The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 110 pages of information about The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga.

The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 110 pages of information about The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga.
These are your shadows—­your personalities.  What dies and is born is a mirage—­a mere phantasm—­which you materialise for certain purposes.  All these purposes centralise in one POTENTIALISED PURPOSE—­the conquest of matter.  Realise that you the Ego, have your dwelling in Supernal Regions—­on the spiritual plane—­with your Father-in-Heaven—­but that you have come down into matter that you may find the fullest possible objective expression.  Realise that you, the Ego, are a differentiated centre of consciousness in the Great Consciousness—­THE ABSOLUTE—­EGO—­SUM of the entire Universe with all its gross and subtle manifestations—­that you are endowed with all the powers and attributes of the Absolute Self.  Realise that you are not the emotional and passional manifestations—­surging up in your personality.  These are subject to the law of Flux and Rhythm and must be brought under the control of Reason and Will—­the balancing, equating principle of mind.  Realise that you are not the mind nor the intellect, but that you exercise this function in order to analyse the external manifestations of nature and study same.  Realise that you are pure Consciousness, Bliss and Existence in your essential nature—­on with the all-life.  Realise that the form side of manifestation is but a concentration, a precipitation within you.  Your subjective nature is one with the subjective self of others—­an inlet for the influx and efflux of the GREAT SUB-CONSCIOUS.  Realise thus your Unity with All-Life-manifesting objectively as Universal Brotherhood of all living beings and the perfect recognition of the All-Father-Mother, the Great Cosmic Power and Intelligence known as God whose intelligence all-blissfulness and existence are ever pouring into each Unit of Individualised Divine Energy and evolving through nature.  And, student, when you meditate daily that you are neither the body nor the emotions nor the mind, you shall then unfold the consciousness of the “I am I” that which rules the personality that which has been called Soul-Consciousness.  You shall then be Chaitanya-Spiritually awake.  You shall then know no Fear.  Fear shall drop away like a worn-out sheath.  All fear-thoughts are due to undeveloped race-consciousness which reacts upon individual consciousness and is stamped more or less upon every atom of matter.  You ‘fear’ because you think you are the body.  When you realise that you can command as many bodies for your use as you like; when you realise in your heart of hearts that you are a Spiritual Being expressing and energising through material personalities; when you realise that you cannot die, fear shall be afraid of you and drop tormenting and teasing you.  Fear resides in the matter-fed mind—­that mind which has been grown and matured by the reception and re-action upon external sensations and stimuli—­what has been called the objective mind.  This mind identifies itself with the form, the body.  It has an incorrigible determination towards the form-side,
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