Sádhaná takes place in the subconscious mind.

Human beings are called mánuśya or mánuśa, etc. They are called by terms in which the word mana [mind] occurs in one form or other, because the human is a mana-pradhána [mind-dominated] creature. They are beings in whom the mind and thinking are the predominant moving forces, and in whom the instinct does not play the role which it plays in the other animals.

Demonstration

[Bábá touched a person at various cakras, starting from the mańipura and proceeding upwards to the ájiṋá cakra.⁽¹⁾ Sounds beginning with the tick-tick of a cricket and growing finer and sweeter into the sound of the páyala [ankle bells], and later into the sounds of a flute, were heard by the medium of the demonstration. At the anáhata cakra,⁽²⁾ the páyala sounds kept rhythm with the heartbeats as if in a dance. Bábá explained that there is a primordial Cosmic sound that corresponds to the initial creation, when the planets are in formation; while the flute sound corresponds to the stages of control of unit minds by the Creator in the fully-created Cosmos. This mind-stealing sweet sound is called muralii manohara kii dhvani by yogis.]

Footnotes

(1) That is, from the third psycho-spiritual centre, or plexus, located at the navel, up to the sixth plexus, located between the eyebrows. –Eds.

(2) Fourth psycho-spiritual centre, or plexus, located at the mid-point of the chest. –Eds.