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Dedication
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6
Spiritual Power
of Man's Word 6
The God-Given
Power of Man. 7
Mental Responsibility
for Chronic Diseases. 8
What Cures? 10
Cure According
to Temperament. 10
Two Factors
in Healing. 12
Faith More Important
Than Time. 12
Classification
o f Healing. 13
To Prevent Physical
Disease. 14
To Prevent Mental
Disease. 15
To Prevent Spiritual
Disease. 15
Evaluation of
the Science of Curative Methods. 16
Consciousness
and Vibration. 18
Difference Between
Matter and Spirit. 18
Body and Consciousness
Created By Man in the Dream State. 19
World Illusion.
20
Underlying Unity
of Medical and Mental Cures. 21
Danger of Blind
Denial of Matter. 21
The Body as
Materialized Vibration. 22
The Different
States of Chanting.
23
Superconsciousness--Not
Unconsciousness.
23
Physiological
Centers. 24
Value of Different
Methods of Cure. 24
Individual and
Group Directions. 25
Preliminary
Rules to be Observed Before Affirmations 27
General Healing
Affirmation. 27
Thought-Affirmation. 32
Will-Affirmation. 33
For the Development
and Right Guidance of Reason and Cure of Dull Intelligence. 34
Wisdom-Affirmation. 35
Success Affirmations.
36
Material Success
Affirmation. 37
Spiritual Success
Affirmation. 38
Affirmation
for the Eyes. 39
Psychological
Success Affirmations. 39
For Regulating
Sex Force. 41
For Curing Bad
Habits. 42
Physical Exercise
For Stomach. 43
Exercise For
the Teeth 4
SCIENTIFIC HEALING
AFFIRMATIONS
By Inspiration
of
SWAMI YOGANANDA, A. B.
of India
SECOND EDITION
Published by
YOGODA AND
SAT-SANGA HEADQUARTERS
MOUNT WASHINGTON
3880 San
Rafael Avenue
Los ANGELES,
CALIFORNIA
1925
DEDICATED
To My Guru Deva
Sreemat
Swami Sriyukteswarji
With
sincere love, reverence
and devotion
Copyrighted,
1924, by SWAMI YOGANANDA
Mount Washington
3880 San Rafael Avenue
Los Angeles, CALIF.
Printed
in U. S. A.
The Blanchard
Press, Ins.
222 Golden Gate Avenue, S. F.
CONTENTS [Original]
Spiritual Power of Man's
Word 9
The God-Given Power of
Man 10
Mental Responsibility for
Chronic Diseases 12
What Cures? The Life Energy 14
Auto-Suggestion and Other
Limited Cures 15
Cure by Imagination, Reason, Faith or Will According
to Temperament 15
Explanation and Necessity
of Faith 18
Classification of Healing
19
How to Prevent Physical
Disease 21
How to Prevent Mental Disease
23
How to Prevent Spiritual
Disease 23
Evaluation of Curative Methods
24
All Methods Useful If They
Awaken Life Energy 25
Medical and Mental Healing
Fanaticism 27
Consciousness and Vibration
28
Difference Between Matter
and Spirit 28
Body and Consciousness
Created by Man in the Dream State 30
Individual Illusion and
World Illusion (Maya) 31
Underlying Unity of Medical
and Mental Cures 32
Existence of Matter for
the Material Consciousness 33
Danger of Blind Denial of
Matter 33
The Body As Materialized
Vibration 35
Reason and Necessity for
Faith and Concentration 35
The Different States of
Chanting 36
Super-Consciousness, Not
Unconsciousness 36
Physiological Centers of
Will, Energy and Feeling 37
Value of Different Methods
of Cure 38
Individual and Group Directions
39
Affirmations for Wisdom,
Thought, Will, Intelligence
43
Affirmations for Material,
Psychological and Spiritual Success 52
Affirmations for Eyes,
Sex-Control, Good Habits 57
Exercises for Stomach and
Teeth 62
3
Man's word is Spirit in
man. Words are sounds occasioned by the vibrations of thoughts. Thoughts are vibrations sent forth by the
Ego or Soul. Every
word that leaves your mouth ought to be potent with your genuine soul vibration. Words in most people are lifeless because they are automatically
put forth into the ether, without being impregnated
with soul force. Too much talking, exaggeration
or falsehood used in connection with words is just like shooting bullets
out of a toy gun, without the gun-powder.
That is why the prayers or words of such people do not produce any desired definite change in the order of things. Every
word you utter you must mean it, i.e.,
every word you put forth must represent not only Truth, but some of your realized soul force. Words without soul
force are husks without the corn.
Words that are saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith and intuition are
just like highly explosive
vibration bombs, which when let out, are sure to explode the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired. Avoid
speaking unpleasant
words, even though they are true. Words must be intoned according to the convictions within. Sincere words or affirmations
repeated understandingly,
feelingly and willingly are sure to move the Omnipresent Cosmic Vibratory Force and render you aid in your difficulty.
Only appeal to that Force with infinite confidennce, casting out all doubt and the spirit of looking
for the desired result. If you don't do this, your appealing attention is deflected and side-tracked from its objective mark. Besides you cannot sow the vibratory
prayer seed in the soil of Cosmic
Consciousness and then pick it out
every minute to see if it has germinated
into the desired result or not.
It should be remembered
that there is nothing greater in power than the Cosmic Consciousness or God. The Power of Cosmic Consciousness
is greater than the
power of your mind or the mind of others. Thus you should seek Its aid alone. But this does not mean that you should
make yourself passive,
inert or credulous, or that you should minimize the power of your mind. Remember
God helps those that help themselves. He gave you will power, concentration, faith, reason and common sense to help yourself in your bodily or mental afflictions. You must use them all as you seek the Divine help. But remember in using your own will power or common sense to get rid of a difficulty or disease, you must not
rely wholly on, or harness yourself
solely to, your Ego and thus disconnect
yourself from the Divine
Force. Always during affirmations
or prayer vibrations feel that you are using your own but Godgiven power to heal yourself or others. Always believe that it is not God only but yourself also
who, as His
beloved child, tries to employ Hisgiven will, reason, etc., to react on the difficult
problems of life. A balance must be
struck between the old idea of wholly
depending on God, and the modern way of sole dependence on the ego.
During the different affirmations,
the attitude of the mind should be different, e.g., will affirmations should be accompanied by strong will; feeling affirmations by devotion; reason affirmations
by intelligence and devotion; imagination affirmations
by firm fancy and faith. In healing others select that affirmation which is suuitable to the conative, imaginative, emotional or thoughtful temperament
of your patient. In all affirmations the intensity
of attention comes first, but continuity and repetition count a great deal,
too. Impregnate your affirmations with your devotion, will and faith, intensely and repeatedly, unmindful of
the results, which will naturally come as the fruit of your labors.
