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How Does Transmission Work?
The worthy trainer by the power of yogic transmission weakens the lower
tendencies in the mind of trainee and sows the seed of Divine Light
in the innermost core of his heart. In this process the trainer uses
his will-force which has divine infinite at his back. The trainee may
not feel anything in the beginning. The reason is that he is accustomed
to feel only through the senses. After sometime, however, he may feel
the results of such transmission, which also are in the form of subtle
changes of the working of his vital parts and tendencies of his mind.
If I may be permitted a short reference to the Upanishads particularly
the Kena Upanishad, a student asks his teacher by what does the eye
see? By what does the nose smell? By what does the ear hear? And so
on, and the teacher replies that it is not the eye that sees, but the
eye of the eye. Similarly what hears is the ear of the ear, and what
speaks is not the mouth but something behind the mouth, the real speaker.
The Rishi goes on to add that life itself lives only by the existence
of the higher life which it contains and this is called the pranasya
prana or the life of life. My Master has maintained that while the
body lives by the soul, the soul must in turn have that by which it
exists, and this is the ultimate life force or pranasakthi.
We have this brilliant idea in Sahaj Marg that the body lives by the
soul, and the soul can go through time, as we understand it, on its
journey to the ultimate. It lives by transmission. Therefore, transmission
is called 'life of life'. And transmission has nothing to do with space
and time.
The body lives and grows at the physical level, and so sustains itself
on physical foods. The soul, being spiritual in nature, needs food of
that plane. Master feeds abhyasis with his spiritual transmission and
nourishes them. Master calls transmission as 'spiritual food.'
The body lives by the soul. The soul lives by transmission which we
can think of as the essence of Divinity. In Sanskrit it is called pranasya
prana which means the soul of the soul. Really speaking, without
transmission the soul is like a dead thing. The very first transmission
makes the soul alive. It is the touch of Divinity itself.
In our transmission under the Sahaj Marg system, it is this that is
transmitted into the heart of the student of yoga by the divine power
associated with my Master, and which power it has been possible for
him to endow upon the preceptors, as they are called, who are vested
with the responsibility of offering such transmission to students who
come to them. 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 life itself, and it is this that sets the Sahaj Marg
system of Raja Yoga apart from other extant systems of yoga.
Our Grand Master, Samarth Guru Shri Ram Chandraji of Fatehgarh rediscovered
the capacity for the transmission of yogic or life energy from his own
centre of existence into the centre of existence of another individual.
This art he has passed on to his disciple, my Master, who has perfected
it. This transmission is something which is capable of being felt by
anybody who takes the trouble of practicing this system for a brief
period. In fact it is the transmission which sets Sahaj Marg apart from
other yogas, and from all other systems of human evolution. My Master
says that when the transmission is made with a force higher than himself,
and therefore his evolution or progress becomes not only very much speedier
but also becomes, in a sense, independent of his own capacity for progress.
Therefore, the present condition of the individual has no bearing on
what he sets out to be, and at one stroke all differences of present
human situation are eradicated, because of the possibility of this transmission
existing today.
As a matter of fact what pranahuti does for the spiritual uplift
of the abhyasi in the shortest possible time, independent efforts cannot
do even in a full decade. Serious difficulties often arise when meditation
is practiced independently in accordance with the old methods prescribed
in books. Under the old system of abhyas, one has to keep on struggling
with the mind in order to stop its unceasing activities. The struggle
continues all the time without any success in the real sense. Thus practically
there is no meditation at all, and all the time is lost in mere struggling
and suppressing mental modifications. In order to overcome this very
great difficulty, under the Sahaj Marg system we simply connect ourselves
with the power of the Master whose mind has become thoroughly disciplined
and regulated. His power then begins to flow into the individual regulating
his mental tendencies.
What Master transmits is His own spiritual energy which he has
got access to by virtue of his own yogic accomplishment under his own
Master. It has been rediscovered that one human being can transmit to
another this energy which is not limited in any way just because it
comes from a human, but is really unlimited, because by virtue of its
real nature, it is connected with the ultimate source of all energy.
Therefore this transmission has no boundaries, it has no limits, there
is no end to the amount of transmission that can take place or if you
like, the quantum of transmission that can take place. It is therefore
possible to transmit to one, or to a hundred, or to millions, there
is no limit. Also he can transmit here or he can transmit to a person
wherever he is.
By this transmission, the Master is able to put into our hearts his
own energy. That is, now we have the possibility of growing by someone
else's energy which is put into us. We are helped with a crutch. Instead
of being dependent on ourselves, we have now become dependent on Him.
Because He gives that food for the soul which we need to quickly develop,
quickly develop beyond what we believe to be the possibility for human
beings hitherto, precisely because he is able to put his wealth into
us.
It erases by his power all past impressions of good, impressions of
bad, it does not matter which. Because impressions condition our behaviour,
impressions condition our existence. In that sense the past is a burden
on us. Every day, we are adding more impressions and, therefore, we
are increasing the burdens on ourselves. Every day that lapses is one
more day in the past. Thus we are adding to our burdens instead of decreasing
them. My Master is able to decrease this, and often eradicate it completely,
by his own power whereby he removes all impressions of the past from
the mind. It is a liberation from the past assisted by his own transmission
which infuses us, with his spiritual energy for our own growth and,
therefore, the possibility of our development has no limits.
Master said, "It is the utilization of the Divine energy for
the transformation of man." But there are cases where even
the transmission is reflected back from the man who comes to take the
transmission. It is as if it cannot penetrate. So, the important thing
even prior to receiving the transmission seems to be the need to accept
the Master. One who does not accept the Master does not seem capable
of receiving the very transmission which is designed to transform him.
And when does this acceptance of the Master begin? When we see him,
when we move with Him, when we are associated with Him, we grow to love
Him, to cherish Him, to adore Him, and the desire comes, to be like
Him.
Master used to call the transmission as 'Forceless force', which I
say is only his love for us because He was only transmitting love. It
is not a force; it is not anything else. I prefer to believe and have
reason to believe that it is His love which was being poured into our
hearts which we call the transmission, which we call Pranahuti. Being
forceless, it will act, not only over infinite distances to the very
borders of infinity but also through eternity of time. Love alone can
act, breaking the barriers of space and time. No other force exists
which can do it.
The Master and his transmission, I believe, are the same thing. Because
I asked him once, "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. If anything
proves his Divinity it was this fact of transmission flowing anywhere
at anytime, without limitation.
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