Page 55 - Liberal Exposition of Pranahuti Aided Meditation

God. We don’t say that you should not purify, we only say that whether you are pure, impure or anything other than that, you have got that inherent right to be with the Divine because you are of the Divine, you are Divinity itself. Now do I have that right is the question that we are posing for ourselves. You have the right not because you are virtuous, not because you are good, not because you are a person who is living according to certain standards, but all of us are fit for this mainly because our nature is of the same type as that of Divinity. The thought force which is the base of all creation is the same thought force that is there with you and this commonality between this thought, the nature of thought, is what makes us what we call an arhat. A plant is not fit for yoga, a plant is fit for bhakti. An animal, a cow, is not fit for yoga, it is fit for bhakthi. We have used them in temples - tulsi leaves or bilva patra, we have been using it as a part of bakthi. Cows, oxen, camels, horses, we have used in temples, even elephants we have used, we are using, as service to the Divine but there is no chance of yoga there, there is no yoga possible at all. Yoga is possible only when you have thought because Divinity is of the nature of thought, the nature of kshob (basic stir) is thought and it is something that you have got to experience. Now because of this commonality of the thought that we have got the kingly thing in us, yoga/Pranahuti is possible. Since prana is thought, Pranahuti is possible, if we are not prana, no ahuti is possible.
Having accepted that this thought is there, how do we say that Pranahuti or the type of meditation that we are now asking is the correct one? It can be something else also. Kindly note thought we have told is of the nature of Divinity so when you give to your mind any idea other than Divinity or unconnected to Divinity, mind rebels. It is not at calm, it is not at peace, but if you give the idea of God or Divinity to the mind it becomes settled. It is one positive proof that you have, to show that our mind and Divinity is of the same order. You sit in meditation thinking about Divine light in the heart, you will be getting into a state of calmness. Instead if you have got to do something else, mind always rebels. It gets into a state of excitement, it doesn’t get into a state of calmness. I am using the word excitement so that you will appreciate. Even in the case of people who do japa or who do puja of the Divine, though relative calmness is there they are in a excited condition, please note it, they are in a excited condition. Those of you who have practiced any one of these things, if you do puja you are in an excited condition, an emotion overtakes you, devotion