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error of understanding. It is not the actual visualization of the light that is necessary for the purpose but only a faint idea of it in the form of mere supposition. Those who hanker after visualization of Light mean to put it under a material cloak which must necessarily be the outcome of their own imagination. Thus, the thing coming to view, if at all, would be artificial and not the real one. Moreover, the light is not our goal. We take it up only as a base for the thought to rest upon, in order to proceed by it to the Possessor of the Real Light or glory. In this way we mean to proceed from the quality to substance, from the apparent to the Real. So it is quite immaterial whether we see the light at all or not. The proper course would therefore be to turn one‘s attention gently towards the heart and suppose the presence of Divine light there. All efforts to localize the position of heart or visualize the light must be avoided.
Another difficulty which sometimes arises relates to the feeling of awareness during meditation. Generally it happens that after starting meditation with a conscious idea of the object he is gradually drifted into a state of apparent forgetfulness. In such a case, he
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