THE GREAT IDEAS

                                                             GREATNESS

               TOO MANY OF US THINK OF GREAT PEOPLE NOT AS THOSE WHO SERVE, BUT THOSE WHO SUCCEED IN GETTING OTHERS TO SERVE THEM. THEY ATTAIN POSITIONS WHERE THEY CAN COMMAND OTHERS, TO EVERCISE POWER OVER THEM, MAKING THEM OBEY THEIR WILL. THE EVERCISE OF DOMINION OVER OTHER PEOPLE, TO MOST PERSONS, IS A GREAT THING. NOTHING SEEMS TO BE SWEETER TO THE SELFISH SOUL THAN THIS. YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND EVERY SELFISH AND UNDEVELOPED PERSON TRYING TO DOMINEER OVER OTHERS AND TO EXERCISE CONTROL OVER OTHERS. FROM EARLIEST TIMES, PEOPLE BEGAN TO ENSLAVE ONE ANOTHER. FOR AGES THE STRUGGLE IN WAR, DIPLOMACY, POLITICS, AND GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN AIMED AT THE SECURING OF CONTROL OVER OTHERS. KINGS AND PRINCES HAVE DRENCHED THE SOIL OF THE EARTH IN BLOOD AND TEARS IN THE EFFORT TO EXTEND THEIR DOMINIONS AND THEIR POWER TO RULE MORE PEOPLE.

              THE STRUGGLE OF THE BUSINESS WORLD TODAY IS THE SAME AS THAT ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE CENTURIES AGO SO FAR AS THE RULING PRINCIPLE IS CONCERNED. IF IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY MEN LIKE ROCKEFELLER AND CARNEGIE KEPT SEEKING MORE MONEY AND MADE THEMSELVES SLAVES TO THE BUSINESS STRUGGLE WHEN THEY ALREADY HAVE MORE THAN THEY COULD POSSIBLY USE. AS ONE PANTS, SEVENTY - FIVE THOUSAND VESTS, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND COATS, AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND NECKTIES, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK OF HIM IF HE AROSE IN THE MORNING BEFORE LIGHT AND WORKED UNTIL AFTER IT WAS DARK EVERY DAY, RAIN OR SHINE, IN ALL KINDS OF WHETHER, MERELY TO GET ANOTHER NECKTIE?

               BUT THERE IS MORE TO IT TAHN JUST OBTAINING MORE POSSESIONS. THE POSSESSION OF NECKTIES GIVES A PERSON NO POWER OVER OTHERS WHILE THE POSSESSION OF DOLLARS DOES. ROCKEFELLER, CARNEGIE AND THEIR KING WERE NOT AFTER DOLLARS BUT POWER. IT IS THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HIGH PLACE. IT DEVELOP ABLE PEOPLE, CUNNING PEOPLE, RESOURCEFUL PEOPLE, BUT NOT GREAT PEOPLE.

           I WANT YOU TO CONTRAST THESE TWO IDEAS OF GREATNESS SHARPLY IN YOUR MINDS. LET ME STAND BEFORE THE AVERAGE AMERICAN AUDIENCE AND ASK THE NAKE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN AND THE MAJORITY WILL THINK OF ABRAHIM LINCOLN. IS THIS NOT BECAUSE IN LINCOLN ABOVE ALL THE OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SERVED US IN PUBLIC LIFE WE RECOGNIZE THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE? NOT SERVILITY, BUT SERVICE. LINCOLN WAS A GREAT MAN BECAUSE HE KNEW HOW TO BE A GREAT SERVANT. NAPOLEAN, ABLE COLD, SELFISH, SEEKING THE HIGH PLACES, WAS A BRILLIANT MAN. LINCOLN WAS GREAT, NAPOLEAN WAS NOT.

THE VERY MOMENT YOU BEGIN TO ADVANCE AND ARE RECOGNIZED AS ONE WHO IS DOING THINGS IN A GREAT WAY YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF IN DANGER. THE TEMPTATION TO PATRONIZE, ADVISE, OR TAKEN UPON YOURSELF THE DIRECTION OF OTHERS PEOPLE'S AFFAIRS IS SOMETIME ALMOST IRRESISTIBLE. AVOIND, HOWEVER, THE OPPOSITE DANGER OF FALLING INTO SERVILITY, OR A COMPLETELY THROWING YOURSELF AWAY IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS. TO DO THIS HAS BEEN THE IDEAL OF A GREAT MANY PEOPLE. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE BELITTLD THEMSELVES AND GIVEN UP ALL ELSE TO GO ABOUT THIS DOING GOOD - PRACTICING AN ALTRUISM THAT IS REALLY AS MORBID AND AS FAR FROM GREAT AS THE RANKEST SELFISHNESS. THE FINER INSTICTS WHICH RESPOND TO THE CRY OF TROUBLE OR DESTRESS ARE NOT BY ANY MEANS ALL OF YOU, THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE BEST PART OF YOU. THERE ARE OTHER THINGS YOU MUST DO BESIDES HELPING THE UNFORTUNATE, ALTHOUGH IT IS TRUE THAT A LARGE PART OF THE LIFE AND ACTIVITIES. AS YOU BEGIN TO ADVANCE THEY WILL COME TO YOU. DO NOT TURN THEM AWAY. BUT DO NOT MAKE THE FATAL ERROR OF SUPPOSING THAT THE LIFE OF COMPLETE SELF- ABNEGATION IS THE WAY OF GREATNESS.

TO MAKE ANOTHER POINT  HERE, LET ME REFER TO THE WRITINGS OF THE 18TH CENTURY SWEDISH PHILOSOPHER, EMMANUEL SWEDENBORG. HE DIVIDED ALL PEOPLE INTO TWO GROUPS. THOSE WHO LIVE IN PURE LOVE, AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN WHAT HE CALLED THE LOVE OF RULING FOR THE LOVE OF SELF. SWEDENBORG SAW THIS SELFISH  LOVE OF POWER AS THE CAUSE OF ALL SIN. IT WAS THE ONLY EVIL DESIRE OF THE HUMAN HEART FROM WHICH ALL OTHER EVIL DESIRES SPRANG. HE SAW IT AS THE RULING PRINCIPLE IN THE HELLS WHERE THE SPIRITS OF LOST PEOPLE SCHEMED AND STRUGGLED FOR DOMINION OVER ONE ANOTHER, AND TO ENSLAVE ONE ANOTHER, JUST AS THEY HAD DONE UPON THE EARTH.

OVER AGAINST THIS HE PLACES PURE LOVE. HE DOES NOT SAY LOVE OF GOD OR LOVE OF OTHERS, BUT MERELY LOVE. NEARLY ALL RELIGIONISTS MAKE MORE OF LOVE AND SERVICE OF GOD THAN THEY DO OF LOVE AND SERVICE TO HUMANKIND. BUT IT IS A FACT THAT LOVE OF GOD IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO SAVE A PERSON FROM THE LUST FOR POWER. SOME OF THE MOST ARDENT LOVERS OF THE DEITY HAVE BEEN THE WORST OF TYRANTS. LOVERS OF GOD ARE OFTEN TUYRANTS, AND LOVERS OF OTHER PEOPLE ARE OFTEN MEDDLESOME AND OFFICIOUS.

                 TWO THINGS ARE NECESSARY, FIRST, THE MAKIN OF THE THOUGHT FORM, AND SECOND , THE ACTUAL APPROPRIATION TO YOURSELF OF ALL THAT GOES INTO AND AROUND THE THOUGHT-FORM. WHEN YOU HAVE MADE YOUR THOUGHT-FORM. YOU ARE ALREADY INTERNALLY WHAT YOU WANT TO BE. NEXT YOU MUST BECOME EXREMELY WHAT YOU WANT TO BE. YOU ARE ALREADY GREAT WITHIN, BUT YOU ARE NOT YET ACTUALLY DOING THE GREAT THINGS. YOU CANNOT BE BEFORE THE WORLD THE GREAT ACTOR, OR LAWYER, OR MUSICIAN, OR PERSONALITY YOU KNOW YOURSELF TO BE, NO ONE WILL ENTRUST GREAT THINGS TO YOU AS YET FOR YOU HAVE NOT MADE YOURSELF KNOWN. BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS BEGIN TO DO SMALL THINGS IN A GREAT WAY.

                  HERE LIES CAN ALWAYS BEGIN TO DO SMALL THINGS IN A GREAT WAY. YOUR OWN HOME, IN YOUR STORE OR OFFICE, ON THE STREET, EVERYWHERE, YOU CAN BEGIN TO MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN  AS GREAT , AND YOU CAN DO THIS BY DOING EVERYTHING YOU DO IN A GREAT WAY. YOU MUST PUT THE WHOLE POWER OF YOUR GREAT SOULD INTO EVERY ACT, HOWEVER SMALL AND COMMONPLACE, AND SO REVEAL TO YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS WHAT YOU REALLY ARE. DO NOT BRAG OR BOAST OF YOURSELF, DO NOT GO ABOUT TELLING PEOPLE WHAT A GREAT PERSONAGE YOU ARE, SIMPLY LIVE A GREAT WAY. NO ONE WILL BELIEVE YOU IF YOU TELL HIM YOU ARE A GREAT MAN OR WOMAN, BUT NO ONE CAN DOUBT YOUR GREATNESS IF YOU SHOW IT IN YOUR ACTION, IN YOUR DOMESTIC CIRCLE BE SO JUST, SO GENEROUS, SO COURTEOUS, ADN KINDLY THAT YOUR FAMILY , YOUR WIFE, HUSBAND, CHILDREN, BROTHERS, AND SISTERS SHALL KNOW THAT YOU ARE A GREAT AND NOBLE SOUL. IN ALL YOUR RELATIONS WITH OTHERS BE GREAT, JUST, GENEROUS, COURTEOUS, AND KINDLY. THE GREAT ARE NEVER OTHERWISE.

