HOW TO WORK HARD WITHOUT KARMA!

                              THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

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                                 ACCORDING TO KARMA-YOGA, THE ACTION ONE HAS DONE CANNOT BE DESTROYED UNTIL IT HAS BORNE ITS FRUIT,  NO POWER IN NATURE CAN STOP IF FROM YIELDING ITS RESULTS. IF I DO AN EVIL ACTION, I MUST SUFFER FOR IT, THERE IS NO POWER IN THIS UNIVERSE TO STOP OR STAY IT. THERE IS NO POWER IN THIS UNIVERSE TO STOP OR STAY IT. SIMILARLY, IF I DO A GOOD ACTION, THERE IS NO POWER IN THE UNIVERSE WHICH CAN STOP ITS BEARING GOOD RESULTS. THE CAUSE MUST HAVE ITS EFFECT, NOTHING CAN PREVENT OR RESTRAIN THIS. NOW COMES A VERY FINE AND SERIOUS QUESTION ABOUT KARMA-YOGA-NAMELY, THAT THESE ACTIONS OF OURS, BOTH GOOD AND EVIL, ARE INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER. WE CANNOT PUT A LINE OF DEMARCATION AND SAY, THIS ACTION IS ENTIRELY GOOD AND THIS ENTIRELY EVIL.

                         THERE IS NO ACTION WHICH DOES NOT BEAR GOOD AND EVIL FRUITS AT THE SAME TIME.  TO TAKE THE NEAREST EXAMPLE. I AM TAKING TO YOU, AND SOME OF YOU, PERHAPS, THINK I AM DOING GOOD, AND AT THE SAME TIME I AM , PERHAPS, KILLING THOUSANDS OF MICROBES IN THE ATMOSPHERE, I AM THUS DOING EVIL TO SOMETHING ELSE. WHEN IT IS VERY NEAR TO US AND AFFECTS THOSE WE KNOW, WE SAY THAT IT IS VERY GOOD ACTION IF IT AFFECTS THEM IN A GOOD MANNER. FOR INSTANCE, YOU MAY CALL MY SPEAKING TO YOU VERY GOOD, BUT THE MICROBES WILL NOT, THE MICROBES YOU DO NOT SEE, BUT YOURSELVES YOU DO SEE. THE WAY IN WHICH MY TALK AFFECTS YOU IS OBVIOUS TO YOU, BUT HOW IT AFFECTS THE MICROBES IS NOT SO OBVIOUS. AND SO, IF WE ANALYSE OUR EVIL ACTIONS ALSO, WE MAY FIND THAT SOME GOOD POSSIBLY RESULTS FROM THEM SOMEWHERE. HE WHO IS GOOD ACTION SEES THAT THERE IS SOMETHING EVIL IN IT, AND IN THE MIDST OF EVIL SEES THAT THERE IS SOMETHING GOOD IN IT SOMEWHERE, HAS KNOWN THE SECRET OF WORK.

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                         THE SECOND POINT TO CONSIDER IT, WHAT IS THE END OF WORK? WE FIND THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN EVERY COUNTRY BELIEVING THAT THERE WILL BE A TIME WHEN THIS WORLD WILL BECOME PERFECT, WHEN THERE WILL BE NO DISEASE, NOR DEATH, NOR UNHAPPINESS NOR WICKEDNESS. THAT IS A VERY GOOD IDEA, A VERY GOOD MOTIVE POWER TO INSPIRE AND UPLIFT THE IGNORANT, BUT IF WE THINK FOR A MOMENT, WE SHALL FIND ON THE VERY FACE OF IT THAT IT CANNOT BE SO. HOW CAN IT BE, SEEING THAT GOOD AND EVIL ARE THE OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE SAME COIN? HOW CAN YOU HAVE GOOD WITHOUT EVIL AT THE SAME TIME? WHAT IS MEANT BY PERFECTION? A PERFECT LIFE IS A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. LIFE ITSELF IS A STATE OF CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE BETWEEN OURSELVES AND EVERYTHING OUTSIDE. 

                        EVERY MOMENT WE ARE FIGHTING ACTUALLY WITH EXTERNAL NATURE, AND IF WE ARE DEFEATED, OUR LIFE HAS TO GO. IT IS, FOR INSTANCE, A CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE FOR FOOD AND AIR. IF FOOD OR AIR FAILS, WE DIE. LIFE IS NOT A SIMPLE AND SMOOTHLY FLOWING THING, BUT IT IS A COMPOUND EFFECT. THIS COMPLEX STRUGGLE FLOWING BETWEEN SOMETHING INSIDE AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD IS WHAT WE CALL LIFE. SO IT IS CLEAR THAT WHEN THIS STRUGGLE CEASES, THERE WILL BE AN END OF LIFE.

