratio. This ratio
forms the ultimate sanskaras of an individual!

There is a critical line to this universal code, a particular combination

of the three qualities or equivalently a particular functioning of the
brain computer centres. All persons below this critical line will
experience pain, conflict, unhappiness and disease; persons above it will
be free of pain and disease, will have rhythm and happiness, to that
extent that they are above or below the critical line.

All future destiny can be called "pain yet to come", and so both the
Buddha and Sage Patanjali have said, "Pain which is yet to come can be
warded off." Through diligently employing the corrective methods, the
3SRB and the refining exercises shown to correct one's magnetic point, we
can consciously take our code and spectrum safely across the critical
line and establish ourselves very high up to be safe from all coming
future pain and destiny. Remember, destiny itself has to obey this
universal code, for it is itself composed and structured by it, and if you
are above it, it will pass below you harmlessly. Do not philosophize, nor
cry, pray or carry out meaningless rites and ceremonies -- simply obey the
law. Do not ask why the Christ, Ramakrishna and other saints suffered --
unless there is a specific reason it cannot happen.

Thus the two charts beautifully prove that conflict and negativity are
replaced by rhythm and balance -- all the negative intensity attributes
get reduced and the positive intensity attributes increase and keep
increasing rapidly. It is a natural flow based on Nature's law of rhythm.
This is the rhythm of Nature found on this planet and not the creation of
some human brain. To know such laws one has to be under guru-shishya
parampara, not only in this life but for life after life.

In an ordinary human being, emotions (E) and sex (S) are boiling with
human passions, yet for these same two centres, on the positive side of
the (E) column, we find the lofty attributes, sublime love of God,
reverent and prayerful, adoration of Divine Fragment, aspiration to
spirituality, purified gold, purified dynamic life energy, etc; and in the
positive column for (S) we find the attributes, godhead, illumined,
psychic awakening in matter of body/brain system, realization,
renunciation, etc. So even if a human being is sunk deep in mire, then by
Nature's rhythm one can blast away the most raging negativity and stifling
inertia, drive away all conflict and darkness, and fill the entire
body/brain system with Transcendence. This is the principle on which true
yoga is based.

CHART I (2:4:8:2)

1. INTELLECTUAL CENTRE

Warm and moist breath, 14-17 breaths per minute, 4-7 fingers in length;
breathing irregular
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Positive Attributes Inten- Negative Attributes Diseases/Ailments
sities (Cause of Ailments)
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understanding +2000- intense, continuous anger coma
have complete knowledge, +1975- intense egotism, show-off loss of memory
a specialist mentality
abolition of ego +1950- refusal to flow with abdominal cramps
experiences
kind and generous mind +1925- mental block; stiff, ruined kidney
closed mind
enthusiasm of action +1900- brooding over insults and abscess near neck
seeking revenge and face
open mind, a constant +1875- ignorant, but superiority cerebral haemorrhage
learner complex
affection for divine +1850- belief in violence accident prone
earn respect +1825- mentally lazy and foolish blindness, narcissism
aspiration for silence +1800- family friction and adenoids
in mind arguments
logical mind +1775- consistent anger, foul apoplexy
language
power to reject adverse +1750- anxiety and defeatism adrenal ailments
suggestions
orderly mind +1725- ruffled, unsteady mind stroke and/or shock
mental aspiration +1700- closed mind not accepting premature old age
the present
wise, guiding type +1675- inferiority complex; mean brain tumour
and greedy
awakening +1650- sexual crimes AIDS
good grasping power and +1625- meanly, deliberately cause brain cancer
concentration misunderstanding
mental balance +1600- guilt-, futility-based alcoholism; addiction
depression to other things
highly active and agile +1575- back-biting, gossipy type insomnia and/or
mind cancer
benevolence +1550- make mountains of mole- various allergies
hills, irritation
forgiving type +1525- purposely cause unhappiness full paralysis
illumined mind centre +1500- suicidal tendency Alzheimer's disease
rational, clear mind; +1475- rebellious, undisciplined insanity and/or
(awake) partial paralysis
compassion +1450- trust in no one, nothing; amnesia
live in fear
selfless, helping type +1425- accepting self-defeat, arthritis
brooding
detachment +1400- no-spine attitude anaemia
kind, merciful to a +1375- extreme possessiveness psychosis and/or
fault lung cancer
divine solitude +1350- anger through frustration internal bleeding
dignified approach to +1325- fruitless mental chronic bronchitis
life gymnastics
perception +1300- anger through confusion pain, abscess in anus
steadfast and honest +1275- cause mental torture and alcoholism and/or TB
worry
tranquility of mind +1250- preserve all mental debris fistula in anus
detached-in-life, gyani +1225- a revolutionary, mean and severe backache; pain
or yogi self-seeking in joints
equanimity +1200- irritation from remorse unbearable itching
and guilt
very noble mind and +1175- aggressive, bullying, a epilepsy
pleasant nature moral coward
mental voice +1150- self-condemning unexplained pain in
body and mind
high mental capacity +1125- very dirty mind and nature severe eye troubles
intuitive mind centre +1100- non-trusting deep anxiety
creative, organized mind +1075- drive others insane lumbago
conscious of duties, +1050- purposely create doubts, migraine
obligations self-seeking
+1025- living, but dead severe abdominal pains
give happiness to others +1000- rigid, closed mind; ulcers, severe pain
obstinate
alchemy +975- gulping down words, anger canker sores
remove misunderstandings +950- destructive tendencies; angina and heart
hatred pains
ananda (bliss) in the +925- long-standing pain, hurt, cancer in various
centres grief stages
live harmoniously with +900- purposely cause embarrass- hallucinations
all ment
ascension +875- anger due to personal carbuncle
injustice
mind-over-matter type +850- effeminate man and/or meningitis
manly woman
aspiring to immortality +825- feeling of being trapped car-, bus-, plane-
sickness
trustworthy +800- mean, purposely cause bad nerves, shaking
irritability hands
goodness embodied +775- selfish, inconsiderate eccentricity
soaring aspiration +750- seeing future as dark cataracts
firm and resolute +725- grave-digger mentality pain in the joints
beginning of realization +700- mentally retreating chills and cold
discriminative and good +675- brooding, back-accounting acidity
radiating peace in cells +650- refusing to change some chronic disease
sweet-tempered +625- intense greed, self-gain amoebic dysentery
perfect balance +600- deliberately shut off cholesterol
joys of life
calm and collected +575- mental fog, stupid obesity
balance +550- mental confusion, small colds
hurts
positive, hopeful, bright +525- idiotic-depression, backward, sub-normal
outlook obsession
intimacy with divine +500- impatience, annoyance all colic
round
peaceful, avoid quarrels +475- purposely cause fear blood and heart
worry disorders
consciousness turned to +450- feeling of oppression from colitis
light parents
righteous-pride mentality +425- gambler, cheat giddiness and severe
half-headaches
abolition of ego +400- escaping fear and the coma
unwanted
steady and able +375- bitter, mental revenge- hernias of different
planning types
self-respectful, kind +350- prefer loneliness, avoid allergies of different
and good people types
enlightened prudence +325- do not like what one sees conjunctivitis
around
avoid games of chance +300- shameless, over-smart palsy
initiation +275- stuck in past memory constipation
self-sacrificing +250- sarcastic, fault-finding phobias, skin
eruptions
intuitive knowledge +225- feeling alone and scared coronary thrombosis
go out of one's way to +200- hurt purposely by fault- high or low blood
help finding pressure and disorders
material continuity +175- gripping tension cramps
mild-natured +150- brutal-but-coward attitude addictions of
various types
conversion of higher mind +125- mental imbalance Cushing's disease
forgiving +100- revengeful valve or hole in
heart disorders
mind of light in matter +75- nursing hurts cysts
light without obscenity +50- firm belief in hurts, and cystic fibrosis
that no one cares
thirst to understand +25- isolation, not wanting to deafness
hear
0-15 death

