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Vichara means effort to trace thought back to its source, culmination of which effort is discovery of such source as being the Shining of the self-resplendent Heart that is, the Beingness of the Self. The penultimate triumph in vichara has come about when effort is needed in order to leave the Shining of the Heart rather than in order to plunge and merge into It.
If you incessantly hold on to the source of thought, there will come a time when emergence from such source becomes altogether impossible; the embodiment of this state is what vichara sadhana seeks to achieve. Vichara means hunting for the source of thought so that we might abide exclusively and permanently there as and there in. To practise vichara is simply this: seek whence within yourself it is that thought arises; having found such source, stay there once and for all.
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