THE KARMA

                                                   TWO TYPES OF KARMA

                  KARMA IS OF TWO KINDS, SOON TO BE FRUCTIFIED, AND LATE TO BE FRUCTIFIED, BY MAKING SAMYAMA ON THAT, OR BY THE SIGNS CALLED SRISTHA, PORTENTS, THE YOGIS KNOW THE EXACT TIME OF SEPERATION FROM THEIR BODIES.

                 WHEN THE YOGI MAKES A SAMYAMA ON HIS OWN KARMA, UPON THOSE IMPRESSIONS IN HIS MIND MAKES WHICH ARE NOW WORKING, AND THOSE WHICH ARE JUST WAITING TO WORK, HE KNOWS EXACTLY BY THOSE THAT ARE WAITING WHEN HIS BODY WILL FALL. HE KNOWS HINDUS THINK VERY MUCH OF THAT KNOWLEDGE OR CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE NEARNESS OF DEATH, BECAUSE IT IS TAUGHT IN THE GITA THAT THE THOUGHTS AT THE MOMENT OF DEPARTURE ARE GREAT POWERS IN DETERMINING THE NEXT LIFE.

               BY MAKING SAMYAMA ON FRIENDSHIP, ETC, VARIUOS STRENGTH COMES.

              WHEN A YOGI HAS ATTAINED TO THIS SAMYAMA AND WANTS STRENGTH, HE MAKES A SAMYAMA ON THE STRENGTH ON THE STRENGTH OF THE ELEPHANT, AND GETS IT. INFINITE ENERGY IS AT THE DISPOSAL OF EVERYONE, IF HE ONLY KNOWS HOW TO GET IT. THE YOGI HAS DISCOVERED THE SCIENCE OF GETTING IT.

             BY  MAKING SAMYAMA ON THAT EFFULGENT LIGHT COMES THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FINE, THE OBSTRUCTED, AND THE REMOTE.

            WHEN THE YOGI MAKES SAMYAMA ON THAT EFFULGENT LIGHT IN THE HEART HE SEES THINGS WHICH ARE VERY REMOTE, THINGS, FOR INSTANCE, THAT ARE HAPPENING IN A DISTANCE PLACE, AND WHICH ARE OBSTRUCTED BY MOUNTAIN BARRIES AND ALSO THINGS WHICH ARE VERY FINE.

            BY MAKING SAMYAMA ON THE SUN, (COMES) THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD.

             ON THE MOON, (COMES) THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOTIONS OF THE STARS.

              ON THE NAVEL CIRCLE (COMES) THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE BODY.

              ON THE HOLLOW OF THE THROAT (COMES) CESSATION OF HUNGER, WHEN A MAN IS VERY HUNGRY, IF HE CAN MAKE SAMYAMA ON THE PIT OF THE THROAT, HUNGER CEASES.

               ON THE NERVE CALLED KURMA (COMES) FIXITY OF THE BODY. WHEN HE IS PRACTISING, THE BODY IS NOT DISTURBED.

              ON THE LIGHT EMANATING FROM THE TOP OF THE HEAD, SIGHT OF THE SIDDHAS.

                THE SIDDHAS ARE BEINGS WHO ARE A LITTLE ABOVE GHOSTS. WHEN THE YOGI CONCENTRATES HIS MIND ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD HE WILL SEE THESE SIDHAS, THE WORD SIDDHA DOES NOT REFER TO THOSE MEN WHO HAVE BECOME FREE, A SENSE IN WHICH IT IS OFTEN USED.

              OR BY THE POWER OF PRATIBHA, ALL KNOWLEDGE. ALL THESE CAN COME WITHOUT ANY SAMYAMA TO THE MAN WHO HAS THE POWER OF PRATIBHA (ENLIGHTENMENT FROM PURITY) . THIS IS WHEN A MAN HAS RISEN TO A HIGH STATE OF PRATIBHA, THEN HE HAS THAT GREAT LIGHT. ALL THINGS ARE APPARENT TO HIM. EVERYTHING COMES TO HIM NATURALLY, WITHOUT MAKING SAMYAMA ON ANYTHING.

                IN THE HEART, KNOWLEDGE OF MINDS.

                 PRATYAYAVISHESHO BHOGAH PARARTHATVAT SVARTHASANYAMAT PURUSHAJANAM

                ENJOYMENT COMES BY THE NON DISCRIMINATION OF THE VERY DISTANT SOUL AND SATTVA. ITS ACTIONS ARE FOR ANOTHER, SAMYAMA ON THIS GIVES KNOWLEDGE OF THE PURUSA.

                THIS POWER OF NON-ATTACHMENT ACQUIRED THROUGH PURITY GIVES THE YOGI THE ENLIGHTENMENT CALLED PRATIBA.

                FROM THAT ARISES THE KNOWLEDGE OF HEARING, TOUCHING, SEEING, TASTING, AND SMELLING, BELONGING TO PRATIBHA.

               THESE ARE OBSTACLES TO SAMADHI, BUT THEY ARE POWERS IN THE WORLDLY STATE.

               IF THE YOGI KNOWS ALL THESE ENJOYMENTS OF THE WORLD, IT COMES BY THE JUNCTION OF THE PURUSA AND THE MIND. IF HE WANTS TO MAKE SAMYAMA ON THIS, THAT THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS, NATURE AND SOUL, HE GETS KNOWLEDGE OF THE PURUSA. FROM THAT ARISES DISCRIMINATION. WHEN HE HAS GO THE DISCRIMINATION HE GETS THE PRATIBHA, THE LIGHT OF SUPREME GENIUS. THESE POWERS, HOWEVER, THE OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE HIGHEST GOAL, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PURE SELF, AND FREEDOM, THESE ARE AS IT WERE, TO BE MET IN THE WAY, AND IF THE YOGI REJECTS THEM, HE ATTAINS THE HIGHEST. IF HE IS TEMPETED TO ACQUIRE THESE, HIS FARTHER PROGRESS IS BARRED.

