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The progress or travel beyond the Mind Region
brings us into the Central Region.
Physiologically, it is situated beyond the
occipital lobe. Cosmically, it is beyond the
Brahmanda including the para-Brahmanda levels.
The Brahmanda level reveals, as we pointed out,
the power which could help us to overcome not
only our internal but also our external
conditions. That these two, that is the external
and the internal, may be mutually opposed and
yet complementary is what is not usually
recognized. But it is very important to
emphasize that at certain points the two must be
recognized to be contradictory, for the external
is not merely the extension of the internal or
vice versa. On the other hand, one seems to be
the inversion of the other though containing all
that the other contains. When one passes
beyond the Brahmanda one arrives at a point
where one is no longer aware of the fact that he
exercises any power, for all resistances seek to
have broken down not by force but naturally.
Then he is aware of a new kind of calm and
plainness and simplicity. The peace of this zone
is different from what had been in the other
levels. Forceless force works automatically. It
is spontaneous and unimpeded and causes no
violent experiences. It is colourless and
lightless though it must be clear also that one
is not in ignorance or in darkness. It is this
force that the Master uses for transformation
and it is that which soothens the resistances by
removing them or rather dissolving them. This is
love truly understood.
The Central Region is thus entered into. This
region has been a closed book to all the
previous seers. It is Shri Ram Chandraji's
discovery. The seven worlds of the Ancients were
bhuh, bhuvah, svar, janah, mahah, tapas and
satyam. The going beyond the satyam has been
heralded by those who have spoken of the Para
(Transcendent). By entering the Central Region
one goes beyond the Satya world. As we have
stated we are beyond the worlds of dualities and
conflicts. This Central Region is that of the
Supreme Divinity. It is the region of divine
Splendour. It also is said to have seven rings
of splendour, which are indescribable. This
wonderful region is the most expansive one. One
travelling in this region is, of course, a
liberated one, though the rings here do intimate
that absolute liberation is yet to be got. It is
got when one crosses these rings of splendour
and enters the Ocean of the Centre. If the Heart
Region grants actuality and the Mind Region
grants potentiality, the Central Region grants
latency. Potentiality itself derives from
latency, the Tam (that), the last resting place
of the true Yogi.
The Rings of splendour are but the focussing
lights radiating from the Centre to the end of
the Central Region making something like rings.
According to Shri Ram Chandraji, the Central
Region is where all the thoughts merge into the
original Thought-movement (Kshobh). It is held
that all problems get solved here. For all the
knots and cakras are divinely active and it is
because of this that one who reaches this Region
can yet keep his physical body and yet swim in
the Centre. In other yogas this is impossible
for they attempt the breaking up of or cutting
down the knots and cakras, and these are somehow
the necessary conditions of physical existence.
Once one begins swimming in this region, one is
fully awakened and experiences the real thing in
pure and naked form (yathartha).
For entering into this Region the Power of
the Master alone can help. The higher the
approaches to the Centre the more is the need
for the Master's help and guidance. Many
schools, on the other hand, counsel the freedom
that comes for the disciple as he advances, a
freedom from the Master unfortunately. These may
be the avadhutas, but the true aspirant becomes
more and more integrated with the Master and can
suffer no separation from Him. In earlier yogas
even to enter the Brahmanda one had to
relinquish one's physical body. The usual
exposition of the jivanmukta or liberated even
when within this body had only emphasized that
the liberated one was yet subject to his past
karma. That force which could make this
subjection also impossible or remove this
subjection is surely that of the Master or God,
and it is when one enters the regions of the
Centre that one is freed from this also.
Crossing the seven final rings of the Central
Region one enters the Ocean of the Centre. One
nears the Centre and it is said that this is so
vast a region that the original Rishi who began
swimming is yet swimming towards the Centre and
has not reached it. This Centre is God. It is
absolutely motionless. There is no power or
energy or anything of that sort in it. It is
called therefore, Nothingness, which is not
however nothing. Adjacent to it is the latent
motion which generates power. But it is the
Centre that maintains the latent motion. Shri
Ram Chandraji says that the latent motions
generate power which rush out and create
egg-like things which are all concentrated
essence of power. Each egg-like thing is a cell
and is a master of one world. So there are as
many worlds as there are egg-like things. All
these are working according to the directions
from the Centre through the latent motions.
Among all these cells there is a Master Cell
which is primary because of its coming into
being first, or as a result of the first jerk
from the latent motion. This Master Cell is the
power house of all the other cells and all are
connected with it. So all cells retain their
close connection with the Master Cell. Our earth
seems to be specially directly connected with
the Master Cell, and has all the powers of that
Master Cell.
Thus we have a trinity, the Centre, the
latent motion and the Master, which are adjacent
to one another.
In our human body just as we pointed out the
locations of the centres of Pindapradesh (Heart
Region) and Mind Region, the Centre or point of
Centre is also in it. The Centre has got its
position in the occipital prominence at the back
of man's head. The Master Cell also is near it.
These two are in the material form very subtle.
In our anubhava we find that these are
experienced. Meditation finally leads to this
Centre and the Master Cell.
When one reaches these experiences one really
reaches the uppermost limit possible to man on
this planet.
Again and again in the history of the human
race the descent of God happens through a
Supreme Personality. They are epochal times for
the restoration of the righteousness (dharma)
and for the destruction of the wicked. Such
Supreme Personalities are special descents of
the Centre; they have the fullest power over all
the worlds and are capable of transforming human
nature into divine nature. Mankind always looked
forward for such appearances though it has
perhaps been always accompanied by several great
cosmic events, astronomical conjunctions,
sattelitum, earthquakes or, even as we should
now say, great inventions of great destructive
forces. The Supreme Personality or avatar is, of
course, in charge of all events and forces and
brings about the desired-for result with the
least possible amount of use of force through
love. Many have of late come, some claiming the
nature of advents, some as renaissance workers
of Godliness and belief in the Supreme Power.
All have made man alive to the need for the
supreme realization that without Godliness
mankind is bound to perish. Godliness is,
however, not a thing of books, or writing and
lecturing about Him; it is the life lived in
God, and nought else.
Unless this becomes a natural habit of being,
mankind is bound to get pestered by all sorts of
half-truths or, as Jaina would say, with
one-seventh-truths which only lead to mutual
distrust and sorrow unending and struggle
interminable.
May we pray to God to help us out this world
quandary. May we pray to Him to lead us to that
condition which knows none of these but the
peace everlasting both within and without.
As Shri Ram Chandraji puts it we need to pray
in total dedication to His work, for the Supreme
Personality is already amongst us.
O, Master!,
Thou art the real goal of human life.
We are all but slaves of our wishes putting a
bar to our advancement.
Thou art the only God and Power to lead us to
that State.
"OM TAT SAT. THAT IS EXISTENCE"
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