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Transmission

"What we call transmission Master once defined as spiritual food."

(Chariji)


Preface

It is quite natural (or sahaj) that our present fourth volume of the Educational Series, entitled Transmission, follows immediately the last one dedicated to Love, since we consider the trans-mission of divine energy as universal love in our system.
We have explained in the preface of our third textbook that love is such a vast subject in our Sahaj Marg tradition that for practical reasons three volumes are dedicated to it: Love itself (printed in 1999), now Transmission and the volume next to come, Constant Remembrance. As we all know, the ability of our successive Masters to transmit this universal love or pranahuti (literally life of life) and to give this capacity to their preceptors, is one of the unique aspects of Sahaj Marg. In our literature, pranahuti is sometimes written prana ahuti. Sometimes it is referred to as pranasya prana (literally, the soul of the soul) or pranashakti or yogic energy or simply as prana in the numerous passages that have been selected. We have also included prana pratishtha as a related word.

In several quotations 'grace' is not clearly distinguished from the transmission or pranahuti. For that reason we have included a specific interview with Chariji in Part One-"What Transmission Is Not"-that will clarify this important question. Several other concepts have been included in Part One for the same purpose: Durga shakti, hypnotism, mantra, prana (ordinary), prana pratishtha, pranayama, radiation, Sankirtan and shakti.
We do hope that the reading of the numerous quotations from our Masters will clarify this mysterious phenomenon of Transmission. We benefit from it as much as we are open to it, not only during our daily practice and sittings, but at each instant of our lives, since our Master is himself transmitting constantly. The reading of this book is certainly one such particularly auspicious occasion to experience this unique and wonderful blessing.


Grace is not so easy to come down on us, you see. And I have authority of my Master behind that statement when he said, once a day for some minutes or one hour at the maximum, grace used to descend for him wherever he was. That is number one. Number two, in Denmark once he said, "Grace is descending 24 hours a day. I don't know why." He said, "I don't know why but this is Lalaji's grace," which means Lalaji had to channelize that grace on him. Third point, in every Basant celebration in Shahjahanpur, grace had to be connected to the assembly which is our satsangh. Because I know in 1982, the last Basant in His living presence, when I was conducting all the satsanghs, on the Basant morning when I went to take His permission, he specifically told me, "Don't forget to connect grace." Grace is not something which descends by itself. What we often mistake for grace is nothing but the subtler effects of transmission.

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, vol. IX - Shri P.Rajagopalachari


Temple worship was a system which evolved out of the need in our historical past, when gurus became rare, rishis became rare, nevertheless, the needs of human beings had to be fulfilled. So they created temples, installed a deity and did what is called prana pratishtha. It was a spiritual charge given by this Master who created that temple, into that deity, so that anybody who worshipped there could receive that charge.
Now, whether it is there today is a moot question. People have only to go and sit there and experience it. That may be in some places. Generally, my Master used to bewail the fact that it is not there in most of the places. Not because the ritualistic tradition has been forgotten, but because the person who can transfer something from himself to that deity has ceased to exist. It needs a certain calibre to transfer one's spiritual essence to something outside oneself and make it an object worshippable.

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, vol. X - Shri P.Rajagopalachari


Therefore, I have never been able to accept the need for power to evolve, and it is one of the most beautiful concepts in Sahaj Marg that the transmission is described as forceless force, powerless power, things like that. It is necessary to bear this in mind, because we find today so many systems treating or dealing with power, and of course, the most important is in India, the Shakti path, as we call it. And it is a well-known fact that most of the aspirants of such systems end up in things other than spirituality.

Excerpts taken from The Role of the Master in Human Evolution - Shri P.Rajagopalachari


At such a time the power of Nature descended in human form as Samarth Guru Mahatma Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj, at Farrukhabad (U.P.). This spiritual genius was born on Basant Panchami, the 2nd February 1873 in a respectable Kayastha family. His childhood was influenced by his mother, a noble minded simple lady who spent most of her time in devotion and worship. It was due to her influence that he received inspiration at a very early age. The incident goes that one day while he was playing with his mates, some Divine force aroused in him the feeling that he had not come for the purpose he was engaged in. He had to realise himself and to equip himself for the greater task ahead. The soul was awakened, and he set to it in right earnest. He attained perfection in only seven months-really an unparalleled example. Since then he devoted the whole of his life to the cause of spirituality.
He was an embodiment of moderation, toleration and devotion, devoid of egoism altogether. With him dawned the new era of yogic training through transmission of which he was the Master. He could bring a man to perfection simply at a glance. It was he who made it possible that a man could attain perfection in one life only, even while leading a family life in grihastha ashram.