              WHEN THE CAUSES OF BONDAGE HAS BECOME LOOSENED, THE YOGI, BY HIS KNOWLEDGE OF MANIFESTATION THROUGH THE ORGANS, ENTERS ANOTHER'S BODY.

             THE YOGI CAN ENTER A DEAD BODY, AND MAKE IT GET UP AND MOVE, EVEN WHILE HE HIMSELF IS WORKING IN ANOTHER BODY. OR HE CAN ENTER A LIVING BODY, AND HOLD THAT MAN'S MIND AND ORGANS IN CHECK, AND FOR THE TIME BEING ACT THROUGH THE BODY OF THAT MAN. THAT IS DONE BY THE YOGI COMING TO THIS DISCRIMINATION OF PURUSA AND NATURE. IF HE WANTS TO ENTER ANOTHER'S BODY HE MAKES A SAMYAMA ON THAT BODY AND ENTERS IT, BECAUSE, NOT ONLY IS HIS SOUL OMNIPRESENT, BUT HIS MIND ALSO, ACCORDING TO THE YOGI, IT IS ONE BIT OF THE INIVERSAL MIND. NOW, HOWEVER, IT CAN ONLY WORK THOUGH THE NERVE CURRENTS IN THIS BODY, BUT WHEN THE YOGI HAS LOOSENED HIMSELF FROM THESE NERVE CURRENTS, HE WILL BE ABLE TO WORK THROUGH OTHER THINGS.

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THE SPIRIT OF GOAL

                                                                    GOAL

  

            WHAT IS THE GOAL, SIR?

           REALIZATION OF THE SPIRIT, ANSWERED SATYAKAM SERENELY.

            BUT THEN, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS ON THE PATH OF SPIRITUAL SEEKING? SHOUTED A LADY FROM THE AUDIENCE, AS IF IN ANGONY.

           SATYAKAM LOOKED UP AT THE WOMAN WITH UTMOST COMPASSION AND REPLIED, THE REALIZATION OF SPIRIT IS NOT AN UNINTERUPTED ADVANCE. SUFFERING AND PAIN CANNOT BE ABOLISHED AS LONG AS THE SPIRITUAL LIFE HAS TO BE LIVED UNDER HUMAN CONDITIONS. UNTIL ONE'S WHO INTEGRATED BEING IS OFFERED WITH DEVOTION TO THE DIVINE THE PROCESS OF GRADUAL UPLIFTMENT THROUGH TESTS AND SUFFERNG CANNOT CEASE. WHEN DEVOTION MATURES AND BECOMES COMPLETE, ONE HAS THE VISION OF GOD.

            AFTER A DEEP SIGH HE CONTINUED. PLEASURES SEEM TO BE IN THE SATISFACTION OF IMPULSES, BUT THE GOOD REQUIRES THE TAMING OF THE LOWER TENDENCIES. CONSCIOUS ACTION TEND TO BECOME UNCONSCIOUS HABITS.

           THE ILLUSIONS OF LIFE ARE TO VANISH AND OUR CHERISHED, DREAMS DISPERSE BEFORE THE LIFE DIVINE CAN BE REALIZED.

           AND ANOTHER AFTERNOON, WHILE THE TEMPLE GROUNDS BLAZED BENEATH THE AUTUMN SUN, DEVOTEES WITHOUT FAIL BEGAN ARRIVING TO LISTEN TO THE MARVALOUS SERMON OF PEOPLE, ALTHOUGH THEY UNDOUBTEDLY DID, BUT WHAT HE WAS AN EMBODIMENT OF HOLINESS AND WISDOM, DETACHED TO THE CORE OF HIS BEING FROM ALL CLINGING.

              THAT DY A NUMBER OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WERE PRESENT AMONG THE MULTITUDE. SATYAKAM, RELAXED IN HIS SEAT, LOOKED AT THEM QUESTIONINGLY. ONE STUDENT RAISED HIS HAND, AND MAHARAJ NODDED CONSENT.

               WHAT IS TRUE EDUCATION, MAHARAJ? THERE WAS A KEEN DESIRE IN THE STUDENT TO KNOW.

             TRUE EDUCATION IS WHAT LIBERATES, LIBERATES THE SPIRIT OF MAN. KNOWLEDGE MUST BE ONE WITH TRUTH BECAUSE TRUTH GIVES FREEDOM - NOT THE FREEDOM OF UNRESTRAINED FLOOD WATER, BUT THAT OF WATER FLOWING FREELY WITHIN THE BANKDS OF RELATIVITY.

            THEN ALL THIS SECULAR AND ACADEMIC EDUCATION IS UNTRUE AND USELESS? ANOTHER STUDENT ASKED IN SLIGHT AGITATION.

             MAHARAJ SMILED AND IN RESTRAINED MANNER SAID, 

              SECULAR KNOWLEDGE IS UNTRUE IN THE SENSE THAT IT FAILS TO GIVE WINGS TO THE SOUL OF MAN. BUT IT IS TRUE AND USEFUL IN ITS OWN SPHERE OF THE DUALISTIC PLAY OF OBSERVER AND OBSERVED.

               THE FIRST STUDENT POLITELY RESUMED, IS THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF WHICH YOU ARE KINDLY SPEAKING CAPABLE OF KNOWING EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE SCIENCES , ARTS AND VARIOUS HUMANITIES?

                IN PRINCIPLE YES, SATYAKAM LOVINGLY AND EMPHATICALLY REPLIED, BY REALIZING YOUR SPIRIT YOU KNOW EVERYTHING CREATIVELY AND BLISSFULLY, BUT IN THE PROCESS OF KNOWING, ON THE WAY ONE ENCOUNTERS THE URGES AND IMPULSES TO KNOW AND HAVE MUNDANE KNOWLEDGE, THUS,SECULAR KNOWLEDGE IS CALLED INDIRECT, WHEREAS SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE IS DIRECT.

