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One of the best books to read about how to grow as a whole being or body, mind, spirit. If you really follow this logic you can enhance your mental capacity and your spiritual aura. Including the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force.
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THE DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE OF YOGA
A.P. Mukerji
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANNOUNCEMENT
FOREWORD: CONCENTRATION AND THOUGHT-CONTROL
LESSON I: CONCENTRATION
WHAT IS MAYA?
HOW TO CONCENTRATE OBJECTIVELY
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MENTATION
SUBJECTIVE CONCENTRATION—HOW PRACTISED
LESSON II: PERSONAL MAGNETISM, WILL-CULTURE, SELF-CONTROL
THE MYSTERY OF THE WILL-FORCE
THE “I AM” CONSCIOUSNESS
SELF-CONTROL
PRELIMINARY STEPS
GLEANINGS FROM PROFESSOR JAMES ON THE LAW OF HABIT
WORSHIP OF THE TERRIBLE
LESSONS III AND IV: THE YOGI SELF-DEVELOPER
INTRODUCTION
PRACTICAL
HOW?
1. DEVOTION TO THE ABSOLUTE WILL
MEDITATION EXERCISE NO. 1
CONCENTRATION
WILL-POWER
AFFIRMATIONS
LOVE FOR HUMANITY, ENERGY, ASPIRATION, SELF-ESTEEM
AFFIRMATIONS
HEALTH, CHASTITY AND SELF-CONTROL
FASTING AND SELF-CONTROL
HOW TO FAST
HOW TO BREAK A FAST
TRANSMUTING SEX-ENERGY
BREATHING EXERCISE
PHYSICAL EXERCISE
PHYSICAL EXERCISES
SEVEN MINOR BREATHING EXERCISES
WHEN YOU ARE IN TRAINING
EFFECT OF MIND AND BODY
MIND ACTS UPON BODY IN ALL WAYS
RESERVE FORCE
HOW TO EXERCISE
BATHING AND LINEN
DRINKING WATER AND SWALLOWING AIR
THE YOGI CLEANSING BREATH
NERVE VITALISING BREATH
THE VOCAL BREATH
THE RETAINED BREATH
CELL STIMULATION
RIB STRETCHING
CHEST EXPANSION
WALKING EXERCISE
MORNING EXERCISE
STIMULATING CIRCULATION
DIET
SLEEP
RELAXATION VERSUS CONTRACTION
SOLAR ENERGY
LAST WORD ON HEALTH
CONCLUSION
ANNOUNCEMENT
In studying these Lessons please remember 3 points:—
1. Not one useless or superfluous sentence is written. Every word is full of meaning. They are highly condensed. Think deeply over them.
2. They are meant as a practical supplement to the ‘Spiritual Consciousness,’ ‘Soul-Force’ and ‘Inner Forces.’ Studied side by side, these lessons will yield a great deal of benefit. You are expected to think hard and long.
3. Let none expect speedy or miraculous results. All spiritual training calls for infinite patience and deep reverence unto the Guru. Constant rise and fall accompanies all progress.
FOREWORD: CONCENTRATION AND THOUGHT-CONTROL
STUDENT! YOUR LIFE IS YOUR own. You have only yourself to thank for what you are, have been and will be. Take your present into your own hand. Consciously shape out of it your future. Direct your forces along lines of study and endeavour that have the strongest attraction for you. Such attraction is the indication of need. It is the hand pointing out your Life-purpose. What your heart desires earnestly and clamours for incessantly isattracted to you out of the invisible supply, i.e., the means, the environments, the right sort of persons, books and thought-forces are drawn to you and then you are expected to work out your desire. This is in perfect accord with the great Law of Attraction. Some call it God: since it answers all sincere prayers. Prayer, remember, is the sincere desire of the heart. I take it that you hunger for Truth and Spiritual Growth—else you and I would not be here. The instructions given you hereunder are meant to give you a strong body and a strong will. They will also tend to your Soul-Unfoldment. Talk not of them. Keep your mouth closed. Be serious, earnest and thoughtful. Then work at them confidently and with perseverance. Do not be daunted by apparent failures. Failure is the stepping-stone to Success. He fails who gives up a thing in final despair. Go on, I say. You will improve from the very first day, and in a short time you will be another man. All the leaders of humanity, past or present, have studied and investigated with tireless zeal along the special lines and, in Spiritual culture, you must do the same. But you must have health, a strong will and a steady brain, and I will enable you to have these positively. Keep these instructions strictly privately. Master them by constant meditation upon same.
LESSON I: CONCENTRATION
CONCENTRATION SIGNIFIES THE STATE OF being at a centre (con and centrum). Applied to thought, it is the act of bringing the mind to a single point. Each human being must practise concentration subjectively and objectively. In other words, each human being aims with more or less precision at concentration on a point within and a point without his own world. Concentration “without” is illustrated when you devote all your attention upon Nature, such as learning a trade, a profession, a science, an art or some form of business. This is Evolution, outgoing or positive mental energy. I shall call this Objective Concentration. Concentration “within” implies the withdrawing of attention from the external world and the placing of mind on “God,” “Spirit,” “Heaven,” “Religion,” “Peace,” “Nirvana,” “Eternity,” etc. This is Involution, i.e., incoming or negative energy.
When Objective Concentration alone is practised, you develop into a hard-headed, practical man of the world or a successful man of business. You are keen and shrewd. The world is a very matter-of-fact thing to you. You cannot think of anything else beyond money-making and pleasures and worldly affairs. You are a “worldling of the world,” very clever, rich, and a master along your own lines. But spiritually you are an imbecile, worse than a baby. This is the Objective Mind—the “deepest immersed in matter, literally made of the dust.” “It is the brain of worldly wisdom, common sense, prudence, methodical arrangement, order, discipline, classification, the skill and knowledge of the expert in any branch or department of art or science.” This side of the mind is well developed in Scientists, Mathematicians and Businessmen, etc. Where it is not guided by the Subjective Mind, it can only see diversity and difference and is the slave of Maya—the slayer of the Real.
Subjective Concentration is seeking the Kingdom of Heaven within you. “God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth.” LAPLACE, the great astronomer, asserted that he had swept the heavens with his telescope and found neither God nor Heaven. Yes, poor LAPLACE! He looked for God objectively instead of subjectively.
