Message #31094

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"Samadhi *
*Christ issues a similar commandment to his disciples: 'But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet (the silence within), and when thou hast shut thy door (withdrawn the mind from the senses), pray to thy Father which is in secret (in the inner transcendent divine consciousness); and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly (shall bless you with ever new Bliss of His Being)' Matthew 6:6"

"+Reference to the technique of withdrawing life and consciousness upward through the spinal centers, dissolving the grosser into the successively finer manifestations of the holy creative vibration of Aum, and Aum into Spirit.  I:15-18 and II:39
+ I:15-18
   The yogi, peering with closed eyes into the dark invisibility within, finally finds there six subtle astral booths- the coccygeal, sacral, lumbar, dorsal, cervical, and the combined medullary and Christ centers, situated in the spinal column, and at the base of the brain and the point between the eyebrows. He sees that true-to-life picture of his body is produced by an earth current in the coccyx, a water vibration in the sacral, a fire vibration in the lumbar, an air vibration in the dorsal, an ether vibration in the cervical, and a consciousness-and-life-force vibration in the medulla and Christ centers.
   Just as the beam of electric light thrown on a screen makes a peculiar noise at its source, which is caused by electrical vibration, so the astral spinal centers emanate different 'musical' sounds as they send out their various pranic, life-force, currents that produce the technicolor picture of the physical body, with its true-to-sight, true-to-touch, true-to-hearing, true-to-smell, true-to-taste perceptions. By centering on the six centers, the meditating devotee hears successively the music of the bumblebee, the flute, the harp, the gong bell, the sea roar, and then the symphony of all the astral sounds. These emanations form the six centers are the vibrations of the five elements or tattvas in nature, macrocosmically present in the universe, and microcosmically operative in the body of man.

+ II:39
   By ascent of consciousness through the subtle centers of life and spiritual awakening in the spine, the yogi learns the inner science of changing the consciousness of gross matter into the consciousness of its primordial principles. He resolves the five vibratory elements along with their manifestation of the five senses, five organs of action, and five life forces from grosser to finer principles: the consciousness of vibratory earth into the consciousness of vibratory water; the consciousness of water into that of vibratory fire; the consciousness of fire into that of vibratory air; the consciousness of ether into that of mind (sense consciousness or manas); the consciousness of mind into that of discrimination (buddhi); the consciousness of discrimination into that of ego (ahamkara); the consciousness of ego into that of feeling (chitta). By thus dissolving the twenty-four principles successively into one another, the yogi then merges the consciousness of feeling into that of the primordial cosmic vibratory force(Aum), and the consciousness of Aum into Spirit. He thereby reaches the Ultimate Unity- the One from whom has sprung the many.
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   A poet or philosopher may imagine this comos to be only mind. But that imagination cannot help him overcome death and attain immorality. The yogi, on the other hand, wins an unshakable knowledge that all matter is Spirit by daily employing a technique that uproots from his mind all the delusions implanted in it by maya, the cosmic delusive force. He thus beholds the universe as a dream of God- a dream from which one awakens only when he is conscious of the omnipresent Spirit.

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   The devotee who knows the art of yoga, experiencing the pure joy of meditation, does not further involve himself in new desires and new karma. And by yoga techniques the cosmic energy 'cauterizes' the brain-cell grooves in which past tendencies are hidden.
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   The ordinary man eclipses his free will with dark shadows of the past. The spiritual man, ever watchful for freedom, safeguards it by meditation. When the will is free, it vibrates in harmony with the Infinite. Man's will is then God's will.
   Blind renunciation of material objects does not insure freedom; it is by enjoying the bliss of the Spirit in meditation and by comparing it with the lesser joy of the senses that the devotee becomes eager to follow the spiritual path."