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…ed in the Shiva Sanhita as follows:+ The Siddhdsana. By “pressing with care by the (left) heel the yoni,t the other heel the Yogi should place on the lingam; he should fix his gaze upwards on the space between the two eyebrows . . . and restrain his senses.” The Padmédsana. By crossing the legs “carefully place the feet on the opposite thighs (the left on the right thigh and vicé versé), cross both hands and place them similarly on the thighs; fix the sight on the tip of the nose.” The Ugrésana. “Stretch out both the legs and keep them apart; f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Kshurika Upanishad, 2. 21, it states that “a noiseless place” should be chosen; and in S’vetds’vatara, 2. 10: Let the place be pure, and free also from boulders and sand, Free from fire, smoke, and pools of water, Here where nothing distracts the mind or offends the eye, In a hollow protected from the wind a man should compose himself. The dwelling of a Yogi is described as follows: The practiser of Hathayoga should live alone in a small Matha or monastery situated in a place free from rocks, water and fire; of th…
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…t Guru is father, Guru is mother, and Guru is God even: and as such, he should be served by all, with their thought, word and deed.t ii. Place. Solitude and Silence. The place where Yoga is performed should be a beautiful and pleasant place, according to the Shiva Sanhita.{ In the * A Guru is as necessary in Yoga as a Music Master is in Music. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iii. $ Ibid. chap. v, 184, 185. The aspirant should firstly, join the assembly of 74
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…e between the lingam and anus). After which contemplate that the God of love resides in the Brahma-Yoni, and imagine that an union takes place between Shiva and Shakti. A full account of how to practise this Mudra is given in the “Shiva Sanhita”;* but it is both complicated and diffi- cult to carry out, and if attempted should most certainly be performed under the instruction of a Guru. 2. Maha Mudra. Pressing the anus with the left heel and stretching out the right leg, take hold of the toes with your hand. Then practise the Jalandhara Bandhat…
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THE HASHEESH EATER For a place, New York for instance, a stranger accounts, not by saying that any one of the many who testify to its existence copied from another, but by acknowledging “there is such a place.” So do I account for the fact by saying “there is such a fact.” We try to imitate Eastern narrative, but in vain. Our minds can find no clew to its strange untrodden by-ways of speculation; our highest soarings are still in an atmosphere which feels heavy with the reek and damp of ordinary life. We fail to account for those storm-wrapped …
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…morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intellig- ence. In these fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist.
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…ntrol it. Then it will find that the thoughts which at first bubbled up, one over the other, become less and less numerous; but in their place will spring up the thoughts which are normally sub-conscious. As these arise the Will of the aspirant should strangle them; thus, if a picture is seen, the aspirant by means of his will should seize hold of it before it can escape him, endow it with an objectivity, after which he should destroy it, as if it were a living creature, and have done with it. After this mastership over the senses has been atta…
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…e hasheesh effects. Just as inevitably as two men taking the same direction, and equally favoured by Providence, will arrive at the same place, will two persons of similar temperament come to the same territory in hasheesh, see the same mysteries of their being, and get the same hitherto unconceived facts. It is this characteristic which, beyond all gainsaying, proves the definite existence of the most wondrous of the hasheesh disclosed states of mind. The realm of that stimulus is no vagary; it as much exists as England. We are never so absurd…
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THE EQUINOX I sought to turn the current of his thoughts into another channel, but he had arrived at that place in his experience where suggestion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make …
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…raband She plies, and with discordant tones Desires a certain devil-grace. She gathers wreckage-wood, and bones Of seamen, jetsam of the place, And builds therewith a fire, wherein She dances, bounding into space Like an inflated ass’s skin. She raves, and reels, and yells, and whirls So that the tears of toil begin To dew her breasts with ardent pearls. Nor doth she mitigate her dance , The bagpipe ever louder skirls,
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…sence to his folk be known In darkling grove and glimmering shrine— O ply the kiss and pour the wine! Sir Palamede is fairly come Into a place of glowing bowers, Where all the Voice of Time is dumb: Before an altar crowned with flowers He seeth a satyr fondly dote And languish on a swan-soft goat. Then he in mid-caress desires The ear of strong Sir Palamede.
