LESSON NINE
22. If you love, that love will come back to you, and it is just as certain that every bit of hatred will come back to you in full force, nothing can stop it. Every impulse and emotion will return to the source from where it originated.
23. Yoga will even change a hoarse voice into a beautiful one, ugly lines in the face will disappear, and an expression of calmness, quiet and serenity will appear. A few months practice is all that is necessary. These bring about results.
24. In Yoga philosophy concentration is called Prana-Yama, it is well then to remember:
AKASA — Omnipresent, all penetrating existence, the sum total of the cosmic energy,
PRANA – The Vital Force.
PRANA-YAMA – Control of the Prana.
25. We find then, that everything is formed out of AKASA.
26. That PRANA is the vital force permeating the Universe, it is AKASA in motion.
27. PRANA-YAMA is the method of controlling this force.
28. Now Yoga philosophy utilizes this knowledge of the Prana-Yama in order to accomplish desired ends. These ends differ in accordance with individual needs. An understanding of Prana-Yama frees us from sorrow, fear and pain. It is the knowledge of power which makes possible the impossible.
29. Yoga philosophy makes clear that great, mysterious law – the Law of Correspondences, and when you understand the workings of this law of laws you will understand Yoga.
30. The Akasa is an all-pervading, primordial, homogeneous substance, every part or portion of which contains in potential all the powers that now or will ever exist. Every atom of the present heterogeneous universe, being but a conditioned aspect of the homogeneous whole from which it came, contains inherent within itself all these infinite powers which are ever seeking to express themselves.
31. But the activities of these powers are conditioned by the stales of the substance in which they act, and all these conditioned activities in reality make life, will, mind, and all the forces of nature,
32. There is a spirit or will, a self-moving power, substance or inseparable portion of this same spirit which moves,
33. Tin’s spirit or force or will is Prana.
34. The third and likewise inseparable fact of motion by which the spirit or substance is controlled makes a trinity which is a unity, this unity is called Pranayama,
35. There are many different kinds and rates of motion or vibration, and every motion or vibration makes its corresponding substance, color, sound and number.
36. Of the different kinds of motion, this character represents the spiral, this the vertical, this the vibratory, this the undulating, and this attraction or repulsion.
37. Scientists, by the aid of microscopes, have discovered invisible lives corresponding to all of these, and even their form reveals their relation. Let them beware, they are treading on the domains of the occult, and before long they may be proclaiming as science the ancient philosophy of the Yogi,
38. In this realm unity prevails, Saviours and saints are minor notes -there is no distinction between the individual or the universal mind,
39. Compassion, mercy, and justice are mere words, youth, beauty and splendor shine in this realm.
40. In this great and wondrous life, morality, ethics, power and attraction are all mingled in one congress of queens and kings.
41. They have by strenuous effort gained all there is.
42. They have attained the goal,
43. Eventually the Yogi attains an ideal stale of bliss called Nirvana. To compare this state would be impossible, for there is nothing with which to compare it. However, this state is within the reach of all in tills life. It is a slate of Mind.
44. BAKTA YOGI teaches a devotion to an ideal.
45. To such Yogis, the ideal takes on the form of reality and their daily life is arranged so that in thought, word or deed they are constantly endeavoring to attain this ideal.
46. This attainment is expressed when they become one with that which is sought -then the seeker and the sought are one, and the ideal is realized.
47. On the path of attainment all obstacles are but conditions to lest the strength of your idea. The fact is every condition that obstructs it is a means to uplift, strengthen and pursue the course with added vigor, strength and conviction.
48. When Bakta Yogi is attained, life’s adventures and romances merge into nobler and grander calibre and mingle with Gods and Goddesses, angels and sanctified beings of every place, who merge as one in happy reunion, where none is greater than the other. This slate can only be obtained by the process of development and in this stale-there are:
NO GRAVERS OF HEALTH – FOR ALL IS HEALTH
NO CRAVERS OF BEAUTY – FOR ALL IS BEAUTY
NO GRAVERS OF YOUTH – FOR ALL IS YOUTH.
49. For this state we have no comparison as its sublimity is too wonderful to compare.
50. Where Yogis gather, all are kind, there is no discrimination – they are possessors of all knowledge.
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LESSON NINE
Review Questions
1. What is Concentration?
2. What is dynamite?
3. What is a dynamic mind?
4. What is the result of concentration?
5. What is attractive concentration?
6. What is dissolving concentration?
7. What is prosperity?
8. How does the Yogi philosophy utilize concentration?
9. Why is this control possible?
10. What is Bakta Yogi?
11. Have you enjoyed the study of Yogi philosophy?
If so…
Is there a blessing known?
Pass it on.
Let it travel down the years,
Let it dry another’s tears,
Till in heaven the deed appears,
Pass it on.