During the physical curing process, the attention
must not be on the disease, which always
damps the faith, but on the mind. During
mental cures of fear, anger, any bad
habit, consciousness of failure, unsuccess, nervousness, etc., the concentration
should be on the opposite mental quality,
e.g., the cure for fear is
culturing the consciousness of bravery; of anger-peace; of weakness-strength; of sickness-health.
In trying to get rid of
a physical or mental sickness by mental or physical method one often concentrates more on the gripping
power of the disease
than on the possibility of cure, and thus permits the disease to be a mental as well as a physical habit. This is especially
true of most cases of nervousness in which the ddisease is felt long after it is physically cured.
Each physical activity
or bodily sensation of disease or health, etc.,
cuts grooves on the brain-cells, which further automatically awaken certain habits of disease or health. The sub-conscious habit of disease or health consciousness
exerts a strong influence on the continuity of chronic diseases. Chronic mental or physical diseases have always a deep root in the
sub-conscious mind. In a mental or
physical disturbance, one ought to
be able to pull out its roots in the sub-conscious mind. That is why
all affirmations practised by the conscious
mind ought to be impressive
enough to stay as mental habits
in the sub-conscious mind, which
would in turn again automatically
influence the conscious mind. Strong conscious affirmation thus being
reinforced reacts on the mind and body through
the medium of the sub-conscious.
Still stronger conscious
will or devotion affirmations not only reach the sub-conscious but the Super-conscious, the magic storehouse
or factory of all
miraculous mental powers.
Individual affirmations
should be practised willingly, feelingly, intelligently and devotionally, once in a while loudly (when nobody
is listening), but
mostly mentally (not even in a whisper), with ever-increasing intensity of attention and continuity. The attention from the very
beginning of affirmation
must steadily increase and should never be allowed to flag. Flagging
attention should be again and again brought back like a truant child and repeatedly and patiently trained
to perform its given task. Attentive, intelligent
repetition and patience are the creators of habits,
and as such, these ought to be employed
during all affirmations. Such
deep and long-continued affirmations for
curing chronic mental or bodily afflictions should be practised mentally
until they become almost a part of one's
intuitional convictions, by utterly
ignoring unchanged or contrary results
(if any). It is better to die (if death has to come) with the conviction of being cured than with the consciousness of a mental or bodily ailment
being incurable.
Another fact should always
be remembered--though death may be the necessary end of the body according to present human knowledge, still it has
no fixed time, rather, even if it has, it car be modified or changed by the superr-conscious power of the Soul. As such, all affirmations, it
order to reach the Super-conscious, must
be free from all uncertainties, doubts
and inattention. Attention and Devotion are lights that can lead ever blindly uttered affirmations to the sub-conscious
and the Super-conscious. The greater their power.
the farther they can usher the vibrations of different affirmations to their sub-conscious or Superconscious
destinations.
Drugs, medicine, massage, spinal adjustment
or electrical treatment all help to bring back the lost harmonious condition of the cells by chemicalization
of the blood or stimulation of certain tissues. These are external methods
that sometimes assist the life-energy to
effect a cure. But they have not the power to act on a dead body, whence the life energy has vanished, for there is nothing in
a dead man that can utilize the properties of medicine or electrical currents. Without the life
energy, medicines, etc., cannot have any healing
effect on the human body. Hence it can be seen that it is the life energy alone that can effect a cure; all external methods of stimulation can only
co-operate with the life energy, and are powerless
without it.
Imagination, convincing
reason, faith, emotion or feeling, or
will or conation can be employed according
to the different specific imaginative or intellectual or emotional or conative
nature of the individual. Few people
know this. Coue wants to cure all persons by auto-suggestion only. But
the diseased person of an intellectual type
is not susceptible to suggestion,
and can only be influenced by a metaphysical
discussion of the power of consciousness over body. He needs to understand mentally the power of the mind over the body. If
he can realize, for instance,, that blisters can be
produced by hypnosis, as Professor
James points out in his "Principles
of Psychology," similarly he can understand the power of the mind to cure disease. If the mind can produce ill health it can
also produce good health.
Auto-suggestion is also
powerless to act on the type of man characterized by strong will power.
He needs stimulation of his will power instead
of his imagination if he wants to be cured
of his ailment.
A case is recorded of
an emotional person who had lost his power of speech, and received it back when running out of a burning house.
The sudden shock
produced by the sight of fire stimulated his feeling so much that he shouted out "Fire!
Fire!" not remembering
that hitherto he had been unable to speak. A strong emotion overcomes the power
of the sub-conscious mental disease habit. This story illustrates the power of intense attention, which should be used in connection
with affirmations
for curing bodily sickness.
During my first steamer
trip from India to Colombo, I was
taken unawares suddenly by a spell of sea-sickness and lost the valuable contents
of my stomach. I resented the experience very
much because it was sprung on me without
my willing permission to accept it
and at a time when I was enjoying my first experience of a floating room (the cabin) and a swimming village. I determined never to be tricked again like that. I advanced
my foot and planted it firmly on the floor of the cabin and commanded my will to never accept again the sea-sick experience. Later,
though I was on the water for fifty
days coming from Calcutta to
Boston, and for a month going to Japan, and twenty-six days from Seattle to Alaska and
back, I was never sea-sick again, in spite of a very rough sea which caused
almost every one
else on board to be sick.
Will, or imagination, or
reason, or feeling, cannot of themselves effect a physical cure. They only act as different agents which, according to the
different temperaments of different individuals, can stimulate the life energy to awaken and cure
a certain ailment. In a case of paralysis of the arm, if the will or imagination is continuously stimulated, then the life energy will suddenly rush to
the diseased nervous channels, curing the tissues
and the paralyzed arm. The repetition
of affirmations ought to be firm
and continuous so that the strength
of the will and imagination might be sufficient
to stimulate the uncontrolled or inactive life energy.
*Yogoda teaches by its
art of concentration and meditation, and
control of will, how to use this Life Current
directly for healing one's self and others. No one should ever minimize the
importance of repeated,
ever deeper efforts of will or imagination affirmations as given in this book to effect the cure of bad
habits, or mental or bodily troubles.
[Footnote: *About this
course by correspondence, see the announcement on back cover.]
In planting a tree two
things are to be considered-the proper seed, and good ground. So also in healing diseases, two factors
are to be taken into
account-the power of the healer and the receptivity of the patient, who must rrespond to the healer's
vibrations.
"Virtue (i.e.,
healing power) has gone out of me," and "Thy faith has
made thee whole"such
sayings of Jesus show that in healing both the
power of the healer and the faith of the person to be healed are required.