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THE POVERTY

                                                           GOD PURPOSE

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             YOU MUST GET RID OF THE LAST VESTIGE OF THE OLD IDEA THAT IT IS GOD'S WILL THAT YOU SHOULD BE POOR, OR IT IS GOD'S PURPOSE TO KEEP YOU IN POVERTY.

           THE INTELLIGENT SUBSTANCE WHICH IS GOD, AND WHICH IS OMNIPRESENT AND LIVES IN YOU, IS A CONSCIOUSLY LIVING SUBSTANCE. BEING A CONSCIOUSLY LIVING SUBSTANCE, IT MUST HAVE THE NATURE AND INHERENT DESIRE OF EVERY LIVING INTELLIGENCE FOR INCREAE OF LIFE. EVERY LIVING THING MUST CONTINUALLLY SEEK FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF ITS LIFE, BECAUSE LIFE, IN THE MERE ACT OF LIVING, MUST INCREASE ITSELF.

            A SEED, DROPPED INTO THE GROUND, SPRINGS INTO ACTIVITY, AND IN THE ACT OF LIVING PRODUCES A HUNDRED MORE SEEDS, LIFE, BY LIVING, MULTIPLES ITSELF. IT IS FOREVER BECOMING MORE. IT MSUT DO SO, IF IT CONTINUES TO BE AT ALL.

           INTELLIGENCE IN UNDER THIS SAME NECESSITY FOR CONTINUOUS INCREASE. EVERY THOUGHT, CONSCIOUSNESS IS CONTINUALLY EXPANDING,. EVERY FACT WE LEARN LEADS US TO THE LEARNING OF ANOTHER FACT, KNOWLEDGE IS CONTINUALLY INCREASING. EVERY TALENT WE CULTIVATE BRINGS TO THE MIND THE DESIRE TO CULTIVATE ANOTHER TALENT, WE ARE SUBJECT TO THE URGE OF LIFE, SEEKING EXPRESSION, WHICHEVER DRIVES US ON TO KNOW MORE, TO DO MORE, AND  TO BE MORE.

          IN ORDER TO KNOW MORE, DO MORE, AND BE MORE WE MUST HAVE MORE, WE MUST HAVE THINGS TO USE, FOR WE LEARN, AND DO, AND BECOME, ONLY BY USING THINGS. WE MUST GET RICH, SO THAT WE CAN LIVE MORE.

       THE DESIRE FOR RICHES IS SIMPLY THE CAPACITY FOR LARGER LIFE SEEKING FULFILLMENT , EVERY DESIRE IS THE EFFORT OF AN  UNEXPRESSED POSSIBILITY TO COME INTO ACTION. IT IS POWER SEEKING TO MANIFEST THAT CAUSES DESIRE. THAT WHICH MAKES YOU WANT MORE MONEY IS THE SAME A THAT WHICH MAKES THE PLANT GROW, IT IS LIFE, SEEKING FULLER EXPRESSION.

            THE ONE LIVING SUBSTANCE MUST BE SUBJECT TO THIS INHERENT LAW OF ALL LIFE, IT IS PERMEATED WITH THE DESIRE TO LIVE MORE, THAT IS WHY IT IS UNDER THE NECESSITY OF CREATING THINGS.

             THE ONE SUBSTANCE DESIRES TO LIVE MORE IN YOU, HENCE IT WANTS YOU TO HAVE ALL THE THING YOU CAN USE.

               IT IS THE DESIRE OF GOD THAT YOU SHOULD GET RICH.M HE WANTS YOU TO GET RICH BECAUSE HE CAN EXPRESS HIMSELF BETTER THROUGH YOU IF YOU HAVE PLENTY OF THINGS TO USE IN GIVING HIM EXPRESSION. GOD CAN LIVE MORE IN YOU IF YOU HAVE UNLIMITED COMMAND OF THE MEANS OF LIFE.

              THE UNIVERSE DESIRES YOU TO HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO HAVE. NATURE IS FRIENDLY TO YOUR PLANS.

               EVERYTHING IS NATURALLY FOR  YOU.

               MAKE UP YOUR MIND THAT THIS IS TRUE.

      

                  IT IS ESSENTIAL, HOWEVER THAT YOUR PURPOSE SHOLD HARMONIZE WITH THE PURPOSE THAT IS GOD'S.

               YOU MUST WANT REAL LIFE, NOT MERE PLEASURE OF SENSUAL GRATIFICATION. LIFE IS THE PERFORMANCE OF FUNCTION, PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND SPIRITUAL, OF WHICH WE ARE CAPABLE, WITHOUT EXCESS IN ANY.

               YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET RICH IN ORDER TO LIVE SWINISHLY, FOR THE GRATIFICATION OF ANIMALS DESIRES, THAT IS NOT LIFE, BUT THE PERFORMANCE OF EVERY PHYSICAL FUNCTION IS A PART OF LIFE, AND NO ONE LIVES COMPLETELY WHO DENIES THE IMPULSES OF THE BODY A NORMAL AND HEALTHFUL EXPRESSION.

             YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET RICH SOLELY TO ENJOY MENTAL PLEASURES, TO GET KNOWLEDGE TO GRATIFY AMBITION TO OUTSHINE OTHERS, TO BE FAMOUS. ALL THESE ARE A LEGITIMATE PART OF LIFE, BUT THOSE WHO LIVE FOR THE PLEASURE OF THE INTELLECT ALONE WILL ONLY HAVE A PARTIAL LIFE, AND WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED WITH THEIR LOT.

             YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET RICH SOLERY FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS, TO LOSE YOURSELF FOR THE SALVATION OF MANKING, TO EXPERIENCE THE JOYS OF PHILANTHROPY AND SACRIFICE. THE JOYS OF THE SOUL ARE ONLY PART OF LIFE. AND THEY ARE NO BETTER OR NOBLER THAN ANY OTHER PART.

             YOU WANT TO GET RICH IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY EAT, DRINK, AND BE MARRY WHEN IT IS TIME TO DO THESE THINGS. YOU WANT TO GET RICH SO YOU MAY SURROUND YOURSELF WITH BEATIFUL THINGS, SEE DISTANT LANDS, FEED YOUR MIND, AND DEVELOP YOUR INTELLECT. YOU WANT TO GET RICH IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY LOVE OTHERS AND DO KIND THINGS, AND BE ABLE TO PAY A GOOD PART IN HELPING THE WORLD TO FIND TRUTH.

              BUT REMEMBER THAT EXTREME ALTRUISM IS NO BETTER AND NO NOBLER THAN EXTREME SELFISHNESS, BOTH ARE MISTAKES.

            GET RID OF THE IDEA THAT GOD WANTS YOU TO SACRIFICE YOURSELF FOR OTHERS, AND THAT YOU CAN SECURE HIS FAVOR BY DOING SO, GOD REQUIRES NOTHING OF THE KIND.

            WHAT GOD WANTS IS THAT YOU SHOULD MAKE THE MOST OF YOURSELF, FOR YOURSELF. YOU CAN HELP OTHERS MORE BY MAKING THE MOST OF YOURSELF THAN IN ANY OTHER WAY.

          

YOU CAN MAKE THE MOST OF YOURSELF ONLY BY GETTING RICH, SO IT IS RIGHT AND PRAISEWORTHY THAT YOU SHOULD GIVE YOUR FIRST AND BEST THOUGHT OT THE WORK OF ACQUIRING WEALTH.

REMEMBER HOWEVER, THAT THE DESIRE OF SUBSTANCE IS FOR ALL, AND ITS MOVEMENTS MUST BE FOR MORE LIFE TO ALL. IT CANNOT BE MADE TO WORK FOR LESS LIFE TO ANY, BECAUSE IT IS EQUALITY IN ALL, SEEKING RICHES AND LIFE.

INTELLIGENT SUBSTANCE WILL MAKE THINGS FOR YOU, BUT IT WILL NOT TAKE THINGS AWAY FROM SOMEONE ELSE AND GIVE THEM TO YOU. 

YOU MUST GET RID OF THE THOUGHT OF COMPETITION. YOU ARE TO CREATE, NOT TO CAMPARE FOR WHAT IS ALREADY CREATED.

               YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM ANYONE. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DRIVE SHARP BARGAINS.

              YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CHEAT, OR TO TAKE ADVANTAGE. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAY YOUR WORKERS LESS THAN THEY DESERVE.

             YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COVER THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS, OR TO LOOK AT IT WITH WISHFUL EYES. YOU CAN HAVE ANYTHING YOU LIKE WITHOUT TAKING IT AWAY FROM OTHERS.

            YOU ARE TO BECOME A CREATOR, NOT A COMPETITOR. YOU ARE GOING TO GET WHAT YOU WANT, BUT IN SUCH A WAY THAT WHEN YOU GET IT EVERY OTHER PERSON WILL GAIN AS WELL.

