| Pranahuti is the uniqueness of the system of SriRamchandra. If we look at it from a historical angle after Bhagawan Krishna has left his mortal coil, the bhakthas became so many groups and then they distributed through out the country and I think, tried to impose or say that they are superior, inferior what ever it is and the bhakthi cult, the bhakthi yoga which was included by Lord Krishna in the path of yoga has taken more dominance and yoga per se was not given that much of importance and along with it this technique of Pranahuti also has become alien to our land. The phenomenon of prophets or avatars is always there and prophet Mohammed was the means through which we can have an entry into the Ultimate till recently. If we go into this concept of why there should be one person through whom alone everybody else can go to God, there are various doctrines about it but it is well accepted in spiritual life that there is always one presiding person. "I am the way", that's what Christ said and afterwards after about 5 to 6 hundreds years prophet comes and then says, "I am the way". The reason for that is that he is the eldest brother for all of us and he takes the responsibility of putting us through to God. This is - call it Sufism, call it Islam, call it religion, this is the accepted canon. The prophets do not come for dharmasamsthapanardha. Prophets come to assist other fellow beings to reach God, whereas an avatar comes for dharmasamsthapanardha. You should distinguish between these two aspects very very clearly then you will understand the Prophet has come and then he said that I will be of no value after thousand years, in their own works. You don't have to say that, he himself said another thousand years, his regime is over. It is just about a few years this way or that way it will be over, it is over from our point of view. It does not mean that the avatar is not in existence. The avatar of Sri Krishna continues to operate, He is the guiding spirit, He is the monarch but one of our own person, one of our own fellow beings takes the position of a Prophet and all grace of God passes through Him. This is the one reason why people who might have been Hindu, who might have been Christian, who might have belonged to other sects also at some stage or the other had to yield to the Prophet and go to the Ultimate only through Him, there is no alternative to that till recently. With the advent of The Supreme Personality of SriRamchandra, this particular role has been passed onto Him. Now, what does this person do? What does the prophet do or what does the supreme personality do with reference to us? With reference to the Nature, whatever they do they do, you have nothing to do with it. With reference to us they direct the flow of the Divine, the love or the compassion of the Divine to our heart whenever it is asked for, by whomsoever it be, he need not be a person who is directly connected to him, he need not be in the system that he is advocating, any person anywhere in the universe, any human being has got that right to call on the Divine because he is of the Divine. We are all part of the Divine and we have got that inherent right to go back to God and whenever you seek that God's help it is diverted to you, the flow is diverted to you. This is very vaguely hinted by SriRamchandraji Maharaj in Reality at Dawn. If you read it, any person who wants to know what it is, if he prays in earnestness, he will come to know what it is. The reason for that is, this has been experienced by all people, any person in great distress, any person who is in great love - whether distress and love or just love itself has always been able to get that inspiration from the Divine. He has never lacked it because God's love has no boundaries. It is there really full but one person channelizes that and the person who channelizes is the Supreme Personality or a Prophet or what ever word you use for that. It does not mean other people are not capable of doing their sadhana, they may do their sadhana or they may help other people in their sadhana but diverting the flow of the Divine grace is the exclusive privilege of one person and that person continues to reign for about a thousand years or so approximately. It may be less it may be more but generally it's for a period of millennia they work, if you see the history one person will always be diverting. So what is this that this person does, what do we mean by diversion of that grace of God? What exactly do we mean by that? Before I answer this question or before you can answer this question for yourself let us come back to fundamentals. We think about the Divine presence in our heart, why not somewhere else? Why not it be our head? Why not it be our nose? Why not it be something else in the space? Why should I meditate only on the Divine light in the heart? Heart has got, when you say feelings, it means that it knows the language of God. Heart knows the language of God, language of God is feeling so the language of God it knows. That is one aspect of it, what is the other aspect of it? Everyone of us, everyone of us is an expression of the Divine. Everyone of us is an expression of the Divine and no one here is either superior or inferior so far as the expression of the Divine is concerned. You may be a good architect, I may be a good artist, you may be a good songster or I may a good sports man, it does not matter much but in each one of us this capacity, which is the expression of the Divine is seen rather than our own expression. Our expressions are our ideas but so far as this particular concept of expression of the Divine is concerned every one of us is an expression of the Divine and the Divine resides in us. Divine resides in us from top to toe, from top to toe he resides but if you have got to locate Him, He is best located in the heart which is the meeting point between the animate and inanimate, between the matter and the spirit, between bad blood and good blood. That is the common point, so in this place you feel the Divinity more. Some of us try to feel the beating of the heart. It is not very necessary that you should feel the beating of the heart, what you should feel is the presence of the Divine, whatever it may mean without any adjective but don't try to put God into a particular pocket. When you try to put it you are restricting Divinity to that, that means you are curtailing the freedom of God to be something else than that. When you give a form you are almost compelling that he is put into that jacket, He cannot be anything other than that, He refuses to get into any such jacket, He is not any one of these things, all that we know He Is and something more athya thista dasangulam - what ever you know He Is, plus something more. It is a very paradoxical statement in the Vedas you will find that God is, when you try to know, the Purusha, He has covered the whole universe, having covered the whole universe and everything that can be known, He has extended by another ten inches so it's a paradox. Having done everything, athya thista dasangulam is a very very profound concept. God refuses to fit into anything and then He is something more, this something more is expressing Himself itself in us, where? where the two opposites meet. That is the reason why we take the heart and then we say that if we put the Divine thought here and since heart is the organ which is involved in the purification of your blood then we take advantage of this purification also. This is the reason why it goes to that, now that is not our point here. One of the questions that beginners usually ask is regarding, how to locate the heart? The heart is located in the chest and it tilts towards the left. It is a fact that during meditation you do not see it nor do you see anything for that matter. All of us do not see in the beginning or we have been accustomed to seeing outside rather than seeing inside so it takes time for you to learn to look inside. When you grow sufficiently you definitely see even minor details of inner mechanism, if you go into that siddhi aspect of it, but if you are going only to the concept of Divinity in your heart, you know where it beats so that is the reason why SriRamchandraji Maharaj has used the word where it beats. Where it beats means instead of searching for heart elsewhere you know it is somewhere in the chest. You suppose that there is a Divine light there. You suppose, you don't imagine, you suppose. I think the concept of supposition also should be explained to you clearl
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