Instantaneous healing of
bodily, mental and spiritual
diseases might occur at any moment. The accumulated darkness
of ages is dispelled at once by bringing the light in, not by trying to chase
the darkness
out. One never can tell when he is going to be healed, so do not expect a cure
at once or at some distant day. Faith, not time, will determine
when the cure will be effected. Results depend on the right awakening of life energy and the mental and sub-conscious
state of the individual. Disbelief
fails to awaken the Life Energy, and
this Body Doctor, Body Builder and
Master Mason therefore cannot work.
Effort and attention are
absolutely necessary to arouse faith or
will or imagination, which, when stimulated, automatically impels the Life Energy
to effect a cure. Desire or expectation for
results weakens the force of attention.
Without will or faith, Life Energy remains asleep, and cure cannot
take place.
It takes time to reawaken
a weakened will, faith or imagination in a patient suffering from chronic disease, because his brain cells are grooved with the consciousness of disease habits.. As it takes a long time to form
a bad habit of disease consciousness, similarly some time is required
to form a good habit of health consciousness.
1. Healing of bodily diseases.
2. Healing of such psychological diseases as fear, anger, bad habits,
failure consciousness, lack of initiative
and confidence, etc.
3. Healing of such spiritual
diseases as ignorance, indifference,
purposeless life, intellectual pride and
dogmatism and theoretical metaphysics, scepticism, and contentment <with
the material method of existence,
ignorance of the laws of life, and of his own divinity, etc.
It is of paramount importance
that equal emphasis should be given to the prevention and cure of all three kinds of disease. Each
causes either bodily,
mental or spiritual suffering in man and must, therefore, be remedied by every suitable method of cure.
The attention of most people is fixed solely
on the cure of bodily diseases, because
the latter are so tangible and obvious.
They do not realize that their mental troubles of fear, despair, bereavement, worry, violent anger, lack of self-control,
and their spiritual suffering through ignorance of
the clue to the mystery and meaning of human life are still more important and overpowering, and
that all physical diseases originate in mental and spiritual inharmony. Ignorance of the laws of mental hygiene, and of
the spiritual art of living are responsible for all human bodily and material suffering. If the mind is free from the
mental bacteria of anger, worry, fear, etc., and
the Soul is free from ignorance, no
material disease or lack can follow. We
do not want sickness in body, mind or soul. We do not need medicine, or mental or spiritual healing if we are well. By ignorance we break the laws of harmony by which the body was created perfectly by the Spirit, and then we seek
methods of cure. We want to be diseaseless in every way and for that reason our whole concentration should be directed towards the prevention
of physical, mental and spiritual diseases.
Obedience to God's material laws.
Do not overeat. Many dig
their graves with knife and fork. Few die of starvation; most die of greediness.
Obey God's hygienic laws. The mental hygiene of keeping the mind pure is superior to physical hygiene, but the latter is very important
and must not be neglected. But don't live by such
mathematical laws of hygiene that the least deviation
from your wonted habits upsets you.
Prevention of waste in the body by right activity
and by knowledge of conservation of physical
energy and of supplying the body with an inexhaustible
supply of Life Current by Yogoda practices.
Charge the body cells with
Life Energy by Yogoda methods.
Prevent hardening of the
arteries by proper exercise.
Save the heart from overwork;
fear, anger, etc., increase the heart beat. Cut down the heart beat or heart work by calmness.
Give rest to the heart
by the Yogoda method, and culture peace and relaxation. If we estimate the amount
of blood expelled
by each contraction of the ventricles of the heart at f our ounces, then the weight of
of the blood moved during one minute
will amount to eighteen pounds. In a day it will be about 12 tons; in a year, four thousand tons. These figures indicate the enormous amount of labor expended by the heart. All other organs of the body
work during the day and receive rest during the night in sleep. But the heart works even in sleep.
Medical science claims that rest is received by the
heart during its diastole period of
expansion, amounting to about nine
hours in time of the 24 hours each day. This period, however, is not rest,
but is only preparation for the systole movement. The vibrations caused by the contraction of the ventricles, reverberate through the tissues of the
heart during its relaxation, hence
the heart cannot be said to be resting.
This effort expended daily
and nightly by the heart naturally causes
great wear and tear, and decay goes on until
the heart is completely worn out and death ensues. Learn to sleep
the big sleep (i.e., conscious experience
of death), wherein all the organs
of involuntary motion are rested, including the heart. Control over death comes when one can consciously control and rest the motion
of the heart. The rest and renewed
energy given to the body by sleep
is only a small indication of the wonderful
calm and strength that comes through the
conscious sleep, where even the heart rests.
St. Paul says in I Corinthians, 15:31:
"I protest by the rejoicing that I have
in Christ, I die daily,"-i.e.,
the peace that comes with Christconsciousness rests (i.e.,
stops) the heart. Way back
in these Biblical times, this great scientific truth of resting the heart and attaining immortality was known.
Some years ago in India, a Yogi by the name
of Sadhu Haridas was buried underground for five months under the constant
supervision of European doctors, and at the end of that time he resumed breathing and returned to normal
life. He had mastered the art of controlling and resting the heart.
Culture peace and faith
in the Cosmic Consciousness. Free the mind from all disturbing thoughts and fill it with
poise and joy. Realize the superiority of mental healing over physical healing. Abstain from acquiring
bad habits, which make
life miserable.
Knowledge of the method
of spiritualizing the body by destruction of the consciousness of mortality and change. The body is
materialized vibration and ought to be
cognized as such. The consciousness that
decay, disease or death can affect the
body must be removed by scientific understanding of the underlying unifying laws of matter and spirit, and the delusive manifestation of
Spirit as matter, as explained in the foregoing.
Firmly believe that you are created in the image
of the Father, and are therefore immortal and perfect even as He is. If a particle of matter is
indestructible, as science has proved, then the soul
is indestructible also. Matter undergoes
change; the soul undergoes changing experiences. All changes
are termed death, but the death or change of the form of a thing does not change or destroy its essence.
Apply the experiences of
peace and poise received during concentration
and meditation to your daily life. Maintain
your equilibrium amidst trying circumstances, standing unshaken by violent
emotions or adverse events. There are various
methods for concentration and meditation,
but Yogoda, based on Vito-Psycho-Physical
methods, is the best.
Disease is generally considered
a result of external material causes-few realize that it comes through the inaction of the Life Force within.
When the cell or tissue
vehicle of the Life Energy is in any way affected, the Life Energy withdraws from that place and trouble consequently
starts. Medicine,
massage and electricity only help to stimulate the cell in such a way that the inactive Life Energy is induced to return
and resume its former
work of repair.
