KNOW ABOUT YOGA

                                      THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL BODY

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              INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CLEANLENESS BEING ESTABLISHED, ARISES DISGUST FOR ONE'S BODY, AND NON-INTERCOURSE WITH OTHER BODIES.

            WHEN THERE IS REAL PUFIFICATION OF THE BODY, EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL, THERE ARISES  NEGLECT OF THE BODY, AND ALL THIS IDEA OF KEEPING IT NICE WILL VANISH. WHAT OTHERS CALL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FACE TO THE YOGI WILL APPEAR TO BE AN  ANIMAL'S FACE, IF THERE IS NOT INTELLIGENCE BEHIND IT. WHAT THE WORLD WILL CALL A VERY COMMON FACE HE WILL CALL HEAVENLY, IF THAT SPIRIT SHINES BEHIND IT. THIS THIRST AFTER BODY IS THE GREAT BANE OF HUMAN LIFE. SO, WHEN THIS PURITY IS ESTABLISHED, THE FIRST SIGN WILL BE THAT YOU DO NOT CARE TO THINK YOU ARE A BODY. IT IS ONLY WHEN PURITY COMES THAT WE GET RID OF THIS BODY IDEA.

            THERE ALSO ARISES PURIFICATION OF THE SATTVA, CHEERFULNESS OF THE MIND, CONCENTRATION, CONQUEST OF THE ORGANS, AND FITNESS FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE SELF.

           BY THIS PRACTICE THE SATTVA MATERIAL WILL PREVAIL, AND THE MIND WILL BECOME CONCENTRATED AND CHEERFUL. THE FIRST SIGN THAT YOU ARE BECOMING RELIGIOUS IS THAT YOU ARE BECOMING CHEERFUL. WHEN A MAN IS GLOOMY THAT MAY BE DYSPEPSIA, BUT IT IS NOT RELIGION. A PLEASURABLE TO THE SATTVIKA MAN, AND WHEN THIS PAIN IS CAUSED BY TAMAS, SO YOU MUST GET RID OF THAT,  MOROSENESS IS ONE OF THE RESULTS OF TAMAS. THE STRONG, THE WELL-KNIT, THE YOUNG THE HEALTHY, THE DARING ALONE ARE FIT TO BE YOGIS. TO THE YOGI EVERYTHING IS BLISS, EVERY HUMAN FACE THAT HE SEES BRINGS CHEERFULNESS TO HIM. THAT IS THE SIGN OF A VIRTUOUS MAN. MISERY IS CAUSED BY SIN, AND BY NO OTHER CAUSE. WHAT BUSINESS HAVE YOU WITH  CLOUDED FACES, IT IS TERRIBLE. IF YOU HAVE A CLOUDED FACE FO NOT GO OUT THAT DAY, SHUT YOURSELF UP IN YOUR ROOM. WHAT RIGHT HAVE YOU TO CARRY THIS DISEASE  OUT  INTO THE WORLD? WHEN YOUR MIND HAS BECOME CONTROLLED YOU WILL HAVE CONTROL OVER THE WHOLE BODY, INSTEAD OF BEING A SLAVE TO THE MACHINE, THE MACHINE WILL BE YOUR SLAVE. INSTEAD OF THIS MACHINE BEING ABLE TO DRAG THE SOUL DOWN, IT WILL BE ITS GREATEST HELPMATE.

                        FROM CONTENTMENT COMES SUPERLATIVE HAPPINESS. THE RESULT OF MORTIFICATION IS BRINGING POWERS TO THE ORGANS AND THE BODY, BY DESTROYING THE IMPURITY. THE RESULTS OF MORTIFICATION ARE SEEN IMMEDIATELY SOMETIMES BY HEIGHTENED POWERS OF VISION, AND SO ON, HEARING THINGS AT A DISTANCE, ETC.

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                    BY REPETITION OF THE MANTRAS COMES THE REALISATION OF THE INTENDED DEITY. THE HIGHER THE BEINGS THAT YOU WANT TO GET, THE HARDER IS THE PRACTICE. BY SACRIFICING ALL TO ISVARA COMES SAMADHI. BY RESIGNATION TO THE LORD, SAMADHI BECOMES PERFECT. POPSTURE IS THAT WHICH IS FIRM AND PLEASANT. NOW COMES ASANA, POSTURE, UNTIL YOU CAN GET A FIRM SEAT YOU CANNOT PRACTICE BREATHING AND OTHER EXERCISE. THE SEAT BEING FIRM MEANS THAT YOU DO NOT FEEL THE BODY AT ALL, THEN ALONE IT HAS BECOME FIRM. BUT, IN THE ORDINARY WAY, YOU WILL FIND THAT AS SOON AS YOU SIT FOR A FEW MINUTES ALL SORTS OF DISTURBANCES COME INTO THE BODY, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE GOT BEYOND THE IDEA OF CONCRETE BODY YOU WILL LOSE ALL SENSE OF THE BODY. YOU WILL FEEL NEITHER PLEASURE NOR PAIN. AND WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR BODY UP AGAIN IT WILL FEEL SO RESTED, IT IS THE ONLY PERFECT REST THAT YOU CAN GIVE TO THE BODY. WHEN YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED IN CONQUERING THE BODY AND KEEPING IT FIRM, YOUR PRACTICE WILL REMAIN FIRM, BUT WHILE YOU ARE DISTURBED BY THE BODY YOUR NERVES BECOME DISTURBED, AND YOU CANNOT CONCENTRATE THE MIND. WE CAN MAKE THE SEAT FIRM BY THINKING OF THE INFINITE. WE CANNOT THINK OF THE ABSOLUTE INFINITE, BUT WE CAN THINK OF THE INFINITE SKY.

