Part 44 (1/2)
By such reinforcei's body and brain cells are electrified with the spiritual elixir Thus he removes himself from studied observance of natural lahich can only take hiht, and harhts-to a million-year Goal It needs twelve years of nore in brain structure, and a million solar returns are exacted to sufficiently refine the cerebral tene the cord of breath which binds the soul to the body, KRIYA serves to prolong life and enlarge the consciousness to infinity
The yogaof war between the mind and the matter-bound senses, and frees the devotee to reinherit his eternal kingdom He knows his real nature is bound neither by physical encasement nor by breath, symbol of the mortal enslavement to air, to nature's ele in the silence,” is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the ether by the life force The conte its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents KRIYA, controlling the h the life force, is the easiest, most effective, and most scientific avenue of approach to the Infinite In contrast to the slow, uncertain ”bullock cart” theological path to God, KRIYA ic science is based on an empirical consideration of all fora enables the devotee to switch off or on, at will, life current froht, sound, s this power of sense-disconnection, the yogi finds it simple to unite his mind at ith divine realer is he unwillingly brought back by the life force to the hts Master of his body and mind, the KRIYA YOGI ultimately achieves victory over the ”last enemy,” death
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds onthen {FN26-13}
The life of an advanced KRIYA YOGI is influenced, not by effects of past actions, but solely by directions from the soul The devotee thus avoids the slow, evolutionary ood and bad, of cole hearts
The superior o-prison, tastes the deep air of o is, in contrast, set in a pace hu his life to the evolutionary order, awithout error against the laws of his physical and mental endow masquerades to know final eaging themselves from physical and mental identifications in favor of soul-individuality, thus commend themselves to those who eye with revolt a thousand thousand years This nued for the ordinary man, who lives in harmony not even with nature, let alone his soul, but pursues instead unnatural cohts the sweet sanities of nature For him, two times a million years can scarce suffice for liberation
Gross overned by Eents in the six spinal centers or spheres of consciousness This theocracy extends over a throng of obedient subjects: twenty-seven thousand billion cells-endoith a sure if autoence by which they perforrowths, transforhts, e phases in e life of sixty years Any apparent insurrection of bodily or cerebral cells toward E as disease or depression, is due to no disloyalty a the humble citizens, but to past or present iven to him si hiranted that it is he who thinks, wills, feels, digests h reflection (only a little would suffice!) that in his ordinary life he is naught but a puppet of past actions (karma) and of nature or environs, moods, and habits are circumscribed by effects of past causes, whether of this or a prior life Lofty above such influences, however, is his regal soul Spurning the transitory truths and freedoms, the KRIYA YOGI passes beyond all disillusion All scriptures declaresoul; by KRIYA he is given a method to prove the scriptural truth
”Outward ritual cannot destroy ignorance, because they are not mutually contradictory,” wrote Shankara in his fanoranceKnowledge cannot spring up by any other means than inquiry 'Who am I? Hoas this universe born? Who is its maker? What is its material cause?' This is the kind of inquiry referred to” The intellect has no answer for these questions; hence the rishi+s evolved yoga as the technique of spiritual inquiry
KRIYA YOGA is the real ”fire rite” often extolled in the BHAGAVAD GITA The purifying fires of yoga bring eternal illumination, and thus differ ious fire ceremonies, where perception of truth is oft burnt, to sole with the incense!
The advanced yogi, withholding all hisfro his mind with superconscious forces in the spinal shrines, thus lives in this world as God hath planned, not impelled by impulses from the past nor by neitlessnesses of fresh hui receives fulfillment of his Supreme Desire, safe in the final haven of inexhaustibly blissful Spirit
The yogi offers his labyrinthine hus to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine The Ultimate Flame receives the sacrifice of all human madness, and man is pure of dross His bones stripped of all desirous flesh, his karmic skeleton bleached in the antiseptic suns of wisdom, he is clean at last, inoffensive before a's sure and ical yogi in the folloords: ”The yogi is greater than body-disciplining ascetics, greater even than the followers of the path of wisdom (JNANA YOGA), or of the path of action (KARMA YOGA); be thou, O disciple Arjuna, a yogi!” {FN26-14}
{FN26-1} The noted scientist, Dr George W Crile of Cleveland, explained before a 1940of the American association for the Advancement of Science the experiments by which he had proved that all bodily tissues are electrically negative, except the brain and nervous system tissues which re oxygen at a more rapid rate
{FN26-2} BHAGAVAD GITA, IV:29
{FN26-3} BHAGAVAD GITA IV:1-2
{FN26-4} The author of MANAVA DHARMA SHASTRAS These institutes of canonized common law are effective in India to this day The French scholar, Louis Jacolliot, writes that the date of Manu ”is lost in the night of the ante-historical period of India; and no scholar has dared to refuse hiiver in the world” In LA BIBLE DANS L'INDE, pages 33-37, Jacolliot reproduces parallel textual references to prove that the Roman CODE OF JUSTINIAN follows closely the LAWS OF MANU
{FN26-5} The start of the s, was 3102 BC This was the beginning of the Descending Dwapara Age (see page 174) Modern scholars, blithely believing that 10,000 years ago all e, summarily dismiss as ”myths” all records and traditions of very ancient civilizations in India, China, Egypt, and other lands
{FN26-6} Patanjali's APHORISMS, II:1 In using the words KRIYA YOGA, Patanjali was referring to either the exact technique taught by Babaji, or one very similar to it That it was a definite technique of life control is proved by Patanjali's APHORISM II:49
{FN26-7} Patanjali's APHORISMS, I:27
{FN26-8} ”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word ith God, and the Word was GodAll things weremade that was made”-JOHN 1:1-3 AUM (OM) of the VEDAS became the sacred word AMIN of the Moslems, HUM of the Tibetans, and AMEN of the Christians (its s saith the A of the creation of God”-REVELATIONS 3:14
{FN26-9} APHORISMS II:49
{FN26-10} I CORINTHIANS 15:31 ”Our rejoicing” is the correct translation; not, as usually given, ”your rejoicing” St Paul was referring to the OMNIPRESENCE of the Christ consciousness
{FN26-11} KALPA e; some link with PRAKRITI or eless; this is the highest state of SAMADHI