Excerpts taken from Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume I - Shri Ram Chandra


It generally happens, when you are in the company of a Mahatma or a saint, that you are to some extent relieved of your disturbing thoughts and feel comparatively calm for a while. This they claim to be due to the effect of transmission by the Mahatma. Those who offer this explanation, mean only to deceive the public with a view to white-wash their incapacity. What they interpret as transmission is really the automatic radiation of the pious Paramanus (fine particles) from the Mahatma. It affects all those assembled there with the result that calmness prevails to some extent so long as they are there. It is only a natural process and has nothing to do with transmission. It is not only from a Mahatma or saint that such Paramanus (fine particles) radiate but also from everyone whether pious or wicked, saintly or devilish. If you are for some time with an impious or morally degraded person you find similar impious Paramanus radiating from him and affecting you, with the result that you find your thoughts flowing in the same channel for the time being. The effect of such radiation remains only for a little while and disappears when you are away from it. This is the reason why often religious teachers are found to be making complaints of the indifference of the people to follow what they preach to them. They say that people, when they go back after hearing their Upadesh (sermons) cast off all they have heard then and there retaining nothing of it in their mind. I think it is not the people but the teacher or the Upadeshak (Preacher) who is really to be blamed for it, for he has not the capacity or power to transmit what he means to preach from the platform.

Excerpts taken from Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume I - Shri Ram Chandra


By the grace of my Master I shall try to reveal a great secret or mystery which the people in general do not know. It is a great wonder when a great personality like Lord Krishna, Swami Vivekananda or my Master changes the entire course of a man's life. It is absolutely necessary for us to find out such a guide who can lift us higher and higher by his power. This mystery is known as pranahuti-the power of transmission. This is power working through the channels of pure mind. Pranahuti is effected through the power of will which is always effective.

Excerpts taken from Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume I - Shri Ram Chandra


The process we start with, and which we lay stress upon, is meditation upon the heart under the guidance of the force of one's master who has attained perfection, and has within him the capacity of transmission. Such a master keeps away things barring our spiritual growth. Spiritual waves from the master continue to flow into our hearts making us calmer and calmer day by day. If we are deep-rooted in meditation, we connect our link with the innermost thing desired. Devotion of course increases the capacity and smoothens the way. If we make our heart the target of masterly force we begin to expand inside, with the result that in the long run we find ourselves stretching throughout the Godly empire.

The power of the Highest can descend thus into the human heart and begin to purify and lead it to the highest state. The human frame itself is so made as to receive the transmissions of highest energy or sakti divine, at several centres corresponding to the cosmic centres and super-cosmic regions. The human body being thus purified in its nervous, circulatory and other systems can enjoy or experience the peace, the power and the transcendence even in this body. The need and process are really to be trained by an adept in this raja yoga path.

...The ancient methods of practice are beautifully explained showing the rationality of worship and meditation at the sandhyas or conjunctions of the day morning, noon and evening. The angas of yoga are also neatly expounded and the natural method of spiritual adaptation and adjustment to the goal is given in a simple and straightforward manner. The purification of the system by the subtle process of transmission by the Master is an achievement that can find no parallel in the spiritual history in recent times. To live in God, for God and by God is the burden of the path of Sahaj Marg and this naturally leads to the realisation of one's reality in God, for God. So too one becomes harmonious with all without any distinctions. The higher worlds open up to one who has become one with God by living in Him and for Him alone. Spirituality is not like religion just a form of worship or technique of observances; it is a living in the awareness of God and in His essence. [K.C. Varadachari]

Under Sahaj Marg, the Master's support being a very special feature of sadhana, it becomes incumbent upon the abhyasi to seek a worthy guide to lead him on, helping him by his power transmitted through the yogic process of pranahuti. The Master by the application of his inner powers, awakens and accelerates the dormant forces in the abhyasi to action and directs the flow of Divine current towards his heart, through the process of pranahuti. As a result, the abhyasi begins to advance spiritually experiencing more and more of bliss. The abhyasi has only to prepare himself to receive it or in other words to make himself capable and deserving of it. In this way all that which previously required persistent labour and hardships, can now be achieved very easily in a much shorter time with least labour. But it is all practical and cannot in any way be put into words. Only practical experience can reveal its merits.

