Very difficult to reach
It requires mastery in Kriya yoga
What is that mastery?
Kevali !!!!
There is no one in the 7 billion population right now who can teach that ! If they exist they are totally hidden. Not giving any lectures etc
Here’s a long synopsis from Yogananda on it
So long as even a little tremor of thought and mental restlessness is present, you cannot reach cosmic consciousness.
The Self-Realization Technique of Concentration* helps greatly to improve the quality and powers of one’s concentration.
It’s practice will save the earnest seeker from years of fruitless wandering on the subconscious plane.
That land you want to avoid, it is full of illusory and imaginative spiritual experiences.
One must reach the superconscious state to have real spiritual experiences and realizations of truth. ^
The world has a habit of much teaching and little practicing. You may hear a lecture on sugar a hundred times but you will not know its flavor until you have tasted it. Neither can the glory of any true teachings be known except by practice.
You have to live the teachings of the prophets and the great ones. Then their truths become your own and you realize that truth it’s demonstrable and universal.
~Paramahansa Yogananda
“Man’s Eternal Quest” page 165
*Concentration is a state of complete one pointedness and stillness of consciousness. The nature of creation is motion, the nature of spirit is motionless. “Be still and know that I am God.” Psalms 46:10 Concentration is therefore essential to divine communion. The teachings of concentration and meditation taught in Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons, lead to perfect attunement of human consciousness to divine consciousness.
^ The subconscious level of man’s awareness has its usefulness as the repository of memory and as the land of sleep and dream. But in meditation it can be a real deterrent luring the absentminded, imaginative, or psychically inclined aspirant into a realm of fanciful hallucinations that have no more reality or spiritual value then one’s ordinary dreams at night.
Scientific meditation techniques and the devotee’s own effort to practice them correctly, draw the mind instead to the superconscious state of self-realization and God-communion.
Bhavin