2. EMOTIONAL CENTRE

Very warm and very moist breath, 16-18 breaths per minute, 4-7 fingers in
length; breathing irregular
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Positive Attributes Inten- Negative Attributes Diseases/Ailments
sities (Cause of Ailments)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sublime love of God +4000- worship of self; mean and paralysis
greedy
reverent, prayerful, in +3950- intensely possessive and arthritis
awe selfish
abundance of beauty +3900- longing for love aches and pains
dedication to a good, +3850- strong hate and vengeance TB and/or total
noble cause blindness
adoration +3800- emotional starvation Addison's disease
self-sacrificing, +3750- treacherous, unscrupulous lung cancer and/or
all-sacrificing lung TB
spiritual aspiration +3700- unexplained extreme fears anorexia
selfless love for all +3650- stab-in-the-back type, severe asthma
opportunist
purified gold +3600- fear of life appendicitis
mother's love +3550- unforgiving of hurt or kidney, stomach
insult ailments
purified dynamic life +3500- insecurity excessive eating
energy
inward peace +3450- biting jealousy, get-even anaemia, intestinal
mentality ailments
matter prepares for +3400- over-protecting oneself loss of appetite
supramental
love for animals, birds +3350- heartless and/or godless insanity, lunacy
mental surrender +3300- resistance, tension, arteriosclerosis
narrow mind
sacrificing money for a +3250- sneaky, stealthy, behind- shock and/or stroke
good cause the-back type
mental voice +3200- stifle life's natural joys artery congestion
courage in face of danger+3150- totally dishonest, high blood pressure
undependable and angina pains
aspiration for purity +3100- criticism, resentment, arthritis
bitterness
patriotic and brave +3050- self-seeking and intensely coronary thrombosis
mean
spiritual aspiration +3000- blaming others, feeling arthritis of fingers
victimized
father's genuine love +2950- changing moods; unsteady amoebic dysentery
and uncultured
divine presence +2900- not growing up mentally, asphyxiating attacks
emotionally
knowledgeable but humble +2850- mean and greedy, jealous severe nasal
troubles
of all
fire in mind (purity) +2800- smothered love, suppressed asthma
crying
nobility, love for the +2750- unmanageable persecution nervous breakdown
weak and down-trodden complex
tapasya +2700- not-accepted feeling athlete's foot and
other leg problems
have ideas of true +2650- weakness for praise; palpitations, angina
grandeur all-round wrong-doing pains
perfect vigilance +2600- warmth and love missing upper back deformed
and painful
sublime thoughts +2550- peacock or show-off piles and fistula
mentality, playboy type
true worship +2500- recalling emotional debris painful middle back
genuine love for all +2450- uncompromising type alcoholism and/or
children drugs
radiating purity +2400- fear of unemployment and severe pain in lower
financial problems back and hip-bone
truthful, dependable +2350- drinking, gambling type albino, poor digestion
mental prayer +2300- anger and revenge bad breath and
indigestion
obedient to will of God +2250- womanizer and flirt, great eye troubles,
cheerful near blindness
mentalized power +2200- mind wool-gathering, feeling of loss of
no concentration at all balance
attached to, sacrifice +2150- cheat at games and in life ulcers, stones, pain
for family in intestines
true brotherly/sisterly +2100- frustrated, unscrupulous euphoria
love and dangerous
love, sacrifice between +2050- have regrets, moody and goitre
real friends self-harmful
+2000- tension from trying to baldness
control everything
fearless in life +2000- possessive, undependable psychosis
absence of desire +1950- no sweetness left diabetes
accept challenging +1900- demanding, absolutely stone in gall-bladder,
situations spoilt kidney or pancreas
absence of grief +1850- fear ruining sleep diarrhoea
noble feelings between +1800- unfaithful spouse paralysis
husband and wife
agni +1750- running away from life dizziness
noble type of spouse +1700- quarrelsome type of spouse severe nerve
disorders
aristocracy of beauty +1650- sad, not wanting to hear earache
very tolerant to a limit +1600- intensely greedy and mean insanity
aspiring to spirituality +1550- mental eruptions eczema
enjoy pleasures of mind +1500- passionate, animal type apoplexy, fits
attachment to the divine +1450- fear of, and in, life emphysema
harmonious living +1400- cause grief to others blindness and/or
 intentionally stammering
power of spiritual +1350- I-am-persecuted struggle; epilepsy
beauty violence
fond of good living in a +1300- superstitious, believe in rash-allergy
good way black magic
light in blood +1250- not see anything pleasant eye troubles
in life
decorative mind +1200- unhealthy trance practices scabies
emotional beauty in +1150- dark future & cataracts, eye problems
cells
disciplined mind +1100- frivolous nature, unsteady cold, cough, and/or
bronchitis
renunciation of desires +1050- never forgiving glaucoma
helpful in distress +1000- uncooperative, diabetes
disappointing
richness of feelings +950- cross purposes in life cross-eyed
hold honourable friend- +900- no self-confidence, pain and/or bone
ship despairing type growth in heels
conquest over greed for +850- fear of the present far-sightedness of
food eyes
great love for all, kind +800- sad or happy over trifles impotence
foresight, prevision +750- fear of the future near-sightedness of
eyes
good-natured, frank but +700- ill-mannered, guilt- polio
not blunt conscious
inspiration +650- unable to cope fainting
give relief where needed +600- defiant and treacherous various allergies
invocation +550- over sensitivity fat on the face
assertive but well-meaning+500- unbalanced lumbago and/or coma
matter consenting to be +450- boredom, lack of love chronic fatigue
spiritualized
overlook faults +400- undependable, unsteady, acidity and/or ulcer
rude
peace in the nerves +350- reject feminity female problems
accommodative +300- spineless, lazy, hernias of different
undependable types
tranquility +250- burning anger high fevers
receptivity +200- blow to feminine ego fibroids
unselfish prosperity +150- emotional debris collected fistula
sacrifice +100- ego and fear index finger damaged
service +50- anger and sexuality middle finger damaged
0-15 death

