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las (spheres), one should enter the Sukhamandala (Pineal gland), drawing up the vayu and should send it (Vayu) upwards. He who practises thus (the control of) Vayu becomes one with Brahmanda (the macrocosm). He should practise (or master) Vayu, bindu, chitta and chackra.
Yogis attain nectar through Samadhi alone. Just as the fire latent in (sacrificial) wood does not appear without churning, so the fire of wisdom does not arise without Abhyasa yoga (or the practice of yoga). The fire placed in a vessel does not give light outside. When the vessel is broken, its light appears without. One's body is spoken of as the vessel, and the seat of "That is the fire (or light) within; and when it (the body) is broken through the words of a guru, the light of Brahma-gyana (Higher wisdom) becomes resplendent. With the guru as the helmsman, one crosses the subtle body and the ocean of Sansara (mundane existence) through the affinities of practice. That Vak (power of speech) which sprouts in Para, gives forth two leaves in Paryanti, buds forth in Madhyama and blossoms in Vaikhari-that Vak which has before been described, reaches the stage of the absorption of sound, reversing the above order, (viz., beginning with Vaikhari, &c.). Whoever thinks that he who is the great lord of that Vak, who is the (undifferentiated) and who is the illuminator of that Vak is myself-whoever thinks thus, is never affected by words high or low (or good or bad). The three (aspects of consciousness), Viswa, Taijasa and Pragnya,
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