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KE@AAH OA KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL For mind and body alike there is no purgative like Pranayama, no purgative like Prana- yama. For mind, for body, for mind and body alike— alike!—there is, there is, there is no purga- tive, no purgative like Pranayama—Prana- yama !—Pranayama! yea, for mind and body alike there is no purgative, no purgative, no purgative (for mind and body alike!) no like Pranayama, like Pranayama, like Prana — Prana — Prana — Prana — Pranayama! — Pranayama ! AMEN.
1905 · PDF PAGE 142
DHAMMAPADA * I Antithesis. (THE TWINS) ALL that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built of mind. Who acts or speaks with evil thought, him doth pain follow sure and blind : So the ox plants his foot and so the car-wheel follows hard behind. [Blind, i.e., operated by law, not by caprice of a deity.] All that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built of mind. Who acts or speaks with righteous thought, him happiness doth surely find. So failing not, the shadow falls for ever in its place assigned. “ Me he abused and me he bea…
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
IF MAN RESTRAIN DESIRE, HIS MIND WILL CEASE TO ROLL, AND MINDS RELEASE ALLOW PURE PEACE OF SILENCE TO THE SOUL. THE SENSES WILL NOT SOIL ; THE THOUGHT WILL NOT UPSTRESS ; NOR POISONS (GREED, WRATH, DULNESS) BREED THEIR TRIFORM DEADLINESS. MEN EARN NOT EASE OF TAO FOR THEIR DESIRES DISEASE ; BECAUSE THEIR MIND IS NOT REFINED OF THOUGHT BY KILLING THESE IF ONE SHOULD SLAY DESIRES, HIS MIND AND BODY SEEM NO LONGER HIS, BUT PHANTASIES DANCED IN A WANTONS DREAM. SLAY MIND, SLAY BODY, SLAY THE EXTERNAL : MATTER GOES. THEN SPACE REMAINS ; RENEW THY…
1961 · PDF PAGE 142
… far as we may. Here is the Key of Success, and its Name is the Skill to make right Use of Circumstance. This, then is the Virtue of the Mind, to be the Wazir of the Will, a true Counsellor, through Intelligence of the Universe. But o, my Son, do thou lay this Word beneath thine Heart, that the Mind hath no Will, nor Right thereto, so the Usurpation bringeth forth a fatal Conflict in thyself. For the Mind is sensitive, unstable as Air, and may be led foolishly in Leash by a stronger Mind that worketh as the cunning Tool of a will. Therefore thy…
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
…refore represents all that we are, the resultant of all that we had a tendency to be. In the I)hamniai)ada we read: All that wc are from mind results; on mind is founded, built of mind; Who acts or speaks with evil thought him doth pain follow sure and blind. So the ox plants his foot, and so the car wheel follows hard behind. All that we are from mind results; on mind is founded, built of mind; Who acts or speaks with righteous thought him happiness doth surely find. So failing not the shadow falls for ever in its place assigned. The Pantacle …
1919 · PDF PAGE 332
…the point of definitive victory, the more that is the case. The beginner can think, ‘it is ten o’clock,’ and dismiss the thought. To the mind of the adept this sentence will awaken all its possible correspondences, all the reflec- tions he has ever made on time, as also accidental sympa- thetics like Mr. Whistler’s essay; and if he is sufficiently far advanced, all these thoughts in their hundreds and thousands diverging from the one thought, will again converge, and become the resultant of all those thoughts. He will get Sa- madhi upon that or…
1905 · PDF PAGE 149
I44 DHAMMAPADA Who stills not thought, nor knows true laws ; in whom distraction is not dumb, Troubling his peace of mind ; he shall to perfect knowledge never come. His thoughts concentred, unperplexed his mind renouncing good and ill. Alike, for him there is no fear if only he be watchful still. Knowing this body to be frail, making this thought a fortalice, do thou aright Mara with wisdom’s shaft assail ! Watch him when conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas ! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie. Condemned of al…
1910 · PDF PAGE 117
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING PRATYAHARA The next step in Raja Yoga is called Praty4hara, or the making of the mind introspective, by which the mind gains will to control the senses and to shut out all but the one object it is concentrating upon. He who has succeeded in attaching or detaching his mind to or from the centres of will, has succeeded in Pratyahara, which means “ gathering towards,” checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thraldom of the senses. When we can do this we shall really possess a character; then alo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 117
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING PRATYAHARA The next step in Raja Yoga is called Praty4hara, or the making of the mind introspective, by which the mind gains will to control the senses and to shut out all but the one object it is concentrating upon. He who has succeeded in attaching or detaching his mind to or from the centres of will, has succeeded in Pratyahara, which means “ gathering towards,” checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thraldom of the senses. When we can do this we shall really possess a character; then alo…
1961 · PDF PAGE 140
…of the ages, and the Knowledge of the True Way. Thus are we just and wise to Discover this Secret in ourselves, to conform the conscious Mind therewith. For that mind is compact solely (until it be illuminated) of Impressions and Judgments, so that its Will is but directed by the Sum of the shallow Reactions of a most limited Experience. But thy true Will is the Wisdom of the Ages of thy Generations, the Expression of that which hath fitted thee exactly to thine Environment. Thus thy conscious Mind is oftentimes foolish, as when thou admirest a…