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                    THUS THE MAN THAT HAS PRACTICED CONTROL OVER HIMSELF CANNOT BE ACTED UPON BY ANYTHING OUTSIDE, THERE IS NO MORE SLAVERY FOR HIM. HIS MIND HAS BECOME FREE. SUCH A MAN ALONE IS FIT TO LIVE WELL IN THE WORLD. WE GENERALLY FIND MEN HOLDING TWO OPINIONS REGARDING THE WORLD. SOME ARE PESSIMISTS AND SAY, "HOW HORRIBLE THIS WORLD IS, HOW WICKED". SOME OTHERS ARE OPTIMISTS AND SAY, 

                      "HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS WORLD IS, HOW WONDERFUL". TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT CONTROLLED THEIR OWN MINDS, THE WORLD IS EITHER FULL OF EVIL OR AT BEST A MIXTURE OF GOOD AND EVIL. THIS VERY WORLD WILL BECOME TO US AN OPTIMISTIC WORLD WHN WE BECOME MASTERS OF OUR OWN MINDS. NOTHING WILL THEN WORK UPON US GOOD OR EVIL, WE SHALL FIND EVERYTHING TO BE IN ITS PROPER PLACE, TO BE HARMONIOUS. SOME MEN, WHO BEGIN BY SAYING THAT THE WORLD IS A HELL, OFTEN END BY SAYING THAT IT IS A HEAVEN WHEN THEY SUCCEED IN THE PRACTICE OF SELF-CONTROL. IF WE ARE GENIUNE KARMA-YOGIS AND WISH TO TRAIN OURSELVES TO THAT ATTAINMENT OF THIS STATE,

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                 WHEREVER WE MAY BEGIN WE ARE SURE TO END IN PERFECT SELF-ABNEGATION, AND AS SOON AS THIS SEEMING SELF HAS GONE, THE WHOLE WORLD, WHICH AT FIRST APPEARS TO US TO BE FILLED WITH EVIL, WILL APPEAR TO BE HEAVEN ITSELF AND FULL OF BLESSEDNESS. ITS VERY ATMOSPHERE WILL BE BLESSED, EVERY HUMAN FACE THERE WILL BE GOD. SUCH IS THE END AND AIM OF KARMA-YOGA, AND SUCH IS ITS PERFECTION IN PRACTICAL LIFE.

HOW TO LOVE YOUR WORK! (LORD KRISHNA SAYS)

 

                                     LORD KRISHNA SAYS !

                               LOVE YOUR WORK WITHOUT ATTACHMENT !

                               KRISHNA SAYS, "LOOK AT ME, ARJUNA! IF I STOP FROM WORK FOR ONE MOMENT, THE WHOLE UNIVERSE WILL DIE. I HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN FROM WORK, I AM THE ONE LORD, BUT WHY DO I WORK? BECAUSE I LOVE THE WORLD". GOD IS UNATTACHED BECAUSE HE LOVES, THAT REAL LOVE MAKES US UNATTACHED. WHEREEVER THERE IS ATTACHMENT, THE CLINGING TO THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, YOU MUST KNOW THAT IT IS ALL PHYSICAL ATTRACTION BETWEEN SETS OF PARTICLES OF MATTER - SOMETHING THAT ATTRACTS TWO BODIES NEARER AND NEARER ALL THE TIME AND, IF THEY CANNOT GET NEAR ENOUGH, PRODUCES PAIN, BUT WHERE THERE IS REAL LOVE, IT DOES NOT REST ON PHYSICAL ATTACHMENT AT ALL. SUCH LOVERS MAY BE A THOUSAND MILES AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER, BUT THEIR LOVE WILL BE ALL THE SAME, IT DOES NOT DIE, AND WILL NEVER PRODUCE ANY PAINFUL REACTION.

                    TO ATTAIN THIS UNATTACHMENT IS ALMOST A LIFE-WORK, BUT AS SOON AS WE HAVE REACHED THIS POINT, WE HAVE ATTAINED THE GOAL OF LOVE AND BECOME FREE, THE BONDAGE OF NATURE FALLS FROM US, AND WE SEE NATURE AS SHE IS, SHE FORGES NO MORE CHAINS FROM US, WE STAND ENTIRELY FREE AND TAKE NOT THE RESULTS OF WORK INTO CONSIDERATION, WHO THEN CARES FOR WHAT THE RESULTS MAY BE?