3. SEX CENTRE
Hot and very moist breath, 18-24 breaths per minute, 4-7 fingers in length;
breathing fast and irregular
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Positive Attributes Inten- Negative Attributes Diseases/Ailments
sities (Cause of Ailments)
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mother's love for +8000- mother's desperation for cancer
new-born new-born
chaste, good character +7900- undue force in sex syphilis
godhead +7800- extreme fear of father or bed-wetting
mother
celestial thinking +7700- dislike of sex during sex blindness, gonorrhoea
act
illumined +7600- live in fear; gulping down regular belching
food and insults
reverence +7500- indulgence in unclean sex chronic skin diseases
psychic awakening in +7400- some earlier guilt at birth defects
matter death
great respect and love +7300- guilt over unclean sex dangerous sexual
for spouse acts disorders
realization +7200- feeling emotionally dirty black heads
wholesome, satisfying, +7100- often commit rape permanent dangerous,
pure sex infectious diseases
renunciation +7000- fear of letting go of bladder ailments
something
bodily graces and/or +6900- sex during menstrual high blood pressure
classical dancing period and angina pains
revelation +6800- unhappy life bleeding gums
noble feelings about sex +6700- hatred due to forced sex bronchitis and/or TB
spiritual beauty +6600- emotionally unstable blisters
calm, satisfied in sex +6500- abnormal sex-mania painful colitis
power of harmony +6400- lack of ideas lack of circulation
of blood
interest in poetry/drama +6300- mental and physical sex pneumonia
storms
aspiration for divine +6200- closing all mental doors blood clotting
consciousness
interest in music/songs +6100- alcoholic and prone to sex diabetes
devotion +6000- long-standing emotional high blood pressure
problem
interest in classical +5900- over-smoking, over-sexed giddiness, noises in
painting the ear
supermind +5800- lack of love as a child low blood pressure
interest in classical +5700- regular trespass in sex gout
sculpting
surrender +5600- fear of others and bad body odour
 dislike of self
deep, true love between +5500- easily excitable in sex, bad breath and bad
man and woman and long sex acts health
vital prayer +5400- boiling anger big boils
restful, gratifying sex +5300- frigid, fearful in sex pain in the heels,
feelings debility
mental plasticity +5200- no mental mobility bone deformity
appreciative of beauty +5100- love sexual flattery; hernias of various
unfaithful types
physical plasticity +5000- not releasing bad and sad bowel problems
past memories
respect, sympathy for +4900- excesses in food, drink, insomnia
opposite sex smoking
spiritual perfume +4800- everything totally wrong brain tumour
with the brain
considerate and careful +4700- very clumsy in sex weak and/or wet lungs
in sex
overmind +4600- no mother's instinct breast cancer
moderation, understanding+4500- homosexual and/or polio
in marriage masturbating
mind of light acting in +4400- too anxious as a mother painful cysts, lumps
matter in breasts
honest, faithful +4350- shameless, exhibitionist prostrate trouble,
debility
good health, youthfulness+4300- only ruthless passion for ulcers, other growth
preserved sex, no warmth or respect on or near sex organ
friendly with opposite +4200- beastly in sex vertigo
sex in a good way
communicate easily about +4100- too timid to express even breathing problems
life, sex when right
perfection in form, +4000- sex with animals of the spermacetireaha
graceful opposite sex
eternal +3900- belief that sex is bad frigidity
love body-building and +3800- wrong approach and wrong sterility
shaping motives in sex
power of psychic +3700- bitterness, pride painful gallstones
consciousness
satisfying sex gestures +3600- contempt of partner after urinary disorders
sex
transformed sex centre +3500- mental, sexual morbidity gangrene
great self-restraint +3400- corrupt sex ideas abscess in or near
sex organ
aspiring sex centre +3300- gripping fear gas pains
avoid all excesses +3200- foxy, cunning with children allergies of various
regarding sex types
peace of sex centre +3100- lifelong uncertainty gastritis
delicate tastes +3000- self-centred, mean in sex ringworms, other skin
diseases
connection to super mind +2900- worry thoughts of sex- problems with genitals
fitness
delicate, fine-looking +2800- dissipation in sex blindness
body
connection between light +2700- poor ideas, negativity glandular problems
and the physical
appreciative of beauty, +2600- disgusting sex habits breathlessness
high tastes
body consciousness +2500- feeling of being a victim; goitre
unfulfilled life
very warm feelings +2400- non-cooperative in sex palsy
conciliation +2300- dominate all; impatient gout
very good character +2200- mental disorders in sex impotence or frigidity
creative word +2100- stress-pressure premature white hair
create happiness in +2000- frustrated in sex impotency
married life
eternal presence +1900- continually building various growths
resentment
co-operative love partner+1800- undependable and mean sex homosexuality
relations
divine will +1700- emotionally, sexually halitosis
unsatisfied
good and clean in sex +1600- blackmailer in sex, painful leprosy
menstruation
flame of aspiration +1500- vile gossip, foul thinking hay fever
work for happiness in sex+1400- untrustworthy sex partner leukaemia
healing +1300- criticism through fear headaches
love a good, happy home +1200- loose and free with infertility
opposite sex
integral prayer +1100- great fear in pit of heartburn
stomach
fond of flowers +1000- no control over sex cancer
integral solace +900- unending emotional problem heart problems
decorate home +800- overindulgence in sex rickets and/or TB
refinements of habits +700- biting thoughts about heart attack, valve
money, position hole or in heart
good tastes +600- watch sex pictures, read severe constipation,
sex books colic
benevolence +500- unable to meet haemorrhoids
responsibilities
like to be with family +400- resistance to change liver problems
fond of friend circle +300- incorrect expressions various hernias
conquering fervour +200- public shame, wrong ideas herpes
on sex
elegance +100- not willing to move forward hip problems
0-15 death

4. MOVEMENT CENTRE

Hot and very moist breath, 16-24 breaths per minute, 7-10 fingers in length;
breathing fast and irregular
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Positive Attributes Inten- Negative Attributes Diseases/Ailments
sities (Cause of Ailments)
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physically strong but +2000- physically aggressive stiff joints
good, no bully
protects the weak +1975- love to provoke fights swollen, painful knee
heroic action +1950- failure, loss, immature Bright's disease
maintain law and order +1925- create disputes amputation
purity in action +1900- family flare-ups bronchitis
love military service +1875- disrupts happy home fractures
spiritual aspiration +1850- burning in anger burns
join police +1825- evasive through weakness bone TB
wakefulness in mind +1800- fear solidified callouses
honest, well-settled ways+1775- on the run due to guilt slip-disc
complex
abundance of beauty +1750- justify fault-finding enlarged liver
reposeful, steady +1725- defiant of all authority deformities of arms
and legs
pure sense of beauty +1700- constant depression and breathlessness and
grief lung problems
fond of non-classical +1675- physically exhausted from deformities of other
dancing bad habits body parts
attachment of cells to +1650- better die than fight lupus
divine attitude
fond of outdoor games +1625- use strength in wrong ways flat feet
new birth +1600- a warning by nature to lymph problems
take care of mind
energetic, sportsmanlike +1575- unnecessary physical hamstrung muscles
movements
intuitive mind centre +1550- fear of not being wanted; menopause problems
fear of aging
fond of heavy exercises +1525- love to torment the chest and back
physically weak deformities
mastery of sex +1500- belief that sex is sinful, menstrual problems
dirty
fond of land sports +1475- cruelty to animals hydrocephalus
Radha's consciousness +1450- get annoyed over small bruises
 issues
fond of swimming +1425- cruel actions in general polio
conversion of the higher +1400- sexual fears migraine
mind
fond of gymnastics +1375- lazy, sleepy-headed, love varicose veins
table-work
divine grace +1350- inappropriate sexual miscarriage
relations
very supple in body, +1325- habit of drumming fingers angina pectoris
fresh in breath and/or shaking legs
energy of a plastic mind +1300- closed mind, set opinions mouth problems
sound sleeper, yet +1275- mean-natured, talk to cramps
easy riser oneself
enlightened +1250- hard-hearted, iron-willed multiple sclerosis
quick reflexes +1225- races cycles giddiness
sweetness of thought +1200- fear of losing control loose motion sickness
steady posture +1175- fond of riding sleeplessness and/or
restlessness
faithful in everything +1150- living in past mire and mucous in colon
filth
avoid all arguments and +1125- race-horse jockey shock and/or stroke
quarrels
fire in mind +1100- hurt emotionally from nail-biting
parent
socially active +1075- careful, steady driver angina
races cars +1050- dull teacher nervous backache
flame of aspiration +1025- refuse fresh experience nausea
avatar in the making +1000- abused speech earlier dumb
abundant expression +975- unable to meet life's hypoglycaemia
problems
aspiration for silence +950- purposely abusive and deaf
jarring attitude
supreme peace of mind +925- social beliefs of sex; impotence
fear of mother
nature aspiring in body +900- abused human body dwarfism
previously
attempt towards +875- gone beyond the point of incurable disease
immortality no return
total conversion +850- deliberately hurt the deaf spastic
and dumb
emotions awake to the +825- gripping dread indigestion
divine
balance of nature in +800- brooding, nervous, damaged motor neurons
body-brain system sensitive, fearful
contemplation of divine +775- revolutionary, trigger- become a vegetable
happy
exclusive turning inward +750- no value for human beings guilt, ending in
suicide
broad-ranging activities +725- anger, annoyance infections
psychic balance in +700- non-patriotic, sell one's bed-ridden for life
primary nation through accident
purified sex centre +675- total wrong thinking inflammations
know how to listen +650- pimping hernias of various
types
communion with divine +625- negativity, fear influenza
humility before divine +600- sly movements vertigo
deep love for Divine +575- escapism, withdrawal insanity
Fragment
divine love spreading +550- unplanned life sterility
outward
tranquility in sex centre +525- uncalled-for fears insomnia
purified dynamic energy +500- lazy, procrastinating pain in joints
flame of aspiration +475- unsatisfied, remorse itching all over
striving towards truth +450- dull, fretting, never intestinal troubles,
satisfied colic
first spiritual awakening +425- unbalanced reason jaundice
striving towards wisdom +400- clumsy walk piles, inbred and
external
repentance-to-redeeming +375- resentment, revenge jaw problems
emotive being +350- learns shooting with bad injuries from one's
motives own gun
purified senses +325- resisting changes in life joint pains
pure emotive centre +300- complaining type, create giddiness, headaches
trouble
expressive silence +275- disappointment, failure, kidney problems
shame
collective harmony of +250- fidgety, nervous slip-disc, backache
cells and organs
peace in cells +225- emotional lump in throat laryngitis
conciliation turned +200- childish, foolish, and spondilytis
inward aggressive
purity in all cells +175- childhood problems upper- various leg problems
most
matter consenting to +150- immature, loud-voiced lumbago, joint pains
divine
emotional beauty in cells +125- fear of future lower leg problems
nature makes an offering +100- love to stand on board of angina
bus or train
beginning of realization +75- feeling that one is not leprosy
in body-brain matter clean enough
human passions show +50- brutal killing leukaemia
change
towards goal +25- anger with primitive liver problems
emotions
0-15 death