We must not be extremists in any way. We
should adopt whatever methods of healing are suitable according to individual conviction. One
fact should be borne in mind-medicine, food, poisons,
etc., all have a definite chemical action on the blood and body. As long as
one eats, why should he deny that
medicines or other material aids are
without effect on the body? They are useful as long as only the material
consciousness is present. They have their
limitations, however, because they
are applied from outside. The best methods are those which help the internal Life Energy to resume its healing activities.
Medicine chemically helps the blood and tissues.
Use of electrical devices is also of benefit. But
neither medicine nor electricity can cure disease; they can only stimulate or coax the Life Energy back to the
neglected diseased body part. Hence the introduction
of a different foreign element, be
it medicine or electricity or any other external aid, is undesirable if we ccan manage to use the Life Energy to effect a cure without employing any intermediary agent.
In massage, osteopathic
treatment, adjustment of the vertebrae, Yoga postures, etc., no introduction of an outside influence
is involved, and by these
methods we can remove or relieve the congestion in the nerves or vertebrae and permit the free flow of Life Energy.
On the other hand, mental
cure is superior to all methods of physical cure because will, imagination, faith, etc., are the different
phases of consciousness which actually and directtly act from within and are the motive powers
that stimulate and
direct the Life Energy to accomplish any definite task.
We, therefore, see that
both physical methods and mental methods of cure are useful only insofar as they can influence and
awaken the Life Energy.
It is the Life Energy that will cure, and that
method which exerts the most power over the Life
Energy is the superior method. The Yogoda system teaches one to harness and direct the will to assist the actual vibrating Life Energy to any
body part required. Neither physical culture methods nor mental healing can equal the marvelous results of Yogoda, which employs the will
and the Life Energy directly. It is not imagination
--one can feel the tingling energy
throughout the body by the use of
the Yogoda exercises.
Medicine may be used for
little itches, sores or accidental cuts, etc. If the arm has been fractured, it is foolish to give God the trouble of joining your
displaced bones when a doctor (a child of God) can fix it by a little use of his skill and knowledge
of God's own laws as applied to matter. If you can instantaneously heal
your broken bones by mental power it is admissable, but don't wait.
Matter does not exist in
the way we usually conceive it, nevertheless, it does exist as a delusion.
Dispelling delusion requires a definite
method. You cannot
cure a dope-fiend in a moment. Material consciousness possesses man tthrough a law of delusion and only by following the
opposite law of undoing
the delusion can the material consciousness
be dispelled.
The rabid medical man and
the mental healer both are extremists. They are wrong because they draw a dividing line between matter
and Spirit. Spirit
through a series of processes of materialization
became matter, hence matter proceeds from and
cannot be different from its cause, the Spirit. Matter is a partial expression of Spirit-the Infinite appearing as finite, the Unlimited as limited.
But since matter is nothing but Spirit
in its delusive manifestation, matter
cannot exist without the Spirit. Hence the Spirit exists; matter does not.
Consciousness and
vibratory matter are the two natures of one undivided, unmanifested
Spirit. The difference between consciousness
and matter is relative. The
former is a deeper and the latter a grosser
vibration of the one Transcendental Spirit.
The Spirit is the first
cause of vibratory creation. The processes of subjective, cognitive and objectified consciousness do not exist
in the Spirit. The
knower, knowing and the thing known
are spiritually
one. By creation the hitherto unmanifested Spirit manifests two
natures-one consciousness, and the other vibration. Consciousness is the vibration of Its subjective nature, and vibration is the manifestation
of Its objective nature. In one phase,
the Spirit appears as the universe of objectified vibratory matter, with its billlions of units of Life Energy, atoms,
molecules, gases, liquids, solids, etc. The other phase of the Spirit is its
potential immanency in this objectified vibratory
matter as Cosmic Consciousness, manifesting as individualized
human consciousness with all its countless ramifications of thoughtss, feelings, will, imagination, etc.
Hence, metaphysically speaking, the difference
between matter and spirit consists in the rate of vibration, and is a difference of
degree, not of kind. This point is
illustrated by the fact that though all vibrations are qualitatively alike, yet vibrations from 16 to 60,000 are gross and are audible to the physical
sense of hearing, whereas vibrations below 16 or over 60,000 cannot be registered
by the tympanum. The vibration of
consciousness is so subtle and so powerful that it cannot
be detected by any gross instrument. Only
consciousness can comprehend consciousness.
Only conscious human beings can detect the conscious vibrations of other human beings. Those who live in a certain room
impress a vibratory force on that
room which may be felt by other persons.
The subtlety of the vibration
of consciousness and the grossness of the vibration of matter are only superficially
different. They differ in degree
only, but they are so distinctly
and specifically differentiated by the vibratory force of the Spirit that they appear different in kind as well as degree, to the human consciousness. Consciousness is cognized as a finer force existing within a coating of grosser vibratory force called
matter; or it may be said that consciousness
is the first vibration of Spirit
and that matter is in turn the result of
the grosser vibration of consciousness. The Ego cognizes consciousness directly and mattter (e. g., the body) indirectly, through consciousness (sensation,
perception and conception).
There exists much misunderstanding
in man's mind about the oneness that exists between matter and consciousness. The appearance
of a living body
and a dead body side by side in life produces in
man the consciousness of the delusive difference between body and consciousness. When a man sees a dead body (i. e., a body without consciousness) and a living one (i. e., a
body with consciousness), he begins
to reason about the radical difference between
body and consciousness, not remembering that the sight of a dead body
or a living body may both be produced by
the sustained power of a hallucination
or in the dream state of the human consciousness,
and so are similarly produced in life by
rye power of Maya or World Illusion.
In the dream state, a sleeping
man may find himself walking joyously in a beautiful garden, and perhaps
he suddenly sees the dead body of a friend. He becomes stricken with grief, sheds tears, suffers from headache, feels
his heart throb -or perhaps suddenly a
storm blows, he is drenched in rain and
becomes wet and cold. He wakes up and laughs at his illusory dream experience.
What is the difference between the experiences
of the sleeping man under the influence of a dream,-experiences
of matter as embodied in the bodies
of himself and his dead friend, the garden, heat and cold, etc., and experiencees of consciousness as displayed in
his recognition of himself and his
friend, of his awareness of the garden, heat and cold, etc.--what, then, is the difference between these experiences of the dream state, and
the experiences of his waking state? The consciousness
of matter and the consciousness of consciousness
are present in both cases. The sleeping man creates matter and consciousness
in his dream.
If such a delusive creation
is possible to the human consciousness, then it is not difficult to imagine that the infinitely powerful Cosmic Consciousness or Spirit could create
by the power of Maya or World Illusion a little more permanent dream in the human consciousness,
thereby making it
feel the relatively permanent and paradoxical difference between matter and consciousness.