            DO NOT BECOME GREEDY. SURE, GREEDY PEOPLE MAY BECOME MILLIONAIRES, BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS BE WRETCHED AND MEAN AND WILL EVEN CONSIDER THEMSELVES OUTWARDLY POOR SO LONG AS THERE IS A PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO IS RICHER THAN THEY ARE.  

            IF YOU WOULD REALIZE TRUE PROSPERITY, DO NOT SETTLE DOWN AS MANY HAVE DONE, INTO THE BELIEF THAT IF YOU DO RIGHT EVERYTHING WILL GO WRONG. DO NOT LET THE WORD "COMPETITION" SHAKE YOUR FAITH IN THE SUPREMACY OF RICHTEOUSNESS.

           TO CONSIDER ONE'S SELF BEFORE ALL OTHERS IS TO CRAMP AND WARP AND HINDER EVERY NOBLE AND DIVINE IMPULSE. LETYOUR SOUL EXPAND. LET YOUR HEART REACH OUT TO OTHERS IN LOVING AND GENEROUS WARMTH, AND GREAT AND LASTING WILL BE YOUR JOY, AND ALL PROSPERITY WILL COME TO YOU.

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THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GETTING RICH

                                                   EARN MORE MONEY

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                    THOUGHT IS THE ONLY POWER THAT CAN PRODUCE TANGIBLE RICHES FROM THE DIVINE SUBSTANCE. THE STUFF FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE IS A SUBSTANCE THAT THINKS, AND A THOUGHT OF FORM IN THIS SUBSTANCE PRODUCES THE FORM.

               DIVINE SUBSTANCE MOVES ACCORDING TO ITS THOUGHTS, EVERY FORM AND PROCESS YOU SEE IN NATURE IS THE VISIBLE EXPRESSION OF A THOUGHT IN THIS SUBSTANCE. AS THE DIVINE STUFF THINKS OF A FORM, IT TAKES THAT FORM, AS IT THINKS OF MOTION, IT MAKES THAT MOTION. THAT IS THE WAY ALL THINGS WERE CREATED. WE LIVE IN A THOUGHT WORLD, WHICH IS PART OF A THOUGHT UNIVERSE. THE THOUGHT OF A MOVING UNIVERSE EXTENDED THOUGHOUT DIVINE SUBSTANCE, AND THE THINKING STUFF MOVING ACCORDING TO THAT THOUGHT,  TOOK THE FORM OF SYSTEM OF PLANETS, AND THE MAINTAINS THAT FORM. THINKING SUBSTANE TAKES THE FORM OF ITS THOUGHT, AND MOVES ACCORDING TO THE THOUGHT. HOLDING THE IDEA OF A CIRCLING SYSTEM OF SUNS AND WORLDS, IT TAKES THE FORM OF THESE BODIES, AND MOVES THEM AS IT THINKS. THINKING THE FORM OF A SLOW-GROWING OAK TREE, IT MOVES ACCORDINGLY, AND PRODUCES THE TREE, THOUGH CENTURIES MAY BE REQUIRED TO DO THE WORK. IN CREATING, THE DIVINE SEEMS TO MOVE ACCORDING TO THE LINES OF MOTION IT HAS ESTABLISHED. THE THOUGHT OF AN OAK TREE DOES NOT CAUSE THE INSTANT FORMATION OF A FULL-GROWN TREE, BUT IT DOES START IN MOTION THE FORCES THAT WILL PRODUCE THE TREE, ALONG ESTABLIHED LINES OF GROWTH.

                   EVERY THOUGHT OF FORM, HELD IN THINKING SUBSTANCE, CAUSES THE CREATION OF THE FORM, BUT ALWAYS, OF AT LEAST GENERALLY, ALONG LINES OF GROWTH AND ACTION ALREADY ESTABLISHED.

                THE THOUGHT OF A HOUSE OF A CERTAIN CONSTRUCTION, IF IT WERE IMPRESSED UPON DIVINE SUBSTANCE, MIGHT NOT CAUSE THE INSTANT FORMATION, OF THE HOUSE, BUT IT WOULD CAUSE THE TURNING OF CREATIVE ENERGIES ALREADY WORKING IN TRADE AND COMMERCE INTO SUCH CHANNELS AS TO RESULT IN THE SPEEDY BUILDING OF THE HOUSE. AND IF THERE WERE NO EXISTING CHANNELS THROUGH WHICH THE CREATIVE ENERGY COULD WORK, THEN THE HOUSE WOULD BE FORMED DIRECTLY FROM PRIMAL SUBSTANCE, WITHOUT WAITING FOR THE SHOW PROCESSESS OF THE ORGANIC AND INORGANIC WORLD.
 

               

NO THOUGHT OF FORM CAN BE IMPRESSED UPON DIVINE SUBSTANCE WITHOUT CAUSEING THE CREATION OF THE FORM.

THE HUMAN MIND IS A THINKING CENTER, AND CAN ORIGINATE THOUGHT. ALL THE FORMS THAR WE FASHION WITH OUR HANDS MUST FIRST EXIST IN OUR THOUGHT. WE CANNOT SHAPE A THING UNTIL WE HAVE THOUGHT THAT THING.

                AND SO FAR WE HAVE CONFINED OUR EFFORTS WHOLLY TO THE WORKS OF OUR HANDS. WE HAVE APPLIED MANUAL LABOR TO THE WORLD OF FORMS, SEEKING TO CHANGE OR MODIFY THOSE ALREADY EXISTING. WE HAVE NEVER THOUGHT OF TRYING TO CAUSE THE CREATION OF NEW FORMS BY IMPRESSING OUR THOUGHTS UPON DIVINE SUBSTANCE.

              WHEN WE HAVE A THOUGHT- FORM, WE TAKE MATERIAL FROM THE FORMS OF NATURE, AND MAKES AN IMAGE OF THE FORM WHICH IS IN OUR MIND. WE HAVE, SO FAR, MADE LITTLE OR NO EFFORT TO CO-OPERATE WITH DIVINE INTELLIGENCE, TO WORK WITH GOD. WE RESHAPE AND MODIFY EXISTING FORMS BY MANUAL LABOR, BUT WE HAVE GIVEN NO ATTENTION TO THE QUESTION WHETHER WE MAY NOT PRODUCE THINGS FROM DIVINE SUBSTANCE BY COMMUNICATING OUR THOUGHTS TO IT. WE PROPOSE TO PROVE THAT WE MAY DO SO, TO PROVE THAT ANY MAN OR WOMAN MAY DO SO, AND DO SHOW HOW. AS OUR FIRST STEP, WE MUST LAY DOWN THREE FUNDAMENTAL PROPORTIONS.

            FIRST, WE ASSERT THAT THERE IS ONE ORIGINAL DIVINE STUFF, OR SUBSTANCE, FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE. ALL THE SEEMINGLY, MANY ELEMENTS ARE BUT DIFFERENT PRESENTATIONS OF ONE ELEMENT. ALL THE MANY FORMS FOUND IN ORGANIC NATURE ARE IN THINKING STUFF, A THOUGHT HELD IN IT PRODUCES THE FORM OF THE THOUGHT STUFF. A THOUGHT HELD IN IT PRODUCES SHAPES. THE HUMAN MIND IS A THINKING CENTER, CAPABLE OF ORIGINAL THOUGHT. IF WE CAN COMMUNICATE OUR THOUGHTS TO ORIGINAL THINKING SUBSTANCE, WE CAN CAUSE THE CREATION, OR FORMATION, OF THE THING WE THINK ABOUT. TO SUMMARIZE   THIS ----

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                 ❤  THERE IS A THINKING STUFF FROM WHICH ALL THINS ARE MADE, AND WHICH IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE, PERMEATES, PENETRATES, AND FILLS THE INTERSPACES OF THE UNIVERSE.

                 ❤  A THOUGHT, IN THIS SUBSTANCE, PRODUCES THE THING THAT IS IMAGED BY THE THOUGHT.

                 ❤   WE CAN FORM THINGS IN OUR THOUGHT, AND BY IMPRESSING OUR THOUGHT UPON DIVINE SUBSTANCE, CAN CAUSE THE THING WE THINK ABOUT TO BE CREATED.

              IT MAY BE ASKED IF THESE STATEMENTS CAN BE PROVED. WITHOUT GOING INTO DETAILS, THEY CAN BE PROVED BY BOTH LOGIC AND EXPERIENCE. 

            REASONING BACK FROM THE PHENOMENA OF FORM AND THOUGHT, THERE IS ONE ORIGINAL THINKING SUBSTANCE, AND REASONING FORWARD FROM THIS THINKING SUBSTANCE, WE DRIVER OUR POWER TO CAUSE THE FORMATION OF THE THING WE THINK ABOUT.

          IF ONE PERSON WHO WHO READS THIS BOOK GETS RICH BY DOING WHAT IT RECOMMENDS, THAT IS EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF TIS CALM, BUT IF EVERY PERSON WHO FOLLOWS THIS PROCESS GET RICH, THAT IS POSITIVE PROOF UNTIL SOMEONE GOES THROUGH THE PROCESS AND FAILS. THE THEORY IS TRUE UNTIL THE PROCESS FAILS, AND THIS PROCESS WILL NOT FAIL, FOR EVERY PERSON WHO DOES EXACTLY WHAT THIS BOOK RECOMMENDS WILL GET RICH.

          WE GET RICH BY DOING THINGS IN A CERTAIN WAY. AND IN ORDER TO DO SO, WE MUST BECOME ABLE TO THINK IN A CERTAIN WAY.