Excerpts taken from Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume I - Shri Ram Chandra


Even a preceptor of calibre complains about the encroachment of thoughts during meditation. For that I would earnestly say that during transmission, as my Master says in one of his writings, the sookshma sharir of the teacher enters the body of the abhyasi knowingly or unknowingly, and this brings to him the wavy thought which the abhyasi has. Of course, they may be translated in such a way that the preceptor thinks them to be his. Happily you have got very good abhyasis, so the bad and vicious thoughts get no chance to attack you. I unfortunately found a few men from whom I was feeling the squalid sensation within me, when I transmitted to them. I then refused to accept them as members of the Mission. There was another case in which I found, that when I transmitted to him, pictures of naked women were coming to me, as he was a perfect debauch. So I did not take him into the Mission. The Master too had met with similar observations in two cases. If a preceptor of calibre wants to minimize such thoughts occurring in him, he may give suggestions to the abhyasi's individual mind to stop such working during transmission, and it will be helpful. But this process should not be done very frequently because preceptors know many things about abhyasis by the help of the individual mind.

Now I take up the dynamo of individual creation. I have been able to solve this by my Master's grace. He has given a solution which is very good; and whatever I have thought over it is also correct. My Master has also accepted it. There is no danger in this solution. It is a very effective tool. The experimenter has to be very alert. I have taken up two cases for observation. But it is to be seen whether only one experiment is enough for the whole lifetime, or they have to be repeated several times after a certain interval. Those to whom I have transmitted are showing signs of change, but what sort of change it would be can be found out only when the thing is in view. This process can be called as the 'nuclear method'.

Excerpts taken from Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume II - Shri Ram Chandra


I sincerely took up the method of meditation after I passed the S.S.L.C. and Matriculation examination. Within six months, I saw in meditation that the whole of my heart was filled with soothing light, and a plant full of light was emitting forth light from all its branches and leaves. I continued practice. Six months later, I noticed a peculiar thing in my heart that my heart was reciting the word 'Om'. This we call ajapa. How does it start? If the Master infuses it with His Divine power it starts immediately. If it is left to the abhyasi, it gives a shaking to the heart twice or thrice when it starts. It also starts throughout the particles of the body which we call anahata.
Some people have practised ajapa by reciting mantras repeatedly in the heart. It is artificial. If the practice of reciting is given up for some time, ajapa is gone. Introduction of the true state of ajapa is possible only if the Master has the power of transmission. Transmission is the only thing which takes the abhyasi to the higher regions. Self-effort fails after reaching some region because as you go up you come in contact with the subtle force of Divinity, and it pushes the abhyasi down because he cannot get at it. There the Master of high calibre who has command over the regions is needed.
When ajapa started, I was so proud of it that I said to my Master, 'I have got ajapa now.' When it gets a toy a baby is very happy. As he grows old, happiness also travels on. Similar was the case with me. When my Master had given me the knowledge, I came to know that I have to swim the unfathomable ocean.

Excerpts taken from Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume III - Shri Ram Chandra


The power pervading in every particle is called prana. It is there since the beginning of creation. To control prana means controlling Nature. The first and foremost aim of the various practices of yoga is to free the individual from the bonds which put limitations on prana. Once the bonds are loosened, one feels as if he is jumping into a higher state which, in course of time, develops into a state of merger. When even the idea of merger goes away, one feels himself jumping into the Infinite Ocean, and begins to start swimming in it. One should try to abide in this condition. It also gives complete mastery over Nature.

Excerpts taken from Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume III - Shri Ram Chandra


A: Unless one has a vacuum, grace cannot descend into him?
B: And that is by grossness, and I am telling you, I devote so much time in removing it, and I am having very good results also. So most of the time I devote in cleaning you. And of course transmission is alongside. So transmission is moulded for some specific purpose, so that it works. Suppose in this very transmission you mould it that I may become rich. It will work there also. It is a sort of power. Moulding is your work.
A: There are so many different system of meditation. What is the main difference between this and other systems?
B: The main difference, as everybody knows, is transmission. We get the help of the guru, and there, there is no help-you do and feel.

