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> Beyond yoga (Continued)

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> Occultism, theosophy and so on are circuitous routes to the same goal.

> Ultimately their followers will arrive at the Self, though their leaders do

> not teach the meditation on the Self. Meditation on the Self is the

> quickest, most direct and right route to realization. The Upanishads

> declare, "That which sees not, hears not, thinks not, that is the

> Infinite." Those who listen for sounds or meditate on the sound of Aum,

> are meditating on hearing something, when the Infinite itself cannot be

> heard. It is the same with those occult groups that are developing psychic

> visions, clairvoyance, chakra-centers (energy-centers in the body), etc.

> They are trying to see forms, when the Reality is not to be seen. They are

> making for the same goal, but they are wandering around to get there. In

> vichara (Self-Inquiry) there is no attempt to see or hear the Real, but

> only to realize it. The meditation on the Self is the straight, short and

> direct path, which does not concern itself with planes and degrees.

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> From the book, "Conscious Immortality" by Paul Brunton and Munagala

> Venkataramia