          YOUR WAY OF DOING THINGS IS THE DIRECT  RESULT OF THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THINGS. 

           TO DO THINGS IN  A WAY YOU WANT TO DO THEM, YOU WILL HAVE TO ACQUIRE THE ABILITY TO THINK THE WAY YOU WANT TO THINK, THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD GETTING RICH.

          TO THINK WHAT YOU WANT TO THINK IS TO THINK TRUTH, REGARDLESS OF APPEARANCE.

                      WE ALL HAVE THE NATURAL AND INHERENT POWER TO THINK WHAT WE WANT TO THINK, BUT IT REQUIRES FAR MORE EFFORT TO DO SO THAN IT DOES TO THINK THE THOUGHTS WHICH ARE SUGGESTED BY APPEARANCES. TO THINK ACCORDING TO APPEARANCE IS EASY. TO THINK TRUTH REGARDLESS OF APPEARANCE IS LABORIOUS, AND REQUIRES THE EXPENDITURE OF MORE POWER THAN ANY OTHER WORK WE ARE CALLED UPON TO PERFORM.

            THERE IS NO LANOR FROM WHICH MOST POEPLE SHRINK AS THEY DO FROM THAT OF SUSTAINED AND CONSECUTIVE THOUGHT, IT IS THE HARDEST WORK IN THE WORLD. THIS IS CONSECUTIVE THOUGHT, IT IS THE HARDEST WORK IN THE WORLD. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE WHEN TRUTH IS CONTRARY TO APPEARANCES. EVERY APPEARANCE IN THE VISIBLE WORLD TENDS TO PRODUCE A CORRESPONDING FORM INTHE MIND THAT OBSERVES IT - AND THIS CAN ONLE BE PREVENTED BY HOLDING THE THOUGHT OF THE TRUTH.

            TO LOOK UPON THE APPEARANCE OF POVERTY WILL PRODUCE CORRESPONDING FORMS IN YOUR OWN MIND, UNLESS YOU HOLD TO THE TRUTH THAT THERE IS NO POVERTY, THERE IS ONLY ABUNDANCE.

               TO LOOK UPON THE APPEARANCE OF DISEASE WILL PRODUCE THE FORM OF DISEASE, OR TO THINK RICHES WHEN IN THE MIDST OF APPEARANCES OF POVERY, REQUIRES POWER. THOSE WHO ACQUIRE THIS POWER BECOME MASTERMINDS, WHO CAN CONQUER FATE AND CAN HAVE WHAT THEY WANT.

             THIS POWER CAN ONLY BE ACQUIRED BY GETTING HOLD OF THE BASIC FACT THAT IS BEHIND ALL APPEARANCES, AND THAT FACT IS THAT THERE IS ONE THINKING SUBSTANCE, FROM WHICH AND BY WHICH ALL THINS ARE MADE.

           THEN WE MUST GRASP THE TRUTH THAT EVERY THOUGHT HELD IN THIS SUBSTANCE BECOMES A FORM, AND THAT WE CAN SO IMPRESS OUR THOUGHTS UPON IT AS TO CAUSE THEM TO TAKE FORM AND BECOME VISIBLE THINGS.

           WHEN WE REALIZE THIS, WE LOSE ALL DOUBT AND FEAR, FOR WE KNOW THAT WE CAN CREATE WHAT WE WANT TO CREATE, WE CAN GET WHAT WE WANT TO HAVE, AND CAN BECOME WHAT WE WANT TO BE. AS A FIRST STEP TOWARD GETTING RICH, YOU MUST BELIEVE THE THREE FUNDAMENTAL STATEMENS GIVEN PREVIOUSLY IN THIS CHAPTER, AND IN ORDER TO EMPHASIZE THEM.

 THEY ARE REPEATED HERE------

                      👀 THERE IS A THINKING STUFF FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE, AND WHICH IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE, PERMEATES, PENETRATES, AND FILLS THE INTERSPACES OF THE UNIVERSE.

                       👀 A THOUGHT, IN THIS SUBSTANCE, PRODUCES THE THING THAT IS IMAGED BY THE THOUGHT.

                        👀  WE CAN FORM THINGS IN OUR THOUGHT, AND BY IMPRESSING OUR THOUGHT UPON DIVINE SUBSTANCE, CAN CAUSE THE THING WE THIONK ABOUT TO BE CREATED.

                    WE MUST LAY ASIDE ALL OTHER CONCEPTS OF THE UNIVERSE THAN THIS MONISTIC ONE, AND YOU MUST DWELL UPON THIS UNTIL IT IS FIXED IN YOUR MIND, AND HAS BECOME YOUR HABITUAL THOUGHT. READ THESE CREED STATEMENTS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, FIX EVERY WORD UPON YOUR MEMORY, AND MEDITATE UPON THEM UNTIL YOU FIRMLY BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY. IF A DOUBT COMES TO YOU, CAST IT ASIDE AS A SIN. DO NOT LISTEN TO ARGUMENTS AGAINST THIS IDEA, DO NOT GO O PLACES OR LECTURES OR TUNE IN RADIO OR TELEVISION PROGRAMS WHERE A CONTRARY CONCEPTS OF THINGS IS TAUGHT  OR PREACHED. DO NOT READ MAGAZINES OR BOOKS WHICH TEACH A DIFFERENT IDEA. IF YOU GET MIXED UP IN YOUR FAITH, ALL YOUR FAITH EFFORT WILL BE IN VAIN.

                 DO NOT ASK WHY THESE THINGS ARE TRUE, NOR SPECULATE AS TO HOW THEY CAN BE TRUE, SIMPLY TAKE THEM ON TRUST.

                 THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH BEGINS WITH THE ABSOLUTE ACCEPTANCE OF THIS FAITH.

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DREAMS WITH WINTER

                                                             THE WINTER

                          FROM HIMALAYA THROUGH VALLEYS, PLAINS, TOWNS AND VILLAGES, GANGA WIDENS TILL SHE REACHES CALCUTTA, THE LAST CITY ON HER PILGRIMAGE BEFORE SHE MERGES WITH THE BAY OF BENGAL. ON THE WAY SHE ACCUMULATES DIRT, FILTH AND DRAINAGE. BUT WHEN ONE STANDS QUIETLY ON HER BANK AND GLANCES OVER HER BREADTH, WHAT A MYSTICAL AND HEALING AURA SHE HAS! FEELINGS OF DEVOTION AND SPIRITUALITY WELL UP INSIDE, TRANSCENDING CONSIDERATIONS OF GOOD AND BAD. AFTER ALL, DOES SHE NOT ABSORB THE DARK SINS OF VAST HUMANITY, GROPING IN THE STARK DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE? LIKE A GOOD MOTHER, SHE PROVIDES FOR HER CHILDREN, HELPING AND GUIDING THEM TO THEIR DESTINY. IN THE PROCESS, SHE BECOMES CONTAMINATED AND IMPURE, BUT WHAT A GLORIOUS SACRIFICE!

                     THE SACRIFICIAL VAPORS OF PURIFICATION AGAIN RISE HIGHER INTO THE SKY, SLOWLY TRAVELING TOWARD THE FOUNTAINHEAD IN HIMALAYA - THE RESERVOIR FOR THIRSTY MANKIND. THUS THE CYCLE IS COMPLETED UNDER THE GUIDANCE AND WITH THE HELP OF THE BENEVOLENT AND DAZZLING SUN. WHERE DOES IT ALL START AND WHERE DOES IT END? FROM PERFECTION IT RISES AND INTO  PERFECTION IT MERGES.

                    AT KALIGHAT IN CALCUTTA, SATYAKAM, ALONG WITH BHAIRAVI AND PURAN, MET MATAJI AT THE HOME OF ONE OF HER DEVOTEES. SHE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR THEM! A SPECIAL SEAT HAD BEEN PLACED NEAR WAS CHARGED WITH HIGH ENERGY. IT WAS SUCH A DELIGHT TO SEE THE AUGUSET PRESENCE OF ALL THOSE GREAT SOULS IN ONE PLACE! INDEED, THE DEVOTEE IN WHOSE HOUSE MATAJI WAS STAYING MUST HAVE BEEN A THRICE BLESSED SOUL.

                    MATAJI AND MAHARAJ EXCHANGED CUSTOMARY GREETINGS. THEN MATAJI CALLED BHAIRAVI AND HER SON TO SIT NEAR HER. BOTH BOWED DOWN TO HER. SMILING, MATAJI ASKED THE BOY, WHAT'S YOUR NAME?

                  PURAN, SWEETLY UTTERED THE BOY.

                  WHAT AN APPROPRIATE NAME, MATAJI SPOKE WITH GREAT TENDERNESS. PRAY YOU'LL FULLFILL YOUR NAME.

                   HE IS YOUR CHILD, MATAJI, REPLIED BHAIRAVI DEVOTEDLY. MATAJI, WITH HER HEAVENLY SWEET SMILE, LOOKED AT ALL THREE WITH MUCH INTIMACY AND BLESSING. SUCH A RARE BOND OF SPIRIT!

