Om may the divine protect us both, the teacher and the disciple. May he nourish us both?
May we work together with great energy? May our study be vigorous and fruitful? May we not hate each other?
Om! Peace!
So long as we pronounce Om with our lips, we can not transcend the outer, physical consciousness. We can’t jump in to silence. We will be observing the stream waters standing on the banks. We remain as spectators. We don’t become participants. We cannot cross the anahata level. There we must jump into silence with no hesitation. We should dive deep into ecstasy of silence.
This is a beautiful Vedic chant. Here the teacher and the students are offering their prayer to the divine, to acquire knowledge and virtues and to develop good character. It is an ancient tradition to repeat this peace chant before the commencement of studies.
Some people with mere knowledge, practice asanas and pranayama and call themselves Yogis. They give an impression to the public that yoga means practice of asanas. They begin to do pranic healing, Samadhi and kundalini in special doses.
The yogi by
meditation only will get all the requisite powers. Meditation is the main entry to yoga. All other devices are subways. In addition to pranayama and asanas some people begin to preach pranava- and observation on breath. They teach as if heaven is to an arms distance. All such yoga workings happen automatically.
A spiritual aspirant, though engaged in various activities, keeps his mind fixed on the divine with in. now and then, he peeps with in to have a glimpse of the divine light.
My
experience in master yoga made me believe, that in deep meditation every yoga practice would come across all these phases. I feel no necessity to practice each one separately. When the happen, we experience to the fullest capacity and we feel utmost pleasure. Every experience touches our heart, so it becomes authorities and antithetic.
They assert that the Gita is only an interpolation, and that the Vedas are but rustic songs. They like to master every detail concerning things and nations out side of India, but if you ask them, they do not know even the names of their own forefathers up to the seventh generation, not to speak of the fourteenth.
In all raja yogas, work commence from anahata center. All hatha yoga exercise and asanas limit to the lower three centers. They cleanse the first three planes. Master yoga totally put aside the first three centers work. So, we don’t practice any asanas and pranayama. With the working of the forth plane all the earlier planes do get clearance. Pranava becomes unnecessary for spiritual development. It obstructs further progress and tempts sadhaka to stay at anahata it self. It is very strenuous to keep guard the experience and feelings of anahata up to sahasrara. We have to forget the thrill of such experience then and there. Pranava dissolves in the heart center. It dose not go up.