                      DO YOU ASK ANYTHING FROM YOUR CHILDREN IN RETURN FOR WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN THEM? IT IS YOUR DUTY TO WORK FOR THEM, AND THERE THE MATTER ENDS. IN WHATEVER YOU DO FOR A PARTICULAR PERSON, A CITY, OR A STATE, ASSUME THE SAME ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT YOU HAVE TOWARDS YOUR CHILDREN - EXPECT NOTHING IN RETURN. IF YOU CAN INVARIABLY TAKE THE POSITION OF A GIVER , IN WHICH EVERYTHING GIVEN BY YOU IS A FREE OFFERING TO THE WORLD, WITHOUT ANY THOUGHT OF RETURN, THEN WILL YOUR WORK BRING YOU NO ATTACHMENT. ATTACHMENT COMES ONLY WHERE WE EXPECT A RETURN.

                      IF WORKING LIKE SLAVES RESULTS IN SELFISHNESS AND ATTACHMENT, WORKING AS MASTER OF OUR OWN MIND GIVES RISE TO THE BLISS OF NON-ATTACHMENT. WE OFTEN TALK OF RIGHT AND JUSTICE, BUT WE FIND THAT IN THE WORLD RIGHT AND JUSTICE ARE MERE BABY'S TALK. THERE ARE TWO THINGS WHICH GUIDE THE CONDUCT OF MEN. MIGHT AND MERCY/ THE EXERCISE OF MIGHT S UNVARIABLY THE EXERCISE OF SELFISHNESS. ALL MEN AND WOMEN TRY TO MAKE THE MOST OF WHATEVER POWER OR ADVANTAGE THEY HAVE.MERCY IS HEAVEN ITSELF, TO BE GOOD, WE HAVE ALL TO BE MERCIFUL. EVEN JUSTICE AND RIGHT SHOULD STAND ON MERCY. 

                        ALL THOUGHT OF OBTAINING RETURN FOR THE WORK WE DO HINDERS OUR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS, NAY, IN THE END IT BRINGS MISERY. THERE IS ANOTHER WAY IN WHICH THIS IDEA OF MERCY AND SELFLESS CHARITY CAN BE PUT INTO PRACTICE, THAT IS, BY LOOKING UPON WORK AS "WORSHIP" IN CASE WE BELIEVE IN A PERSONAL GOD. HERE WE GIVE UP ALL THE FRUITS OUR WORK UNTO THE LORD, AND WORSHIPPING HIM THUS, WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXPECT ANYTHING FROM MAN KIND FOR THE WORK WE DO. THE LORD HIMSELF WORKS INCESSANTLY AND IS EVER WITHOUT ATTACHMENT. JUST AS WATER CANNOT WET THE LOTUS LEAF, SO WORK CANNOT BIND THE UNSELFISH MAN BY GIVING RISE TO ATTACHMENT TO RESULTS. THE SELFISH MAN BY GIVING RISE TO ATTACHMENT TO RESULTS. THE SELFLESS AND UNATTACHED MAN MAY LIVE IN THE VERY HEART OF A CROWDED AND SINFUL CITY, HE WILL NOT BE TOUCHED BY SIN.

                      NOW YOU SEE WHAT KARMA-YOGA MEANS, EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH TO HELP ANY ONE, WITHOUT ASKING QUESTIONS. BE CHEATED MILLIONS OF TIMES AND NEVER ASK A QUESTION, AND NEVER THINK OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING, NEVER VAUNT OF YOUR GIFTS TO THE POOR OR EXPECT THEIR GRATITUDE, BUT RATHER BE GRATEFUL TO THEM FOR GIVING YOU THE OCCASION OF PRACTICING CHARITY TO THEM. THUS IT IS PLAIN THAT TO BE AN IDEAL HOUSEHOLDER IS A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TASK THAN TO BE AN IDEAL SANNYASIN, THE TRUE LIFE OF WORK IS INDEED AS HARD AS, IF NOT HARDER THAN, THE EQUALLY TRUE LIFE OF RENUNCIATION.

                           KARMA - YOGA, THEREFORE, IS A SYSTEM OF ETHICS AND RELIGION INTENDED TO ATTAIN FREEDOM THROUGH UNSELFISHNESS, AND BY GOOD WORKS. THE KARMA-YOGI NEED NOT BELIEVE IN ANY DOCTRINE WHATEVER. HE MAY NOT BELIEVE EVEN IN GOD, MAY NOT ASK WHAT HIS SOUL IS, NOR THINK OF ANY METAPHYSICAL SPECULATION. HE HAS GOT HI OWN SPECIAL AIM OF REALISING SELFISHNESS, AND HE HAS TO WORK IT OUT HIMSELF. EVERY MOMENT OF HIS LIFE MUST BE REALISATION, BECAUSE HE HAS TO SOLVE BY MERE WORK, WITHOUT THE HELP OF DOCTRINE OR THEORY, THE VERY SAME PROBLEM TO WHICH THE JNANI APPLIES HIS REASON AND INSPIRATION AND THE BHAKTA HIS LOVE.

