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Three or four days ago Mr. Desai, Retired Sub-Judge,
asked Bhagavan (with reference to what is said in Ramana Gita ), "How to direct the prana ^[?] or life-current into the sushumna nadi ^[?], so that as stated in Ramana Gita we could achieve the severance of the chit-jada granthi ^[?]?" Bhagavan said, "By enquiring `Who am I??'"

"The yogi may be definitely aiming at rousing the kundalini ^[?]
and sending it up the sushumna. The jnani may not be having this as his object. But both achieve the same result, that of sending the Life-force up the sushumna and severing the chit-jada granthi ^[?]. Kundalini is only another name for atma ^[?] or Self or sakti ^[?]. We talk of it as being inside the body, because we conceive ourselves as limited by this body. But it is in reality both inside and outside, being no other than Self or the sakti ^[?] of Self."

Desai: How to churn up the nadis, so that the kundalini ^[?]
may go up the sushumna?

Bhagavan: Though the yogi may have his methods of
breath-control, pranayama, mudras, etc., for this object, the jnani's method is only that of enquiry. When by this method the mind is merged in the Self, the Self, its sakti ^[?] or kundalini ^[?], rises automatically.

The next day a visitor asked Bhagavan, with reference
to the words dhimahi in the gayatri, "What is the idea meant? I am not able rightly to grasp it."

B: The words only mean fixing the aham ^[?] in the Self,
though literally they mean, "We meditate".

Visitor: I am not able to form a conception of the `Tat' or
the Self. Then, how am I to fix the aham ^[?] in the Tat.

B: Why should you bother to conceive the Tat which
you don't know? Try to find out the `I' that you know, what it is and whence it arises. That is enough.

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