                 LATE IN THE AFTERNOON MANY DEVOTEES OF MATAJI ARRIVED. AT BHAIRAVI AND PURAN SAT BEFPORE HER, SATYAKAM SLIPPED OUT OF THE HOUSE, HIRED A HORSE CARRIAGE, AND HEADED TOWARD THE NORTH OR THE CITY. IN A LONELY PLACE SOME MILES AWAY, HE GOT DOWN FROM THE CARRIAGE AND STARTED WALKING TOWARD GANGA. THE RIVER HERE WAS WIDE - MORE THAN A MILE. AT A SECLUDED SPOT ON THE BANK HE FOUND SOME BRICK STEPS AND STOOD THERE MOTIONLESS, GAZING AT THE RIVER. THEN, CLOSING HIS EYES, HE TOUCHED HIS FORHEAD WITH FOLDED HANDS AND WHISPERED TENDERLY, GANGA, MAKE ME AS A PURE AS THOU ART. THOU ART SUSTAINER AND MOTHER TO ALL. FULLFILL MY DESTINY. AS THOU ART PERFECT, BESTOW  UPON ME THUS.

                  TWO TEARS RAN DOWN FROM HIS CLOSED EYES. FOR SOME TIME HE STOOD THERE FEELING RELEASED AND LIGHT. UPON STRAIGHTENING HIMSELF, HE HEARD FOOTSTEPS BEHIND HIM. HE LOOKED AROUND, BUT SAW NO ONE.

               AT SUNSET TIME, THE SUN GREW INTO A BIG RED BALL OF FREE BEFORE SINKING INTO THE HORIZON ON THE OPPOSITE BANK OF GANGA. A MYSTICAL QUIET PERVADED. SATYAKAM SAT DOWN ON THE STEPS IN A MEDITATIVE POSE. AFTER ABOUT TWELVE YEARS THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD BEEN REALLY ALONE, BUT HOW FULL HE FELT! THERE WAS NO TRACE OF ATTACHEMENT OR WORRY. NOTHING, IT SEEMED, EXISTED BETWEEN HIM AND HIS GOAL EXCEPT HIS MASTER WHO WAS IN HIS CONSTANT REMEMBRANCE THESE DAYS. WHO WOULD HAVE EVEN IMAGINED THAT A FEW STAYING? IT ALL SEEMED AGES APART, AS IF   A STORY OF ANOTHER INCARNATION. BUT WERE THEY SEPERATE FROM HIM?

             

                   THIS WAS THE TIME WHEN WINTER MINGLED WITH AUTUMN. MILD COLD HAD SET IN, BUT THE WEATHER REMAINDED PLEASANT. EXCEPT FOR SOME RED STREAKS AT THE HORIZON, THE SUN HAD COMPLETELY SET. THE SOFT MURMURING OF THE FLOWING GANGA, THE QUIETING CROAKS OF FROGS SOMEWHERE NEARBY, THE SOFT TOUCH OF THE MILD BREEZE - THESE WERE THE ONLY WITNESS HERE AT THIS HOUR OF TWILIGHT.

                  ONCE AGAIN SATYAKAM, HEARD FOOTSTEPS BEHIND HIM. LOOKING BACK, HE SAW THE SAME WHITE BEARDED OLD MAN WHO, TWELVE YEARS AGO, HAD DIRECTED HIM TO THE VILLAGE KADAMBINI. HE ABRUPTLY GOT UP, PLACED HIS HEAD ON THE OLD MAN'S FEET AND SHED TEARS OF JOY.

                   GURUDEV, CRIED SATYAKAM, I CAN'T MISTAKE YOU ANYMORE, AFTER A PAUSE, HE ASKED, WHY COULDN'T I SEE YOU WHEN I FIRST HEARD YOUR FOOTSTEPS?

                  THE MASTER SPOKE GRACIOUSLY, IT SEEMS YOU HAD LOST SOME OF YOUR POWERS AND CONSEQUENTLY COULDN'T COMMUNICATE WITH ME BEYOND THE AUDIBLE SOUND. THEN I WAITED UNTIL YOUR LEVEL ENHANCED TO HIGHER PERCEPTION AND YOU COULD SEE ME. IT IS ALL RIGHT NOW.

                AFTER A BRIEF PAUSE, THE MASTER ASKED, WHAT DO YOU INTEND TO DO NOW?

                AS YOU INSTRUCT ME, I WILL DO, REPLIED SATYAKAM WITH UTMOST SURRENDER.

              TAKE THE TRAIN TO THE FOOTHILLS OF EASTERN HIMALAYA AT A PLACE CALLED SILIGURI, I'LL MEET YOU THERE, SO SAYING, THE WHILE ROBED SAGE VANISHED AGAIN.

             NIGHT WAS DESCENDING QUIETLY. IN THE DARKENING SKY, THE STARS GRADUALLY BEGAN TO APPEAR. SATYAKAM HEADED TOWARD THE CALCUTTA RAILWAY STATION.

                    NEXT MORNING, AS SATYAKAM ALIGHTED FROM THE TRAIN AT SILIGURI, AN OCHRE ROBED MIDDLE-AGED HOLY MAN APPROACHED TO RECEIVE HIM. AFTER CUSTOMARY GREETINGS, THE HOLY MAN SAID, THE MASTER HAS INTRUCTED ME TO GUIDE YOU TO THE PLACE WHERE HE'LL MEET YOU. UPON LEAVING THE PLATFORM, THEY HIRED A HORSE CARRIAGE. AFTER FEW MILES, THEY GOT DOWN AND STARTED WALKING UP A HILLY PATH.

                    IMMENSE TEA GARDENS GREW ON BOTH SIDES. BEFORE THEM ROSE THE FIRST RANGES OF EASTERN HIMALAYAS. SATYAKAM AND HIS COMPANION REMAINDED MOSTLY QUIET. AS HE LOOKED UP AT THE MAJESTIC MOUNTAINS, SATYAKAM'S EYES BRIMMED CRYSTAL CLEAR AS HE FELT HIS HOMECOMING WELL UP INSIDE HIS FACE TURNED SOFTER.

                LEAVING THE COMMON PATHWAY, THEY TURNED EASTWARD ONTO A LESS TRODDEN FOOTPATH, THE TRAIL BEGAN TO RISE SLOWLY. LUSH GREEN FOREST SURROUNDED THEM. THEY WALKED FOR ABOUT THREE MILES BEFORE REACHING A DELIGHTFUL STREAM WINDING ITS WAY THROUGH THE WOODS. IT WASN'T VERY WIDE AND THEY CROSSEE IT IN KNEE- DEEP WATER.

               FEELING UTTERLY  QUIET AND CUT OFF FROM THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF THE TOWN, THEY SAT DOWN  TO REST AMIDST THE LONELY SURROUNDINGS. THE MAGIC OF THE SEASON HAD TRANSFORMED THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS INTO A SPECTACULAR PANORAMA OF COLORS. THEY PERSPIRED LIGHTLY IN THE COOL AIR. SATYAKAM FELT SLIGHTLY MORE TIRED THAN HIS COMPANION, AS IT HAD BEEN ABOUT TWELVE YEARS SINCE HE HAD CLIMBED THE MOUNTAINS.

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THE MONSOON NIGHT

                                                              THE NIGHT

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                  THAT NIGHT WAS THE NEW MOON. PITCH DARK. A MILD BREEZE RUSTLED THE LEAVES. THE FREQUENT BARKING OF A DOG IN SOME CORNER OF THE CREMATION GROUND INTERRUPTED THE AWESOME SELENCE OF THE LONELY NIGHT.

                 AMIDST A GROVE OF THICK TREES LAY THE MUD AND STRAW HUT SATYAKAM HAD OCCUPIED, ENGULFED IN THE DARK SHADE. ON THE EARTHERN FLOOR A SMALL WOOD FIRE WAS BURNING, AND ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF IT SAT KAPALAK AND SATYAKAM FACING EACH OTHER. WEARING ONLY LOINCLOTHS, THEY HAD SMEARED THEIR BODIES WITH WOOD ASHES, BOTH SAT MOTIONLESS.

                KAPALAK BEGAN, WHATEVER I TEACH YOU IS THE BLESSING OF OUR MASTER, I AM SIMPLY AN INSTRUMENT, A FLAME, KINDLED BY THE MASTER, AND IN TURN KINDLING OTHER INTRUMENTS. I AM PARTICULARLY GLAD YOU ARE ALREADY AND ADVANCED YOGI SO I CAN DIRECTLY IMPACT ADVANCED COURSES TO YOU.

              BUT BEFORE I START THE FIRST TECHNIQUE, I WOULD LIKE TO FEEL SURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE FAITH REQUIRED. THE GREATER THE FAITH, THE BETTER THE RESULTS. FAITH INSTILLS COURAGE, WHICH IS ESPECIALLY REQUIRED IN TANTRA FOR PRACTICING THE SO-CALLED SUPERNATURAL TECHNIQUES. SUPERNATURAL, BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT THAN ORDINARY, NATURAL DIMENSIONS. THUS THE NEED OF FAITH IN AN UNKNOWN PHENOMENON, 

              WOULD YOU CALL FAITH A FLIGHT OF IMAGINATION? INQUIRED SATYAKAM.

                EVEN IF WE CALL IT IMAGINAYTION, IT REQUIRES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CONCENTRATION OF OBJECTIFY IT. AND CONCENTRATION CANNOT DEVELOP WITHOUT A CORRESPONDINGLY SUFFICIENT FAITH IN THE REALITY OF AN OBJECT. IT IS ONLY, A SEMANTIC PROBLEM. PERHAPS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE MA SEEM THE FAITH INVOLVES DEVOTION, WHEREAS IMAGINATION DOES NOT. BUT THIS IS ONLY A SUPERFICIAL VIEW. AS YOU SCRUTINIZE IMAGINATION MORE AND MORE, YOU'LL CLEARLY SEE THAT INTERENT IN IT IS ATTITUDE OF DEVOTION, THOUGH IT MAY BE ONLY VERY FAINTLY PERCEPTIBLE. IN SHORT, WHAT YOU CALL IMAGINATION, I CALL FAITH.