Excerpts taken from Babuji in Shahjahanpur-1971-1975 - Shri Ram Chandra


I asked Master how to develop sensitivity. Master said, "Develop awareness. Always try to be alert to what is happening, and sensitivity will develop. Many people meditate. But I am sorry to say many of them don't know what is going on in the system during meditation. Why is this? Because they do not watch for what is going on. One has to be alert to the transmission and its action on the system. Then the real joy of meditation begins. Now I tell you one thing. Whether a person has experiences or not, the transmission will work and complete the job. But the real happiness comes when we know what we have got. So sensitivity is necessary.

I was curious to know from my Master whether Lalaji had himself practised any ritual forms of puja. Master fell into a ruminative mood. He said, "I will tell you one thing. Lalaji Saheb had the greatest respect for tradition. "But I tell you one thing, he was much against rituals. "Yes, he never did ritual worship. But I will tell you one thing. One Amavasya day (new moon day) I saw him performing the tarpana. He was pouring water in the ritual fashion, offering it to his forefathers in the higher world. I immediately adjusted myself to see what he was really doing. It was wonderful to observe it. I found that he was transmitting the essence of the water he was offering to the higher world. Do you understand this? This is what should be done when offering bhog. Now I am telling you something. Suppose a person can transmit the essence of a thing, then it is useful to do tarpana and all these things. Otherwise what is the use? It is a mere ritual without any meaning or use. It is better to sit in meditation and think of the departed souls. Surely they will benefit more by it. And if a person is a preceptor he should transmit with the idea that the transmission will reach the soul wherever it may be. You see, the ways of helping are there."

Excerpts taken from My Master - Shri P.Rajagopalachari


The question is about transmission. Is there a difference between the inner efficacy of individual sittings and sittings at a distance? What is the optimal number of weekly sittings-maximum number and minimum number?
Answer: Well, in answering that question we have to differentiate between our personal effort in sadhana, and the preceptor's and Master's work. The shortest answer is: We should do our work and leave their work to them. And our work is very clear.
If we do our daily sadhana correctly and effectively, the need of going to a preceptor will get reduced with time.

Excerpts taken from Proceedings of the Seminar on Sahaj Marg (Vorauf) - Shri P.Rajagopalachari


While we do not lay claim to originality, there are however very important and unique features which set Sahaj Marg as a system of spirituality apart from all others. What are these differences? The most important one is that in this system alone, to our knowledge, we employ what is known as transmission. This transmission is something unique and enormously efficacious in its application. What is transmitted is the Master's own yogic or life energy, which is transmitted into the heart of one who begins the practice of meditation in this system. This transmission is not something ephemeral or merely put in words but something which is very tangible, and to the reception of which innumerable practicants all over India, and an increasing number of persons in the West, can personally testify. The transmission by the Master has very great importance because by receiving it the student is able to develop with such pace that it is incalculable. Therefore, the student's own shortcomings have in a sense ceased to have any relevance to the possibility of his development. In all other extant systems of yoga, to confine ourselves purely to yoga for the time being, the reliance is entirely on oneself, and we all know how much capacity or power the average human being of today has in the field of self-development, or for that matter even how much inclination he has! Therefore, if an outside source of Divine energy is available to us, willing to infuse us with his own energy, to fill us with it, and thus make evolution possible to us beyond the reaches of the wildest imagination, how very fortunate should we not consider ourselves in having such a source available to us today.

This transmission is something which must be felt and which can be felt. You will agree that all life is transmission. In every action that we perform, or by which we receive, an act of transmission is involved, but in the transmission of Sahaj Marg it is the highest gift of life's itself, and it is this that sets the Sahaj Marg system of raja yoga apart from all other extant systems of yoga.
We therefore believe that a hitherto largely unfulfilled need of man is now being satisfied by such transmission. While the other needs, the physical, the mental, the emotional, can be taken care of by man himself without recourse to much assistance or guidance from others, for this paramount spiritual need a Master is a must, because it is the Master who has this power of transmission, and without him it cannot be either given or received. Even the preceptors, to whom I have referred earlier, transmit only by virtue of the power that is opened up in them to do so. Without the Master there can be no preceptors.

That now brings me to the most important and fundamental point in Sahaj Marg. In a sense we can think of Sahaj Marg as operating in three layers. The lowest is the cleaning of the past impressions by the Master's own power. The middle level is our own effort in meditation and avoiding such thoughts or such activities that can create further impressions. And at the apex we have the most important feature, and that is the system of transmission that is unique to this system.

