Dear ZN,
In deep sleep also there is no inside and outside yet one remains ignorant. Self realisation is just one step ahead yet very distant.
That is not to mean that Pranayama is not adequate method, but eventually the
one who is doing the Pranayama has to know what
one is --- and remain un-forgetful.
And this knowing will require neti-neti.
Keno Upanishad
IV-2. Therefore, these gods viz. Agni, Vayu and Indra excelled other gods, for they touched Brahman who stood very close and indeed knew first that It was Brahman.
IV-3. Therefore is Indra more excellent than the other gods, for he touched Brahman who stood very close and indeed knew first that It was Brahman.
IV-5. Then (follows) the instruction through analogy on the aspect of the individual self. (It is well-known that) the mind seems to attain to It, that It is continually remembered by the mind, and that the mind possesses the thought (regarding It).
Indeed now I comprehend why breath methods, when devoid of mind involvement with God/Brahman, can only be preparatory. When the mind is full of Brahman/God it is Bhakti or Meditation. And when the mind is full of Brahma Jigyasa, it is enquiry.
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a) Mind is just one degree apart from the Self. It is the mind that is closest to Brahman and it must know first.
b) It is revealed in the sacred doctrine of Kula and by the great Bhairava, that the perfection is achieved by that very means by which fall occurs.
c) It is by mind that one falls and it is the mind which attains perfection.
Regards
Om
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