CHART II (5:2:2:1)

1. INTELLECTUAL CENTRE

Mildly warm and dry breath, 12-15 breaths per minute, 7-15 fingers in length;
breathing regular
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Positive Attributes Inten- Negative Attributes Diseases/Ailments
sities (Cause of Ailments)
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understanding +5000- intense, continuous anger coma
have complete knowledge, +4937- intense egotism, show-off loss of memory
a specialist mentality
abolition of ego +4875- refusal to flow with abdominal cramps
experiences
kind and generous mind +4813- mental block; stiff, ruined kidney
closed mind
enthusiasm of action +4750- brooding over insults and abscess near neck
seeking revenge and face
open mind, a constant +4687- ignorant, but superiority cerebral haemorrhage
learner complex
affection for divine +4625- belief in violence accident prone
earn respect +4563- mentally lazy and foolish blindness, narcissism
aspiration for silence +4500- family friction and adenoids
in mind arguments
logical mind +4437- consistent anger, foul apoplexy
language
power to reject adverse +4375- anxiety and defeatism adrenal ailments
suggestions
orderly mind +4313- ruffled, unsteady mind stroke and/or shock
mental aspiration +4250- closed mind not accepting premature old age
the present
wise, guiding type +4187- inferiority complex; mean brain tumour
and greedy
awakening +4125- sexual crimes AIDS
good grasping power and +4063- meanly, deliberately cause brain cancer
concentration misunderstanding
mental balance +4000- guilt-, futility-based alcoholism; addiction
depression to other things
highly active and agile +3937- back-biting, gossipy type insomnia and/or
mind cancer
benevolence +3875- make mountains of mole- various allergies
hills, irritation
forgiving type +3813- purposely cause unhappiness full paralysis
illumined mind centre +3750- suicidal tendency Alzheimer's disease
rational, clear mind; +3687- rebellious, undisciplined insanity and/or
(awake) partial paralysis
compassion +3625- trust in no one, nothing; amnesia
live in fear
selfless, helping type +3563- accepting self-defeat, arthritis
brooding
detachment +3500- no-spine attitude anaemia
kind, merciful to a +3437- extreme possessiveness psychosis and/or
fault lung cancer
divine solitude +3375- anger through frustration internal bleeding
dignified approach to +3313- fruitless mental chronic bronchitis
life gymnastics
perception +3250- anger through confusion pain, abscess in anus
steadfast and honest +3187- cause mental torture and alcoholism and/or TB
worry
tranquility of mind +3125- preserve all mental debris fistula in anus
detached-in-life, gyani +3063- a revolutionary, mean and severe backache; pain
or yogi self-seeking in joints
equanimity +3000- irritation from remorse unbearable itching
and guilt
very noble mind and +2937- aggressive, bullying, a epilepsy
pleasant nature moral coward
mental voice +2875- self-condemning unexplained pain in
body and mind
high mental capacity +2813- very dirty mind and nature severe eye troubles
intuitive mind centre +2750- non-trusting deep anxiety
creative, organized mind +2687- drive others insane lumbago
conscious of duties, +2625- purposely create doubts, migraine
obligations self-seeking
+2563- living, but dead severe abdominal pains
give happiness to others +2500- rigid, closed mind; ulcers, severe pain
obstinate
alchemy +2437- gulping down words, anger canker sores
remove misunderstandings +2375- destructive tendencies; angina and heart
hatred pains
ananda (bliss) in the +2313- long-standing pain, hurt, cancer in various
centres grief stages
live harmoniously with +2250- purposely cause embarrass- hallucinations
all ment
ascension +2187- anger due to personal carbuncle
injustice
mind-over-matter type +2125- effeminate man and/or meningitis
 manly woman
aspiring to immortality +2063- feeling of being trapped car-, bus-, plane-
sickness
trustworthy +2000- mean, purposely cause bad nerves, shaking
irritability hands
goodness embodied +1937- selfish, inconsiderate eccentricity
soaring aspiration +1875- seeing future as dark cataracts
firm and resolute +1813- grave-digger mentality pain in the joints
beginning of realization +1750- mentally retreating chills and cold
discriminative and good +1687- brooding, back-accounting acidity
radiating peace in cells +1625- refusing to change some chronic disease
sweet-tempered +1563- intense greed, self-gain amoebic dysentery
perfect balance +1500- deliberately shut off cholesterol
joys of life
calm and collected +1437- mental fog, stupid obesity
balance +1375- mental confusion, small colds
hurts
positive, hopeful, bright+1313- idiotic-depression, backward, sub-normal
outlook obsession
intimacy with divine +1250- impatience, annoyance all colic
round
peaceful, avoid quarrels +1187- purposely cause fear blood and heart
worry disorders
consciousness turned to +1125- feeling of oppression from colitis
light parents
righteous-pride mentality+1063- gambler, cheat giddiness and severe
half-headaches
abolition of ego +1000- escaping fear and the coma
unwanted
steady and able +937- bitter, mental revenge- hernias of different
planning types
self-respectful, kind +875- prefer loneliness, avoid allergies of different
and good people types
enlightened prudence +813- do not like what one sees conjunctivitis
around
avoid games of chance +750- shameless, over-smart palsy
initiation +687- stuck in past memory constipation
self-sacrificing +625- sarcastic, fault-finding phobias, skin
eruptions
intuitive knowledge +563- feeling alone and scared coronary thrombosis
go out of one's way to +500- hurt purposely by fault- high or low blood
help finding pressure and disorders
material continuity +437- gripping tension cramps
mild-natured +375- brutal-but-coward attitude addictions of
various types
conversion of higher mind +313- mental imbalance Cushing's disease
forgiving +250- revengeful valve or hole in
heart disorders
mind of light in matter +187- nursing hurts cysts
light without obscenity +125- firm belief in hurts, and cystic fibrosis
that no one cares
thirst to understand +63- isolation, not wanting to deafness
hear
0-15 death