Those who seek health or happiness, or who dread
disease or death or bereavement, are working
under the false conviction that health is different
from disease, that life is different from death, that bereavement is
different from joy. Man is dreaming of these dualities, but when he awakes he finds out that these things were only a dream,
a delusion of his dreaming consciousness. When man realizes his true
nature, the dualities disappear and all lack
is seen to be illusory, all desire vanishes.
For those who have not
attained to this Cosmic Consciousness, it is useless to emphasize the importance of medical aid, or to totally
ignore it; or to emphasize the importance of mental aid, or to totally ignore
it. While the superiority of mental aid and the healing power of the mind over the healing power of drugs is undeniable, still the limited healing or death-dealing power of herbs and
drugs can also not be denied. In employing mental aid, there is no necessity for scorn at all physical
methods of cure, for they are the outcome of investigation
into God's material laws.
The point is, that most
people either believe solely in medical
or solely mental cure, and ignore the point
of unity where both methods coincide. Medical laws cannot contradict mental laws, for material law is simply a projection of spiritual
law. Similarly, the law that governs
matter and therefore medical science is more limited and unfree than its source-therefore mental healing has a
wider scope and efficacy
than medicine, for the latter is a gross materialization of the former.
As long as the material
consciousness of the body exists, the use of medicines and drugs cannot be dispensed with, but as soon as that material consciousness begins to diminish, the belief in drugs
disappears and all bodily sufferings
are seen to have their roots in the
mental.
I know my master never
spoke of the uselessness of drugs, yet
he so trained and expanded the consciousness
of his students that they placed no reliance
on medicines, etc., and used only mental power to cure themselves if they fell sick. Some people,
both in the East and the West, fanatically deny matter and medicine when they are so engrossed in the flesh that they feel they can't live
if they miss a meal. It is inconsistent
to deny the existence of matter with
the same mouth that enjoys a steak
for lunch every day. That state of realization in which body and mind, death and life, disease and health all appear equally delusive,
is the only state wherein we can say that we don't
believe in medicine, food, surgery, or the existence of matter.
To teach the non-existence
of matter while one is dreaming and engrossed
in matter is productive of impracticality, danger and fanaticism. There is a deep-seated scientific psychological law governing
the formation and breaking of the delusion
of matter. Banishing delusion cannot
be done by imagination and fanatic
belief-it can only be accomplished by the methods of psycho-phhysical concentration, which gradually and consciously disengages and liberates the Soul from its identification with the material consciousness through certain
definite stages of step-by-step realization.
People with material consciousness,
believing in the gross body, have first to be gradually trained out of their dependence on medicine
and material aids,
and taught to rely more on mental aid and the immortal nature of consciousness. Converting people with material consciousness
into metaphysical fanatics gains nothing. In fact, a great deal of harm is done, for one misunderstanding
leads to another,
and because they fail to comprehend properly the material laws of God, which medical science has partially discovered
and applied, and which these metaphysical
fanatics deny in a crude, self-deceiving way,
they also fail to comprehend the systematic
and scientific laws of the mind, and
become stubbornly fixed in their mistaken mob or congregational dogmaatism. They follow an idea blindly, without satisfying the reasonable and logical side of their nature. Truth
satisfies every part of man's nature, and does not
include any inconsistent or inharmonious
factors. Truth possessed by one man
will prevail, whereas error shared by all the rest of humanity, minus that one, has to
be rejected.
The body is vibration materialized
as the combination of solids, liquids and gases. Beneath the strata
of flesh is the vibration of life current, present as fluid energy, and beneath it is the vibration
of subtle human consciousness,
which remains isolated through ignorance from the Cosmic Consciousness. In Cosmic Consciousness
there is no change or death, whereas human conssciousness is subject to change and limitation.
The process of freeing the mind is to
train it by affirmations, concentration,
Yogoda, etc., so that it can gradually turn
its attention away from the grosser body vibrations and its attendant changess of death, disease, etc., and feel the subtler and more stable
vibration of Life Energy and consciousness on to
the Cosmic Consciousness where there is no consciousness of change, 1. e., death, life, health, disease, etc., but where only one unchangeable consciousness of bliss reigns.
Remember again that the affirmations must be
practised with the proper loud intonation,
fading into a whisper, and above all
with attention and devotion, taking the thought from the auditory sense to the understanding or conscious mind, thence to the sub-conscious or automatic mind, and
then to the Super-conscious, with conviction about
their efficacy and truth. To those
who believe, these affirmations will cure them, and Yogoda will teach
them how to prevent disease forever, as well as cure it.
The following chart shows
the order of the various consecutive chanting states:
Conscious, Loud Chanting
Whisper Chanting
Mental Chanting
Sub-conscious Chanting
Super-conscious Chanting
Sub-conscious chanting
becomes automatic, with internal consciousness only.
Super-conscious chanting is when the deep internal
chanting vibrations are converted into realization and are established in the super- and sub-conscious
minds as well as the conscious mind. Holding the attention unbrokenly on the real Cosmic Vibration, not on any imaginary
sound, is super-conscious chanting.
One very important point
to bear in mind is that when passing from one state of chanting to another, the attitude of the mind should
likewise change,
and become deeper and more concentrated. The aim is to unite chanter, chant and the process of chanting into one. The mind must
sink itself into the
deepest conscious state, NOT UNCONSCIOUSNESS, or absent-mindedness, or sleep, but such a focused concentrated
state of absolute consciousness
that all thoughts are sunk and merged into the one state, like particles drawn to an irresistible magnet.
During the different affirmations,
notice should be taken of the physiological centers where the attention should be directed--i.
e., the heart is the center where feeling is concerned,
the medulla is the
source of energy, and will proceeds from the spot in the center of the forehead. Attention is unconsciously directed to those
centers, e. g., when we feel, the attention is centered
in the heart and we
feel it to the exclusion of all other parts of our bodies. We want to cultivate a conscious
power over the direction
of attention to the centers of thought, will and feeling.
Above all, absolute unquestioning
faith in God or his true devotees is the greatest method of instantaneous
healing. It is better to die in the attempt to arouse that faith, than to die in good health, but with an absolute reliance
on medicine or matter.
The following affirmations
will greatly help congregations and individuals
to understand gradually the mechanism of
the human body, if they repeat them
with understanding and devotion. They must dwell deeply on the inner meaning
of the affirmations, and should read
the discussion of Spirit and matter
and mentally review it again and again.
Prevention of disease must
be the goal for which we all ought to strive. Our whole concentration ought to be on this important
problem. Since many
people are already suffering because they
have broken spiritual, mental or physical laws of life and because many more will continue to break these laws even though they know better, it
is important and necessary to consider the relative
value of the different methods of curing
physical diseases.