              A THIRD STUDENT ASKED, SHOULD ONE THEN RENOUNCE AN ACADEMIC CAREER TO PURSUE SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE?

             NOT NECESSARILY, REPLIED SATYAKAM UNDERSTANDINGLY, IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU WANT AND WHERE YOUR ASPIRATION LIES. ULTIMATELY, THE AIM OF ALL KNOWLEDGE - SECULAR OR OTHERWISE - IS TO KNOW THE TRUE SELF OR SPIRIT. SCIENCE MAY CALL IT THE ULTIMATE ESSENCE. THE MOST TELLING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO IS THAT THE SECULAR NEVER IMPARTS FULL SATISFACTION WHEREAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPIRIT DOES.

           ANOTHER STUDENT ASKED MEEKLY, IS THERE ANY CHANGE OF RECONCILIATION BETWEEN DIRECT AND INDIRECT KNOWLEDGE MAHARAJ?

           SATYAKAM RELEASED A DEEP SIGH AND SAID, YES, AND RIGHTLY SO. BY KNOWING YOUR TRUE SELF YOU ATTAIN IMMORTALITY OF SPIRIT AND THEREBY LIVE IN PERPETUAL AWARENESS AND JOY. ON THE OTHER HAND, SECULAR KNOWLEDGE IMPARTS TO YOU THE CAPACITY TO LIVE IN AND MAINTAIN THE RELATIVE WORLD.

          BUT WITHOUT SPIRITUAL AWARENESS, SECULAR SUBJECTS ARE HOLLOW AND INCOMPLETE, MERE INTELLECTUAL GYMNASTICS, SO UNLESS THE SPIRIT SHINES THROUGH THE INTELLECT, MAKING LIFE AND BODY AN INTEGRATED WHOLE, THE CLASH BETWEEN THE TWO WILL NOT CEASE. FULFILLMENT OF THE MUNDANE IS POSSIBLE ONLW WHEN THE DIVINE PENETRATES THROUGH IT AND REMOVES THE DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE.

           AFTER ALL, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION IF NOT TO GET FREEDOM FROM IGNORANCE AND ATTAIN LIGHT?.

                                    

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IDENTIFICATION OF GETTING RICH

 

                                            CYCOLOGY OF IDENTIFICATION

                  HAVING RECOGNIZED GOD AS THE ADVANCING PRESENCE IN NATURE,SOCIETY, AND HUMANKIND AND HARMONIZED YOURSELF WITH ALL THESE, AND HAVING CONSECRATED YOURSELF TO THAT WITHIN YOU THAT IMPELS TOWARD THE GREATEST AND THE HIGHEST, THED NEXT STEP IS TO BECOME AWARE OF AND RECOGNIZE FULLY THE FACT THAT THE PRINCIPLE OF POWER WITHIN YOU IS GOD HIMSELF. YOU MUST CONSCIOUSLY IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH HIGHEST. THIS IS NOT SOME FALSE OR UNTRUE POSITION TO BE ASSUMED, IT IS A FACT TO BE RECOGNIZED. YOU ARE ALREADY ONE WITH GOD, YOU WANT TO BECOME CONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF IT.

                GOD HAS GIVEN HUMANKIND THE PRINCIPLE OF POWER. THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO A FEW EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE, BUT TO ALL OF US. THE PRINCIPLE OF POWER IS IN WITHIN EACH OF US, BUT OUR CONSCIOUSNESS TO ERROR AND MISTAKE. TO SAVE OURSELVES THAT DOES KNOW ALL. WE MUST BECOME CONSCIOUSLY ONE WITH GOD.

                 THERE IS A MIND SURROUNDING US ON EVERY SIDE, CLOSER THAN BREATHIN, NEARER THAN HANDS AND FEET, AND IN THIS MIND IS THE MEMORY OF ALL THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED, FROM THE GREATEST CONVULDIONS OF NATURE IN PREHISTORIC DAYS TO THE FALL OF A SPARROW IN THIS PRESENT TIME - ALL THAT IS IN EXISTENCE NOW AS WELL. HELD IN THIS MIND IS THE GREAT PURPOSE THAT IS BEHIND ALL NATURE, AND SO IT KNOWS WHAT IS GOING TO BE. WE ARE SURROUNDED BY A MIND THAT KNOWS ALL THERE IS TO KNOW, PAST, PRESENT, AND TO COME. EVERYTHING THAT HUMANS HAVE SAID OR DONE OR WRITTEN IS PRESENT THERE. WE ARE OF ONE IDENTIAL STUFF WITH THIS MIND.

                   YOUR IDENTIFICATION OF YOURSELF WITH THE INFINITE MUST BE ACCOMPLISH BY CONSCIOUS RECOGNITION ON YOUR PART. RECOGNIZING IT AS A FACT, THAT THERE IS ONLY GOD, AND THAT ALL INTELLIGENCE IS IN THE ONE SUBSTANCE. YOU MUST TRULY BELIEVE IN THE ININITE GOD AND SURRENDER YOURSELF TO CONSCIOUS UNITY WITH HIM.

                IF YOU HAVE BEEN THOROUGH IN THE WORK AS OUTLINED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS, IF YOU HAVE ATTAINED TO THE TRUE VIEWPOINT, AND IF YOUR CONSECRATION IS COMPLETE, YOU WILL NOT FIND CONSCIOUS IDENTIFICATION HARD TO ATTAIN, IT IS ATTAINED, THE POWER YOU SEEK IS YOURS, FOR YOU HAVE MADE YORSELF ONE WITH ALL THE POWER THERE IS.

                                                        IMPRESSION OF INCREASE

                             

                      WHETHER YOU CHANGE YOUR VOCATION OR NOT, YOUR ACTIONS FOR THE PRESENT MUST BE THOSE PERTAINING TO THE BUSINESS IN WHICH YOU ARE NOW ENGAGED.

                  YOU CAN GET INTO THE BUSINESS YOU WANT BY MAKING CONSTRUCTIVE USE OF THE BUSINESS YOU ARE ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN BY DOING YOUR DAILY WORK IN CERTAIN WAY.

