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170 RAJA YOGA4. Forget the body. Forget the surroundings. Forgetfriends and relatives. Forgetting these is the highest Sadhana.It helps meditation a great deal. By remembering God you canforget all these things. Merge within by practising deep, silentmeditation. Taste the spiritual consciousness by withdrawingthe mind from the sensualobjects and fixing it on the object ofmeditation. This will lead you to Samadhi, the highest goal ofYogis.5. You will have to note carefullywhether you remain stationaryin the spiritualpath even after many years of meditationorwhetheryou are progressing. Sometimes you may even retrogradeor fall downwards also if you are not vigilant and careful,if your Vairagya wanes and if you are slack in meditation'Reaction may set in. Some practise meditation for a period of15 years and yet they have not made any spiritual progress.Why? This is due to the lack of earnestness, Vairagya, keenlonging for liberation and intense constant Sadhana. Just aswater leaks out into the rat holes in the agricultural fields, soalso energy is wasted in wrong channels through Raga and undercurrents,lurking, subtle desires. Suppressed desires alsowill manifest and harass you. Unconsciously you will become avictim to those desires.6. When you advance in the spiritual practice, it will bevery difficult for you to do both meditation and office work at thesame time daily because the mind will undergo a double strain'It works in different grooves and channels with differentSamskaras during Dhyana. lt finds it difficult to adjust itself todifferent kinds of uncongenial activity, as soon as it comesdown from a higher plane of sublime thinking. The mind has tomove in diametrically opposite direction. lt gropes in the darkness.lt gets bewildered, confused and puzzled. You mighthave noticed how the mind gets puzzled even in ordinary dailyaffairs of life when you go to a new place in matters of food,bath, rest and answering the calls of nature.7. When you again sit for meditation in the evening youwill have to struggle hard to wipe out the new worldlySamskaras you have gathered during the course of the day,and to get a calm, one-pointed mind again. This struggle,sometimes, brings on headache. The Prana which moves in-