2. EMOTIONAL CENTRE

Mildly warm and dry breath, 14-16 breaths per minute, 7-15 fingers in
length; breathing regular
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Positive Attributes Inten- Negative Attributes Diseases/Ailments
sities (Cause of Ailments)
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sublime love of God +2000- worship of self; mean and paralysis
greedy
reverent, prayerful, in +1975- intensely possessive and arthritis
awe selfish
abundance of beauty +1950- longing for love aches and pains
dedication to a good, +1925- strong hate and vengeance TB and/or total
noble cause blindness
adoration +1900- emotional starvation Addison's disease
self-sacrificing, +1875- treacherous, unscrupulous lung cancer and/or
all-sacrificing lung TB
spiritual aspiration +1850- unexplained extreme fears anorexia
selfless love for all +1825- stab-in-the-back type, severe asthma
opportunist
purified gold +1800- fear of life appendicitis
mother's love +1775- unforgiving of hurt or kidney, stomach
insult ailments
purified dynamic life +1750- insecurity excessive eating
energy
inward peace +1725- biting jealousy, get-even anaemia, intestinal
mentality ailments
matter prepares for +1700- over-protecting oneself loss of appetite
supramental
love for animals, birds +1675- heartless and/or godless insanity, lunacy
mental surrender +1650- resistance, tension, arteriosclerosis
narrow mind
sacrificing money for a +1625- sneaky, stealthy, behind- shock and/or stroke
good cause the-back type
mental voice +1600- stifle life's natural joys artery congestion
courage in face of danger+1575- totally dishonest, high blood pressure
undependable and angina pains
aspiration for purity +1550- criticism, resentment, arthritis
bitterness
patriotic and brave +1525- self-seeking and intensely coronary thrombosis
mean
spiritual aspiration +1500- blaming others, feeling arthritis of fingers
victimized
father's genuine love +1475- changing moods; unsteady amoebic dysentery
and uncultured
divine presence +1450- not growing up mentally, asphyxiating attacks
emotionally
knowledgeable but humble +1425- mean and greedy, jealous severe nasal
troubles
of all
fire in mind (purity) +1400- smothered love, suppressed asthma
crying
nobility, love for the +1375- unmanageable persecution nervous breakdown
weak and down-trodden complex
tapasya +1350- not-accepted feeling athlete's foot and
other leg problems
have ideas of true +1325- weakness for praise; palpitations, angina
grandeur all-round wrong-doing pains
perfect vigilance +1300- warmth and love missing upper back deformed
and painful
sublime thoughts +1275- peacock or show-off piles and fistula
mentality, playboy type
true worship +1250- recalling emotional debris painful middle back
genuine love for all +1225- uncompromising type alcoholism and/or
children drugs
radiating purity +1200- fear of unemployment and severe pain in lower
financial problems back and hip-bone
truthful, dependable +1175- drinking, gambling type albino, poor digestion
mental prayer +1150- anger and revenge bad breath and
indigestion
obedient to will of God +1125- womanizer and flirt, great eye troubles,
cheerful near blindness
mentalized power +1100- mind wool-gathering, feeling of loss of
no concentration at all balance
attached to, sacrifice +1075- cheat at games and in life ulcers, stones, pain
for family in intestines
true brotherly/sisterly +1050- frustrated, unscrupulous euphoria
love and dangerous
love, sacrifice between +1025- have regrets, moody and goitre
real friends self-harmful
+1000- tension from trying to baldness
 control everything
fearless in life +1000- possessive, undependable psychosis
absence of desire +975- no sweetness left diabetes
accept challenging +950- demanding, absolutely stone in gall-bladder,
situations spoilt kidney or pancreas
absence of grief +925- fear ruining sleep diarrhoea
noble feelings between +900- unfaithful spouse paralysis
husband and wife
agni +875- running away from life dizziness
noble type of spouse +850- quarrelsome type of spouse severe nerve
disorders
aristocracy of beauty +825- sad, not wanting to hear earache
very tolerant to a limit +800- intensely greedy and mean insanity
aspiring to spirituality +775- mental eruptions eczema
enjoy pleasures of mind +750- passionate, animal type apoplexy, fits
attachment to the divine +725- fear of, and in, life emphysema
harmonious living +700- cause grief to others blindness and/or
intentionally stammering
power of spiritual +675- I-am-persecuted struggle; epilepsy
beauty violence
fond of good living in a +650- superstitious, believe in rash-allergy
good way black magic
light in blood +625- not see anything pleasant eye troubles
in life
decorative mind +600- unhealthy trance practices scabies
emotional beauty in +575- dark future & cataracts, eye problems
cells
disciplined mind +550- frivolous nature, unsteady cold, cough, and/or
bronchitis
renunciation of desires +525- never forgiving glaucoma
helpful in distress +500- uncooperative, diabetes
disappointing
richness of feelings +475- cross purposes in life cross-eyed
hold honourable friend- +450- no self-confidence, pain and/or bone
ship despairing type growth in heels
conquest over greed for +425- fear of the present far-sightedness of
food eyes
great love for all, kind +400- sad or happy over trifles impotence
foresight, prevision +375- fear of the future near-sightedness of
eyes
good-natured, frank but +350- ill-mannered, guilt- polio
not blunt conscious
inspiration +325- unable to cope fainting
give relief where needed +300- defiant and treacherous various allergies
invocation +275- over sensitivity fat on the face
assertive but well-meaning+250- unbalanced lumbago and/or coma
matter consenting to be +225- boredom, lack of love chronic fatigue
spiritualized
overlook faults +200- undependable, unsteady, acidity and/or ulcer
rude
peace in the nerves +175- reject feminity female problems
accommodative +150- spineless, lazy, hernias of different
undependable types
tranquility +125- burning anger high fevers
receptivity +100- blow to feminine ego fibroids
unselfish prosperity +75- emotional debris collected fistula
sacrifice +50- ego and fear index finger damaged
service +25- anger and sexuality middle finger damaged
0-15 death