              SATYAKAM, APPROVING OF THE EXPLANATION, WAITED FOR THE TECHNIQUE.

              KAPALAK SEEMEE SATISFIED AND CONTINUED, WE'LL START WITH NADA YOGA. IT IS ONE OF THE PATHS OF CONCENTRATION THROUGH SOUNDS. THESE SOUNDS RING WITHIN YOU AND AS YOU GO DEEP, THE GROSS SOUNDS GO ON TERMINATING INTO SUBTLE AND MORE SUBTLE SOUNDS, TILL THE CONCENTRATION CULMINATES INTO THE LAST ONE WHICH IS TRANSCENDENTAL.

  

                          THERE ARE SEVEN MAJOR SOUNDS, OF WHICH THE FIRST TWO ARE THE SHORT AND LONG SOUNDS OF A CRICKET. THE OTHER FIVE ARE, THOSE OF DRUMBEATS, THE RUMBLING OF DARK CLOUNDS, CONCH SHELL, BELL AND FLUTE. AT TIMES THESE SOUNDS WILL SEEM AS IF THEY ARE COMING FROM OUTSIDE YOU, BUT IF YOU'LL OPEN YOUR EYES THE SOUNDS WILL BE GONE.

                     AS YOU ARE ALREADY WELL ADVANCED IN CONCENTRATION, IT WON'T TAKE YOU LONG TIME TO ACCOMPLISH IT. FIRST, CONCENTRATE ON THE SOUNDS OF THE CRICKET. JUST KEEP ON THAT AND YOU WILL FIND THAT GRADUALLY ONE SOUND WILL LEAD TO ANOTHER AS YOUR CONCENTRATION DEEPENS.

           

                    SATYAKAM INQUIRED, WHAT IS NADA?

 

                   KAPALAK EXPLAINED, NADA OR SOUNDS IS THE INTRINSIC QUALITY OF SPACE OR SILENCE. IT EXPANDS INTO SPACE AS WAVES DO IN AN OCEAN. SOUNDS HAS THREE STAGES, VERBAL, SUBTLE AND CAUSAL.

                  SUBTLE SOUND, OR NADA, CAN HEARD, BUT BOT NECESSARILY. THE SYLLABLE VANISHES WITH THE SOUND. CAUSAL SOUND IS WITHOUT VIBRATION ANS IS SOMETIMES CALLED SILENT SOUND.

              

               THE WILL THAT IS INHERENT IN NATURE CREATES VIBRATION CALLED NADA OR SOUND. NADA CONTAINS ALL POSSIBILITIES OF BECOMING. EVERYTHING FROM THE SUBTLE TO THE GROSS IS A MANIFESTATION OF VARIOUS COMBINATION OF VIBRATION.

              NADA IS THE NUCLEUS OF CONCENTRATED ENERGY, WHICH PROVIDES THE SOURCE OF CAUSAL SOUND IN THE ECHO ASPECT. THE POINT, THROUGH THE WILL, EXPANDS INTO A WAVE IN THE DYNAMIC ASPECT.

      

              THERE IS NO VACUUM ANYWHERE. THE UNIVERSE IS A CONTINUUM OF VIBRATORY PHENOMENA. AT THE AUDIBLE LEVEL, SOUND MANIFESTS DIFFERENT VIBRATIONS THAT CREATE LIGHT, HEAT, DIMENSIONS, AND SO FORTH, KAPALAK PAUSED BRIEFLY. SATYAKAM WAS LISTENING INTENTLY.

          

             

                     KAP ALAK CONTINUED, I'LL LEAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT TO PRACTICE THE TECHNIQUE. BUT BEFORE I LEAVE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF YOU ARE HEARING THE FIRST SOUND. SO CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE IF YOU ARE HEARING ANYTHING.

                   

                   SATYAKAM CALMLY CLOED HIS EYES AND WAITED, HE COULDN'T MAKE ANY HEADWAY.

            

                 IT 'LL HAPPEN IF YOU HERE TONIGHT TO PRACTICE THE TECHNIQUE. BUT BEFORE I LEAVE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF YOU ARE HARING THE FIRST SOUND. SO CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE IF YOU ARE HEARING ANYTHING.

 

                   SATYAKAM CALMLY CLOSED HIS EYES AND WAITED, HE COULDN'T MAKE ANY HEADWAY.

                  IT'LL HAPPEN I YOU WAIT PATIENTLY THE FIRST SHORT RANGE SOUND- THAT OF A CRICKET - RINGS ALL THE TIME IN ANYONE. IT IS A MATTER OF TRAINING YOUR INNER EAR TO CATCH IT AN THEN OF PROLONGED LINKING WITH IT.

                AS KAPALAK WAS STILL TALKING SOFTLY, SATYAKAM WAS LOST WITHIN - THE CONTINUOUS, SOOTHING, PACIFYING SOUND OF THE CRICKET. HIS FACE ASSUMED A MORE SETTLED EXPRESSION OF PEACE AND HE NO LONGER SEEMED AWARE OF OUTER SURROUNDINGS. KAPALAK QUIETLY AROSE FROM HIS SEAT AND LEFT THE HURT.

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PERFORMING THE GAYATHRI SADHANA

                                                      HOW IT WORKS

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                   ONE AMAZING THING ABOUT PERFORMING THE GAYATHRI SADHANA IS THAT YOU NOTICE A GENERAL RISE IN YOUR BODY TEMPERATURE WITHIN THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF STARTING YOUR PURUSHCHARANA. DON'T BE ALARMED IF THAT HAPPENS. CHANTING THE GAYATHRI MANTRA STIMULATES THE SOLAR CHANNEL IN OUR BODY. SAVITUR GAYATRI, THE MANTRA WE ARE CONCERNED WITH IN THIS BOOK, HAS SINCE TIMES IMMEMORIAL BEEN CHANTED WHILE STANDING IN THE RIVER. FOR, SAVITUR ALSO MEANS SUN. OFFERING LIBATIONS TOWARDS THE SUN WHILE STANDING IN WATER IN AN AGE-OLD PRACTICE.

               GAYATRI WORSHIPPRS WOULD CHANT THIS MANTRA WHILE STANDING IN A RIVER, LAKE OR AN OCEAN, WITH WATER SOMETIMES UP TO THEIR KNEES, WAISTS, OR EVEN UP TO THEIR CHESTS, DEPENDING ON WHICH LINEAGE THEY BELONGED TO. THIS IS NOT JUST PHYSICAL BUT PSYCHICAL HEAT. THE TIBETANS CALL IT TUMMO. I HAVE FOUND THAT WHAT THEY DO WITH A SET OF YOGIC PRACTICES TO STIMULATE TUMMO, GAYATHRI  ACCOMPLISHES A NEARLY SIMILAR OUTCOME PLUS MORE.

               FROM FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE, I CAN CONFIRM THIS MANTRA GENERATES HEAT IN YOUR BODY. ONCE WHEN I WAS IN CANADA, I HAD SOME TIME TO MYSELF - THIS WAS BEFORE I RENOUNCED. IT WAS  A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AND I HAD A MEETING ON A FRIDAY, I HEARD FROM MY CLIENT THAT THE MEETING WOULD BE POSTPONED TO THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY. I THOUGHT, I NOW HAD THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AND MONDAY FREE, AND I DIDN'T  WANT TO SIT AT HOME AND DO NOTHING OR JUST PLAY GOLF ETC.

               INTENDING TO MAKE GOOD USE OF MY TIME, I DECIDED TO GO AWAY AND DO A LITTLE PURUSHCHARANA OF THE GAYATRI MANTRA. IT OBVIOUSLY WASN'T MY FIRST SADHANA - I HAD DONE MANY PURUSHCHARANAS BY THEN AND I KNEW HOW LONG I COULD SIT, ETC. SO I FIGURED I WOULD CHANT THE MANTRA UP TO N12 HOURS A DAY, THREE STRETCHES OF FOUR HOURS, INTERSPERSED WITH THREE HOUR BREAKS. I LOOKED OR IN A HOTEL ROOM - I WANTED A QUIET, SECLUDED PLACE.

            FORTUNATELY, I FOUND A RENTAL CARAVAN ADVERTESED ON SOME WEBSITE, SO I LEFT A MESSAGE RIGHT AWAY BUT NO ONE CALLED BACK. AFTER WAITING ANOTHER COUPLE OF HOURS, I FOUND TWO MORE PLACES AND LEFT MESSAGES ON THEIR VOICEMAILS. NO ONE CALLED BACK. MEANWHILE, IT WAS EVENING AND I WENT TO PLAY BADMINTON. I THOUGHT WHY TO WASTE MY EVENING WAITING FOR A PHONE CALL. IT WAS BETTER TO GET SOME BLOOD CIRCULATION GOING.

         THREE HOURS LATER, WHEN I FINISHED AND TURNED MY PHONE ON, THERE WAS A MESSAGE ON IT FROM THE CARAVAN LADY. IT WAS NEARLY 8 PM BY THEN. I CALLED HER BACK AND SHE SAID, "OKAY" YOU CAN TAKE THAT PLACE, NO PROBLEM. BUT NOBODY LIVES THERE , IT'S TOTALLY ISOLATED. ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT?