               AND IN SO FAR AS YOUR BUSINESS CONSISTS IN DEALING WITH OTHERS, WHETHER PERSONALLY OR BY LETTER, THE KEY - THOUGHT OF ALL YOUR EFFORTS MUST BE TO CONVEY TO THEIR MINDS THE IMPRESSION OF INCREASE.

              INCREASE IS WHAT ALL MEN AND ALL WOMEN ARE SEEKING, IT IS THE URGE OF THE DIVINE INTELLIGENCE WITHIN THEM, SEEKING FULLER EXPRESSSION.

               THE DESIRE FOR INCREASE IS INHERENT IN ALL NATURE, IT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPULSE OF THE UNIVERSE. ALL HUMAN ACTIVITIES ARE BASED ON THE DESIRE FOR INCREASE, PEOPLE ARE SEEKING MORE FOOD, MORE CLOTHES, BETTER SHELTER, MORE LUXURY, MORE BEAUTY, MORE KNOWLEDGE, MORE PLEASURE-  INCREASE IN SOMETHING, MORE LIFE.

                 EVERY LIVING THING IS UNDER THIS NECESSITY FOR CONTINUOUS ADVANCEMENT, WHERE INCREASE OF LIFE CEASES, DISSOLUTION AND DEATH SET IN AT ONCE.

             HOWEVER LOVE OF MONEY TO THE EXCLUTION TO THE EXCLUTION OF EVERYTHING ELSE WILL CAUSE YOU TO BECOME LOPSIDED AND UNBALANCED. YOU ARE HERE TO USE YOUR POWER OR AUTHORITY WISELY. SOME PEOPLE CRAVED POWER, OTHERS CREAVE MONEY. IF YOU SET HEART ON MONEY, AND SAY THAT'S NOTHING ELSE MATTERS, YOU CAN GET MONEY AND ATTAIN A FORTUNE, BUT YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT YOU ARE HERE TO LEAD TO BALANCED LIFE. MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE.

                 

                 NOTHING IS AS PLEASANT TO THE UNFORMED OR PARTIALLY DEVELOPED MIND AS THE EXERCISE OF POWER OR DOMINION OVER OTHERS. THE DESIRE TO RULE FOR SELFISH GRATIFICATION HAS BEEN THE CURSE OF THE WORLD. FOR COUNTLESS AGES KINGS AND LORDS HAVE DRENCHED THE EARTH WITH BLOOD IN THEIR BATTLES TO EXTEND THEIR DOMINIONS. THIS WAS NOT TO SEEK MORE LIFE FOR ALL, BUT TO GET MORE POWER FOR THEMSELVES.

              TODAY, THE MAIN MOTIVE IN THE BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL WORLD IS THE SAME, ARMIES OF DOLLARS ARE MARSHALED. THE LIVES AND HEARTS OF MILLIONS ARE WASTED IN THE MAD SCRAMBLED FOR POWEROVER OTHERS.COMMERCIAL KINGS, LIKE POLITICAL KINGS, A INSPIRED BY THE LUST OF POWER.

            LOOK OUT FOR THE TEMPTATION TO SEEK FOR AUTHORITY, TO BECAM A MASTER, TO BE CONSIDERED AS ONE WHO IS ABOVE THE COMMON HERD, TO IMPRESS OTHERS BY LAVISH DISPLAY, AND SO ONE.

           THE MIND THAT SEEKS FOR MASTERY OVER OTHERS IS THE COMPETITIVE MIND, AND THE COMPETITIVE MIND IS NOT THE CREATIVE ONE. IN ORDER TO MASTER AND THE COMPETITIVE MIND IS NOT THE CREATIVE ONE. IN ORDER TO MASTER YOUR ENVIROMENT AND YOUR DESTINY, IT IS NOT AT ALL NECESSARY THAT YOU SHOULD RULE OVER OTHERS. INDEED, WHEN YOU FALL INTO THE WORL'DS STRUGGLE FOR THE HIGH PLACES, YOU BEGIN TO BE BECOMES A MATTER OF CHANCE AND SPECULATION.

          BEWARE OF THE COMPETITIVE MIND! NO BETTER STATEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATIVE ACTION CAN BE FORMULATED THAN THIS VARIATION OF THE GOLDEN RULE. WHAT I WANT FOR MYSELF, I WANT FOR EVERYBODY.

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PATANJALI YOGA

                                                             MEDITATION

 

                         THE CAUSE OF THAT WHICH IS TO BE AVOIDED IS THE JUNCTION OF THE SEER AND THE SEEN.

                      WHO IS THE SEER? THE SELF OF MAN, THE PURUSA. WHAT IS THE SEEN? THE WHOLE NATURE, BEGINNING WITH THE MIND, DOWN TO GROSS MATTER. ALL THIS PLEASURE AND PAIN ARISES FROM THE JUNCTION BETWEEN THIS PURUSA AND THE MIND. THE PURUSA, YOU MUST REMEMBER, ACCORDING TO THIS PHILOSOPHY, IS PURE, IT IS WHEN IT IS JOINED TO NATURE, AND BY REFLECTION THAT IT APPEARS TO FEEL EITHER PLEASURE OR PAIN.

                      THE EXPERIENCED IS COMPOSED OF ELEMENTS AND ORGANS, IS OF THE NATURE OF ILLUMINATION, ACTION AND INTERIA, AND IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPERIENCE AND RELEASE (OF THE EXPERIENCER).