So, these are the major components of Sahaj Marg Yoga: the cleaning, the meditation and the transmission. Master generally offers this transmission to people that come to attend our meetings, and it is for that reason that my Master comes personally to these meetings. He rarely delivers lectures in public, his purpose being to serve humanity in a much higher spiritual fashion by transmission.

I now come to one final, but at the same time unique, feature of this system of Sahaj Marg. The Master by virtue of his own spiritual attainments, is able to transmit the spiritual essence of himself into the heart of his students. We call this, rather prosaically, transmission. It is so simple to speak about that its very simplicity hides the infinitude of blessings that it can confer upon us. Imagine being left a million dollars by a rich relative, so that you become a millionaire overnight without lifting your little finger to achieve it. Multiply that by billions of times, and that is the benefit that this spiritual transmission of the Master confers upon us. This is a unique feature of this system.

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Set 1, Volume I - Shri P.Rajagopalachari


I am going to speak about the difficulty of Sahaj Marg; because I find all my brothers and sisters and the Ultimate Master Himself always saying that everything is simple. Of course, for Master nothing is difficult. "How to do this?" "Concentrate!" "How to change?" "Transmit!" "How to achieve God?" "Turn your head from here to here, and He is there." So for about twenty years I have been bombarded with the simplicity of Sahaj Marg. But for every moment of those twenty years I have been facing the biggest problems: "How to change, how to do, how to transmit, how to correct-ourselves first, others later?"

There was some reference to restlessness. I remember Master's usual way of defining restlessness-very humorous, very penetrating, profound in its meaning. He said "Restlessness se lessness nikal do, tho rest hai" (Remove 'less-ness' from restlessness, and what remains is 'rest')! How is it applicable in my practical life? We are always feeling 'less-ness': "I don't have enough of this, I don't have enough of that; I don't know enough, I have not enough wealth." Who is it that feels? It is "I"! That means, all of us. When we feel lacking we become restless.

So the whole Sahaj Marg siddhanth [philosophy], rests on the fundamental assumption that while the body exists by the soul, the soul has to exist by something else, which has to be infused into it by a guru who has command over the powers of Nature and is therefore called a saint. The guru by virtue of His connection with the Ultimate, what you call Brahmalaya in Sanskrit, is able to transmit that energy into the heart, recoup the soul and make it flower again. And this you have found in yogic terminology as the adho mukhi [downward facing] lotus, which becomes oordhwa mukhi [upward facing] and then opens and flowers and then falls the nectar into this. So the references in yoga are not false.

The Ultimate has no power, yet having no power, from there everything comes! This is the truth of Sahaj Marg as taught by Lalaji, and then perfected by Babuji. People hear this truth, but they cannot understand it. It is like saying, "Sir, how did this tree come from this seed? What is there in the seed? "Surely, the tree is not in the seed. But without the seed the tree cannot be there. Similarly the paratatva, as we call it, it has nothing in it-no power, no knowledge, no qualities, yet, the whole universe is its eternal presence. That presence we want to bring into ourselves in Sahaj Marg, by the Guru's grace, by His transmission.

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Set 1, Volume III- Shri P.Rajagopalachari


Once Babuji told me, "There is only one small difference between man and God." I said, "What is this small difference?" He said, "Man can surrender only once. After that he himself is not there to give anything more. What can he give? He cannot surrender a second time. But God gives Himself again and again through eternity, to eternal number of people. This is all the difference."

"What really happens when you transmit? Suppose you transmit to me, you are at Shahjahanpur and I am at Madras, what exactly happens?" He said, "My sukshma (subtle) self travels to you." Now look at this miracle, you see. We, as ordinary human beings have only one sukshma self. If he is transmitting at the same time to a million of people all over the world, he is capable of generating a million sukshmas out of himself, each one going to its destination. Therefore his body, if you can call it that, was nothing but, shall we say a bank, for his innumerable selves locked up within it, which he could release just by thought. "Let me transmit to Munich," and he was there; "Let me transmit to Timbuktu," and he was there; "Let me transmit to my own abhyasis in Shahjahanpur," he was there, too. You see, if anything proves his Divinity, it was this fact of transmission flowing anywhere at anytime, without limitation.

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Volume VII - Shri P.Rajagopalachari


Power must be there, but it must be unseen, unfelt, virtually unknown that it exists. Then it is true power. So the woman behind the successful man should hardly be visible-not there. She is there as a force, as a power, but not as a person. It is like our transmission, you see. If you could see transmission, it is hardly worth being called divine.