Medical science employs
only physical agencies f or cure, and hence has a very limited scope of action. Psycho-physical and mental cures
have wider application
to problems of disease, and even the most materially-minded medical man recognizes the effect of mentality on
disease, and feels more
confidence in his ability to cure if his patient "has faith in him."
Auto-suggestion and will-affirmations
are unconscious methods of stimulating
the Life Energy, but because purely mental healing methods do not consciously
work with the Life Energy and use willing
without establishing a physiological connection,
therefore they are not efficacious in all cases of disease. If conscious
will and co-operation with Life Energy be
added, results are much more successful.
But cure is certain if psycho-physical methods,
together with will, faith and reason are blended together to direct the Life Energy and to reach the super-consciousness. Knowledge of the inherent and inseparable unity of matter and spirit solves all problems of disease.
TIME: (For the individual)
Immediately after awakening from sleep in the morning, or during the period of somnolence preceding sleep at night. (For the group) Any suitable time.
PLACE: Noiseless or quiet
surroundings as far as possible. If the affirmations have to be used in a noisy place, just ignore the disturbance
and devotedly attend to your exercise.
METHOD: Before starting to affirm, always free the mind of all worries and restlessness. Choose your affirmation and repeat it first loudly,
then softer and more slowly, until
your voice becomes a whisper. Then
gradually affirm it mentally only,
without moving even the tongue or the lips.
Affirm mentally until you feel that you have merged into deep, unbroken concentration, not unconsciousness,
but conscious continuity of uninterrupted thought.
Then if you continue with
your mental affirmation, and go still deeper, you will feel a great sense of increasing joy and peace
come over you. During deep concentration,
your affirmation will merge into the sub-conscious
stream, only to come back later reinforced with power too influence your conscious mind
through the law of habit. During the time
of experiencing ever-increasing peace, your affirmation goes deeper into the super-conscious reservoir, to return later laden with unlimited
power not only to influence your conscious mind but also to materially fulfill your desires. Doubt not and you shall witness the miracle of this
scientific faith.
During group affirmations
for curing physical or mental disease in self or others, care should be
taken to affirm with an even tone,
even men force, even concentration and even sense of faith and peace. Weaker
minds lessen the united force born of such affirmations and can even side-track this flood of force from its super-conscious
destination. By all means do not make any bodily movements or become mentally restless
or disturb your neighbor.
Merely keeping still is not enough, you must remember your concentration or restlessness will materially affect the desired
result favorably or unfavorably.
The following affirmation-seeds
are impregnated with the Soul's inspiration, and they should be watered by your faith and concentration
and sown in the
soil of super-conscious peace, in order to set up inner motile vibrations that will help their desired germination.
There are many processes involved between the
sowing of the affirmation-seed and its fruition. All the conditions of its growth must be fulfilled in
order to produce the desired result. The affirmation-seed must be a living one, free from the cankers of doubt, restlessness or inattention; it
should be sown in the minds and hearts of people,
with faith, concentration, devotion and peace; it
should be watered with deep, fresh repetitions.
Always avoid mechanical
repetition. This meaning is found in the Biblical commandment, "Take not the name of the Lord thy God
in vain." Repeat
affirmations firmly and with intensity and sincerity,
until such power is gained that one command,
one strong urge from yourself would be sufficient
to change your body cells or move your Soul
to the performance of miracles.
1. Sit facing North or East.
2. Close your eyes (concentrating your attention on the medulla, unless otherwise directed).
Keep spine erect, chest high, abdomen in. Relax completely.
Take deep breaths and exhale thrice.
3. Relax the body and keep it motionless. Empty the mind of all restless thoughts, and withdraw it from all sensations of bodily weight, temperature and sounds, etc.
4. Fill your mind with devotion and
with will, feeling
the former in the heart and the latter in its physiological center of generation in between the
eyebrows. Cast away anxiety, distrust, worry. Realize calmly that the Divine Law works and is All-Powerful only when you do not shut it out by
doubt or disbelief. Faith and concentration allow
it to operate unhampered. Hold the thought that all bodily states are changeable and curable and that the consciousness of anything being chronic
is a delusion.
5. Forget what it is that you want to be healed.
6. In group affirmations the leader should read the affirmations rhythmically while standing. The audience should repeat after him with his same
rhythm and intonation.
On every altar of feeling
Thought and will
Thou art sitting
Thou art sitting.
Thou art all feeling, will and thought.
Thou dost guide them,
Let them follow, let them follow
Let them be as Thou art.
In the temple of consciousness >
There was the Light-Thy Light
I saw it not, now I see
The temple is light, the temple is whole.
I slept and dreamt the temple broke
With fear, worry, ignorance;
I slept and dreamt the temple broke
With fear, worry, ignorance.
Thou hast waked me
Thou hast waked me
Thy Temple is
whole
Thy Temple is whole.
I want to worship
Thee I want to worship
Thee In the heart
In the star
In the body cell I love Thee
In the electron I play with Thee.
I wish to worship Thee
In body, star, star-dust nebulae
Thou art everywhere, everywhere
I worship Thee.
Celestial Will of Thine
As human will of mine
Doth shine, doth shine
In me, in me, in me, in me.
I shall not say 'tis Thy Will
That I am wrong or I am ill
'Tis my will divorced from Thee
That makes me bound, unfree.
I will wish, I will will
I will work, I will drill
Not led by Ego but by Thee
But by Thee, but by Thee
I will work, exert my will
But charge my will
With Thy own Will, with Thy own Will
Make us little children, O Father
Even as Thy Kingdom contains such.
Thy love in us is perfection
Even as Thou art whole, so are we holy.
In body and mind we are healthy
Even as Thou art, even as Thou art.
Thou art perfect
We are Thy children.
Thou art everywhere
Where'er Thou art, perfection's there
Thou art sitting in every altar cell
Thou art in all my body cells
They are whole, they are perfect
They are whole, they are perfect.
Make me feel Thou art there
In them all, in them all,
Make me feel, they are perfect
Each and all, each and all.
Life of my life, Thou art whole
Thou art everywhere,
In my heart, in my brain
In my eyes, in my face
In my limbs and all.
Thou dost move my feet,
They are whole, they are whole.
My calves and thighs
They are whole, for Thou art there
My thighs are held by Thee
Lest I fall, lest I fall.
They are whole, for Thou art there
They are whole, for Thou art there.
Thou art in my throat
Mucous membrane, abdomen
Glistens with Thee
These are whole, for Thou art there.
In my spine, Thou dost sparkle
It is whole, it is whole.
In my nerves Thou dost flow
They are whole, they are whole.
In my veins and arteries
Thou dost float, Thou dost float,
They are whole, they are whole.