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…“the first position of a soldier,” and never allow the body in any way to collapse. The “ Bhagavad-Gita” upon this point says: In a pure place, established in a fixed seat of his own, neither very much raised nor very low . . . in a secret place by himself... . There . . . he should practise Yoga for the purification of the self. Holding the body, head and neck erect, immovably steady, looking fixedly at the point of the nose with un- wandering gaze. When these postures have been in some way mastered, the aspirant must combine with them the exe…
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… taste I not the Bounteous Breath, Receive the Goodly Gift of Grace? Now, kind king-eagle (by God’s death !), Restore me to mine ancient place! I am advantaged nothing then!” Then swooped he from the Byss of Space, And set the knight amid the fen. “God!” quoth Sir Palamede, “that I Who have won nine should fail at ten! I set my all upon the die: There is no further trick to try. Call thrice accurséd above men Sir Palamede the Saracen!”
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…on (Ruach), but the Buddha by means of his Reason (Ruach) alone. Buddha attempted to cut off all joy from the world, substituting in its place an implacable rationalism, a stern and inflexible morality, little seeing that the sorrows of Earth which his system substituted in place of the joys of Heaven, though they might not ruffle his self- conquered self, must perturb the minds of his followers, * We have seen how in the Chandogya Upanishad that all things, including even the four Vedas, are called “nama eva”—mere name. Now in “The Ques- tions…
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…sen in him, for many days P. communed in silence with the Vision that days upon days of labour had revealed to him, and then leaving his place of retirement near Kandy he journeyed to Anhuradhapura, and thence to many sacred shrines and temples throughout the island of Ceylon, gathering as he travelled spiritual knowledge, and learning the ancient customs of the people and the manner of their lives. Towards the end of November his work in Ceylon being accomplished he arrived at Madura, and from there he journeyed to Calcutta. At this city he re…
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…of Grace, Went equal into life and death, But oh! the foulness of his face! Not here was anything of worth ; He turned his back upon the place, Sought the blue sky and the green earth, Ay! and the lustral sea to cleanse That filth that stank about his girth,
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… shall know the Beauteous Breath And taste the Goodly Gift of Grace Who shall achieve this marvel quest.” Then Arthur sterte up from his place, And sterte up boldly all the rest, And sware to seek this goodly thing. But now the dwarf doth beat his breast, And speak on this wise to the king, That he should worthy knight be found Who with his hands the dwarf should bring By might one span from off the ground. Whereat they jeer, the dwarf so small, The knights so strong: the walls resound 19
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…alvary tree, Look on my soul’s poor fort assailed By all the hosts of devilry ! Is there no medicine but death That shall avail me in my place, That I may know the Beauteous Breath And taste the Goodly Gift of Grace? Keep Thou yet firm this trembling leaf My soul, dear God Who died for men; Yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, Sir Palamede the Saracen!” 77
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…ir veins, more strong than death: For all the roots of sin and sadness Were plucked. As a flower perisheth, So all sin died. And in that place All they did know the Beauteous Breath And taste the Goodly Gift of Grace. Then fell the night. Above the baying Of the great Beast, that was the bass To all the harps of Heaven a-playing, There came a solemn voice (not one But was upon his knees in praying And glorifying God). The Son Of God Himself—men thought—spoke then. “ Arise! brave soldier, thou hast won The quest not given to mortal men. Arise! S…
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…ely hill. And then a dim grey streak of dawn Came, and the sad ghost fled, With staring sockets and jaw-bone drawn, Back to the desolate place; The morning breeze grew still and dead As it played around his face. So we fled from the Mother Troll Under the dawning grey; We left the Hill of the Bloody Bowl Ere ever the sun uprose, But the dead man’s heart till Judgment-day Shall there with the Troll repose. Victor B. NEuBURG.