THE CHITTA (YOGA)

 

                              THE POWER OF CHITTA!

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                        THIS CHITTA IS ALWAYS TRYING TO GET BACK TO ITS NATURAL PURE STATE, BUT THE ORGANS DRAW IT OUT. TO RESTRAIN IT, AND TO CHECK THIS OUTWARD TENDENCY, AND TO START IT ON THE RETURN JOURNEY TO THAT ESSENCE OF INTELLIGENCE IS THE FIRST STEP IN YOGA, BECAUSE ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN THE CHITTA GET INTO ITS PROPER COURSE.

                       ALTHOUGH THIS CHITTA IS IN EVERY ANIMAL, FROM THE LOWEST TO THE  HIGHEST , IT IS ONLY IN THE HUMAN FORM THAT WE FIND INTELLIGENT, AND UNTIL THE MIND-STUFF CAN TAKE THE FORM OF INTELLECT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR IT TO RETURN THROUGH ALL THESE STEPS, AND LIBERATE THE SOUL. IMMEDIATE SALVATION IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE COW AND THE DOG, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE MIND, BECAUSE THEIR CHITTA CANNOT AS YOU TAKE THAT FORM WHICH WE CALL INTELLECT. 

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                      CHITTA MANIFEST ITSELF IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT FORMS - SCATTERING, DARKENING, WEAKENING, AND CONCENTRATING, THESE ARE THE FOUR STATES IN WHICH THE MIND-STUFF MANIFESTS ITSELF. FIRST A SCATTERED FORM, IS ACTIVITY. ITS TENDENCY IS TO MANIFEST IN THE FORM OF PLEASURE OR OF PAIN. THEN THE DULL FORM IS DARKNESS, THE ONLY TENDENCY OF WHICH IS TO INJURE OTHERS. THE COMMENTATOR SAYS THE FIRST FORM IS NATURAL TO THE DEVAS, THE ANGELS, AND THE SECOND IS THE DEMONIACAL FORM. THE EKAGRA, THE CONCENTRATED FORM OF THE CHITTA, IS WHAT BRINGS US TO SAMADHI.

                      AT THAT TIME (THE TIME OF CONCENTATION ) THE SEER (THE PURUSHA) RESTS IN HIS OWN (UNMODIFIED) STATE.

                       AS SOON AS THE WAVES HAVE STOPPED, AND THE LAKE HAS BECOME QUIET, WE SEE THE GROUND BELOW THE LAKE. SO WITH THE MIND, WHEN IT IS CALM, WE SEE WHAT OUR OWN NATURE IS, WE DO NOT MIX OURSELF BUT REMAIN OUR OWN SELVES.

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                       AT OTHER TIMES (OTHER THAN THAT OF CONCENTRATION) THE SEER IS IDENTIFIED WITH THE MODIFICATIONS.

                        FOR INSTANCE, I AM IN A STATE OF SORROW, SOMEONE BLAMES, ME, THIS IS A MODIFICATION, VRITTI, AND I IDENTIFY MYSELF WITH IT, AND THE RESULT IS MISERY.

                          THERE ARE FIVE CLASSES OF MODIFICATION, PAINFUL AND NOT PAINFUL.

                         (THESE ARE) RIGHT KNOWLEDGE, INDISCRIMINATION, VERBAL DELUSION, SLEEP, AND MEMORY.

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                         THE POWER OF WORDS. THERE ARE CERTAIN SACRED WORDS CALLED MANTRAMS, WHICH HAVE POWER, WHEN REPEATED UNDER PROPER CONDITIONS, TO PRODUCE THESE EXTRAORDINARY POWERS. WE ARE LIVING IN THE MIDST OF SUCH A MASS OF MIRACLES, DAY AND NIGHT, THAT WE DO POWER, THE POWER OF WORDS AND THE POWER OF MIND.

                        MORTIFICATION. YOU WILL FIND THAT IN EVERY RELIGION MORTIFICATIONS AND ASCETICISMS HAVE BEEN PRACTISED. 