                     THE EXPERIENCED, THAT IS NATURE, IS COMPOSED OF ELEMENTS AND ORGANS- THE ELEMENTS GROSS AND FINE WHICH COMPOSE THE WHOLE OF NATURE, AND THE ORGANS OF THE SENSES, MIND, ETC,. AND IS OF THE NATURE OF ILLUMINATION, ACTION, AND INTERTIA. THESE ARE WHAT IS SANSKRIT ARE CALLED SATTVA (ILLUMINATION) RAJAS, (ACTION) AN TAMAS (DARKNESS) EACH IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPERIECE AND RELEASE. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE WHOLE OF NATURE? THAT THE PURUSA MAY GAIN EXPERIENCE. THE PURUSA HAS, AS IT WERE, FORGOTTEN IS MIGHTY, GODLY, NATURE. THERE IS A STORY THAT THE KING O THE GODS, INDRA, ONCE BECAME A PIG, WALLOWING IN MIRE, HE HAD A SHE PIG, AND A LOT OF BABY PIGS, AND WAS VERY HAPPY. THEN SOME OTHER ANGELS SAW HIS PLIGHT AND CAME TO HIM, AND TOLD HIM, YOU ARE THE KING OF THE GODS, YOU HAVE ALL THE GODS AT YOUR COMMAND. WHY ARE YOU HERE? BUT INDRA SAID, LET ME BE, I AM ALL RIGHT HERE, I DO PIGS, THE POOR GODS WERE AT THEIR WITS, END ON WHAT TO DO, AFTER A TIME, THEY DECIDED TO SLOWLY COME AND SLAY ONE OF THE LITTLE PIGS, AND THEN ANOTHER, UNTIL THEY HAD SLAIN ALL THE PIGS, AND THE SOW TOO. WHEN ALL WERE DEAD INDRA BEGAN TO WEEP AND MOURN. THEN THE GODS RIPPED HIS PIG BODY OPEN AND HE CAME OUT OF IT, AND BEGAN TO LAUGH WHEN HE REALISED WHAT A HIDEOUS DREAM HE HAD , HE, THE KING OF THE GODS, TO HAVE BECOME A PIG, AND TO THINK THAT THE PIG-LIFE WAS THE ONLY LIFE! NOT ONLY SO, BUT TO HAVE WANTED THE WHOLE UNIVERSE TO COME INTO THE PIG LIFE! THE PURUSA, WHEN IT IDENTIFIES ITSELF WITH NATURE, FORGETS THAT IT IS PURE AND INFINITE. THE PURUSA DOES NOT LIVE, IT IS LIFE ITSELF. IT DOES NOT EXIST, IT IS EXISTENCE ITSELF. THE SOUL DOES NOT KNOW, IT IS KNOWLEDGE ITSELF. IT IS AN ENTIRE MISTAKE TO SAY THAT THE SOUL LIVES, OR KNOWS, OR LOVES. LOVE AND EXISTENCE ARE NOT THE QUALITIES OF THE PURUSA, BUT ITS ESSENCE. WHEN THEY GET REFLECTED UPON SOMETHING YOU MAY CALL THEM THE QUALITIES OF THAT SOMETHING. BUT THEY ARE NOT THE QUALITIES OF THE PURUSA, BUT THE ESSENCE OF THIS GREAT ATMAN, THIS INFINITE BEING, WITHOUT BIRTH TO DEATH, WHO IS ESTABLISHED IN HIS OWN GLORY, BUT APPEARS AS IF BECOME DEGENERATE UNTIL IF YOU APPROACH TO TELL HIM, YOU ARE NOT PIG, HE BEGINS TO SQUEAL AND BITE. THUS WITH US ALL IN THIS MAYA, THIS DREAM WORLD, WHERE IT IS ALL MISERY, WEEPING, AND CRYING, WHERE A FEW GOLDEN BALLS ARE ROLLED, AND THE WORLD SCRAMBLES AFTER THEM. YOU WERE NEVER BOUND BY LAWS, NATURE NEVER HAD A BOND FOR YOU. THAT IS WHAT THE YOGI TELLS YOU, HAVE PATIENCE TO LEARN IT. AND THE YOGI SHOWS HOW, BY JUNCTION WITH THIS NATURE, AND IDENTIFYING ITSELF MISERABLE. THEN THE YOGI GOES ON TO SHOW THAT THE WAY OUR IS THROUGH EXPERIENCE. YOU HAVE TO GET ALL THSI EXPERIENCE, BUT FINISH IT QUICKLY. WE HAVE PLACED OURSELVES CAUGHT IN THE TRAP, AND WE WILL HAVE TO GET OUT. WE HAVE GOT OURSELVES CAUGHT IN THE TRAP, AND WE WILL HAVE TO WORK OUT OUR  FREEDOM.  SO GET THIS EXPERIENCE OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES, AND FRIENDS, AND LITTLE LOVES, AND YOU WILL GET THROUGH THEM SAFELY IF YOU NEVER FORGET WHAT YOU REALLY ARE. NEVER FORGET THIS IS ONLY MOMENTARY STATE, IS THE ONE GREAT TEACHER - EXPERIECE OF PLEASURE AND PAIN - BUT KNOW THEY ARE ONLY EXPERIENCES, AND WILL ALL LEAD, STEP BY STEP, TO THAT STATE WHEN ALL THESE THINGS WILL BECOME SMALL, AND THE PURUSA WILL BE SO GREAT THAT THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE WILL BE AS A DROP IN THE OCEAN, AND WILL FALL OFF BY ITS OWN NOTHINGNESS. WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THESE EXPERIENCE, BUT LET US NEVER FORGET THE IDEAL.

                    THE STATES OF THE QUALITIES ARE THE DEFINED, THE UNDEFINED, THE INDICATED ONLY AND THE SIGNLESS.

