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Explanation of terms used
The
Point Between the Eyebrows
The center of concentration and will in the body, often spoken of as the "spiritual eye" or "single eye" of intuition; the entryway into higher states of consciousness.
Jesus referred to the divine light that is perceived through the spiritual eye when he said: "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light" (Matthew 6:22).
The Sanskrit root word or seed-sound denoting that aspect of Godhead which creates and sustains all creation; cosmic vibration. Aum of the Vedas became the sacred word Hum of the Tibetans; Amin of the Moslems; and Amen of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians. Aum may be contacted through practice of Self-Realization Fellowship techniques of meditation. That blissful communion with the invisible Divine Power ("the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost"—John 14:26) is the truly scientific basis of prayer.
Significance of the Medulla Oblongata
Yoga treatises explain that cosmic energy enters the body principally through the medulla oblongata at the base of the brain. In the scriptures the medulla is referred to as "the mouth of God," and cosmic vibratory energy as the "Word" or Aum. Jesus declared: "Man shall not live by bread [material sources of energy—food, water, and oxygen] alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4).
Paramahansa Yogananda illustrated this principle by comparing the body with an automobile battery. The life of a battery depends only partially upon the chemicals and distilled water supplied it from outside; it also requires the vibrating electric current from the car’s generator to recharge it and enable it to produce more energy from the chemicals. A dead automobile battery cannot be recharged by filling it with fresh chemicals; it needs an electrical charge to revive it. Similarly, a dead body cannot be revived by filling its stomach with food and filling its lungs with air. To convert those chemicals into energy, the body requires vibrating life current (the "word"), which "proceedeth" out of the medulla oblongata ("the mouth of God") into the body parts. This life force is drawn by will power into the medulla from the surrounding cosmic energy.
Updated
12/10/99
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