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The Yogis have long taught that a man's character was, practically, the crude character-stuff possessed by him at his birth, modified and shaped by outside influences in the case of the ordinary man, and by deliberate self-training and shaping by the wise man.
The Soul is not a part of that which we know in consciousness, but, on the contrary, that which we know in consciousness is but a small part of the Soul the conscious vehicle of a greater Self, or "I." The Yogis have always taught that the mind has many planes of manifestation and action and that many of its planes operated above and below the plane of consciousness.
We shall speak of this at greater length a little later on in this lesson. Just now we wish to impress upon you the fact that it is the Mind that perceives, not the senses. And, consequently, a development of Perception is really a development of the Mind. The Yogis put their students through a very arduous course of practice and exercises designed to develop their powers of perception.
In their hands were either iron-tongs, with loose clattering ring, or a yak's tail, or the three-ribbed horn of a black-buck. Some of the yogis, perhaps Goswamies that had come from the country where Eklinga was the tutelary deity, had their hair braided and woven around their foreheads, holding in its fold lotus seeds; beneath the tiara of hair a crescent of white on their foreheads.
There have been many instances in India of Yogis who could know not only their own past lives but correctly tell those of others. It is said that Buddha remembered five hundred of his previous births. Our subliminal self, or the subconscious mind, is the storehouse of all the impressions that we gather through our experiences during our lifetime.
By Karma the effects arising from our sins cling to us, until we become sick and weary of them, and seek their cause in our hearts. When we have discovered the evil cause of these effects, we learn to hate it and tear it from us as a foul thing, and are thence evermore relieved of it. The Yogis view the sinning soul as the parent does the child who will persist in playing with forbidden things.
On his return to Serampore during the next fortnight, I was grieved to find my guru's body reduced to half its usual weight. Fortunately for his disciples, Sri Yukteswar burned many of their sins in the fire of his severe fever in Kashmir. The metaphysical method of physical transfer of disease is known to highly advanced yogis.
"Just as a house can be fitted with a copper rod to absorb the shock of lightning, so the bodily temple can be benefited by various protective measures. Ages ago our yogis discovered that pure metals emit an astral light which is powerfully counteractive to negative pulls of the planets.
Larger in his conceptions than the yogis who misconstrued the Vedas and the Law of Manu as imposing an association of filth smeared ashes, and uncombed, uncleansed hair as a symbol of piety and abnegation of spirit, a visible assertion that the body had passed from regard that it, with its sensualities and ungodly cravings, had become subservient to the spirit, the soul.
It is usual to allow the head to bend forward easily and naturally during the transmuting exercise. The Yogis have found the following exercise most useful in stimulating the action of the brain for the purpose of producing clear thinking and reasoning.
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