How do meditation, cleaning and transmission combine to make us evolve spiritually?
Meditation helps to focus the mind by regulating it, and thus prevents formation of fresh impressions or samskaras. Cleaning is to remove the effect of past impressions or samskaras. When doing the cleaning, the abhyasi is requested to imagine the grossness going out from the back as smoke, AND to imagine that grace is filling the heart from in front. This makes us evolve.