3. SEX CENTRE

Mildly warm and dry breath, 15-18 breaths per minute, 7-12 fingers in length;
breathing fast but regular
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Positive Attributes Inten- Negative Attributes Diseases/Ailments
sities (Cause of Ailments)
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mother's love for +2000- mother's desperation for cancer
new-born new-born
chaste, good character +1975- undue force in sex syphilis
godhead +1950- extreme fear of father or bed-wetting
mother
celestial thinking +1925- dislike of sex during sex blindness, gonorrhoea
act
illumined +1900- live in fear; gulping down regular belching
food and insults
reverence +1875- indulgence in unclean sex chronic skin diseases
psychic awakening in +1850- some earlier guilt at birth defects
matter death
great respect and love +1825- guilt over unclean sex dangerous sexual
for spouse acts disorders
realization +1800- feeling emotionally dirty black heads
wholesome, satisfying, +1775- often commit rape permanent dangerous,
pure sex infectious diseases
renunciation +1750- fear of letting go bladder ailments
something
bodily graces and/or +1725- sex during menstrual high blood pressure
classical dancing period and angina pains
revelation +1700- unhappy life bleeding gums
noble feelings about sex +1675- hatred due to forced sex bronchitis and/or TB
spiritual beauty +1650- emotionally unstable blisters
calm, satisfied in sex +1625- abnormal sex-mania painful colitis
power of harmony +1600- lack of ideas lack of circulation
of blood
interest in poetry/drama +1575- mental and physical sex pneumonia
storms
aspiration for divine +1550- closing all mental doors blood clotting
consciousness
interest in music/songs +1525- alcoholic and prone to sex diabetes
devotion +1500- long-standing emotional high blood pressure
problem
interest in classical +1475- over-smoking, over-sexed giddiness, noises in
painting the ear
supermind +1450- lack of love as a child low blood pressure
interest in classical +1425- regular trespass in sex gout
sculpting
surrender +1400- fear of others and bad body odour
dislike of self
deep, true love between +1375- easily excitable in sex, bad breath and bad
man and woman and long sex acts health
vital prayer +1350- boiling anger big boils
restful, gratifying sex +1325- frigid, fearful in sex pain in the heels,
feelings debility
mental plasticity +1300- no mental mobility bone deformity
appreciative of beauty +1275- love sexual flattery; hernias of various
unfaithful types
physical plasticity +1250- not releasing bad and sad bowel problems
past memories
respect, sympathy for +1225- excesses in food, drink, insomnia
opposite sex smoking
spiritual perfume +1200- everything totally wrong brain tumour
with the brain
considerate and careful +1175- very clumsy in sex weak and/or wet lungs
in sex
overmind +1150- no mother's instinct breast cancer
moderation, understanding+1125- homosexual and/or polio
in marriage masturbating
mind of light acting in +1100- too anxious as a mother painful cysts, lumps
matter in breasts
honest, faithful +1075- shameless, exhibitionist prostrate trouble,
debility
good health, youthfulness+1050- only ruthless passion for ulcers, other growth
preserved sex, no warmth or respect on or near sex organ
friendly with opposite +1025- beastly in sex vertigo
sex in a good way
communicate easily about +1000- too timid to express even breathing problems
life, sex when right
perfection in form, +1000- sex with animals of the spermacetireaha
graceful opposite sex
eternal +975- belief that sex is bad frigidity
love body-building and +950- wrong approach and wrong sterility
shaping motives in sex
power of psychic +925- bitterness, pride painful gallstones
consciousness
satisfying sex gestures +900- contempt of partner after urinary disorders
sex
transformed sex centre +875- mental, sexual morbidity gangrene
great self-restraint +850- corrupt sex ideas abscess in or near
sex organ
aspiring sex centre +825- gripping fear gas pains
avoid all excesses +800- foxy, cunning with children allergies of various
regarding sex types
peace of sex centre +775- lifelong uncertainty gastritis
delicate tastes +750- self-centred, mean in sex ringworms, other skin
diseases
connection to super mind +725- worry thoughts of sex problems with genitals
fitness
delicate, fine-looking +700- dissipation in sex blindness
body
connection between light +675- poor ideas, negativity glandular problems
and the physical
appreciative of beauty, +650- disgusting sex habits breathlessness
high tastes
body consciousness +625- feeling of being a victim; goitre
unfulfilled life
very warm feelings +600- non-cooperative in sex palsy
conciliation +575- dominate all; impatient gout
very good character +550- mental disorders in sex impotence or frigidity
creative word +525- stress-pressure premature white hair
create happiness in +500- frustrated in sex impotency
married life
eternal presence +475- continually building various growths
resentment
co-operative love partner +450- undependable and mean sex homosexuality
relations
divine will +425- emotionally, sexually halitosis
unsatisfied
good and clean in sex +400- blackmailer in sex, painful leprosy
menstruation
flame of aspiration +375- vile gossip, foul thinking hay fever
work for happiness in sex +350- untrustworthy sex partner leukaemia
healing +325- criticism through fear headaches
love a good, happy home +300- loose and free with infertility
opposite sex
integral prayer +275- great fear in pit of heartburn
stomach
fond of flowers +250- no control over sex cancer
integral solace +225- unending emotional problems heart problems
decorate home +200- overindulgence in sex rickets and/or TB
refinements of habits +175- biting thoughts about heart attack, valve
money, position hole or in heart
good tastes +150- watch sex pictures, read severe constipation,
sex books colic
benevolence +125- unable to meet haemorrhoids
responsibilities
like to be with family +100- resistance to change liver problems
fond of friend circle +75- incorrect expressions various hernias
conquering fervour +50- public shame, wrong ideas herpes
on sex
elegance +25- not willing to move forward hip problems
0-15 death

4. MOVEMENT CENTRE

Mildly warm and dry breath, 16-20 breaths per minute, 10-15 fingers in length;
breathing fast but regular
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Positive Attributes Inten- Negative Attributes Diseases/Ailments
sities (Cause of Ailments)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
physically strong but +1000- physically aggressive stiff joints
good, no bully
protects the weak +987- love to provoke fights swollen, painful knee
heroic action +975- failure, loss, immature Bright's disease
maintain law and order +963- create disputes amputation
purity in action +950- family flare-ups bronchitis
love military service +937- disrupts happy home fractures
spiritual aspiration +925- burning in anger burns
join police +913- evasive through weakness bone TB
wakefulness in mind +900- fear solidified callouses
honest, well-settled ways +887- on the run due to guilt slip-disc
complex
abundance of beauty +875- justify fault-finding enlarged liver
reposeful, steady +863- defiant of all authority deformities of arms
and legs
pure sense of beauty +850- constant depression and breathlessness and
grief lung problems
fond of non-classical +837- physically exhausted from deformities of other
dancing bad habits body parts
attachment of cells to +825- better die than fight lupus
divine attitude
fond of outdoor games +813- use strength in wrong ways flat feet
new birth +800- a warning by nature to lymph problems
take care of mind
energetic, sportsmanlike +787- unnecessary physical hamstrung muscles
movements
intuitive mind centre +775- fear of not being wanted; menopause problems
fear of aging
fond of heavy exercises +763- love to torment the chest and back
physically weak deformities
mastery of sex +750- belief that sex is sinful, menstrual problems
dirty
fond of land sports +737- cruelty to animals hydrocephalus
Radha's consciousness +725- get annoyed over small bruises
issues
fond of swimming +713- cruel actions in general polio
conversion of the higher +700- sexual fears migraine
mind
fond of gymnastics +687- lazy, sleepy-headed, love varicose veins
table-work
divine grace +675- inappropriate sexual miscarriage
relations
very supple in body, +663- habit of drumming fingers angina pectoris
fresh in breath and/or shaking legs
energy of a plastic mind +650- closed mind, set opinions mouth problems
sound sleeper, yet +637- mean-natured, talk to cramps
easy riser oneself
enlightened +625- hard-hearted, iron-willed multiple sclerosis
quick reflexes +613- races cycles giddiness
sweetness of thought +600- fear of losing control loose motion sickness
steady posture +587- fond of riding sleeplessness and/or
restlessness
faithful in everything +575- living in past mire and mucous in colon
filth
avoid all arguments and +563- race-horse jockey shock and/or stroke
quarrels
fire in mind +550- hurt emotionally from nail-biting
parent
socially active +537- careful, steady driver angina
races cars +525- dull teacher nervous backache
flame of aspiration +513- refuse fresh experience nausea
avatar in the making +500- abused speech earlier dumb
abundant expression +487- unable to meet life's hypoglycaemia
 problems
aspiration for silence +475- purposely abusive and deaf
jarring attitude
supreme peace of mind +463- social beliefs of sex; impotence
fear of mother
nature aspiring in body +450- abused human body dwarfism
previously
attempt towards +437- gone beyond the point of incurable disease
immortality no return
total conversion +425- deliberately hurt the deaf spastic
and dumb
emotions awake to the +413- gripping dread indigestion
divine
balance of nature in +400- brooding, nervous, damaged motor neurons
body-brain system sensitive, fearful
contemplation of divine +387- revolutionary, trigger- become a vegetable
happy
exclusively turning +375- no value for human beings guilt, ending in
inward suicide
broad-ranging activities +363- anger, annoyance infections
psychic balance in +350- non-patriotic, sell one's bed-ridden for life
primary body nation through accident
purified sex centre +337- total wrong thinking inflammations
know how to listen +325- pimping hernias of various
types
communion with divine +313- negativity, fear influenza
humility before divine +300- sly movements vertigo
deep love for Divine +287- escapism, withdrawal insanity
Fragment
divine love spreading +275- unplanned life sterility
outward
tranquility in sex centre +263- uncalled-for fears insomnia
purified dynamic energy +250- lazy, procrastinating pain in joints
flame of aspiration +237- unsatisfied, remorse itching all over
striving towards truth +225- dull, fretting, never intestinal troubles,
satisfied colic
first spiritual awakening +213- unbalanced reason jaundice
striving towards wisdom +200- clumsy walk piles, inbred and
external
repentance-to-redeeming +187- resentment, revenge jaw problems
emotive being +175- learns shooting with bad injuries from one's
motives own gun
purified senses +163- resisting changes in life joint pains
pure emotive centre +150- complaining type, create giddiness, headaches
trouble
expressive silence +137- disappointment, failure, kidney problems
 shame
collective harmony of +125- fidgety, nervous slip-disc, backache
cells and organs
peace in cells +113- emotional lump in throat laryngitis
conciliation turned +100- childish, foolish, and spondilytis
inward aggressive
purity in all cells +87- childhood problems upper- various leg problems
most
matter consenting to +75- immature, loud-voiced lumbago, joint pains
divine
emotional beauty in cells +63- fear of future lower leg problems
nature makes an offering +50- love to stand on board of angina
bus or train
beginning of realization +37- feeling that one is not leprosy
in body-brain matter clean enough
human passions show +25- brutal killing leukaemia
change
towards goal +25- anger with primitive liver problems
emotions
0-15 death