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Volume VIII - Shri P. Rajagopalachari


"I have these samskaras, please get rid of them. Put Yourself into me through your transmission and make of me what You are." This is the whole substance, the message of spirituality, what we have to follow and I hope you will all get on with the job very fast because, again and again, I hear people saying in talks. "Oh, Babuji was there and I lost my time. I didn't look at him. I didn't believe him. One more opportunity now and I don't want to lose the opportunity again."

So we must remember very carefully, that in Sahaj Marg there is nothing to make up. We can never make up anything that has been left behind. Time lost is lost permanently and therein lies the wisdom of maintaining our daily sadhana, in fact the wisdom of doing as often as you can during the day. While there is a restriction on not meditating more than one hour at a time, there is no restriction on the number of times you can meditate. This is not like food which can give you dysentery or headache or stomach-ache, where beyond a limit, you cannot digest. In fact, meditation is a process of digestion.

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Volume X - Shri P. Rajagopalachari


This was one of the great lessons that I learnt from my Master: Exist physically in the present but live in the future. He is not here and the ultimate proof is the mahasamadhi, that when the existence in the present is no longer necessary for the future, even the present existence is gone. Now he is only in the future. I think that is one reason why even a Master does not look backwards, except on very rare occasions when he has to do something here which his representative cannot do. That is why all these stories of receiving transmission from Lalaji and his guru are very suspect. They are either fantasies arising out of wishful thinking, or a manifestation of the ego, you see, that Babuji's transmission is not enough. I have to have Lalaji's personal transmission.

So this is the basic approach that people should have to Sahaj Marg, and this is what my Master wished people to understand when he said, "The Master is necessary in the beginning and perhaps at the end." In between, it is a sort of symbiotic relationship like the relationship between a mother and the child. I don't think a mother can say that she is feeding the child. Of course she is, but it is her baby, so the initiation, having taken place, the process goes on by its own. The Master, sitting where he is, he thinks of someone, his thoughts make the transmission flow towards him. He thinks of somebody else, again the transmission, by itself. At his level, it is not a willed process. He does not say, "Now let me transmit to Mr. X, because I am thinking of him." There is no thought behind it.

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Volume XI - Shri P. Rajagopalachari


Transmission is described as forceless force, powerless power, things like that. It is necessary to bear this in mind, because we find today so many systems treating or dealing with power, and of course, the most important is in India, the Shakti path, as we call it. And it is a well known fact that most of the aspirants of such systems end up in things other than spirituality.

"Well, I am telling you, there are only two things we have to do: clean and transmit." So that was interstellar work, cosmic work, whatever you like to call it. So this gave me a further expansion in my concept, in my mental concept that our work in spirituality expands beyond the human beings to other worlds, whatever they may be. So, his compassion embraced not only human beings, but also other beings on other worlds.

Excerpts taken from The Role of the Master in Human Evolution - Shri P. Rajagopalachari


This was a point which was difficult for me to understand. How can nothing give you something? How can that which has no power in itself give you the immense power of the universe? How can that Ultimate which has no knowledge yet bring forth from itself all knowledge?
My Master said, "It is possible. It has been done. It will continue to be done, too." And he gave me a simple example, the zero of mathematics. One is one. Put a zero by its side, it is multiplied by ten. It is nothing, yet it gives value to something.

Excerpts taken from Heart to Heart, Volume III- Shri P. Rajagopalachari


In our system we start at the heart. The heart is the centre of the circulatory system, and blood from all over the body has to pass through it. We therefore believe that any purificatory process initiated in the region of the heart is naturally carried to the whole of the body. So we concentrate on the heart. The progress of the abhyasi covers half a dozen points, but these are not the Shatchakras of the Tantriks but higher centres-centres where the higher work is to be taken up, where evolutionary forces can be set to work. The time taken for progress from point 1 to the final stage depends on the abhyasi himself. Some people spend a whole lifetime moving from point 1 to 2. It all depends on purification of the system. This is where pranahuti, the system of Yogic transmission by the Master, becomes all important. The use by the Master of the cosmic and supra-cosmic forces available to Him to awaken the dormant psychic forces in the body of the aspirant, and by which every atom in the abhyasi's body is broken up and reconstituted-can you imagine it?

Excerpts taken from In His Footsteps , Volume I - Shri P.Rajagopalachari


 

The above quotes form a short synopsis from the Sahaj Marg Educational Series titled Transmission. To purchase the book, follow this link to the bookstore.