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Be a spectator of Consciousness/115
The friend is seated in a cave. Is that escapism? Fugitives do escape. Cave is a symbol of revolution. That is the planningchamber for the independence of the nation within. Cave-dwelling is the campaign for the return of consciousness. If mind becomes peaceful and motionless, then even a city enters a super-cave. Then, one's face is reflected in the mirrors but the tendency to see the 'Vimb' (image) in the reflections comes to a close.
Before the mind inspires the body to act with waves of thoughts, its direction should be changed. 'Pratyahar' brings back the life-force expanding through 'Pranayam' (breath-control). 'Pranayam' brings about the extension of life, and 'Pratyahar' effects return towards the original source.
'Pranayam' is the outgoing of breath, and 'Pratyahar' is intake of breath. The attuned sequence of 'Pranayam' and 'Pratyahar' is life. If this process becomes combined with consciousness, then endless bright possibilities may materialise. A person should take himself outside upto eternity, and should take inside upto zero (vacuum). The dovine wealth of supreme life lies in the internal vacuum and external perfection. For initiating, it is essential to form an assemblage of the life-powers within one's own self. 'Kumbhak' means to make the internal powers 'sthitaprajna' (rationally steady).
This journey of ours, to the summit of consciousness, is the honouring of the action-machinery. Body, mind, thought, inner consciousness of brain-whose originality is therein all these after all? Who is originally within, and whose flow is there-there must be curiosity towards it. He who tried to know the origin/source of his life; who he is, is a character proceeding on the path of 'sambodhi' (rational knowledge). Curiosity is the companion of 'sambodhi'. Trance is but his, whose efforts to know his own self has taken the certificate of success. Trance is that sea coast, to reach which one has to fight against many storms. For him who is prepared to dare the storms in all possible ways, for him, every wave is the sea-coast.
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