THE CONCENTRATION POWER!
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GRIEF, MENTAL DISTRESS, TREMOR OF THE BODY AND IRREGULAR BREATHING, ACCOMPANY NON-RETENTION OF CONCENTRATION.
CONCENTRATION WILL BRING PERFECT REPOSE TO MIND AND BODY EVERY TIME IT S PRACTISED. WHEN THE PRACTICE HAS BEEN MISDIRECTED, OR NOT ENOUGH CONTROLLED, THESE DISTRUBANCE COME. REPETITION OF OM AND SELF-SURRENDER TO THE LORD WILL STRENTHEN THE MIND, AND BRING FRESH ENERGY. THE NERVOUS SHAKINGS WILL COME TO ALMOST EVERYONE. DO NOT MIND THEM AT ALL, BUT KEE ON PRACTISING. PRACTICE WILL CURE THEM, AND MAKE THE SEAT FIRM.
TO REMEDY THIS PRACTICE TO ONE SUBJECT (SHOULD BE MADE).
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MAKING THE MIND TAKE THE FORM OF ONE OBJECT FOR SOME TIME WILL DESTROY THESE OBSTACLES. THIS IS GENERAL ADVICE. IN THE FOLLOWING APHORISM IT WILL BE EXPANDED AND PARTICULARISED. AS ONE PRACTICE CANNOT SUIT EVERYONE, VARIOUS METHODS WILL BE ADVANCED, AND EVERYONE BY ACTUAL EXPERIENCE WILL FIND OUT THAT WHICH HELP HIM MOST.
FRIENDSHIP, MERCY, GLADNESS, INDIFFERENCE, BEING THOUGHT OF IN REGARD TO SUBJECTS, HAPPY, UNHAPPY, GOOD AND EVIL RESPECTIVELY, PACITY AND CHITTA.'
WE MUST HAVE THESE FOUR SORTS OF IDEAS. WE MUST HAVE FRIENDSHIP FOR ALL, WE MUST BE MERCIFUL TOWARDS THOSE THAT ARE IN MISERY, WHEN PEOPLE ARE HAPPY WE OUGHT TO BE HAPPY, AND TO THE WICKED WE MUST BE INDIFFERENT, SO WITH ALL SUBJECTS THAT COME BEFORE US. IF THE SUBJECT IS A GOOD ONE, WE SHALL FEEL FRIENDLY TOWARDS IT, IF THE SUBJECT OF THOUGHT IS ONE THAT IS MISERABLE WE MUST BE MERCIFUL TOWARDS THE SUBJECT. IF IT IS GOOD WE MUST BE GLAD, IF IT IS EVIL WE MUST BE INDIFFERENT. THESE ATTITUDES OF THE MIND TOWARDS THE DIFFERENT SUBJECTS THAT COME BEFORE IT WILL MAKE THE MIND PEACEFUL. MOST OF OUR DIFFICULTIES IN OUR DAILY LIVES COME FROM BEING UNABLE TO HOLD OUR MINDS IN THIS WAY. FOR INSTANCE, IF A MAN DOES EVIL TO US, INSTANTLY WE WANT TO REACT EVIL, AND EVERY REACTION OF EVIL SHOWS THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO HOLD THE CHITTA DOWN, IT COMES OUT IN WAVES TOWARDS THE OBJECT, AND WE LOSE OUR POWER. EVERY REACTION IN THE FORM OF HATRED OR EVIL IS SO MUCH LOSS TO THE MIND, AND EVERY EVIL THOUGHT OR DEED HATRED, OR ANY THOUGHT OF REACTION, IF IT IS CONTROLLED, WILL BE LAID IN OUR FAVOUR, IT IS NOT THAT WE LOSE BY THUS RESTRAINING OURSELVES. WE ARE GAINING INFINITELY MORE THAN WE SUSPECT. EACH TIME WE SUPPRESS HATRED, OR A FEELING OF ANGER, IT IS SO MUCH GOOD ENERGY STORED UP IN OUR FAVOUR, THAT PIECE OF ENERGY WILL BE CONVERTING INTO THE HIGHER POWERS.
