When we say that time is infinite or that an atom is infinitesimal we do not comprehend what these words exactly mean. It is impossible for the human mind to know what infinity is. Thinking about infinity in terms of time,
we can have only a vague glimpse of the past four or five thousand years. In the same way we can have a meagre perception of an atom of dust dancing in a beam of sun-light. If the mind can have a knowledge of infinity, and its opposite, it will cease to be a three-dimensional mind and turn into a four-dimensional one. This is the fourth state of the human mind (Turiya state). Casting away the shackles of space and lime, it is possible for this fourth-dimensional mind to know the past, present and the future in us entirely. It would also have a faithful and complete knowledge of events and objects in the above three divisions of lime. Our Rishis in the past have minutely described truthfully the events in the life of persons who were to be born two or four thousand years in the future. What is this miracle of the nadi granthas ? How could the Rishis foretell the exact events and happenings in the life of the late Prime Minister of India. Shri Lai Bahadur Shastri, till his unfortunate death at Tashkent. Many people believe that this uncanny knowledge is obtained through the agency of the whispering spirit.
It is possible to make the mind infinite or atomic in space and time. This mysterious siddhi simply made me mad and I began to meet great Yogis and Saints with a view to knowing the secrets behind this siddhi. Nobody however could satisfy me. Some persons told me that this was all a play of the subconscious mind. At last I asked
the same question to my revered Guru (Babaji of Patna). I have already described an incident regarding his siddhi of thought transference. The Guru looked at me in a strange manner and became very serious. It was my second experience to note that a Guru while divulging a secret becomes very serious. The Guru most candidly told me that it was a maha siddhi and the Rishi who wrote the nadi granthas had to perform certain sadhanas for a number of years, nay even during some births. I asked him in all humility whether he could reveal the nature of the sadhana. He flatly told me not to practise it but instead asked me to devote my time to prayers and contemplation. I knew that it was an evasive answer to my question. However looking at my perseverance in getting an answer he at last yielded and revealed to me the wonderful sadhana of taking the mind beyond space and time. He told me as follows:
“If we blow a thin rubber balloon, there is a limit to its expansion. It will not inflate further or it will burst. In the same way human mind would only be able to think about a short span of time. Beyond that it would fail to think further or it would subside. Now the sadhana of expanding the mind in time is as follows. Every day whenever you are free, lie down in your bed in a comfortable position. There should be complete solitude in the room. Let there be no noise or other disturbances. Now close your eyes and imagine a pit a crore of miles each in length, breadth and height. Imagine further than the pit is filled to the brink with a very small corn such as poppy seed. Now imagine that after a crore of years one grain is to be removed front the pit. When all the grains are removed imagine that it would be a human second of God (Brahma). Taking the life span of Brahma to be a crore of years, imagine his whole life span ; span in terms of
time. Practising this apparently impossible sadhana for a number of days and probably months, your ignorance about infinity would gradually decrease and you would have its very faint glimpse. This is expansion of human mind in infinite time."
I practised this sadhana for four or five months. I experienced that after some time my mind became thought- less and for want of conscious thinking it became quite blank. Even if ordinary persons cannot acquire this mighty siddhi, they will certainly get the secondary benefit from this sadhana. For practising this sadhana no special seat or time is necessary. Only solitude and noiseless room is required. I am led to believe that the main idea of this sadhana is picked up from Jain literature. There the idea is of human hair instead of the corn.
The seer will know an object if it is on the same level with the object. It is not possible for an atomic seer to perceive a gross object. An ant, for instance, cannot have a true knowledge of an elephant. It would only see that part of the elephant which is in front of it. We can by certain sadhanas, make your gross mind (seer) very subtle. For this lie down in your bed with eyes closed. Now think that an atomic creature takes a crore years to cross a distance of one centimetre. Now powerfully imagine the distance which that creature would cross within a second. As your mind advances in this sadhana it would become very subtle and thus have a perception of very small objects which are beyond the ken of ordinary human mind.
The opposite process of making the mind vast is to think about the maddening distance in light years of stars in the sky. The sadhana of expanding the mind in time convinces us
twinkle of our eyes. Our pride, envy, desires and attach- ment to mundane life all vanish gradually.
The sadhana of expanding the mind in space makes us feel that the objects and atmosphere around us are insignificant.
The readers should please note that the above two are the most important sadhanas for taking the mind in the superconscious state. They should try to practise them at least for some months. Although it is hard to say that all the sadhakas would attain this siddhi, they would certainly achieve the secondary benefit.
I bow my head at the holy feet of my Guru who taught me the above sadhana with its main and secondary attainments.
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