             

YES, I SAID.

AND THERE'S NO RUNNING WATER.

NO PROBLEM.

NO FLUSHING TOILET EITHER.

UH... OKAY... NO PROBLEM.

IT'S NEXT TO A LAKE, FAR INTO THE WOODS.

SOUNDS PRETTY NICE!

COME TO MY PLACE FIRST, SHE SAID, GIVE ME THE MONEY THEN I'LL GIVE YOU THE KEY.

IT WAS ONLY 50 BUCKS A DAY.

FAIR ENOUGH, I SAID TO HER.

                   I WENT HOME AND SAID TO MY BROTHER - AND SISTER-IN-LAW, WHO ALWAYS TOOK CARE OF ME AS A MOTHER WOULD - I AM GOING AWAY FOR A FEW DAYS. THEY WERE QUITE USED TO ME HEADING OFF ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT. MY SISTER-IN-LAW QUICKLY SAID, "LET ME AT LEAST PACK A QUILT FOR YOU AND SOMETHING TO EAT".

I SAID, I WONT BE EATING ANTYTHING, DON'T BOTHER PACKING ANY STUFF FOR ME.

I DROVE FOR HOURS. THIS PLACE WAS QUITE FAR, AND I PUT IT ON MY GPS. IT WAS WAY OFF THE BEATEN TRACK, AND THE GPS WAS GOING HAYWIRE. I WAS FEELING BAD FOR DRIVING MY BROTHER'S BMW ON THESE UNPAVED ROADS. SOMEHOW, I MANAGED TO REACH THE OWNER'S PLACE AFTER MIDNIGHT. I KNOCKED ON HER DOOR, AND SHE SAID, I AM QUITE INTRIGUED, BECAUSE JUST LAST WEEK I LOST MY SISTER, AND SHE USED TO SPEND A FAIR BIT OF TIME IN THAT CARAVAN. THEN I GOT A MASSAGE FROM YOU SAYING YOU WOULD LIKE TO RENT MY CARAVAN FOR MEDITATION. THIS MUST BE GOD'S MYSTERIOUS WAY AND NOT A COINCIDENCE.

THE CARAVAN WAS 20 MINUTES AWAY FROM HER PLACE, SHE TOLD ME, THAT IT WAS NOT LOCKED AND THAT THERE WAS NO KEY BECAUSE NO ONE WENT THERE. BUT NOW THAT I WAS AT HER PLACE, I COULD GIVE HER THE RENT FIRST.

TOMORROW MORNING YOU CAN DRIVE BACE HERE. SHE SAID, I CANT GIVE YOU BREAD, MILK, AND JUICE OR SOMETHING.

DON'T WORRY, I SAID, I WON'T BE EATING ANYTHING, I HAVE A BOTTLE OF ORANGE JUICE,  I HAD DECIDED THAT I WOULD TAKE THREE SIPS OF ORANGE JUICE A DAY.

ARE YOU SURE?

"POSITIVE".

WELL, IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND, JUST GIVE ME A CALL. DON'T DIE, YOU KNOW.

I CHUCKLED AND SAID, I'LL BE FINE!

I WENT TO THE CARAVAN AND LAY DOWN. I THOUGHT I WOULD CHANT FOR AN HOUR BUT I WAS VERY TIRED FROM FIRST PLAYING BADMINTON AND THEN DRIVING FOR FOUR HOURS, SO I SLEPT AFTER A MERE 20 MINUTES AND WOKE UP THREE HOURS LATER, AT 4 AM.  I WENT TO THE LAKE - JUST REMEMBER, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SWIM, SO GETTING TO THE LAKE AND FILLING A BUCKET FOR MY BATH WHILE MAKING SURE I DIDN'T SLIP INTO THE WATER WAS NOT EASY. NEVERTHELESS, I MANAGED. I BATHED OUTSIDE AND TOOK ANOTHER BUCKET OF WATER BACK TO THE CARAVAN, AND STARTED MY CHANTING.

THE DAY WENT WELL. AT NIGHT, DURING MY REST PERIOD, I FELT SOMEBODY WEARING A HOOD WAS LOOKING RIGHT AT ME THROUGH THE LITTLE WINDOW OF THE CARAVAN.

WHO'S THERE ? I SAID, NOBODY ANSWERED.

WHO' THERE? I SAID AGAIN, STILL NOBODY ANSWERED.

I FLASHED A LIGHT THROUGH THE WINDOW, BUT IN THE PITCH DARKNESS OUTSIDE THE FLASH JUST GLARED BACK AT ME FROM THE WINDOW PANE. I HEARD SOME NOISE OUTSIDE AS IF SOMEBODY WAS RUNNING. I GOT UP QUICKLY AND OPENED THE DOOR OF THE CARAVAN, AND IN THE MEANTIME, WHATEVER THIS FIGURE WAS JUST RAN AWAY, I COULN'T CATCH A GLIMPSE OF ANYTHING. 

NOW THAT I AM UP, I THOUGHT, I MIGHT AS WELL DO SOME MORE CHANTING. SO I CHANTED THE WHOLE NIGHT, AND DID SO ALSO FOR THE THIRD NIGHT. WHEN I ENDED MY SADHANA ON MONDAY MORNING, SOMETHING BEATIFUL HAPPENDED. BEFORE I TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED, LET ME SAY THAT I DON'T WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL OCCURED, ALTHOUGH I HAVE EXPERIENCED MANY SUCH THINGS IN MY LIFE. THIS WAS SIMPLY BEATIFUL. I HAD TO DO A LITTLE GAGNA. NOW FOR THE PERMISSION TO LIGHT A FIRE THERE. ALSO, I WASN'T CARRYING ANY INGREDIENTS FOR THE YAGNA. I JUST WANTED TO LIGHT A LITTLE FIRE.

LUCKILY, I HAD TAKEN SOME MATCHBOXES WITH ME, I BROKE OFF THE HEADS, AND THE MATCHSTICKS BECAME MY TINY PIECES OF FIREWOOD. SO I DID A LITLLE YAGNA OUTSIDE AND WHEN I FINISHED AND LOOKED UP, THERE WAS THE MOST GLORIOUS SIGHT OF 40 OR 50 LOTUSES BY THE BANK OF THE LAKE NEARBY. THEY WERE IN FULL BLOOM, WITH PINK BLOSSOMS AND SEA-GREEN PADS, BATHED IN GENTLE SUNLIGHT - IT WAS JUST DELIGHTFUL. I FELT THAT MY SADHANA WAS COMPLETE. I HAVE NO CLUE WHY I FAILED TO NOTICE THEM ON THE FIRST TWO DAYS.

I SHOULD NOT USE THE WORD SADHANA - IT WAS MORE MINI ANUSHTHANA BUT BECAUSE IT WAS THE GAYATHRI MANTRA, THE HEAT IN MY BODY WAS SO GREAT THAT I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO. I LOST ALL MY APPETITE BECAUSE WHEN THERE IS EXCESSIVE HEAT IN THE BODY, YOU TEND TO LOSE YOUR APPETITE. I DROVE BACK HOME, AND DIDN'T FEEL HUNGRY THAT DAY OR THE NEXT DAY. I JUST WANTED TO LIE DOWN BUT MY MIND WAS ACTIVE, AND MY BODY ENERGETIC. I REALLY COULDN'T DO MUCH.

THE GAYATHRI MANTRA IS ONE OF THE REASONS I COULD LIVE IN THE HIMALAYAS WEARING ROBES AS THE KIND I WEAR- ALL COTTON. THIS IS ACTUALLY MORE CLOTHING THAN I WORE IN BADRINATH DURING MY SADHANA. I WAS JUST IN MY LOINCLOTH, AND THE COLD THERE DID NOT BOTHER ME IN THE SLIGHTEST. THIS IS BECAUSE THE GAYATRI MANTRA FIRES UP THE SOLAR CHANNEL IN YOUR BODY.

IF YOU FEEL EXCESSIVE HEAT IN YOUR BODY WHEN YOU CHANT THE GAYATHRI MANTRA, IT IS IMPORTANT TO LIE DOWN ON YOUR RIGHT SIDE FOR A LITTLE WHILE BECAUSE WHEN YOU LIE DOWN ON YOUR RIGHT SIDE, YOUR LEFT CHANNEL, WHICH IS YOUR LUNAR CHANNEL, WILL BE ACTIVATED. YOU WILL START TO BREATHE FROM YOUR LEFT NOSTRIL AND WHEN YOU BREATHE FROM YOUR LEFT, YOU WILL COOL DOWN SOMEWHAT.

NEXT TIME YOU ARE ANGRY OR AGITATED, CHECK IF YOU ARE BREATHING FROM THE LEFT OR RIGHT. IN MEDITATION, WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE RESTLESSNESS OR AGGRESSIVE THOUGHTS, MAKE SURE YOU ARE BREATHING FROM THE LEFT - YOU WILL FEEL A CALMING SENSATION WITHIN A FEW MINUTES. I YOU ARE FEELING LAZY, BREATHE FROM THE RIGHT NOSTRIL AND THIS WILL INVIGORATE YOU.

INVOKING THE GAYATRI MANTRA IS A STRUCTURED MANNER WILL HELP YOU BUILD A RESERVOIR OF DIVINE ENERGY. LET ME GO OVER THAT.

