Here are the various techniques for reading position that I am aware of -
1) Start with point 1. Gently mentally move the soul from Ito 2 to 3 and so one, like moving a computer mouse. Should be done very gently. At some point the movement doesn't happen smoothly. This offers a hint to the position.
2) Transmit to the Abhyasi at the end of the sitting, and at the very end watch the point up to which the transmission is able to reach without resistance. This offers a hint to position.
3) Transmit to the Abhyasi's heart, and let it spread. Reflect visually the condition of the abhyasi and observe which points have how much light in them vs. being totally dark. The point up to which there is some light, gives a clue to the position of the abhyasi
4) Transmit to the Abhyasi's heart and let it spread. Reflect visually and observe each point one at a time. A small spark will appear at points where yatra has occurred. This offers a hint to the position of the abhyasi.
5) Center yourself in your heart. Make a suggestion that Master is in osmosis with the abhyasi, and as a result of this, through resonance, the abhyasi's position is being revealed to you. Observe which point(s) in you starts vibrating. This offers a clue to the abhyasi's position. If two points vibrate, then the lower is likely the kasbi position and higher the aksi.
There are two different positions - Aksi (reflected) and Kasbi (acquired). All of these methods typically offer a hint to Aksi. Master has said that more concentration is required for Kasbi. For checking one's own position, the method of placing attention on one point and moving to another gently and then the third in oneself, is very reliable. This is a way to evaluate one's own Kasbi position.
Augerans, France Thursday, July 6, 1989
To take off where we left yesterday, we come back to the Essentials for a Spiritual
Trainer as given here under:
C. Methods for reading the condition of the abhyasi
Transmit to the abhyasi for a few minutes and then read the condition of the abhyasi
using any of the following processes:
1. Magnify the condition of the abhyasi mentally, and then study it.
Magnify it as if you are using a magnifying glass. Imagine that the condition is expanding in space in front of you within the human system and try to read it. Just like small print which you can't read, you use a magnifying glass to magnify the print and read it.
2. (This is a different process.) Bring out or take out the internal condition of the abhyasis out of his body and expand it mentally in space (outside his body) by the force of your will from the point of the heart. Then it will be easy to make a close observation of the abhyasi's condition.
If it is found that the expansion within is not enough, and you are not able to read the condition, then mentally project the condition outside, you see, as if it is being projected from within the abhyasi's heart outside himself, and now try to read it. 287/620
3. The powerful effect of the abhyasi's condition at a particular point will often produce a corresponding effect upon the preceptor.
This we have already seen in the Courmettes seminar where I told you then about three ways of reading the abhyasi's condition. One, that you can see it as a visual thing. Two, that you feel something vibrating or feeling the condition created in yourself. Babuji adds, "This is, however, not a very sure method." Because you cannot always be sure that you are reflecting the abhyasi's condition, it could be something within yourself. And then we come to the fourth point.
4. There may be some abhyasis who possess the power of projecting, or casting out, the effect of a particular point or chakra upon others. In such cases the preceptor must conclude that that particular chakra has been awakened in the abhyasi. Such a conclusion would hold good in case of higher regions too.
I think this is rather rare. It doesn't happen very often that an abhyasi has the power of projecting his condition upon others. It is a spiritual condition. Don't be afraid that it is mesmerism or possession or things like that. It is a projection of an inner condition upon someone in whom a similar condition can be created. And you are supposed to study it and come to the conclusion that that is his present condition. You don't have to do anything about it.
So these are the four methods for reading the condition of the abhyasi. You can use them along with the general methods I have already told you about last year. Perhaps in this connection, it would be appropriate to add to this material all that you have already got last year, being the discussions I had with some French preceptors about the preceptor's work. There's a set of papers, I think most of you have it in French, some of you also in English, because we had it in English duplicated in Boston and circulated there in the States and in Canada. Sections III and IV of this book contain these papers.