Appendix 4

Diagrams and Charts

KEY TO DIAGRAM 1

I. Front Brain -- Registration Area

I -- Intellectual E -- Emotional S -- Sex M -- Movement Centres
These centres have a resultant intensity ratio of 2:4:8:2. They function
as centres for normal awareness, so that mind-body senses are merely
aware.
(7) , A -- Ajna (magnetic point) : decoded thought forms, i.e.
contaminated prana, are thrown out from here as excretions of the mind.

II. Mid Brain : not developed in stages 1 and 2.

(P1) -- physical (A2) -- astral (M3) -- mental seed atoms
(A2) and (M3) are normally dormant. The physical seed atom (P1) transmits
decoded thought forms for the permanent physical seed atom in the causal
body to register and record as permanent memory.
(9) , B -- Bindu (8) , S -- Sahasrara (the corresponding area in the
physical body is the thalamus).

IIIa. Memory pool shallow : for memory accumulated in the present life.
IIIb. Memory pool deep : for memory brought over from previous
lives, normally inaccessible.
(0) , T -- Taluka : the block {\bf O here is open to manas, i.e. incoming
impulses, which in relation to the astral body are various grades of prana.

IV. Force Centres along the spinal column :

(3)--(6) are dormant and non-functional.
(6) , V -- Vishuddhi (5) , A -- Anahata
(4) , M -- Manipura (3) , K -- Kundali
(2) , S -- Swadhisthana (1) , M -- Muladhara

Energy of the essence of consciousness circulating at (1<-->2) is a

combination of the energies of life and awareness only and is of third
grade. Normal food creates only physical energy. Physical energy, when
acted upon, creates crude sex energy which in turn creates ordinary,
undeveloped emotional and intellectual energies and a will that is
neutral. Their colouring and intensities depend on past memory patterns.
At this stage no higher emotional or mental or spiritual energy is
possible.

Incoming impulses through the sense organs are carried via the open block
O at taluka to couple with memory patterns drawn from the memory pools. It
is this flow of manas right across and over the top of the brain to the
registration area which, like a digital clock, makes the brain aware of
moments -- time -- and consequently of space. Memory patterns keep this
digital clock ticking. Thus sensory processes make us aware of time and
space; non-sensory processes would eliminate this sense of time and space.

KEY TO DIAGRAM 2

I. Front Brain -- Registration Area

I -- Intellectual E -- Emotional S -- Sex M -- Movement Centres
These centres are in the process of transition from a resultant intensity
ratio of 2:4:8:2 to 5:2:2:1. They function as centres for normal
awareness, so that mind-body senses are merely aware.
(7) , A -- Ajna (magnetic point) : decoded thought forms, i.e.
contaminated prana, are thrown out from here as excretions of the mind.

II. Mid Brain : not developed in stages 1 and 2.

(P1) -- physical (A2) -- astral (M3) -- mental seed atoms
(A2) and (M3) are normally dormant. The physical seed atom (P1) transmits
decoded thought forms for the permanent physical seed atom in the causal
body to register and record as permanent memory.
(9) , B -- Bindu (8) , S -- Sahasrara (the corresponding area in
the physical body is the thalamus).
IIIa. Memory pool shallow : for memory accumulated in the present life.
IIIb. Memory pool deep : for memory brought over from previous lives,
normally inaccessible.
(0) , T -- Taluka ; the block O here is open to manas, i.e. incoming
impulses, which in relation to the astral body are various grades of prana.

IV. Force Centres along the Spinal Column : (3)--(6) are dormant and
non-functional.
(6) , V -- Vishuddhi (5) , A -- Anahata
(4) , M -- Manipura (3) , K -- Kundali
(2) , S -- Swadhisthana (1) , M -- Muladhara

Energy of the essence of consciousness circulating at (1<-->2) is a

combination of the energies of life and awareness only and is now of
second grade. Normal food creates only physical energy. Physical energy,
when acted upon, creates sex energy which now, due to biological changes,
creates developed emotional and intellectual energies and a little
spiritual energy. Will, too, is now intellectual will. This is signified
by the growing influence of anahata reaching the I--E--S--M centres.

Incoming impulses through the sense organs are carried via the open block
O at taluka to couple with memory patterns drawn from the memory pools. It
is this flow of manas right across and over the top of the brain to the
registration area which, like a digital clock, makes the brain aware of
moments -- time -- and consequently of space. Memory patterns keep this
digital clock ticking. Thus sensory processes make us aware of time and
space; non-sensory processes would eliminate this sense of time and space.

KEY TO DIAGRAM 3A

I. Front Brain -- Registration Area

I -- Intellectual E -- Emotional S -- Sex M -- Movement Centres
These centres have a resultant intensity ratio of 5:2:2:1 established.
They function as centres for rational logical thinking, but
mind-body-senses are still merely aware.
(7) , A -- Ajna (magnetic point) : decoded thought forms, i.e. sattvic
prana, flow out from here to meet free-flowing manas outside. There are,
therefore, no harmful excretions of thought forms.

II. Mid Brain

(P1) -- physical (A2) -- astral (M3) -- mental seed atoms
These super micro transmitting monitors keep pulsating and transmitting
decoded thought forms for the corresponding permanent seed atoms in the
causal body to register and record as permanent memory.
(9) , B -- Bindu (8) , S -- Sahasrara (the corresponding area in the
physical body is the thalamus).