                          IN THESE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS THE HINDUS ALWAYS GO TO THE EXTREMES. YOU WILL FIND MEN STANDING WITH THEIR HANDS UP ALL THEIR LIVES. UNTIL THEIR HANDS WITHER AND DIE. MEN SLEEP STANDING, DAY AND NIGHT, UNTIL THEIR FEET SWELL, AND IF THEY LIVE, THE LEGS BECOME SO STIFF IN THIS POSITION THAT THEY CAN NO MORE BEND THEM, BUT HAVE TO STAND ALL THEIR LIVES. I ONCE SAW A MAN WHO HAD RAISED HIS HANDS IN THIS WAY, AND I ASKED HIM HOW IT FELT WHEN HE DID IT FIRST. HE SAID IT WAS AWFUL TORTURE. IT WAS SUCH TORTURE THAT HE HAD TO GO TO A RIVER AND PUT HIMSELF IN WATER, AND THAT ALLAYED THE PAIN FOR A LITTLE. AFTER A MONTH HE DID NOT SUFFER MUCH. THROUGH SUCH PRACTICES POWERS (SIDDHIS) CAN BE ATTAIN CONCENTRATION.

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                   THE CONCENTRATION IS SAMADHI, AND THAT IS YOGA PROPER, THAT IS THE PRINCIPLE THEME OF THIS SCIENCE, AND IT IS THE HIGHEST MEANS. THE PRECEDING ONCES ARE ONLY SECONDARY, AND WE CANNOT ATTAIN TO THE HIGHEST THROUGH THEM. SAMADHI IS THE MEANS THROUGH WHICH WE CAN GAIN ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, MENTAL, MORAL OR SPIRITUAL.

HOW TO CONCENTRATE EASILY!

                         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.

THE TRUTH OF RISE AND FALL!

 

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                                   SAMADHI PRACTICE (YOGA)

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                        THE PRACTICE OF SAMADHI AND MINIMISING THE PAIN-BEARING OBSTRUCTIONS.

                           MOST OF US MAKE OUR MINDS LIKE SPOILED CHILDREN, ALLOWING  THEM TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. THEREFORE IT IS NECESSARY THAT THERE SHOULD BE CONSTANT PRACTICE OF THE PREVIOUS MORTIFICATIONS IN ORDER TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE MIND. AND BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION. THE OBSTRUCTIONS TO YOGA ARISE FROM LACK OF THIS CONTROL, AND CAUSE US PAIN. THEY CAN ONLY BE REMOVED BY DENYTHING THE MIND. AND HOLDING IT IN CHECK, THROUGH THESE VAROUS MEANS.

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                           THE PAIN-BEARING OBSTRUCTIONS ARE - IGNORANCE, EGOISM, ATTACHMENT, AVERSION, AND CLINGING TO LIFE.

                           THESE ARE THE FIVE PARTS, THE FIVEFOLD TIE THAT BLINDS US DOWN. OF COUSE IGNORANCE IS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE REST. SHE IS THE ONLY CAUSE OF ALL OUR MISERY. WHAT ELSE CAN MAKE US MISERABLE? THE NATURE OF THE SOUL IS ETERNAL BLISS. WHAT CAN MAKE IT SORROWFUL EXCEPT IGNORANCE, HALLUNINATION DELUSION, ALL THIS PAIN OF THE SOUL IS SIMPLY DELUSION.

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                     IGNORANCE IS THE PRODUCTIVE FIELD OF ALL THEM THAT FOLLOW, WHETHER THEY ARE DORMANT, ATTENUATED, OVERPOWERED, OR EXPLAINED.

                     IMPRESSION ARE THE CAUSE OF THESE, AND THESE IMPRESSIONS EXIST IN DIFFERENT DEGREES. THERE ARE THE DORMANT.  YOU OFTEN HEAR THE EXPRESSION "INNOCENT AS A BABY", YET IN THE BABY MAY BE THE STATE OF A DEMON OR A GOD WHICH WILL COME OUT BY AND BY. IN THE YOGI THESE IMPRESSIONS, THE SAMSKARAS LEFT BY PAST ACTIONS, ARE ATTENUATED, THAT IS, IN A VERY FINE STATE, AND HE CAN CONTROL THEM, AND NOT ALLOW THEM TO BECOME MANIFEST. OVERPOWERED MEANS THAT SOMETIMES ONE SET OF IMPRESSIONS IS HELD DOW FOR A WHILE BY THOSE THAT ARE STRONGER, BUT THEY WILL COME OUT WHEN THAT ARE STRONGER, BUT THEY WILL COME OUT WHEN THAT REPRESSING CAUSE IS REMOVED. THE LAST STATE IS THE EXPANDED. WHEN THE SAMSKARAS, HAVING HELPFUL SURROUNDINGS, HAVE ATTAINED TO GREAT ACTIVTY, EITHER AS GOOD OR EVIL.

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                    IGNORANCE IS TAKING THAT WHICH IS NON-ETERNAL, IMPURE, PAINFUL, AND NON-SELF, FOR THE ETERNAL, PURE, HAPPY, ATMAN (SELF).

