Gyani Baile & Dolly Baile

on the moon as an object of concentration, she was told by Baba
that Brahman should be the object of meditation and not the
Prakriti).
7) Center of consciousness: Head and heart are the safest center
advisable to the majority of the people. Centers below the heart
should not be chosen without expert instructions.
This book talked about the centers of consciousness very briefly but in
her meditation she learned lot more details about those which Baba
referred to as seven different 'Chakras'. She can't find the reference to a
book where she had found a very good description of the chakras in
language very similar to what Baba had used, but she still has the
information saved as a copied page from somewhere and it reads "On
February 3, 98, Baba gave her the lesson on maintaining equal
mindedness and it was done by following an intense meditation
technique which was a way to control the disturbances and agitation of
the mind. To use the technique she was asked to imagine a form of the
God (for her Lord Shiva's form in a meditation posture was prescribed
then) and imagine rotating a sharp bladed wheel around the form
ensuring that it did not touch any part of the imagined God form. Baba
had said "Foremost, you should not be agitated by external world, but
initially when you are unable to control the disturbances this intense
meditation technique will help you. Now feel the purifying nectar flow
from your heart chakra to upward and downward to all parts of your
body. "
Swami Nikhilananda in his book "Self - Knowledge" says about kinds
of meditation "There are two kinds of mediation, namely, the objective
and the subjective. The objective meditation is, again, of two kinds
associated with sound symbol and another by a form symbol. Sound
symbol consists in repeating such formula as "Om Sat-chit-anandam
Brahma" or "Om Sat-chit-ekam Brahma." In the form symbol the
aspirant meditates on some external object or form that seems to him
closest to Brahman."
"The objective meditation in its early stage is called Savikalpa where
the aspirant is conscious of the object of the meditation; when the
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