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Nearly everyone has had the experience of an inexplicably correct “hunch,” or has transferred his thoughts effectively to another person.
The human mind, free from the static of restlessness, can perform through its antenna of intuition all the functions of complicated radio mechanisms-sending and receiving thoughts, and tuning out undesirable ones. As the power of a radio depends on the amount of electrical current it can utilize, so the human radio is energized according to the power
of will possessed by each individual. All thoughts vibrate eter...
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By deep concentration, a master is able to detect the thoughts of any mind, living or dead. Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a tr...
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The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the div...
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Seldom do men realize how often God heeds their prayers.
His children should ever have implicit faith in the loving-kindness of their Omnipresent Father.”
In India, music as well as painting and the drama is considered a divine art.
The foundation stone of Hindu music is the ragas or fixed melodic scales. The six basic ragas branch out into 126 derivative raginis (wives) and putras (sons).
Each raga has a minimum of five notes: a leading note
(vadi or king), a secondary note (samavadi or prime minister), helping notes (anuvadi, attendants), and a dis...
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The stars have no conscious benevolence or animosity; they merely send forth positive and negative
radiations.
“A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony
with his individual karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future results.
What he has done, he can undo.
He can overcome any limitation, because he created it by
his own actions in the first place, and because he has spiritual resources which are not subject to planetary pressure.
The wise man defeats his planets—which is to say, his past-by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the Creator.
The more he realizes his unity with Spirit, the less he can be dominated by matter. The soul is ever-free; it is deathless because birthless. It cannot be regimented by stars.
“God is harmony; the devotee who attunes himself will never perform any action amiss.
His activities will be correctly and naturally timed to accord with astrological law.
“It is only when a traveler has reached his goal that he is justified in discarding his maps. During the journey, he takes advantage of any convenient short cut.
“All human ills arise from some transgression of universal law.
‘Lord, I trust in Thee, and know Thou canst help me, but I too will do my best to undo any wrong I have done.’
“Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the divine fires of wisdom.”
His freedom is final and immediate, if he
so wills; it depends not on outer but inner victories.
“Its ‘tree of life’ is the human body. The spinal cord is like an upturned tree, with man’s hair as
its roots, and afferent and efferent nerves as branches. The tree of the nervous system bears many enjoyable fruits, or sensations of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. In these, man may rightfully indulge; but he was forbidden the experience of sex, the ‘apple’ at the center of the bodily garden.
“The ‘serpent’ represents the coiled-up spinal energy which stimulates the sex nerves. ‘Adam’ is reason, and ‘Eve’ is feeling. When the emotion or Eve-consciousness in any human being is overpowered by the sex impulse, his reason or Adam also succumbs.
“God created the human species by materializing the
bodies of man and woman through the force of His will; He endowed the new species with the power to create children in a similar ‘immaculate’ or divine manner.
An intuitive conviction came to me that Sri Yukteswar was merely testing the depth of Sasi’s faith in the divine healing power. I was not surprised a tense hour later when Master turned a sympathetic gaze on my prostrate friend.
Opening each book at random, I studied
only those pages which lay thus exposed.
I do not observe the ostracizing rules of ungodly sectarianism.
“It calms the dualistic turmoil by a divine inner certainty.”
recondite motive was behind Master’s
The metaphysical method of physical transfer of disease is known
to highly advanced yogis.
for an unsound physical instrument is a hindrance to God-meditation. The Hindu scriptures teach that the first duty of man is to keep his body in good condition; otherwise his mind is unable to remain fixed in devotional concentration.
I realized anew, standing there in the sunny courtyard, that when man ceases to be a prodigal child of God, engrossed in a physical world indeed dream, baseless as a bubble, he reinherits his eternal realms.
‘I am happy beyond expression that this reforming scheme of your brother’s has wrought a transformation. I am going to undo every wrong I have done you. From tonight we will use our large bedroom only as a place of worship; your small meditation room shall be changed into our sleeping quarters. I am sincerely sorry that I have ridiculed your brother. For the shameful way I have been acting, I will punish myself by not talking to Mukunda until I have progressed in the spiritual path. Deeply I will seek the Divine Mother from now on; someday I must surely find Her!’”
Unwarned by the “red flag” of my name, the instructor had given a high rating to my answers even though they were unembellished by textbook quotations.
“Mukunda, has the Lord ever failed you, at an examination or elsewhere?”
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you
where I sank to my knees and praised the mathematical perfections of my Divine Father.
I smiled to realize that my muttered prediction was coming true: “I will fill up the sheets with your teachings!”
‘If you don’t invite God to be your summer Guest, He won’t come in the winter of your life.’”
