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THE YOGI CONCEPTION OF LIFE - Part 1
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IF we study the action of mind upon mind, of mind over matter, of mind over the human body, we may realize how "each man is a power in himself"-to use Mr. Eandall's phrase in his beautiful book on psychology.
Life is demonstrative: it speaks with a million, million tongues. Life stands for Light and Love. Con- templation of Death, which is really a change, will not lead to Happiness. All-stagnation is death. Humanity is a moving mass, and this is true of it as regards single units as well as of the collective whole. Stop we cannot. "We must go forwards, which is "God-wards" or there is the backward line of progress -which is IGNORANCE. Spasms of activity catch hold of us and push us onward and, similarly, fear, weakness and worry, the triple weapons of our Old Friend, the Devil, catch us in their deadly grip and "crib, cabin and confine" us. We all are preparing to live, day in and day out. Is it not so? The body ages; the soul is ever on the alert. We all are trying to grasp life in its proper perspective, to get a clear view of the goal ahead. Some say "I am for enjoying life;" some say, "It is a bad mixture of heaven and hell, for the most part, hell;" others stand on neutral ground and say, "Let us make the best of a bad bargain. Since we are here, it is no use grumbling. This world is for our education." Eight. Move we must. It may be progress forward or progress backwards. Life is a series of awakenings. Ideas dawn upon the mind from time to time, are caught up by brain and body and find physical expression as acts. Our outward life with its environment is fitted to our inward development. Wealth, position, fame, power,-all these are the simple expressions of individual character. This is not a platitude. Look and see for yourself. It is quite necessary that we should pass through certain experiences, that we rise from ideal to ideal. We create our own fate. Our sufferings, our joys, are so many projections from ourselves. We alone are responsible for them. Like the silkworm we build a cocoon around the soul and then feeling "Cramped," we set to loosening the bonds. Enjoyment is not, ought not to be the goal of life. Sense-enjoyments end in satiety and exhaustion. Power and self, riches and all that riches mean, may tie us down to a narrow sphere. But in the long run we do come to know that happiness is not in them. This is a tremendous truth, yet God mercifully screens it from us till we are prepared to receive it.
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