Sri Ramana Maharshi
12-24-1945 Evening
After parayana, Mr. Osborne said that before Mons. Georges Le Bot left, he said the following:
"I had the experience described by me twice, first by my own efforts, and the second time under the silent influence of a French philosopher now dead, who held my wrist and brought me to the same stage without any effort on my part. Both times I kept approaching the breaking point in waves but shrank back. It was because of the second experience that I decided that Maharshi could again bring me to that point."
To the visitor who pursued the question about pranayama, B said, "The aim is to make the mind one pointed. For that pranayama is a help, a means. Not only for dhyana but in every case where we have to make the mind one pointed, it may be even for a pure secular or material purpose, it is good to make pranayam and then start the other work. The mind and prana are the same, having the same source. If one is controlled, the other is also controlled at the same time. If one is able to make the mind one pointed without the help of pranayama, he need not bother about pranayama. But one who cannot at once control the mind, may control the breath and that will lead to control the mind. It is something like pulling a horse by the reins and making it go in one direction."
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