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SPIRITUAL JOY
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A wavering śraddhā which often changes its course is not śraddha in the real sense of the term.
A certain man once fell in love with a woman. He administered to her a magical herb as a result of which she became enamoured of him. She lost interest in every body else and became mad after him. Her family became very much upset. They called a magician who said that the woman's passion for her lover had become so much deeprooted that unless it was removed she will continue to be infatuated with him. The magician then applied a charın and eradicated her infatuation. It is not easy to extract the desires which have become embedded in the unconscious. The suşumnā channel and the sahasrāra cakra are two powerful centres in the body. Experienced practitioners have attached great importance to them. When the faith that spiritual joy is the greatest joy takes root in the unconscious mind. the practitioner begins to feel the vibrations in the psyche which are vibrations of positive energy.
Somebody asked Bhagavān Mahāvīra : "What do we achieve from religious faith ?" The latter replied: "Religious faith brings to an end all kinds of curiosity.” When spiritual vibrations begin, all curiosity about the material vibrations comes to an end. One of the methods of stopping curiosity about the sex-centres is to push up the energy collected in the sex-centres. The practitioner has to resolve and to pull the nerves of the area of the apāna upwards. If this is done for fifteen or twenty minutes or for half an hour, the vibrations which produce spiritual joy will begin.
The electricity in the tongue is negative, whereas that in the head is positive. If you touched your palate with your tongue, you will feel a strange pleasure. This will produce in you the state of self-absorption.
The fusion of positive and negative charges of energy and bhāvarā produce spiritual vibrations. Material vibrations go on disappearing gradually as the spiritual vibrations become intense. It appears to the practitioner as if he is entering into the most valuable experience.
The subject which we have discussed above is not a matter of argument. It refers to experience. Mere reasoning, however fine it may be, cannot take the practitioner to the
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