                        ALL THESE VARIOUS SORTS OF IMPRESSION HAVE ONE SOURCE IGNORANCE, WE HAVE FIRST TO LEARN WHAT IGNORANCE IS. ALL OF US THINK THAT "I AM THE BODY", AND NOT THE SELF, THE PURE, THE EFFULGENT, THE EVER BLISSFUL,  AND THAT IS IGNORANCE. WE THINK OF MAN, AND SEE MAN AS BODY. THIS IS THE GREAT DELUSION.

                   THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF THIS REPETITION AND THINKNG OF OM WILL BE THAT THE INTROSPECTIVE POWER  WILL BE MANIFESTED MORE AND MORE, AND ALL THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OBSTACLES WLL BEGIN TO VANISH. WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES TO THE YOGI?

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                     DISEASE, MENTAL LAZINESS, DOUBT, CALMNESS, CESSATION, FALSE PERCEPTION, NON-ATTAINING CONCENTRATION, ARE THE OBSTRUCTING DISTRACTIONS.

                     DISEASE. THIS BODY IS THE BOAT WHICH WILL CARRY US TO THE OTHER SHORE OF THE OCEAN OF LIFE. IT MUST BE TAKEN CARE OF. UNHEALTHY PERSONS CANNOT BE YOGIS. MENTAL LAZINESS MAKES US LOSE ALL LIVELY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT. WITHOUT WHICH THERE WILL NEITHER BE THE WILL NOR THE ENERGY TO PRACTICE. DOUBTS WILL ARISE IN THE MIND ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE SCIENCE, HOWEVER STRONG ONE'S INTELLECTUAL CONVICTION MAY BE, UNTIL CERTAIN PECULIAR PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE COME, AS HEARING, OR SEEING, AT A DISTANCE, ETC.

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                    THESE GLIMPSES STRENGTHEN THE MIND AND MAKE THE STUDENT PERSEVERE. FALLING AWAY WHEN ATTAINED. SOME SAYS OR WEELS WHEN YOU ARE PRACTISING THE MIND WILL BE CALM AND EASILY CONCENTRATED, AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF WILL STOP  ONE DAY. AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF PROGRESSING FAST. ALL OF A SUDDEN THE PROGRESS WILL STOP ONE DAY, AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF, IT WERE, STRANDED. PERSEVERE. ALL PROGRESS PROCEEDS BY RISE AND FALL.

THE GOD OF YOGA

 

         

                           INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL 

                       PURIFICATION OF YOGA 👀

 

                                       

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               INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PURIFICATION, CONTENTMENT, MORTIFICATION, STUDY, AND WORSHIP OF GOD, ARE THE NIYAMAS.

                  EXTERNAL PURIFICATION IS KEEPING THE BODY PUR, A DIRTY MAN WILL NEVER BECOME A YOGI. THERE MUST BE INTERNAL PURIFICATION ALSO. THAT IS OBTAINED BY THE FIRST-NAMED VIRTUES. OF COURSE INTERNAL PURITY IS OF GREATER VALUE THAT EXTERNAL, BUT BOTH ARE NECESSARY, AND EXTERNAL PURITY, WITHOUT INTERNAL, IS OF NO GOOD.

                       TO OBSTRUCT THOUGHTS WHICH ARE INIMICAL TO YOGA CONTRARY THOUGHTS WILL BE BROUGHT.

                     THIS IS THE WAY TO PRACTICE ALL THESE VIRTUES THAT HAVE BEEN STATED, BY HOLDING THOUGHTS OF AN OPPOSITE CHARACTER IN THE MIND. WHEN THE IDEA OF STEALING COMES, NON-STEALING SHOULD BE THOUGHT OF . WHEN THE IDEA OF RECEIVING COMES, REPLACE IT BY A CONTRARY THOUGHT.

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                       THE OBSTRUCTIONS TO YOGA ARE KILLING ETC., WHETHER COMMITTED, CAUSED,  OR APPROVED, EITHER THROUGH AVARICE, OR ANGER, OR IGNORANCE, WHETHER SLIGHT, MIDDLING, OR GREAT, AND RESULT IS INNUMERABLE IGNORANCE AND MISERIES. THIS IS (THE METHOD OF ) THINKING THE CONTRARY.

                      IF I TELL I LIE, OR CAUSE ANOTHER TO TELL A LIE, OR APPROVE OF ANOTHER DOING DO, IT IS EQUALLY SINFUL. IF IT IS A VERY MILD LIE, IT IS STILL A LIE. EVERY VICIOUS THOUGHT WILL REBOUND, EVERY THOUGHT OF HATRED WHICH YOU HAVE THOUGHT, IN A CAVE EVEN, IT STORED UP, AND WILL ONE DAY COME BACK TO YOU WITH TREMEDOUS POWER IN THE FORM OF SOME MISERY HERE. IF YOU PROJECT ALL SORTS OF HATRED AND JEALOUSY, THEY WILL REBOUND ON YOU WITH COMPOUND INTEREST. NO POWER CAN AVERT THEM, WHEN ONCE YOU HAVE PUT THEM IN MOTION YOU WILL HAVE TO BEAR THEM. REMEMBERING THIS, WILL PREVENT YOU FROM DOING WICKED THINGS.