                   BY SLIGHT EFFORT AND MEDIATING OF THE UNLIMITED (POSTURE BECOMES FIRM AND PLEASANT), LIGHT AND DARKNESS, PLEASURE AND PAIN, WILL NOR THEN DISTURB YOU. SEAT BEING CONQUERED THE DUALITIES DO NOT OBSTRUCT. THE DUALITIES ARE GOOD AND BAD, HEAT AND COLD, AND ALL THE PAIRS OF OPPOSITES. 

                 CONTROLLING  THE MOTION OF THE EXHALATION AND THE INHALATION FOLLOWS AFTER THIS. WHEN THE POSTURE HAS BEEN CONQUERED, THEN THIS MOTION IS TO BE BROKEN AND CONTROLLED, AND THUS WE COME TO PRANAYAMA, THE CONTROLLING OF THE VITAL FORCES OF THE BODY. PRANA IS NOT BREATH, THOUGH IT IS USUALLY SO TRANSLATED. IT IS THE SUM TOTAL OF THE COSMIC ENERGY. IT IS THE ENERGY THAT IS IN EACH OBDY, AND ITS MOST APPARENT MANIFESTATION IS THE MOTION OF THE LUNGS. THIS MOTION IS CAUSED BY PRANA DRAWING IN THE BREATH, AND IS WHAT WE SEEK TO CONTROL IN PRANAYAMA. WE BEGIN BY CONTROLLING THE BREATH, AS THE EASIEST WAY OF GETTING CONTROL OF THE PRANA.

ITS MODIFICATIONS ARE EITHER EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL, OR MOTIONLESS, REGULATED BY PLACE, TIME, AND NUMBER, EITHER LONG OR SHORT. THE THREE SORTS OF MOTION OF THIS PRANAYAMA ARE, ONE BY WHICH WE DRAW THE BREATH IN, ANOTHER BY WHICH WE THROW IT OUT, AND THE THIRD ACTION IS WHEN THE BREATH IS HELD IN THE LUNGS, OR STOPPED FROM ENTERING THE LUNGS. THESE, AGAIN, ARE VARIED BY PLACE AND TIME. BY PLACE IS MEANT THAT THE PRANA IS HELD TO SOME PARTICULAR PART OF THE BODY. BY TIME IS MEANT HOW LONG THE PRANA SHOULD BE CONFINED TO A CERTAIN PLACE, AND SO WE ARE TOLD HOW MANY SECONDS TO KEEP ON MOTION, AND HOW MANY SECONDS TO KEEP ANOTHER. THE RESULT OF THIS PRANAYAMA IS UDGHATA, AWAKENING THE KUNDALINI.

THE FOURTH IS RESTRAINING THE PRANA BY DIRECTING IT EITHER TO THE EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL OBJECTS. THIS IS THE FOURTH SORT OF PRANAYAMA. PRANA CAN BE DIRECTED EITHER INSIDE OR OUTSIDE. FORM THAT, THE COVERING TO THE LIHT OF THE CHITTA IS ATTENUATED. THE CHITTA HAS, BY ITS OWN NATURE, ALL KNOWLEDGE. IT IS MADE SATTVA PARTICLES, BUT IS COVERED BY RAJAS AND TAMAS PARTICLES, AND BY PRANAYAMA THIS COVERING IS REMOVED.

AFTER THIS COVERING HAS BEEN REMOVED WE ARE ABLE TO CONCENTRATE THE MIND. 

THE DRAWING IN OF THE ORGANS IS BY THEIR GIVING UP THEIR OWN OBJECTS AND TAKING THE FORM OF THE MIND-STUFF. THIS ORGANS ARE SEPERATE STATES OF THE MIND-STUFF. I SEE A BOOK, THE FORM IS NOT IN THE BOOK, IT IS IN THE MIND. SOMETHING IS OUTSIDE WHICH CALLS THAT FORM UP. THE REAL FORM IS IN THE CHITTA. THESE ORGANS ARE IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES WITH, AND TAKING THE FORMS OF WHATEVER COMES TO THEM., IF YOU CAN RESTRAIN THE MIND-STUFF FROM TAKING FROM THESE FORMS THE MIND WILL REMAIN CALM. THIS IS CALLED PRATYAHARA. THENCE ARISES SUPREME CONTROL OF THE OFGANS.

WHEN THE YOGI HAS SUCCEEDED IN PREVENTING THE ORGANS FROM TAKING THE FORMS OF EXTERNAL OBJECTS, AND IN MAKING THEM REMAIN ONE WIH THE MIND-STUFF, THEN  COMES PERFECT CONTROL OF THE ORGANS, AND WHEN THE ORGANS ARE PERFECTLY UNDER CONTROL, EVERY MUSCLE AND NERVE WILL BE UNDER CONTROL, BECAUSE THE ORGANS ARE THE CENTRES OF ALL THE SENSATIONS, AND OF ALL ACTIONS. THESE ORGANS ARE DIVIDED INTO ORGANS OF WORK AND ORGANS OF SENSATION. WHEN THE ORGANS ARE CONTROLLED THE YOGI CAN CONTROL ALL FEELING AND DOING, THE WHOLE OF THE BODY WILL BE UNDER HIS CONTROL. THEN ALONE ONE BEGINS TO FEEL JOY IN BEING BORN, THEN ONE CAN TRUTHFULLY SAY, "BLESSED AM I THAT I WAS BORN". WHEN THAT CONTROL OF THE ORGANS IS OBTAINED, WE FEEL HOW WONDERFUL THIS BODY REALLY IS.

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