Samadhi

THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE FUTURE

By:

Mouni Sadhu

Shankaracharya VIVEKA CHUDAMANI

Verse 37: "I salute you, O Lord, out of compassion, Oh friend of those who bow before you. I have fallen into the ocean of birth and rebirth. Rescue me with your unerring ragweed sends rain on the sincerity and mercy. "

Verse 38: "Protect the death that is heated by a roaring fire and difficult to extinguish wild life changing, which is pushed and buffeted by gusts of misfortune, since I have no other refuge."

LUIS Giles, editor

San Raimundo, 58

MADRID-20

Original English Title Samadhi

© George Allen & Unwin Publishers Ltd.

First Edition 1962

Second Printing 1971

© For the Spanish language, Luis Carcamo, editor First Edition 1980

In Manuel Algora Corbi

ISBN: 84-85.316-40-1

Legal Deposit: M.20.111-1980

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DEDICATION

"In the Light that enlightens every man coming to the world."

The verses inserted at the beginning of each chapter are taken from Viveka Chudamani of Sri Shankaracharya (Cimera Jewel of Wisdom) translated by Mohini M. Chatterji, 1898.

CONTENTS

PART I: PRELIMINARY

Chapter I: Definition and objectives ......................................... Samādhi ....

Chapter II: Development of the subtle senses and super-consciousness in man

Chapter III: Theories about the higher worlds hidden

Chapter IV: Different ways to wrap the seat of consciousness in man Chapter V: Modern psychology and methods

Chapter VI: The two-way there before us..

Chapter VII: What is it that brings ecstasy?

PART II: THE THRESHOLD AND STARTED

Chapter VIII: actions and intentions Justice

Chapter IX: The construction of inner sanctum

Chapter X: The World and I

Chapter XI: The internal force in us ........................................

Chapter XII: The Great Law of Sacrifice

Chapter XIII: The law of transformation

Chapter XIV: The law of balance in consciousness ........................................ ...............................................

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PART III: ON THE ROAD

Chapter XV: internal and external obstacles to the construction............................

Chapter XVI: Losses and subsidence

Chapter XVII: The motivating power of hope ......................................... ..............................................

Chapter XVIII: Hostile forces on the path .......................................... .................................................. ....

IX Chapter X: The Rising Sun Samādhi

Chapter XX: Discovery and resurrection of man's eternal principle ....................................... ...

Chapter XXI: The latest warnings on the path ......................................... ..........................................

PART IV: TOWARDS

Chapter XII: In the full light orb

Bibliography

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PART I

PRELIMINARY

CHAPTER I - DEFINITION AND OBJECTIVES Samadhi

Verse 6: "You can study the scriptures, to propitiate the gods (to sacrifice), religious ceremonies or offer devotion to the gods, and yet not attain salvation in succession even a hundred Brahma-yugas except for the knowledge of the union with the spirit. "

In the second half of the twentieth century, the question of the higher aspects of human consciousness, often called simply Supraconsciousness, it's becoming increasingly urgent for people deep thinker. Many works have appeared on the subject, and from its popularity can be judged the interest connected with it.

But it is not easy to find a practical manual that will lead to clear and scientific conceptions about the different forms of Supraconsciousness, which in the East is called Samadhi. It is even more difficult to find authors who do not write merely compilations of classics Indians started, but speaking from his own experience firsthand. Only this experience can become a living truth for students eager and sincere, who feel a strong desire to reach the heights, which can be found on many treaties unmatched in Eastern philosophical literature such as the Vedas, the Upanishads, the works Shankaracharya, and finally the Great Ashtavakra Rishi Modern India - Ramana Maharshi.

For a man who broods, there is no doubt that the consciousness of human beings is subject to a constant evolution. Nobody will deny that even two hundred years ago the man I was much more primitive than in this twentieth century, not to mention prehistoric races and tribes belonging, say, to the Stone Age, and so on.

Despite the fact that humanity is going through the evolution of an inner treasure, this is the self-consciousness does not follow from this that all are progressing at the same speed. In this matter there is, and never has been, an equality. The trails were always shown by the more advanced children of men, and the rest followed, more or less slowly. There is no doubt that if a Socrates or Pythagoras were living in our own time, would also be recognized as wise and eminent men, at least for those whose internal criterion is sufficiently advanced.

But this does not mean that all people who lived in the time of Socrates would find a similar recognition and respect because of their qualities, which, for us, may well seem somewhat limited and primitive.

And the same applies to our own time: A few people mature enough to find new paths, for example, which form the subject of this book, and that is the "new" forms of consciousness in us. The masses still are not interested in them, preferring to use the more material aspects of civilization, such as the latest in technical progress, with all inventions and gadgets companions.

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This book, like the previous ones, was not written in order to expose as teaching some "new" theories. There are enough in existence, which, if followed, lead the aspirant to the individual knowledge of the Truth and of his being (and any).

Here you will find advice on how to proceed on the path, and how to get first-hand experience that, until now, for the overwhelming majority of humans, is still only a hazy image of unreality.

My goal here is not to provide additional mental knowledge, but to help in the development of higher consciousness, one that reveals the ultimate Truth, which is the ultimate goal of all.

I mentioned a "new" type of consciousness, a wider and brighter in two previous books, which form the first and second parts of my trilogy mystical, which are respectively: In Days of Great Peace and Concentration. An extensive study of both of these books is necessary before one can try to start with the present work, which is the highlight for its two predecessors.

In Days of Great Peace is the experiences that lead to the expansion of consciousness, while Concentration gives explanations and techniques necessary for the first step, ie, the domain of the mind itself.

This book speaks of the ultimate objective, the attainment of Samadhi Supraconsciousness-the-and the roads leading to it.

