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Then passing on to the Intellect, you will be able to hold out for examination each mental process and principle. You don’t believe it, you may say. Then read and study some good work on Psychology, and you will learn to dissect and analyze every intellectual process–and to classify it and place it in the proper pigeon-hole. Study Psychology by means of some good text-book, and you will find that one by one every intellectual process is classified, and talked about and labeled, just as you would a collection of flowers. If that does not satisfy you, turn the leaves of some work on Logic, and you will admit that you may hold these intellectual processes at arm’s length and examine them, and talk about them to others. So that these wonderful tools of Man–the Intellectual powers may be placed in the “not I” collection, for the “I” is capable of standing aside and viewing them–it is able to detach them from itself. The most remarkable thing about this is that in admitting this fact, you realize that the “I” is using these very intellectual faculties to pass upon themselves. Who is the Master that compels these faculties to do this to themselves? The Master of the Mind–The “I.”

And reaching the higher regions of the mind–even the Spiritual Mind, you will be compelled to admit that the things that have come into consciousness from that region may be considered and studied, just as may be any other mental thing, and so even these high things must be placed in the “not I” collection. You may object that this does not prove that all the things in the Spiritual Mind may be so treated–that there may be “I” things there that can not be so treated. We will not discuss this question, for you know nothing about the Spiritual Mind except as it has revealed itself to you, and the higher regions of that mind are like the mind of a God, when compared to what you call mind. But the evidence of the Illumined–those in whom the Spiritual Mind has wonderfully unfolded tell us that even in the highest forms of development, the Initiates, yea, even the Masters, realize that above even their highest mental states there is always that eternal “I” brooding over them, as the Sun over the lake; and that the highest conception of the “I” known even to advanced souls, is but a faint reflection of the “I” filtering through the Spiritual Mind, although that Spiritual Mind is as clear as the clearest crystal when compared with our comparatively opaque mental states. And the highest mental state is but a tool or instrument of the “I,” and is not the “I” itself.

Taken from “A SERIES OF LESSONS IN RAJA YOGA” by YOGI RAMACHARAKA

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We have thought it well to say these things in this the last lesson of this course. They are needed words–they will serve to point out the way to those who are able to read. “Watch and wait for the Silence that will follow the Storm.”

In this series of lessons we have endeavored to give you a plain, practical presentation of some of the more important features of “Raja Yoga.” But this phase of the subject, as important and interesting as it is, is not the highest phase of the great Yoga teachings. It is merely the preparation of the soil of the mind for what comes afterward. The phase called “Gnani Yoga”–the Yoga of Wisdom–is the highest of all the various phases of Yoga, although each of the lower steps is important in itself. We find ourselves approaching the phase of our work for which we have long wished. Those who have advised and directed this work have counseled us to deal with the less advanced and simpler phases, in order to prepare the minds of those who might be interested, so that they would be ready for the higher teachings. At times we have felt an impatience for the coming of the day when we would be able to teach the highest that has come to us. And now the time seems to have come. Following this course, we will begin a series of lessons in “GNANI YOGA”–the Yoga of Wisdom–in which we will pass on to our students the highest teachings regarding the Reality and its Manifestations–the One and the Many. The teachings that “All is Mind” will be explained in such a manner as to be understood by all who have followed us so far. We will be able to impart to you the higher truths about Spiritual Evolution, sometimes called “Reincarnation,” as well as Spiritual Cause and Effect, often called “Karma.” The highest truths about these important subjects are often obscured by popular misconceptions occasioned by partial teaching. We trust that you–our students–will wish to follow us still higher–higher than we have ventured so far, and we assure you that there is a Truth to be seen and known that is as much higher than the other phases upon which we have touched, as those phases have been higher than the current beliefs of the masses of the race. We trust that the Powers of Knowledge may guide and direct us that we may be able to convey our message so that it may be accepted and understood. We thank our students who have traveled thus far with us, and we assure them that their loving sympathy has ever been a help and an inspiration to us.

Peace be with you.

Taken from “A SERIES OF LESSONS IN RAJA YOGA” by YOGI RAMACHARAKA

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A little reflection upon this subject will show us that the greater degree of exercise and training given the senses, the greater the degree of mental power and capability. As we store our mental storehouse with the materials to be manufactured into thought, so is the quality and quantity of the fabric produced.

It therefore behooves us to awaken from our “lazy” condition of mind, and to proceed to develop our organs of sense, and their attendant mechanism, as by doing so we increase our capacity for thought and knowledge.

Before passing to the exercises, however, it may be well to give a hasty passing glance at the several senses, and their peculiarities.

The sense of Touch is the simplest and primal sense. Long before the lower forms of life had developed the higher senses, they had evidenced the sense of Touch or Feeling. Without this sense they would have been unable to have found their food, or to receive and respond to outside impressions. In the early forms of life it was exercised equally by all parts of the body, although in the higher forms this sense has become somewhat localized, as certain parts of the body are far more sensitive than are others. The skin is the seat of the sense of Touch, and its nerves are distributed over the entire area of the skin. The hand, and particularly the fingers, and their tips, are the principal organs of this sense.

Taken from “A SERIES OF LESSONS IN RAJA YOGA” by YOGI RAMACHARAKA

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