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PRELUDES TO MEDITATION
Now on to preksha, its order and process, A detailed, authoritative, objective
ntation: Dawn, the last part of night, finds the
seekers awake! After routine ablutions, all gathered together! The endless conflict of thought, day and night! How to be free from that is the first
consideration.
Q. You have already expounded the theoretical aspect
of preksha meditation. Is there a practical aspect, too?
Ans. Theory and practice-each method of sadhana is
- a current flowing between these two banks. A technique which has no theoretical basis, cannot continue for long, and a theory which is not actualised in practice, cannot be of much use. No one can say how many techniques of sadhana originated and then disappeared
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