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In the words of Sant Maharishi Mehi:
The stream of celestial nectar is flowing from the subtle canal of the sushumna nerve. Like a fish the consciousness current is moving upstream. Like a fish making its way upstream, the mind travels with consciousness away from the senses (the current) with great difficulty. (This will seem to the mind a difficult and "unnatural” course, as the mind is habituated to move toward the senses and the sensory objects.)
But how exactly this concentration of dispersed consciousness and reversing it inward is accomplished? It is accomplished by collecting your mind within with intense focus. To understand this, we must illustrate examples from the physical substances. Whenever a physical substance is gathered in one place, as it becomes concentrated, gathered in a pile, it moves upward, whether the substance is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. The more subtle substance is more pervasive, its movement is faster, and it is capable of moving higher: water is more subtle than ice, steam is more subtle than water, and electric current or lightning is even subtler than steam.
The mind is inconceivably more subtle and faster than even the speed of light. Physicists have told us that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. We can see light, but one does not see the mind due to the subtle nature of mind. This is something to ponder: How fast can the mind travel when it is collected and
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