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BY THROWING OUT AND RESTRAININGTHE BREATH.
THE WORD USED IN PRANA. PRANA IS NOT EXACTLY BREATH. IT IS THE NAME FOR THE ENERGY THAT IS IN THE UNIVERSE . WHATEVER YOU SEE IN THE UNIVERSE, WHATEVER MOVES OR WORKS, OR HAS LIFE, IS A MANIFESTATION OF THIS PRANA. THE SUM-TOTAL OF THE ENERGY DISPLAYED IN THE UNIVERSE IS CALLED PRANA. THIS PRANA, BEFORE A CYCLE BEGINS, REMAINS IN AN ALMOST MOTIONLESS STATE, AND WHEN THE CYCLE BEGINS THIS PRANA BEGINS TO MANIFEST ITSELF. IT S THIS PRANA THAT IS MANIFESTED AS MOTION, AS THE NERVOUS MOTION IN HUMAN BEINGS OR ANIMALS, AND THE SAME PRANA IS MANIFESTING AS THOUGHT, AND SO ON. THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS A COMBINATION OF PRANA AND AKASA, SO IS THE HUMAN BODY . OUT OF AKASA YOU GET THE DIFFERENT MATERIALS THAT YOU FEEL, AND SEE, AND OUT OF PRANA ALL THE VARIOUS FORCES. NOW THIS THROWING OUT AND RESTRAINING THE PRANA IS WHAT IS CALLED PRANAYAMA.
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THE ROOT BEING THERE, THE FRUITION COMES (IN THE FORM OF ) SPECIES, LIFE, AND EXPRESSION OF PLEASURE AND PAIN.
THE ROOTS, THE CAUSES, THE SAMSKARAS BEING THERE, THEY AGAIN MANIFEST, AND FORM THE EFFECTS. THE CAUSE DYING DOWN BECOMES THE EFFECT, AND THE EFFECT BECOMES MORE SUBTLE, AND BECOMES THE CAUSE OF THE NEXT EFFECT. THE TREE BEARS AND SEED, AND BECOMES THE CAUSE OF THE NEXT TREE, AND SO ON. ALL OUR WORKS NOW, ARE THE EFFECTS OF PAST SAMSKARAS, AGAIN, THESE SAMSKARAS BECOME THE CAUSE OF FUTURE ACTIONS, AND THUS WE GO ON . SO THIS APHORISM SAYS THAT THE CAUSE BEING THERE, THE FRUIT MUST COME, IN THE FORM OF SPECIES, ONE WILL BE A MAN, ANOTHER AN ANGEL, ANOTHER AN ANIMAL, ANOTHER DEMON. THEN THERE ARE DIFFERENT EFFECTS IN LIFE, ONE MAN LIVES FIFTY YEARS, ANOTHER A HUNDRED, AND ANOTHER DIES IN TWO YEARS, AND NEVER ATTAINS MATURITY, ALL THESE DIFFERENCE IN LIFE ARE REGULATED BY THESE PAST ACTIONS.
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ONE MAN IS BORN, AS IT WERE, FOR PLEASURE, IF HE BURIES HIMSELF IN A FOREST PLEASURE WILL FOLLOW HIM THERE. ANOTHER MAN, WHEREVER HE GOES, PAIN FOLLOWS HIM, EVERYTHING BECOMES PAINFUL. IT IS ALL THE RESULT OF THEIR OWN PAST. ACCORDING TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE YOGIS ALL VIRTUOUS ACTIONS BRING PLEASURE, OF THE YOGIS ALL VIRTUOUS ACTIONS BRING PLEASURE, AND ALL VICIOUS ACTIONS BRING PAIN. ANY MAN WHO DOES WICKED DEEDS IS SURE TO REAP THE FRUIT OF THEM IN THE FORM OF PAIN.