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                       NON-KILLING BEING ESTABLISHED, IN HE PRESENCE ALL EMNITIES CEASE (IN OTHERS).

                        IF A MAN GETS A IDEA OF NON-INJURING OTHERS, BEFORE HIM EVEN ANIMALS WHICH ARE BY THEIR NATURE FEROCIOUS WILL BECOME PEACEFUL. THE TIGER AND THE LAMB WILL PLAY TOGETHER BEFORE THAT YOGI AND WILL NOT HURT EACH OTHER. WHEN YOU HAVE COME TO THAT STATE, THEN ALONE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE BECOME FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN NON-INJURING.

                     BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUTHFULNESS THE YOGI GETS THE POWER OF ATTAINING FOR HIMSELF AND OTHERS HE FRUITS OF WORK WITHOUT THE WORKS.

                   WHEN THIS POWER OF TRUTH WILL BE ESTABLISHED WITH YOU, THEN EVEN IN DREAM YOU WILL NEVER TELL AN UNTRUTH, IN THOUGHT, WORD OR DEED, WHATEVER YOU SAY WILL BE TRUTH. YOU MAY SAY TO A MAN "BE BLESSED" AND THAT MAN WILL BE BLESSED. IF A MAN IS DISEASED, AND YOU SAY TO HIM, "BE THOU CURED", HE WILL BE CURED IMMEDIATELY.

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                      BY THE ESTABLISHMET OF NON-STEALING ALL WEALTH COMES TO THE YOGI.

                      THE MORE YOU FLY FROM NATURE THE MORE SHE FOLLOWS YOU,  AND IF YOU DO NOT CARE FOR HER AT ALL SHE BECOMES YOUR SLAVE.

                     BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CONTINENCE ENERGY IS GAINED.

                    THE CHASTE BRAIN HAS TREMENDOUS ENERGY, GIGANTIC WILL POWER, WITHOUT THAT THERE CAN BE NO MENTAL STRENGTH. ALL MEN OF GIGANTIC BRAINS ARE VERY CONTINENT. IT GIVES WONDERFUL CONTROL OVER MANKIND. LEADERS OF MEN HAVE BEEN VERY CONTINENT, AND THIS IS WHAT GAVE THEM POWER. THEREFORE THE YOGI MUST BE CONTINENT.

                            WHEN HE S FIXED IN NON-RECEIVING HE GETS THE MEMORY OF PAST LIFE.

                             WHEN THE YOGI DOES NOT RECEIVE PRESENTS FROM OTHERS HE DOES NOT BECOME BEHOLDEN TO OTHERS, BUT BECOMES INDEPENDENT AND FREE, AND HIS MIND BECOMES PURE, BECAUSE WITH EVERY GIFT HE RECEIVES ALL THE EVILS OF THE GIVER. AND THEY COME AND LAY COATING AFTER COATING ON HIS MIND.

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                       UNTIL IT IS HIDDEN UNDER ALL SORTS OF COVERINGS OF EVIL. IF HE DOES NOT RECEIVE THE MIND BECOMES PURE, AND THE FIRST THING IT GETS IS MEMORY OF PAST LIFE. THEN ALONE THE YOGI BECOMES PERFECTLY FIXED IN HIS IDEAL, BECAUSE HE SEES THAT HE HAS BEEN COMING AND GOING SO MANY TIMES, AND HE BECOMES DETERMINED THAT THIS TIME HE WILL BE FREE, THAT HE WILL NO MORE COME AND GO, AND BE THE SLAVE OF NATURE.

PRACTICE OF YOGA

 

                        

                  HOW TO INCREASE OUR BRAIN POWER 

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                          MIND IS NOT SELF-LUMINOUS, BEING AN OBJECT.

                          TREMENDOUS POWER IS MANIFESTED EVERYWHERE IN NATURE, BUT YET SOMETHING TELLS US THAT IT IS NOT SELF-LUMINOUS, NOT ESSENTIALLY INTELLINGENT. THE PURUSHA ALONE IS SELF-LUMINOUS AND GIVES ITS LIGHT TO EVERYTHING. IT IS ITS POWER THAT IS PERCOLATING THROUGH ALL MATTER AND FORCE.

