Spirit is infinite and in the spirit all is true, but nothing in the mind can give the whole truth of the spirit.
Tag: Synthesis of Yoga
What we are physically is a soul asleep in matter, partially wakened, of a body pervaded by external consciousness, attentive to outward impacts of the external world ...in which we try to develop our conscious being.
A purified heart is rid of anger, fear, hatred and all shrinking and repulsion; it has a universal love; it can receive the delight which God gives in the world. When all deformations are got rid of, the lower mentality is purified, ready for perfection.
The deformation preventing the purity is desire; its root is vital craving for that which we feel we have not, for possession, satisfaction, instilling a sense of want and is, in its nature, insatiable.
The true emotive soul, the psyche within, is not a desire-soul, but a soul of pure love and delight, that can only emerge when the life of desire is no longer the characteristic action of our being.
Mind, life and body are the three powers of our lower nature; life acts as a link, giving its character to body and mentality. Finally, there is a secret supermind, the proper means and native seat of divine perfection.
Universe seems to be always trying to swallow up man, but the universal being is working out its purpose in man ... as he develops the element of sympathy born of the secret oneness.
Man must find his highest self, ceasing to be his mental, vital and physical ego (not his real self but merely an instrument of Nature) ... thus he acts as if he were a separate existence in the material universe.
Man can become aware by a developing power of Yoga, that his material existence is not a thing apart and self-existent. From his present imperfection he can develop towards greater perfection.
Matter (or body) is a limiting form of substance of spirit in which life, mind and spirit are involved, self-hidden, self-forgetful but ... bound to emerge by a self-compelling evolution.