1961 · PDF PAGE 144
…s a Fount of Madness) S it not a Marvel how he that worketh with his Will and is in constant Touch with the Reality external, maketh his Mind to serve him? How eagerly runneth it and returneth, gathering, arranging, clarifying, classifying, organizing, comparing, setting in Array, with Skill and Might and Energy that faileth never! Nay, my Son, in this way thou canst be pitiless with thy Mind, and it will not rebel against thee, or neglect thine Ordinance. But now consider him that worketh not with his Will, how his Mind is idle, not reaching o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 108
…perhaps, roughly speaking; but the perceiving function is stilled also. Then you wish to obtain a perfect vigilance and attention of the mind, uninterrupted by the rise of thoughts? Yes. . And how do you proceed? . Firstly, we still the body by the practice called.Asana, and secure its ease and the regularity of its functions by Pranayama. Thus no messages from the body will disturb the mind. Secondly, by Yamaand Niyama, we still the emotionsand passions, and thus prevent them arising to disturb the mind. Thirdly, by Pratyahara we analyse the m…
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
17 Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Tothe one end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East : the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [ Raises giass.| the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of cares how heavy ! Drink ! The peace of the Priest ! [He drinks up the liquor.| Be thou my light ! Uncloud the misty channels of the mind! Off, horror ! Off, compassion ! Be the brain The almighty engine of the Will—and those Subtler and…
1919 · PDF PAGE 437
…ceptive, dark and ever-changing, on the Soul’s white shrine. This familiar phrase is usually interpreted to mean the mere keeping of the mind free from invading thoughts. It has also that secret significance at which we have several times already hinted. These unfortunate poetic images again bewilder us. Blavatsky’s constant use of the word “Soul” without defini- tion is very annoying. These verses 63 and 64 must be taken as dealing with a state preliminary to the attainment of this Fifth Gate. If the lance shakes in the hand of the warrior, wh…
1912 · PDF PAGE 71
CHAPTER V DHARANA OW that we have learnt to observe the mind, so that we know how it works to some extent, and have begun to understand the elements of control, we may try the resultof gathering together all the powers of the mind, and attempting to focus them on a single point. We know that it is fairly easy for the ordinary educated mind to think without much distraction on a subject in which it is much interested. We have the popular phrase, “ revolving a thing in the mind ”; and as long as the subject is sufficiently complex, as long as thou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 233
…ory. Now J want to put forward a thesis-and as far as I know it is personal to myself, based on my work at Cefalu-to the effect that the mind is constructed on precisely the same lines. You will remember from my note on "Breaks" in meditation how one's gradual improvement in the practice results in the barring-out of certain classes of idea, by classes. The ready-to-hand, recent fugitive thoughts come first, and ftrst they go. Then the events of the previous day or so, and the preoccupations of the mind for that period. Next, one comes to the l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
…wifter than the sun’s ! The discursive prattle of such superficial twaddlers as Longfellow and Tennyson is the most deadly poison of the mind. All this is true enough in the merest exoteric necessity of adult civilisation. But if we are to go further into the nature of things, to dive deeper than the chemist, soar higher than the poet, look wider than the astronomer, we must furnish ourselves with a blade of still better temper. VIII “It is not proper to understand that Intelligible One with vehemence, but with the extended flame of far-reachin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
…wifter than the sun’s ! The discursive prattle of such superficial twaddlers as Longfellow and Tennyson is the most deadly poison of the mind. All this is true enough in the merest exoteric necessity of adult civilisation. But if we are to go further into the nature of things, to dive deeper than the chemist, soar higher than the poet, look wider than the astronomer, we must furnish ourselves with a blade of still better temper. VIII “It is not proper to understand that Intelligible One with vehemence, but with the extended flame of far-reachin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
…and I bear witness that nothing is worthy to be com- pared with ecstasy. What is the path to this immortal land ? To the Oriental, whose mind is, so to say, static, meditation offers the best path, a path which to us seems (and indeed is) intolerably irksome and tedious. To the Western, whose mind is active and dynamic, there is no road better than ceremonial. For ecstasy is caused by the sudden combination of two ideas, just as hydrogen and oxygen unite explosively. A similar instance in a higher kingdom will occur to every one. But this relig…
1903 · PDF PAGE 53
…I gain the thing I seek?” Rape of Lucrece. There is much sorcery in the word eleven. I took my lover’s image pale and clear, Fixed in my mind ; I saw her standing near, Wooed her, conjured her by the power of heaven, Of my own mind, the Genii of the Seven, To come and live with me and be my dear, To love me in the spirit without fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd ? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s l…