Delight
1st April 2012, 02:31
I am reading a book that I downloaded to my Kindle from Project Gutenberg. This is a new way for me to obtain free books. http://www.gutenberg.org
I bought my Kindle used on Ebay. It is really cool to have such a great way to read books. I was amazed by how well I like it. Now I can read my collected pdfs on my Kindle and convert books by a program called calibre. It's all just by donation or free. Wonderful technology via internet.
http://calibre-ebook.com/download
Raja yoga is generally based on directing the life force to bring the mind and emotions into balance.
William Walker Atkinson has been called one of the greatest of the New Thought writers. He is probably one of the authors of the Kybalion (said to be written by three initiates).
At this time in history, it is really valuable to become firm in resolve that we are each capable of taking responsibility to know not intellectually but wholey "Who we are". Who we are is grand huge and infinite and it is not the body, mind and emotions (yet encompasses them). Knowing SELF changes everything and it is not enough to "think" about it but live from it and use our mind and emotons as the incredible tools they are capable to be.
I felt a need to know and I am claiming my seeking status.
To me this individual crisis of need to know is driving the emergence of a new Paradigm. I personally feel that the chaos and the angst that is apparent around us is not "bad" but a situation we have created to spur our further evolution. If we were satisfied by what is, we'd never seek what "could be".
The mind is really valuable to use and nothing is wrong with our having Ego and every part of our Selves. I am sooo loving this book. Hope this book might be of value to others...
A SERIES OF LESSONS
IN RAJA YOGA
By YOGI RAMACHARAKA (pen name for William Walker Atkinson)
Author of "Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism"
"Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy, etc."; "Hatha Yoga"; "Psychic
Healing"; "Science of Breath." etc.
1906
"When the soul sees itself as a Center surrounded by its circumference—when the Sun knows that it is a Sun, surrounded by its whirling planets-then is it ready for the Wisdom and Power of the Masters."
THE FIRST LESSON.
THE "I."
"In India, the Candidates for Initiation into the science of "Raja Yoga," when they apply to the Yogi Masters for instruction, are given a series of lessons designed to enlighten them regarding the nature of the Real Self, and to instruct them in the secret knowledge whereby they may develop the consciousness and realization of the real "I" within them. They are shown how they may cast aside the erroneous or imperfect knowledge regarding their real identity.
Until the Candidate masters this instruction, or at least until the truth becomes fixed in his consciousness, further instruction is denied him, for it is held that until he has awakened to a conscious realization of his Actual Identity, he is not able to understand the source of his power, and, moreover, is not able to feel within him the power of the Will, which power underlies the entire teachings of "Raja Yoga."
The Yogi Masters are hot satisfied if the Candidate forms merely a clear intellectual conception of this Actual Identity, but they insist that he must feel the truth of the same—must become aware of the Real Self—must enter into a consciousness in which the realization becomes a part of his everyday self—in which the realizing consciousness becomes the prevailing idea in his mind, around which his entire thoughts and actions revolve.
To some Candidates, this realization comes like a lightning flash the moment the attention is directed toward it, while in other cases the Candidates find it necessary to follow a rigorous course of training before they acquire the realization in consciousness."
(link to html of book)
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13656/pg13656.html
I bought my Kindle used on Ebay. It is really cool to have such a great way to read books. I was amazed by how well I like it. Now I can read my collected pdfs on my Kindle and convert books by a program called calibre. It's all just by donation or free. Wonderful technology via internet.
http://calibre-ebook.com/download
Raja yoga is generally based on directing the life force to bring the mind and emotions into balance.
William Walker Atkinson has been called one of the greatest of the New Thought writers. He is probably one of the authors of the Kybalion (said to be written by three initiates).
At this time in history, it is really valuable to become firm in resolve that we are each capable of taking responsibility to know not intellectually but wholey "Who we are". Who we are is grand huge and infinite and it is not the body, mind and emotions (yet encompasses them). Knowing SELF changes everything and it is not enough to "think" about it but live from it and use our mind and emotons as the incredible tools they are capable to be.
I felt a need to know and I am claiming my seeking status.
To me this individual crisis of need to know is driving the emergence of a new Paradigm. I personally feel that the chaos and the angst that is apparent around us is not "bad" but a situation we have created to spur our further evolution. If we were satisfied by what is, we'd never seek what "could be".
The mind is really valuable to use and nothing is wrong with our having Ego and every part of our Selves. I am sooo loving this book. Hope this book might be of value to others...
A SERIES OF LESSONS
IN RAJA YOGA
By YOGI RAMACHARAKA (pen name for William Walker Atkinson)
Author of "Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism"
"Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy, etc."; "Hatha Yoga"; "Psychic
Healing"; "Science of Breath." etc.
1906
"When the soul sees itself as a Center surrounded by its circumference—when the Sun knows that it is a Sun, surrounded by its whirling planets-then is it ready for the Wisdom and Power of the Masters."
THE FIRST LESSON.
THE "I."
"In India, the Candidates for Initiation into the science of "Raja Yoga," when they apply to the Yogi Masters for instruction, are given a series of lessons designed to enlighten them regarding the nature of the Real Self, and to instruct them in the secret knowledge whereby they may develop the consciousness and realization of the real "I" within them. They are shown how they may cast aside the erroneous or imperfect knowledge regarding their real identity.
Until the Candidate masters this instruction, or at least until the truth becomes fixed in his consciousness, further instruction is denied him, for it is held that until he has awakened to a conscious realization of his Actual Identity, he is not able to understand the source of his power, and, moreover, is not able to feel within him the power of the Will, which power underlies the entire teachings of "Raja Yoga."
The Yogi Masters are hot satisfied if the Candidate forms merely a clear intellectual conception of this Actual Identity, but they insist that he must feel the truth of the same—must become aware of the Real Self—must enter into a consciousness in which the realization becomes a part of his everyday self—in which the realizing consciousness becomes the prevailing idea in his mind, around which his entire thoughts and actions revolve.
To some Candidates, this realization comes like a lightning flash the moment the attention is directed toward it, while in other cases the Candidates find it necessary to follow a rigorous course of training before they acquire the realization in consciousness."
(link to html of book)
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13656/pg13656.html