                   THE SYSTEM OF YOGA IS BUILT ENTIRELY ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SANKHYAS, AS I TOLD YOU IN SOME OF THE PREVIOUS LECTURES, AND HERE AGAIN I WILL REMIND YOU OF THE COSMOLOGY OF THE SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY. ACCORDING TO THE SANKHYAS, NATURE IS BOTH THE MATERIAL AND EFFICIENT CAUSE OF THIS UNIVERSE. IN THIS NATURE THERE ARE THREE SORTS OF MATERIALS, THE SATTVA, THE RAJAS, AND THE TAMAS. THE TAMAS MATERIAL IS ALL THAT IS DARK, ALL THAT IS IGNORANT AND HEAVY, AND THE RAJAS IS ACTIVITY, THE SATTVA IS CALMLESS, LIGHT. WHEN NATURE IS IN THE STATE BEFORE CREATION IT IS CALLED BY THEM ACYAKTAM, UNDEFINED, OR INDISCRETE, THAT IS, IN WHICH THERE IS NO DISTINCTION OF FORM OR NAME, A STATE IN WHICH THESE THREE MATERIALS ARE HELD IN PERFECT BALANCE. THEN THE BALANCE IS DISTURBED, THESE DIFFERENT MATERIALS BEGIN TO MINGLE IN VARIOUS FASHIONS, AND THE RESULT IS THIS INIVERSE . 

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MEDITATION

                             

                              MEDITATION WILL CONTROL THE ANGER

                                           

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             BY MEDITATION, THEIR MODIFICATIONS ARE TO BE REJECTED. MEDITATION IS ONE OF THE GREAT MEANS OF CONTROLLING THE RISING OF THESE BIG WAVES. BY MEDITATION YOU CAN MAKE THE MIND SUBDUE THESE WAVES, AND, IF YOU GO ON PRACTISING MEDITATION FOR DAYS, AND MONTHS, AND YEARS, UNTIL IT HAS BECOME A HABIT, UNTIL IT WILL COME IN SPITE OF YOURSELF, ANGER AND HATRED, INTIL IT WILL COME IN SPITE YOURSELF, ANGER AND HATRED WILL BE CONTROLLED AND CHECKED.

             THE RECEPTACLE OF WORKS HAS ITS ROOT IN THESE PAIN-BEARING OBSTRUCTIONS, AND THEIR EXPERIENCE IN THIS VISIBLE LIFE, OR IN THE UNSEEN LIFE.

            BY THE RECEPTACLE OF WORKS IS MEANT THE SUM TOTAL OF THESE SAMSKARAS. WHATEVER WORK WE DO, THE MIND IS THROWN INTO A WAVE, AND, AFTER THE WORK IS FINISHED, WE THINK THE WAVE IS GONE. NO. SO IT WAS THERE, IF IT HAD NOT BEEN THERE, THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MEMORY. SO, EVERY ACTION, EVERY THOUGHT, GOOD OR BAD, JUST GOES DOWN AND BECOMES FINE, AND IS STORED UP.

             THEY ARE CALLED PAIN-BEARING OBSTRUCTIONS, BOTH HAPPY AND UNHAPPY THOUGHTS, BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE YOGIS, BOTH, IN THE LONG RUN, BRING PAIN. ALL HAPPINESS WHICH COMES FROM THE SENSES WILL, EVENTUALLY, BRING PAIN. ALL ENJOYMENT WILL MAKE US THIRST FOR MORE, AND THAT BRINGS PAIN US ITS RESULT. THERE IS NO LIMIT TO MAN'S DESIRE, HE GOES ON DESRING, AND WHEN HE COMES TO A POINT WHERE DESIRE CANNOT BE FULFILLED, THE RESULT IS PAIN. THEREFORE, THE YOGIS REGARD THE SUM-TOTAL OF THE IMPRESSIONS, GOOD OR EVIL, AS PAIN-BEARING OBTRUCTIONS, THEY OBSTRUCT THE WAY TO FREEDOM OF THE SOUL. IT IS THE SAME WITH THE SAMSKARAS, THE FINE ROOTS OF ALL OUR WORKS, THEY ARE THE CAUSES WHICH WILL AGAIN BRING EFFECTS, EITHER IN THIS LIFE, OR IN THE LIVES TO COME. IN EXCEPTIONAL CASES, WHEN THESE SAMSKARAS ARE VERY STRONG, THEY BEAR FRUIT QUICKLY, EXCEPTIONAL ACTS OF WICKEDNESS, OR OF GOODNESS, BRING THEIR FRUITS IS THIS LIFE. THE YOGIS EVEN HOLD THAT MEN WHO ARE ABLE TO ACQUIRE A TREMENDOUS POWER OF GOOD SAMSKARAS DO NOT HAVE TO DIE, BUT, EVEN IN THIS LIFE, CAN CHANGE THEIR BODIES INTO GOD-BOOKS. THESE MEN CHANGE THE VERY MATERIAL OF THEIR BODIES, THEY REARRANGE THE MOLECULES IN SUCH FASHION THAT THEY HAVE MORE SICKNESS, AND WHAT WE CALL DEATH DOES NOT COME TO THEM.

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                  WHY SOULD NOT THIS BE? THE PSYSIOLOGICAL MEANING OF FOOT IS ASSIMILATION OF ENERGY FROM THE SUN. THIS ENERGY HAS REACHED THE PLANT, THE PLANT IS EATEN BY AN ANIMAL, AND THE ANIMAL BY US. THE SCIENCE OF IT IS PART OF OURSELVES. THAT BEING THE CASE, WHY SOULD THEY BE ONLY ONE WAY OF ASSIMILATING ENERGY? THE PLANT'S WAY IS NOT THE SAME AS OURS, THE EARTH'S PROCESS OF ASSIMILATING ENERGY DIFFERS FROM OUR OWN. BUT ALL ASSIMILATE ENERGY IN SOME FORM OR OTHER. THE YOGIS SAY THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO ASSIMILATE ENERGY BY THE POWER  OF THE MIND ALONE, THAT THEY CAN DRAW IN AS MUCH AS THEY DESIRE WITHOUT RECOURSE TO THE ORINDARY METHODS. AS A SPIDER MAKES HIS NET OUT OF HIS OWN SUBSTANCE, AND BECOMES BOUND IN HIS NET, AND HAVE PROJECTED OUT OF OUR OWN SUBSTANCE THIS NET-WORK CALLED THE NERVES, AND WE CANNOT WORK EXCEPT THROUGH THE CHANNELS OF THOSE NERVES. THE YOGI SAYS WE NEED NOT BE BOUND BY THAT.