Thou art fire in my stomach
Thou art fire in my intestines
They are whole, they are whole.
Even as Thou art my own
So am I Thy own.
Thou art perfect
Thou art I, Thou art I.
Thou art my brain--
It is shining, it is whole,
It is whole, it is whole, it is whole.
Let my fancy flow free
Let my fancy flow free.
I am ill when so I think
I am well when so I think,
Every hour, O every day
In body, mind, in every way
I am whole, I am gay
I am whole, I am gay.
I dreamt a dream that I was ill
I woke and laughed to find me still Bedewed
with tears
Of joy, not sadness,
To find I dreamt of sickness.
For I am whole, I am whole.
Let me feel
Thy loving thrill, Thy loving thrill. Thou art my Father
I am Thy Child
Good or naughty
I am Thy child.
Let the feel Thy healthy thrill
Let me feel Thy wisdom's will.
Let me feel Thy wisdom's will..
Concentrate Thought on
the forehead, and re
peat the following:
I think my life to flow
I know my life to flow
From brain to all my body to flow.
Streaks of light do shoot
Through my tissue-root.
The flood of Life through vertebrae
Doth rush through spine in froth and spray
The little cells all are drinking
Their tiny mouths all are shining
The little cells all are drinking
Their tiny mouths all are shining.
Concentrate will* on the
Medulla and on the spot between the eyebrows,
simultaneously, and repeat the following,
first loudly and then gradually in whispers:
I will my life to charge
With Godly will I will it charge
Through my nerves and muscles all
My tissues, limbs and all,
With vibrant tingling fire
With burning joyous power
In blood and glands
By sovran command
I bid you flow
By my command
I bid you glow
By my command
I bid you glow.
[footnote:.*The conscious will direction of
the Life Energy is only possible by the technique taught in the Yogoda lessons. (See announcement
on back cover of book.)]
1. Read, mark and inwardly digest.
2. Reason about good things.
3. Adopt the best plan
you can offer to yourself by the exercise of reason.
4. If you read one hour,
then write for two hours, and think for three hours. This proportion should be observed in the
effort to culture reason.
5. Obey the mental laws
that are given to you by God for developing your reason.
6. If these affirmations are uttered with soul force behind them they will develop the innate intelligence which the modern psychologists claim is limited and incapable of expansion.
By obeying material laws
and believing them to be controlled by a superior spiritual law, one can rise above them and be wholly
guided by them. This
transcendental superiority of spiritual laws over material laws cannot be realized by anyone who thinks he
can overcome material
laws by crudely denying their existence
and acting against them.
Concentrate beneath
the skull, feeling weight of
the brain within it:
In wisdom's chambers Thou
dost roam
Thou art the reason in me
0 Thou dost roam and wake
Each lazy little
cell of brain To receive, to receive
The good that mind and
senses give The knowledge that Thou dost give. MMyself will think, myself will reason
I won't trouble Thee
for thought But
lead Thou when reason errs To its goal
lead it right.
Oh Father Divine, Oh Mother
Divine Oh Master mine, Oh Friend Divine I came alone, I go alone
With Thee alone, with Thee
alone
With Thee alone, with Thee
alone.
O Thou didst make a home
for me Of living cells; a home for me.
This home of mine is home
of Thine Thy life did make this home Thy strength did make this home.
Thy home is perfect, Thy
home is perfect.
I am Thy child, Thou art my Father We
both do dwell, we both do dwell In the temple same In this temple of cells
O in this temple of cells. Thou art always here O on my throbbing altar near.
I went away, I went away
With darkness to play,
with error to play, A truant child, I
went away. Home I came with Darkness dark
Home I came with matter's muddy mark.
Thou art near, I cannot see Thy home
is perfect, I cannot see. I am blind, Thy Light is there 'Tis
my fault that I cannot see O 'tis my fault that I cannot see. Beneath the darkness line
Thy Light doth shine Thy Light doth shine.
Together, Thy Light and
Darkness Cannot stay, cannot stay. Together, wisdom, ignorance Cannot stay, cannot stay. Conjure away, 0 lure away
The darkness away
My darkness away.
My body cells are made of
light
My fleshly cells are made of Thee They
are perfect, for Thou art perfect They are healthy, for Thou art health They are spirit, for Thou art so
They are immortal, for
Thou art living.
(For Healing of Unsuccess
Consciousness)
Success comes by obeying
the Divine and material laws. Material and spiritual success both must be attained. Material success consists in acquiring all the necessities of life. Ambition for money making should
be utilized to improve society, country
and the world. Make all the money you can by improving your community or country or the world, but never do so by acting against
their interests.
Remember there are mental, sub-conscious and
super-conscious laws for success, and for
fighting failure.
The sub-conscious method
of success is to repeat the affirmations intensely and attentively immediately before and after sleep.
If you want Divine Law
or super-conscious power to help you, do not stop your conscious efforts, nor should you rely wholly on your own
natural abilities. Use
effort consciously by trying and planning to succeed and by fighting failure, feeling at the same time that the
Divine Law is helping
your efforts to successfully reach their destination. This method establishes a conscious connection with the Divine. Think that as you are the child of God you have access
to all things that
belong to your Father. Doubt not; when you want anything, cast away the connsciousness of failure, realize that all things
are your own. Subconscious
habits of ignorance and disbelief in this law have deprived us of our Divine heritage. Those who crave to utilize the resources of Divine Supply must destroy this wrong mentality by steady effort saturated with infinite confidence.
Thus when the conscious,
sub-conscious and super-conscious methods of success are combined, success
will surely come. Try
again, no matter how many times you have tried for it unsuccessfully.
Thou art my Father
Success and joy I
am Thy child Success
and joy
All the wealth of this earth
All the riches of
the universe
Belong to Thee, belong to
Thee. I am Thy child
The wealth of earth and
universe Belongs to me, belongs to me O belongs to me, belongs to me. I lived in thoughts of poverty
And wrongly fancied I was
poor So I was poor.
Now I am home and Thy consciousness Has
made me wealthy, made me rich. I am success, I am rich Thou
art my Treasure, I am rich, I am rich.
Thou art everything, Thou
art everything Thou art mine
I have everything, I have
everything
I am wealthy, I am rich
I have everything, I have
everything I possess all and everything
Even as Thou dost, even
as Thou dost
I possess everything,
I possess everything. Thou art my wealth
I have everything.
Spiritual success consists
in contacting Cosmic Consciousness consciously, and in maintaining your peace and poise no matter what
irremediable events of
life, like death of friends or other bereavement, come to you. In case of the separation of one
of
your dear ones by the law
of Nature, you should not sorrow, but should rather thank God that He gave you the great privilege of tending
and befriending and
keeping in your charge one of His dear ones. Spiritual success comes by understanding the mystery of all the events
of life, and by looking upon all things cheerfully and courageously, with the realization that
everything is marching
towards the highest goal. Ignorance should be healed by knowledge.