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IF YOU HAVE WISH TO START SADHANA (GAYATHRI MANTRA)

                                                NOTE THIS DETAILS

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           YOU CAN START GAYATHRI SADHANA ON ANY FULL MOON DAY. YOU CAN CARRY OUT THE ROUTINE IN THE MORNING OR AT NIGHT. PRAYING TO THE DIVINE MOTHER IN THE FORM OF GAYATHRI IN THE MORNING IS THE VEDIC WORSHIP WHILE THE EXACT SAME ROUTINE, WHEN UNDERTAKEN AT NIGHT, BECOMES HER TANTRIC METHOD OF WORSHIP. THE MAIN THING IS TO BE CONSISTENT OF CHANTING IN THE MORNING, FOLLOW THAT TILL YOU COMPLETE THE PURUSHCHARANA, IF YOU START YOUR SADHANA BY CHANTING ONLY IN THE EVENING, STICK TO THAT TILL THE END, IT IS ALSO PERFECTLY FINE TO SPLIT YOUR SESSION INTO MORNING AND EVENINGS. ONCE AGAIN, IF YOU DO THAT, MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE SAME ROUTINE TILL YOU FINISH YOUR PURUSHCHARANA. PLEASE NOTE THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY SESSION, YOU'VE TO DO PURIFICATION, NYASA AND ALL THE OTHER STEPS AS SPECIFIED LATER IN THIS CHAPTER. OF COURSE, YOU ONLY HAVE TO PERFORM THE SEVEN STEPS IF YOU CHOOSE THE BRIEF INVOCATION OVER COMPREHENSIVE INVOCATION. THE IDEA IS TO TRAIN YOUR MIND BY DOING THE SAME THING AT PRECISELY THE SAME TIME FOR THE AMOUNT OF MINUTESOR HOURS EVERY DAY FOR A CERTAIN LENGTH OF DURATION.

                                                      WHO CAN DO THIS SADHANA

               ANY PERSON, OF ANY, RELIGION, ABILITY OR BACKGROUND CAN DO THIS SADHANA WITH OR WITHOUT INITIATION. MENSTRUATING WOMEN CAN START OR CONTINUE THEIR SADHANA WITHOUT ANY RESERVATIONS WHATSEVER. COMPLETE SBSTINENCE MUST BE PRACTICED THROUGHOUT THE PURUSHCHARANA. THERE'S NO DOSHA (ISSUE) IN CASE OF WET DREAMS OR ANY OTHER INVOLUNTARY RELEASE OF SEXUAL GRATIFICATION IS FORBIDDEN.

                       

                                                                            DIET

                        THROUGHOUT YOUR PURUSHCHARANA, YOU SHOULD BE ON A STRICT VEGETARIAN DIET. DAIRY IS ALLOWED BUT NO MEAT, SEAFOOD OR EGGS. NO ONION OR GARLIC EITHER. BE CAREFUL OF EATING BISCUITS, CAKES, CHEESES, AND SUPPLEMENTS THAT MAY CONTAIN ANIMAL-DERIVED INGREDIENTS. IF YOUR DOCTOR HAS PRESCRIBED ANY MEDICATION. FEEL FREE TO TAKE IT WITHOUT ANY OF THE CONSIDREATIONS ABOVE.

                                                                          LAMP

                      

  

                      IDEALLY, THE LAMP USED IN THIS PURUSHCHARANA SHOULD BE MADE OF BRASS. AN EARHEN LAMP OR A SILVER LAMP CAN ALSO BE USED. THE WICK MUST BE OF COTTON. IT IS PERMISSIBLE TO USE BRAIDED COTTON THREAD (LIKE THE COMMON SACRED RED THREAD, MAULI, FOR EXAMPLE, OR ANY OTHER ) TO USE AS A WICK. THE OIL USED IN THE LAMP SHOULD BE EITHER GHEE OR SESAME OIL. OF YOU ARE DOING THIS SADHANA IN WINTERS IN A COLD REGION. I WOULD RECOMMEND USING SESAM OIL AS GHEE SOLIDIFIES VERY QUICKLY AND IT MAY PUT OUT YOUR LAMP. ONCEAGAIN, IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE CONSISTENT . IF YOU START YOUR SADHANA BY LIGHTING A GHEE LAMP, STICK TO THAT THROUGHOUT YOUR PURUSHCHARANA.

                                                                     DIRECTION

                      THE ASPIRANT SHOULD FACE EAST, NORTH OR NORTHEAST WHILE DOING THE CHANTING AND THE YAJNA. 

                                                                          CLOTHING

                           ANY COLOR IS IKAY BUT THE BEST ARE RED, YELLOW AND WHITE. IDEALLY, YOU SHOULD WEAR NO MORE THAN TWO PIECES OF RED, YELLOW OR WHITE LOOSE-CLOTH ON YOUR BODY - ONE TO COVER YOUR LOWER BODY AND THE OTHER TO COVER THE UPPER PART.  IF YOU ARE IN VERY COLD PLACE, YOU CAN EITHER USE A HEATER IN YOUR ROOM OR SEW YOUR UPPER CLOTH WITH WOOLEN SHAWL. WOMEN CAN WEAR A SAREE, BLOUSE, ETC.

                                                        BEADS BAG (GOMUKHA)

            

                       IF YOU USE CHANTING BEADS, THEN I RECOMMEND USING A BEAD BAD CALLED GOMUKHA. MOST OF YOU WOULD KNOW HOW TO USE THE GOMUKHA. IT'S GOT TWO OPENINGS, ONE IS LARGER THAN THE OTHER. IT IS DESIGNED SO WHEN YOU PUT THE ROSARY IN IT, THE BEADS DON'T TOUCH THE GROUND OR DIRTY HANDS, AND ARE KEPT PURE.

                     YOU CAN WEAR IT AROUND YOUR HEAD IF YOU LIKE. THEN YOU CHANT WITH THE BEADS INSIDE IT, THE INDEX FINGER, HOWEVER, REMAINS OUTSIDE THE SMALLER OPENING OF THE GOMUKHA.

                                                                              SEAT

                   THE BEST SEAT WILL BE A BLANKET ON WHICH YOU SHOULD SPREAD THE SAME COLORED CLOTH YOU COVER YOUR BODY WITH. OR, IF YOU ARE WEARING REGULAR CLOTHES (AND NOT ONE OF THE THREE COLORS MENTINED IN THE PREVIOUS SECTION) WHILE DOING PURUSHCHARANA, YOU CAN JUST PUT A YELLOW CLOTH ON YOUR SEAT. THE NATURE OF THIS SADHANA REQUIRES YOU TO SIT ON THE FLOOR. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO DO THAT, YOU MAY TRY SITTING IN A CHAIR AND SETTING UP A TABLE IN FRONT OF YOU WITH LAMP, POTS, ETC. PERSONALLY, I HAVE NEVER EXPERIMENTED WITH THAT. IF YOU DO, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE THE RESULTS OF YOUR SADHANA.

                      OTHER THAN A BLANKET, YOU CAN ALSO TAKE A STANDARD MEDITATION CUSHION OR USE ANY SEAT MADE FROM COTTON.

                     A SEAT MADE OUT KUSHA GRASS IS ALSO PERMISSIBLE FOR THIS SADHANA.

                                                                           POSTURE

                       TRY TO MAINTAIN STILLNESS OF YOUR POSTURE WHILE YOU CHANT WITH UTMOST MINDFULNESS, FAITH AND DEVOTION. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO REMIND YOU THAT MANTRA SADHANA IS NOT ABOUT RECKLESS CHANTING OF A MANTRA JUST FOR THE SAKE OF TICKING OFF AN ITEM ON YOUR LIST. IT IS THE SOULFUL PROCESS OF BECOMING ONE WITH YOUR DEITY SO YOU MAY ELEVATE YOURSELF SPIRITUALLY, MATERIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY.

                      THINGS YOU WILL NEED FOR GAYATHRI SADHANA

                1. A LAMP (BRASS, SILVER, OR EARTHERN)

                2. GHEE OR SESAME OIL AND WICK FOR YOUR LAMP

               3. FIVE SMALL WATER POTS, A SMALL SPOON AND A SAUCER IF YOU ARE PERFORMING THE COMPREHENSIVE INVOCATION. THE POTS CAN BE OF SILVER, COPPER OR BRASS. THIS IS THE STANDARD FOR EVERY SADHANA AND DETAILS ON HOW TO LAY OUT THE POTS (PATRA) CAN BE FOUND IN THE CHAPTER "ARRAGEMENT OF POTS (PATRASADANA)" IN DETAILED NOTES".

             4. STANDARD INGREDIENTS FOR FIRE OFFERINGS (YAJNA) AS MENTIONED IN THE CHAPTER "HOW TO MAKE FIRE OFFERINGS (YAJNA).

             5. IN ADDITION TO THOSE INGREDIENTS, YOU WILL NEED FIREWOOD. YOU CAN EITHER WOOD FROM A SACRED FIG (FICUS RELIGIO. COMMON NAME : PEEPUL), MANGO (MAGNIFERA  INDICA,  COMMON NAME: PLASHA OR DHAK). YOU CAN ALSO USE THE WOOF FROM DEODAR (CEDRUS DEODARA. COMMON NAME : DEVADARU) OR TEAK (TECTONA GRANDIS, COMMON NAME : SAGAUN OR SHEESHAM).

           6. CHANTING BEADS MADE FROM RUDRASHA

           7. A LOT OF FAITH,M DEVOTION AND DISCIPLINE

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