                    ALL THE BODIES IN THE UNIVERSE ARE MADE UP OF TANMATRAS, AND IT IS ONLY IN THE ARRAGEMENT OF THEM THAT THERE COMES A DIFFERENCE. IF YOU ARE THE ARRANGER, YOU CAN ARRANGE THAT BODY IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. WHO MAKES UP THIS BODY BUT YOU? WHO EATS THE FOOD? IF ANOTHER ATE THE FOOD FOR YOU, YOU WOULD NOT LIVE LONG. WHO MAKES THE BLOOD OUR OF IT? YOU, CERTAINLY. WHO ASSIMILATES THE BLOOD, AND SENDS IT THROUGH THE VEINES? YOU. WHO CREATES THE NERVES, AND MAKES ALL THE MUSCLES? YOU ARE THE MANUFACTURER, OUR OF YOUR OWN SUBSTANCE. YOU ARE THE MANUFACTURER OF THE BODY, AND YOU LIVE IN IT. ONLY WE HAVE LOST THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO MAKE IT. WE HAVE BECOME AUTOMATIC, DEGENERATE. WE HAVED FORGOTTEN THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE. SO, WHAT WE DO AUTOMATICALLY HAS AGAIN TO BE REGULATED, WE ARE THE CREATOR AND WE HAVE TO REGULATE THAT CREATION, AND AS SOON AS WE CAN DO THAT, WE SHALL BE ABLE TO MANUFACTURE JUST AS WE LIKE, AND THEN WE SHALL HAVE NEITHER BIRTH NOR DEATH, DISEASE, OR ANYTHING.

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THINK AND BECOME RICH

                                                APPLY THE GOLDEN RULE

                CARNEGIE : WE COME, NOW, TO THE THIRTEEN PRINCIPLE OF INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT, THE GOLDEN RULE APPLIED - THE PRINCIPLE WHICH NEARLY EVERYONE PROFESSES TO BELIEVE, BUT FEW PEOPLE PRACTICE, DUE, I SUSPECT, TO THE FACT THAT SO FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE DEEP UNDERLYING PSYCHOLOGY OF THIS PRINCIPLE. TOO MANY PEOPLE INTERPRET, THE GOLDEN RULE, NOT TO DO THEM PLENTY BEFORE OTHER DO THEM.

               OF COURSE THIS FALSE INTERPRETATION OF THIS GREAT RULE OF  HUMAN CONDUCT CAN BRING NOTHING BUT NEGATIVE RESULT!

             THE REAL BENEFITS OF THE GOLDEN RULE APPLIED DO NOT COME FROM THOSE IN WHOSE FAVOR IT APPLIED, BUT THEY ACCRUE TO THE ONE APPLYING THE RULE, IN THE FORM OF A STRENGTHENED CONSCIENCE, PEACE OF MIND, AND THE OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF SOUND CHARACTER- THE FACTORS WHICH ATTRACT THE MORE DESIRABLE THINGS OF LIFE, INCLUDING ENDURING FRIENDSHIPS AND FORTUNE.

              HILL : I ASSUME, FROM YOUR REMARKS, THAT THERE ARE FEW BENEFITS TO BE ACQUIRED THROUGH A MERE BELIEF IN THE GOLDEN RULE?

            CARNEGIE : VERY FEW! PASSIVE BELIEF IN THSI RULE WILL ACCOMPLISH NOTHING, IT IS THE APPLICATION OF THE RULE THAT BRINGS BENEFITS, AND THEY ARE SO NUMROUS AND VARIED THAT THEY TOUCH LIFE THROUGH ALMOST EVERY HUMAN RELATIONSHIP. THERE ARE SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT OF THE BENEFITS.

                   ❤ THE GOLDEN RULE APPLIED OPENS THE MIND FOR THE GUIDANCE OF INFINITE INTELLIGENCE, THROUGH FAITH.

                  ❤ DEVELOPS SELF- RELIANCE, THROUGH A BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE'S CONSCIENCE.

                  ❤ BUILDS OF SOUND CHARACTER SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN ONE IN TIMES OF EMERGENCY. DEVELOPS A MORE ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY.

                 ❤ ATTRACTS THE FRIENDLY COOPERATION OF OTHERS IN ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS.

                 ❤ DISCOURAGE UNFRIENDLY OPPOSITION FROM OTHERS.

                 ❤ GIVES ONE IMMUNITY AGAINST THE MORE DAMAGING FORMS OF FEAR, SINCE THE MAN WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE SELDOM FEARS ANYTHING OR ANYMORE.

                ❤ ENABLES ONE TO GO TO PRAYER WITH CLEAN HANDS AND CLEAR HEART.

                ❤ ATTRACTS FAVORABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF- PROMOTION IN ONE'S OCCUPATION, BUSINESS OR PROFESSTION.

                 ❤ ELIMINATE THE DESIRE FOR SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.

                ❤ MAKES THE RENDERING OF USEFL SERVICE A JOY THAT CAN BE HAD IN NO OTHER WAY.

              ❤ PROVIDES ONE WITH AN INFLENTIAL REPUTATION FOR HONESTY AND  FAIR DEALING, WHICH IS THE BASIS OF ALL CONFIDENCE.

               ❤ SERVES AS A DISCOURAGEMENT TO THE SLANDER AND A REPRIMAND TO THE THIEF.

              ❤ MAKES ONE A POWER FOR GOOD, BY EXAMPLE, WHEREVER HE COMES INTO CONTRACT WITH OTHERS.

               ❤ DISCOURAGES ALL THE BEST INTRINCTS OF GREED AND ENVY AND REVENGE. AND GIVES WINGS TO THE HIGHER INSTINCTS OF LOVE AND FELLOWSHIP.

               ❤ BRINGS ONE WITHIN EASY COMMUNICATING DISTANCE OF THE CREATOR, THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF AN UNDISTURBED MIND.