(For Healing the Soul's
Ignorance)
Thou art knowledge
And Thou dost know
The cause and end of all
things. I am Thy child
I want to know Life's
true mystery Life's true joyous duty
Thy knowledge in me shall
show All things that Thou dost know That Thou dost know.
In healing, as we have
previously said, imagination, will, faith, reason and feeling all stimulate
the disturbed Life
Energy, which can actually internally electrify the diseased body cells and restore them to their original healthy
condition.Hence
those that want to scientifically heal ought
to know the laws of visualizing
and controlling this Life Energy. In healing others, one has to
have control over his Life
Energy and project a current into his patient's body which stimulates and
harmonizes the disturbed
Life Energy of the
patient by the power of
will or imagination. Heal
ing cannot be done by chance-the
great healers can watch the actual psycho-physical laws of nature operating in the body of patient during the process of curing.
Concentrate with closed
eyes first on the medulla, then feel the
power of vision in the eyes flowing through
the optical nerves into the retina. Concentrate on the retina. Dilate
eyes and relax.
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I am brave, I am strong.
Perfume of success thought Blows in me,
blows in me. I am cool, I am calm I
am sweet, I am kind I am love, I am sympathy
I am charming and magnetic
I am pleased with all
I wipe the tears and fears
of all I have no enemy
Though some think they are
so. I am the friend of all. I have no habits, In eating, dressing, behaving I am free, I am free.
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I command Thee, 0 Attention
To come and practise concentration
On things I do, on works I do. I
can do everything
When so I think, when so
I think.
In church or temple, prayer mood
My vagrant thoughts against
me stood And held my mind from reaching Thee And held my mind from
reaching Thee Teach
me to own again, 0 own again My matter-sold mind and brain That I may give them to Thee In prayer and ecstasy In meditation and reverie. I shall worship Thee In meditation
In the mountain breast and
seclusion. I shall feel Thy energy Flowing thru my hands in activity Lest I lose Thee
I shall find Thee in activity.
In the peaceful lake of
peace
In the hour of wisdom's dawn. The
light of Thine O shines through mine
Through past, present and
future time I command you
My eyes two
Be one and single Be one and single
To see all and know all
To make my body shine
To make my mind shine To make my soul shine.
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Turn the eyeballs upward,
then downward, then to the left, then to the right. Then rotate them from left to right, and right to
left. Fix the attention
of the eyes on the spot in the middle of the forehead, thinking that the Life Energy flows into and transforms both eyes into
two searchlights.
This exercise is also beneficial physically for the eyes.
I bid you
0 rays of blue
To glide through my optic
nerves And show me true, and show me true
'His Light is there
His Light is there. Through
my eyes Thou dost
peep Thou dost peep.
They are whole, they are
perfect.
*One above and two below
Eyes three, eyes three
Through you unseen, what
light doth flee Through you unseen, what light doth flee. Lotus eyes, weep no more Weep no more
The storms thy petals hurt
no more. Come quick and glide like swans In the blithesome water of Bliss
"Spiritual eye.
Before retiring at night,
wipe hands, feet, armpits, navel, face, medulla and all body openings with a wet towel. Do this regularly.
During bodily excitement,
draw a deep breath and exhale deeply. Repeat 6 to 15 times and then quickly
go amidst crowds of people or your
superiors.
Through pollen and stamen
Thou dost create the
flowers pure Through my parents pure My body Thou didst bring Even as Thou art the creator f
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Of all good things So
are we.
Teach us to create
In sacredness, in holiness
Noble ideas or noble souls <In holiness
As need be, as need be.
Thou art sexless
We are sexless, we are sexless. Thou
didst create us in purity. Teach us to create in sacredness Noble thoughts or children Wrought in Thy image.
The body is like a garden overflowing with charming
fruits of the senses, of sound, sight, taste,
smell and touch. The divinity in man warns him
against over-indulgence and immoderation in the use of any of these sense-fruits,
but especially against the wrong use of the
apple of sex-force, situated in the
center of this bodily Garden of Eden.
By allowing the serpent of evil curiosity and the Eve or weak feminine nature in him to tempt him to transgress the law of regulated and
non-identified sense experience, man is driven from his perfect garden of Bliss Consciousness and loses the joy of self-control. The unnatural awakening of sex consciousness
brings in the fig
6o
leaf or sin consciousness of shame. Pareents de
siring children should
be particularly careful of confining their attention to the creative end and to ignore the means to that end. The
charm of sex communion
should not be used by man for its
own sake.
1. Good habits are your
best helpers; preserve their force by
stimulating them with good actions.
2. Bad habits are your worst enemies; against your will they make you do things which hurt you
most. They
are detrimental to your physical, social,
mental, moral and spiritual happiness. Starve
bad habits by refusing to give them any further food of bad actions.
3. True freedom consists
in doing things, i.e., eating, reading,
helping, etc., in accordance to right judgment and choice of will; not in being compelled by habits.
Eat what you should eat
and not necessarily what you are used to. Do what you ought, not what your habits dictate.
4. Good and bad habits both
take some time to acquire force. Powerful bad habits can be displaced by opposite good habits if
the latter are. patiently
cultured.
6z
s. First crowd out all bad habits by good habits in everything, then culture the consciousness of
being free from all habits in eating, working, etc.
Thou art in law
Thou art above all laws
I am Thy child, I love Thy
law Above all laws
am I Even as Thou
art Above all laws
am I Oh ye brave good soldier habits Drive away the dark, dark habits Drive away the dark, dark
habits. I am free,
I am free I have no habits, I have no
habits
I will do what is right,
I'11 do what's right Uncommanded by habits'
might I am free, I am free
I have no habits, I have
no habits.
Bend down while holding
the arms of a chair. Exhale breath completely
and cave in the stomach and abdomen as far as possible (as near the backbone
as possible). Then throw them out (bulging them)
while inhaling. Repeat 12 times.
This exercise
helps the peristaltic action of the stomach and removes its ailments.
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While the superiority of
mental over physical cure is undeniable, nevertheless these few physical exercises are included in this
book for the benefit of
those who desire to combine both methods.
With eyes closed clinch
the upper and lower left teeth together, then the upper and lower right teeth together, then the front upper
and lower teeth together.
Then clinch the entire set of upper and lower teeth. Hold each state for one or two minutes, concentrating on the "clinching
teeth sensation"-thinking
the healing energy is vitalizing all the roots of the teeth and is removing all inharmonious conditions.
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