IIIa. Memory pool shallow : for memory accumulated in the present life.
IIIb. Memory pool deep : for memory brought over from previous lives,
normally inaccessible.
(0) , T -- Taluka : the block O here is kept open to manas, i.e. incoming
impulses, which in relation to the astral body are various grades of prana.

IV. Force Centres along the Spinal Column :

(6) , V -- Vishuddhi (5) , A -- Anahata
(4) , M -- Manipura (3) , K -- Kundali
(2) , S -- Swadhisthana (1) , M -- Muladhara

Energy of the essence of consciousness at (1<-->2) is now of first grade.

Normal food creates physical energy which in turn now creates sublimated
sex energy and spiritual will. At this stage, with sattvic manas, sattvic
emotions and sattvic energy combined with spiritual will, there is a
complete inner biological change. A great influence from anahata reaches
the I--E--S--M centres.

Whenever the individual is engaged in a normal householder's obligations

and duties, clean manas will rise and flow through ida and pingala and not
through sushumna. Now manas, on its way up to taluka through ida and
pingala, also flows via manipura, anahata and vishuddhi. The open O block
at taluka permits flow of manas over the memory patterns accumulated at
regions IIIa and IIIb at the back of the brain and through the central
passage over the top of the brain as in the diagrams of stages 1 and 2.
Though sushumna is about to open, it will be kept consciously blocked by
the individual. Both the blocks, the one at taluka O and the other at the
bottom end of sushumna $\otimes$, open and close consciously as a two-way
switch, as shown in the diagrams of stages 3b and 3c. It is still a
sensory stage and hence not free from the experience of time and space.

KEY TO DIAGRAM 3B

I. Front Brain -- Registration Area

I -- Intellectual E -- Emotional S -- Sex M -- Movement Centres
No modifications can take place as manas does not meet memory patterns
and incoming impulses do not flow in the central passage over the top of
the brain. Essence of consciousness now has a link with Consciousness
through bindu.
(7) , A -- Ajna (magnetic point) : Sattvic energy flows out from here --
in intuition, there are minimal modifications of mind and no excretions
from base thought forms. This stage is non-sensory -- to be in this stage
for even a short time is to be unaware of space and time.

II. Mid Brain

(P1) -- physical (A2) -- astral (M3) -- mental seed atoms
Now, along with (P1), the astral seed atom (A2) also starts pulsating and
transmitting the activities and steps the individual takes in the
physical life and in the emotional/astral realms for the corresponding
permanent seed atoms in the causal body to register and record as
permanent memory.
(9) , B -- Bindu (8) , S -- Sahasrara (the corresponding area in
the physical body is the thalamus).

IIIa. Memory pool shallow : for memory accumulated in the present life.
IIIb. Memory pool deep : for memory brought over from previous lives.
Both memory pools are effectively bypassed; consequently sattvic manas and
the thinking instrument are not made use of.
(0) , T -- Taluka : the block $\otimes$ here is consciously closed to
manas, i.e. incoming impulses, which in relation to the astral body are
various grades of prana.

IV. Force Centres along the Spinal Column :

(6) , V -- Vishuddhi (5) , A -- Anahata
(4) , M -- Manipura (3) , K -- Kundali
(2) , S -- Swadhisthana (1) , M -- Muladhara

Normal food creates physical energy. Physical energy creates sublimated

sex energy, spiritual will and energy of the essence of consciousness of
first grade. Influences from bindu and sahasrara now flow over the
entire primary body and brain. Mark the sequence of centres 9-->8-->7 in
the mid-brain and compare this with that in the diagram of stage 3c. This
is a further biological change. When not in the state of a normal
house-holder attending to ordinary obligations and duties, the individual
is in intuitional state and his mood and brain now follow a different
formula, unlike in the diagrams of stages 1, 2 and 3a. "His perceptions is
now unfailingly exact, i.e. his mind reveals only truth. This particular
perception is unique and reveals that which the rational mind (using
testimony, inference and deduction) cannot reveal." -- I(48--49). This is
intuition proper, the earlier state 3a being insight.

The block O at the lower end of sushumna is open to allow the flow of
manas in the central spinal passage in the astral body. The block
$\otimes$ at taluka is closed to the normal flow of incoming impulses --
it prevents manas from flowing over memory patterns through the central
passage on top of the brain as in the diagrams of stages 1, 2 and 3a.
There are no incoming impulses entering the brain region either, however
sattvic they may be. Mind modifications have ceased! Sattvic manas has
direct entry into the registration areas via side passages, and thence
onto ajna, where it flows out in combination with influences emanating
from the centres 9-->8-->7. This is the early stage of pratyahara, or
intuitional stage of the mind.

KEY TO DIAGRAM 3C

I. Front Brain -- Registration Area

I -- Intellectual E -- Emotional S -- Sex M -- Movement Centres
Absolutely no modifications can take place as manas does not meet memory
patterns and incoming impulses do not flow in the central passage over the
top of the brain. Essence of consciousness now has a link with
Consciousness through bindu.
(7) , A -- Ajna (magnetic point) : Upon reaching this centre, prana does
not flow out of the system. It is routed via 7-->8-->9 and down the
sushumna to muladhara, forming a closed circuit in which the speed of
circulation of prana increases until it reaches 3600 cycles per 60 pulse
beats (or 60 seconds).

II. Mid Brain : fully evolved and functional.

(P1) -- physical (A2) -- astral (M3) -- mental seed atoms
All three super micro transmitting monitors keep pulsating and
transmitting for the corresponding permanent seed atoms in the causal body
to register.
(9) , B -- Bindu (8) , S -- Sahasrara (the corresponding area in
the physical body is the thalamus).

IIIa. Memory pool shallow : for memory accumulated in the present life.
IIIb. Memory pool deep : for memory brought over from previous lives.
Both memory pools are effectively bypassed; consequently sattvic manas
and the thinking instrument are not made use of.
(0) , T -- Taluka : the block $\otimes$ here is closed to manas, i.e.
incoming impulses, which in relation to the astral body are various grades
of prana.

IV. Force Centres along the Spinal Column :

(6) , V -- Vishuddhi (5) , A -- Anahata
(4) , M -- Manipura (3) , K -- Kundali
(2) , S -- Swadhisthana (1) , M -- Muladhara

The closed block $\otimes$ at taluka prevents the flow of manas

over the memory patterns as well as through the central brain passage. So
no modifications of mind can take place, unlike in stage 3a. The block
O at the lower end of sushumna is open and prana flows through the
central passage of the spinal column. Here in stage 3c, the movement of
prana from centre to counter-centre in the mid-brain, 7-->8-->9, is
different from that in stage 3b, 9-->8-->7. Stage 3b was intuitional;
stage 3c is transcendental! It is a prolonged non-sensory stage. Nor does
prana flow out from ajna as in the diagrams of the previous stages -- it
returns to (1<-->2) to form a closed circuit. The increase in the speed
of revolution around this circuit creates `take-off' stage speed.
`Take-off' force sufficient to send the primary body out of the physical
body is 60 cycles in 60 pulse beats in pratyahara stage, 600 cycles per 60
pulse beats in dharna stage, 1800 cycles per 60 pulse beats in dhyana
stage, and 3600 cycles per 60 pulse beats in samadhi stage. In dharna and
dhyana stages, one can take leave to die consciously and be born again
consciously; in samadhi, one can reach from samadhi with seed to samadhi
without seed and in either samadhi stage take final leave from all
physical births.

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