               ❤ ENABLES ONE TO RECOGNIZE THE JOYS OF ACCEPTING THE TRUTH THAT EVERY MAN IS, AND BY RIGHT SHOULD BE, HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER.

                ❤ ESTABLISHES A DEEPER PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY..

             THESE ARE NO MERE OPINIONS OF MINE. THEY ARE SELF- EVIDENT TRUTHS, THE SOUNDNESS OF WHICH IS KNOWN TO EVERY PERSON WHO LIVES BY THE GOLDEN RULE AS A MATTER OF DAILY HABIT.

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DON'T CRITICIZE AND COMPLAIN

                                                   POSITIVE CRITICISM

                WHEN I TALK OF CRITICISM, I REFER TO NEGATIVE CRITICISM. WHEN A PERSON IS CRITICIZED, HE BECOMES DEFENSIVE. A CRITIC IS OFTEN LIKE A BACK-SEAT DRIVER WHO DRIVES THE DRIVER MAD. DOES THAT MEAN WE SHOULD NEVER CRITICIZE, NOR CAN WE GIVE POSITIVE CRITICISM?

                       HOW DO YOU CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM? CRITICIZE WITH A SPIRIT OF HELPFULNESS RATHER THAN AS A PUT-DOWN. OFFER SOLUTIONS IN YOUR CRITICISM. CRITICIZE THE BEHAVIOR NOT THE PERSON, BECAUSE WHEN WE CRITICIZE THE PERSON, WE HURT THEIR SELF-ESTEEM. THE RIGHT TO CRITICIZE COMES WITH THE DESIRE TO HELP. AS LONG AS THE ACT OF CRITICIZING DOES NOT GIVE PLEASURE TO THE GIVER, IT IS OKAY. WHEN GIVING CRITICISM BECOMES A PLEASURE, IT IS TIME TO STOP.'

                  SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR GIVING CRITICISM THAT MOTIVATES OTHERS:

                ❤  BE A COACH - CRITICIZE WITH A HELPFUL ATTITUDE. A COACH CRITICIZES TO HELP IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF THE ATHLETE. 

                ❤ UNDERSTANDING AND CONCERN WILL ACT AS A MOTIVATOR.

                 ❤ THE ATTITUDE SHOULD BE CORRECTIVE RATHER THAN PUNITIVE.

                 ❤ BE SPECIFIC, RATHER THAN SAYING THINGS LIKE, YOU ALWAYS, OR YOU NEVER. VAGUE CRITICISM CAUSES RESENTMENT.

                ❤ GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT. DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS. WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO OUR OPINIONS BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO INCORRECT FACTS. DON'T RUSH TO CRITICIZE.

                ❤ MAINTAIN YOUR COOL BUT BE FIRM.

                ❤ CRITICIZE TO PERSUADE, NOT INTIMIDATE.

                ❤ DON'T BE SARCASTIC AS IT BUILDS RESENTMENT.

                ❤ IF CRITICISM IS GIVEN APPROPRIATELY, IT WILL REDUCE THE NEED FOR REPETITION.

                ❤ CRITICIZE IN PRIVATE NOT IN PUBLIC. WHY? BECAUSE IT MAINTAINS GOODWILL WHEREAS PUBLIC CRITICISM CAN BE HUMILIATING.

               ❤ GIVE THE OTHER PERSON AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN HIS SIDE.

               ❤ SHOW THEM HOW THEY WOULD BENEFIT FROM CORRECTING THEIR MISTAKE.

               ❤POINT OUT THE LOSS FROM NOT CORRECTING IT.

              ❤ RATHER THAN TELLING ASK FOR SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT.

               ❤ QUESTION THE ACTION, NOT THE INTENT, IF INTENT IS IN QUESTION, THEN IT IS BETTER TO TERMINATE THE RELATIONSHIP.

              ❤ CRITICIZE THE PERFORMANCE, NOT THE PERFORMER.

                  ❤ DON'T EXPRESS PERSONAL RESENTMENT.

                  ❤ KEEP CRITICISM IN PERSPECTIVE. DON'T OVERDO IT. CRITICISM IS LIKE GIVING MEDICATION. THE MEDICATION SHOULD BE THE RIGHT MIXTURE WITH A PERFECT DOSAGE. TOO MUCH WILL HAVE ADVERSE EFFECTS AND TOO LITTLE WILL BE INEFFECTIVE. GIVEN IN A POSITIVE WAY IN THE RIGHT DOSAGE, IT CAN WORK WONDERS.

                  ❤ WHEN SOMEONE REALIZE AND ADMITS HIS MISTAKE AND APOLOGIZES. LET HIM SAVE FACE.

                  ❤ CLOSE ON A POSITIVE NOTE WITH APPRECIATION.

                                                        COMPLAINTS

                SOME PEOPLE ARE CHRONIC COMPLAINERS. IF IT IS HOT, IT IS TOO HOT. IF IT IS COOL, IT IS TOO COLD. EVERY DAY IS A BAD DAY. THEY COMPLAIN EVEN IF EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT. WHY COMPLAIN? BECAUSE 50% OF THE PEOPLE DON'T CARE IF YOU HAVE GOT A PROBLEM AND THE OTHER 50%  ARE HAPPY THAT YOU HAVE GOT A PROBLEM. WHAT IS THE POINT OF COMPLAINING? NOTHING COMES OUT OF IT. IT BECOMES A PERSONALITY TRAIT. DOES THAT MEAN WE SHOULD NEVER COMPLAIN OR INVITE COMPLAINTS? NOT AT ALL. JUST LIKE CRITICISM, IF IT IS DONE IS A POSITIVE WAY, COMPLAINTS CAN BE VERY USEFUL. A CONSTRUCTIVE COMPLAINT:

                       ❤ SHOWS THAT THE COMPLAINERS CARES.

                        ❤ GIVES THE RECEIVER OF COMPLAINTS A SECOND CHANCE TO CORRECT HIMSELF.

                                              

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