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"We will camp here," the leader commanded, "close to the mango tope through which we have just passed, then we will summon the headman, and if he is as such accursed officials are, the holy one, the yogi, will cast upon him and his people a curse; also I will threaten him with the loss of his ears."
The Western school of the Yogi Philosophy gives an idea of the state between incarnations, somewhat eclectic in its origin, agreeing with the Theosophical teaching in some respects, and differing from it in others. Let us take a hasty glance at it.
He openly confesses before the crowds that the name under which he is known is not his, but was given to him at the Yogi initiation. The mystical school of Yogis was established by Patanjali, the founder of one of the six philosophical systems of ancient India.
And so we have recognized this fact and have heaped up proof after proof from the pages of Western Science, in order to prove to you the reasonableness, from the Western point of view, of the doctrine of Physical Unfoldment as taught for ages past by the Yogi gurus to their chelas.
Science is being gradually forced to the conclusion that living forms are still arising in the world by natural processes, which is not at all remarkable when one remembers that natural law is uniform and continuous. These recent discoveries go to swell the already large list of modern scientific ideas which correspond with the centuries-old Yogi teachings.
Then the jamadars considered the message so deeply wrapped in mysticism. Hunsa unhesitatingly declared that the yogi was a messenger from the Dewan, and if they did not take advantage of it they would perhaps have to fare forth on lean stomachs and in disgrace perhaps would be beaten by the Mahratta sepoys undoubtedly they would. Sookdee backed up the jamadar.
I sat bolt upright. "The Thug?" I echoed. "Didn't you get that far?" and Godfrey picked up one of the books and ran rapidly through the pages. "You remember we found him squatting on the floor with a rag and a tooth and a bone in front of him?" "Yes." "And do you remember how the yogi described them, when Goldberger asked him about them?" "Very distinctly he called them the attributes of Kali."
The sentence of Aristotle is familiar, "The solitary man is either a brute or a god," but the solitariness whether of the Thebaid or of Fonte Avellano, of Romualdo, Damiani, or of that Yogi, who, to exhibit his hate and scorn of life, flung himself into the flames in the presence of Alexander, is yet indebted and bound by ties invisible, mystic, innumerable, to the State, to the race, for the structural design of the soul itself, for that very pride, that isolating power which seems most to sever it from the State.
This course gives the highest Yogi teachings regarding the Absolute and its Manifestations the relations between the One and the Many the Secret of the One Life the Mystery of the Evolution of the Soul the Law of Spiritual Cause and Effect the Group-Soul the Birth of the Ego the Unfoldment of the Self the Cycles of the Race the Chain of Worlds the Truth about Nirvana the Divine Paradox the Problem of Consciousness the Reality and the Illusory the offices of Will and Desire the Future of the Race the Past History of Man and the Races the Adepts and Masters the Brotherhoods the Problems of Life the Riddle of Existence.
Skag had seen something of this in his India the yogi men shutting their eyes and bowing their heads and seeming to sink their consciousness into themselves, in order to ascertain some fact without and afar off. "Our lord gives his mind to the matter and the truth unfolds " Chakkra added. "Will the other elephant travel through the night so steadily?" "Not like this, Sahib," said Chakkra.
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