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Vartal-4: A Fountain

Summary

1. All of the spiritual endeavours for attaining liberation are incorporated in keeping the company - by thought, word and deed - of a Sant who possesses the 30 attributes of a sādhu.
2. When water goes into a fountain, it first revolves in a spiral and then spurts upwards; in the same way, the vrutti of the jiva revolves in a spiral in the antahkaran, which acts like the fountain, and then spurts out through the five indriyas.
3. A God’s devotee who is a yogi keeps his vrutti on God’s form in two ways:

1. He contemplates on God residing in his heart as the witness.
2. He contemplates on the external form of God in front of his eyes.

4. The method of beholding God’s form:

1. Contemplating upon the whole form of God from head to toe; but not separately upon any single part of the body.
2. Merging together both the form of God that resides in one’s heart as a witness, and the form of God that is outside.
3. Becoming separate from one’s indriyas and antahkaran through a thought process and beholding God’s form residing in the ātmā.