A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga (the Yoga of Wisdom.)Yogi Publication Society, 1907 - 302 pages |
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Absolute amoebae animal appearance Astral Astral plane atoms attraction become begins Bhakti Yoga birds body Brahm called cause cell composed conception consciousness creation Creative creatures crystals Cycle desire earth emanation Energy ergy evolved existence experiences feel finite force Hatha Yoga higher forms higher planes highest Hindu human idea individual Infinite Mind insect Intellect Involution Karmic known Law of Karma learned Lemuria lesson living forms lower forms manifestation material ment Mental Image Metempsychosis Monera Moneron Monotremes nature Nirvana Occult occultists operation organs Pantheism passed past lives Path persons phase physical plant Principle protoplasm pseudopods race Raja Yoga re-birth Real Reality realize reason regarding remember Reptiles Science sense shapes soul Spiritual Evolution stage student substance teachers Teachings inform theory things thought Thought-Form tiny tion truth underlying unfoldment Unity Universe Western wonderful words Yoga Yogi Philosophy Yogi Teachings
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Page 202 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 9 - Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will, as these transcend mechanical motion ? It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being.
Page 194 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Page 227 - And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish'd breasts of melons.
Page 273 - Before beginning, and without an end, As space eternal and as surety sure, Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good, Only its laws endure.
Page 226 - ... circled ; For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere, From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero, From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands, Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd, Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous, (But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound...
Page 94 - When to a man who understands, the Self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity ? 8.
Page 95 - I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and thro...
Page 214 - How often do we find ourselves in society which we have never before met, and yet feel impressed with a mysterious and ill-defined consciousness that neither the scene, the speakers, nor the subject are entirely new, — nay, feel as if we could anticipate that part of the conversation which has not yet taken place...
Page 193 - She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good ; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.