                         FROM ITS BEING UNABLE TO COGNISE TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME.

                   IF THE MIND WERE SELF-LUMINOUS IT WOULD BE ABLE TO COGNISE EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME, WHICH IT CANNOT. IF YOU PAY DEEP ATTENTION TO ONE THING YOU LOSE ANOTHER. IF THE MIND WERE SELF-LUMINOUS IT COULD RECEIVE. THE PURUSHA CAN COGNISE ALL IN ONE MOMENT, THEREFORE THE PURUSHA IS SELF-LUMINOUS,  AND THE MIND IS NOT.

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                    ANOTHER COGNISING AND BEING ASSUMED THERE WILL BE NO END TO SUCH ASSUMPTIONS AND CONFUSION OF MEMORY.

                  LET US SUPPOSE THAT THERE IS ANOTHER MIND WHICH COGNISES THE FIRST, THERE WILL HAVE TO BE SOMETHING WHICH COGNIZES THAT, AND SO THERE WILL BE NO END TO IT. IT WILL RESULT IN CONFUSION OF MEMORY, THERE WILL BE NO STOREHOUSE OF MEMORY.

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                   THE ESSENCE OF KNOWLEDGE (THE PURUSHA)  BEING UN CHANGEABLE, WHEN THE MIND TAKES ITS FORM, IT BECOMES CONSCIOUS.

                    PATANJALI SAYS THIS TO MAKE IT MORE CLEAR THAT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT A QUALITY OF THE PURUSHA. WHEN THE MIND COMES NEAR THE PURUSHA IT IS REFLECTED, AS IT WERE, UPON THE MIND, AND THE MIND, FOR THE TIME BEING, BECOMES KNOWING AND SEEMS AS IF IT WERE ITSELF THE PURUSHA.

                       COLOURED BY THE SEER AND THE SEEN THE MIND IS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING.

                    ON THE ONE SIDE THE EXTERNAL WORLD, THE SEEN, IS BEING REFLECTED, AND ON THE OTHER, THE SEER IS BEING REFLECTED, THUS COMES THE POWER OF ALL KNOWLEDGE TO THE MIND.

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                       THE MIND THROUGH ITS UNNUMERABLE DESIRES ACTS FOR ANOTHER ( THE PURUSA), BEING COMBINATIONS.

                         THE MIND IS A COMPOUND OF VARIOUS THINGS, AND THEREFORE IT CANNOT WORK FOR ITSELF. EVERYTHING THAT IS A COMBINATION IN THIS WORLD HAS SOME OBJECT FOR THAT COMBINATION, SOME THIRD THING FOR WHICH THIS COMBINATION IS GOING ON. SO THIS COMBINATION OF THE MIND IS FOR THE PURUSHA.

                        FOR THE DISCRIMINATING THE PERCEPTION OF THE MIND AS ATMAN CEASES.

                       THROUGH DISCRIMINATION THE YOGI KNOWS THAT THE PURUSA IS NO MIND.

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                      THEN BENT ON DISCRIMINATING THE MIND ATTAINS THE PREVIOUS STATE OF KAIVALYA (ISOLATION).

                     THUS THE PRACTICE OF YOGA LEADS OF DISCRIMINATING POWER, TO CLEARNESS OF VISION. THE VEIL DROPS FROM THE EYES, AND WE SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE. WE FIND THAT THIS NATURE IS A COMPOUND, AND IS SHOWING THE PANORAMA FOR THE PURUSA, WHO IS THE WITNESS, THAT THIS NATURE IS NOT THE LORD, THAT THE WHOLE OF THESE COMBINATIONS OF NATURE ARE SIMPLY FOR THE SAKE OF SHOWING THESE PHENOMENA TO THE PURUSA, THE ENTHRONED KING WITHIN. WHEN DESCRIMINATION COMES BY LONG PRACTICE FEAR CEASES, AND THE MIND ATTAINS ISOLATION.

                     THE THOUGHTS THAT ARISE AS OBSTRUCTIONS TO THAT ARE FROM IMPRESSIONS.

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                         ALL THE VARIOUS IDEAS THAT ARISE MAKING US BELIEVE THAT WE REQUIRE SOMETHING EXTERNAL TO MAKE US HAPPY ARE OBSTRUCTIONS TO THAT PERFECTION. THE PURUSA IS HAPPINESS AND BLESSEDNESS BY ITS OWN NATURE. BUT THAT KNOWLEDGE IS COVERED OVER BY PAST IMPRESSIONS. THESE IMPRESSIONS HAVE TO WORK THEMSELVES OUT.

                    THEIR DESTRUCTION IS IN THE SAME MANER AS OF IGNORANCE, ETC,. AS SAID BEFORE.