Page 56 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

or God. It is absolute peace or Santi, beyond that nothing is.
Man strives for this Santhi, or peace within. There is resemblance with this santhi at the time of creation or rather dissolution. The times of conjunction (Sandhi) between creation and dissolution are both early morning before sunrise, and sunset in the evening and this Santhi deepens as the night advances and reaches the maximum about midnight. Great union which is protective of peace is thus had in the night or Laya periods. It is the time of absorption in the peace. The diurnal peace is taken advantage of even as the Chandogya upanishad states that one verily indeed goes to him every night during his sleep (one's sensory and motor quiet,) though one does not remember this. Yoga is the process of remembering this conjunction and union through practice of remembrance making use of the times that grant such a possibility. The midday is not utilized as it is the period of intensive activity for moving forward and only slightly points to the path of return.
It is perhaps well to remember that ancients had two paths - the path of the day and the path of the night (the latter path is well known 56