Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism

by Yogi Ramacharaka

5. “Kill out all sense of separateness.” 6. “Kill out desire for sensation.” 7. “Kill out the hunger for growth.” 8. “Yet stand alone and isolated, because nothing that is embodied, nothing that is conscious of separation, nothing that is out the eternal can aid you. Learn from sensation, and observe it; because only so can you commence the science of self-knowledge, and plant your foot on the first step of the ladder. Grow as the flower grows, unconsciously, but eagerly anxious to open its soul to the air. So must you press forward to open your soul to the eternal. But it must be the eternal that draws forth your strength and beauty, not desire of growth. For, in the one case, you develop in the luxuriance of purity, in the other, you harden by forcible passion for personal stature.”