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As a primary definition, according to the Eastern and Western occult tradition, we have to make a strict distinction between two kinds of terms:

1. Visions suprasensuales, Ecstasy, Apparitions, Magical Evocations, Sixth Sense and mesmeric and Spiritualist Phenomena, briefly, all those things we know from popular books on occult subjects, and;

Two. The True Supraconsciousness independent of all the visions and other internal or external conditions that can be found in man.

This distinction between terms is an axiom, given to us by those who know.

These two kinds of terms 1) and 2) be well understood when we analyze correctly what are truly all these visions and ecstasies. This book will both as evidence and authority paramount to Eastern spiritual philosophy, the claims of the last Grand Rishi from India, Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950).

This is because he was the most notable contemporary exponent of Indian philosophical thought, and because he lived in our own period and was able to adapt, explain and deepen that thought for us. Since there is already substantial literature on this spiritual giant, I refrain from giving many particulars about his biography and teachings, since both can be easily found in other books on Sri Maharshi (see also In Days of Great Peace).

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So we will call the above extensions of perception (visions, ecstasies, trances, clairvoyance, clairaudience, mediumship, and so on), just the deepening and development of man's senses different from the physical, but are still only a different kind of activity of these senses. That's what the Maharshi taught himself. Consequently we see that in this case has not been changed any principle only perceptions scale has become broader. In other words, it still remains the old binary: Self and Not-Self. In occult philosophy, unsolved binaries are known as unproductive conceptions, that keep us in the old basic ignorance of the ultimate Truth of Being

Therefore, we can not have any hope in this dualistic condition. No matter how seemingly sublime and beautiful can be to us the extent of our means of knowledge, when they go out, that is, toward the so-called No-I will always remain the relativity intact, as the unpleasant and bitter fish spoon , hidden at the bottom of a barrel of pure honey, which spoils the content, because we inevitably reach. Therefore, in relativity we step into different worlds (not just physical, of course, but also in those more subtle matter, which we'll discuss at length in Chapter III), nothing can be found that is finally this is an absolute and not relative consciousness, which alone can be defined as true "Supraconsciousness".

I hope this sufficiently explain the first class of terms given above in 1). At the same time, the latter now becomes justified and understandable, and with it the whole conception of Samadhi. We will reject the use of this expression for all phenomena of 1), which some call the exponents insufficiently trained "Samādhi lower classes." From our point of view there is only one Samādhi, no relation to the manifested worlds, and therefore is independent, above and beyond all time and space, and the ultimate Reality, absolute and unchanging, our final inheritance and eternal rest .

It may be advisable here two important assertions narrow Maharshi, who, in his typically concise and straightforward way, says:

a) Only Samādhi can reveal the truth.

b) In the Samadhi only is the feeling of I-I, no thought.

The first assertion a) does not need any further clarification now we have discussed the first class of terms, but the second statement b) is clearly an effort to express in the language and terminology of the mind, it really can not be interpreted with no word. Even under such difficulty this saying of the Sage Maharshi has a highly instructive and practical nature, it is a direct response to the question:

"What is what is in the Samadhi, when a man is in that state of consciousness?"

Obviously it is basic and glorious Oneness with no other duality. Only the Self, or I that do not support neither words nor thoughts. Incidentally, that I am who I am is a definition of the Supreme Being (Essence), as given us in the Old Testament. The Maharshi stressed this fact more than once.

The goal to be achieved through the attainment of Samadhi is to enter a state of pure consciousness, in which there is neither subject nor object. No need to point out that such a state is beyond all incarnations, this is life in ways; really transcends all bodies, limitations and conditions, in which there is neither subject nor object, as mentioned previously. He admits it is not easy even to imagine such

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heights through our mental efforts, but this is natural and logical. In the Samadhi the mind is left far below, as an instrument of consciousness, and with it come off all the feelings and thoughts, which are absent in this sublime state.

All changes also stop.

Peace is only that can not be disturbed by anything. This is the peace that passes all human understanding (mind). And yet, even now, there are souls on this earth who have reached that peace, and others who are still struggling to catch up. They fully understand the meaning of this chapter.

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CHAPTER II - DEVELOPMENT AND SUBTLE SENSES

THE SUPRACONSCIOUSNESS IN MAN

Verse 8: "Therefore the wise man fighting for his salvation, having given up his desire for the enjoyment of external objects, and uses a truly great teacher and accept his teaching with unshakable soul."

In its relations with the outside world, a very current uses only his five physical senses, because their world does not extend beyond the limits of matter. It seems to him that is the only natural way of life and understandable. When it hits, say, your foot against a stone, it is he who has beaten, and who suffers accordingly. A voracious meal and a drink, for example, bring you just enjoy yourself. The praise given to its visible form, and criticism, both necessarily affect what a man believes that he is. Some of my readers this point they may seem exaggerated, but please, do a practical test with yourself.

Try to retain a complete serenity of mind to be insulted, when you speak of considerable material damage or a dangerous disease that is developing in your body. If you can do it, it will be proof that there is something in you that is above consciousness "normal." Comprobad this.

Imagine that you turn a consultation with a specialist, because you have persistent pain somewhere in your body. The do not give any definite diagnosis of his evil, but spoke of the need for further testing, and others. The next day you can see the anguish on the face of your acquaintances, your wife or husband, who learned of your visit and have been informed of their results by the doctor.

So you recognize the truth in their anxious expressions, and finally know for yourselves that your days and months are numbered. Do not you would be deeply impressed, grieving, perhaps desperate, you are so tightly bound to this physical plane? But someone may say: "Apart from the physical consciousness also are living in a world of emotions, feelings and thoughts, which do not affect us unless purely material circumstances. Well, yes, but unfortunately, even these are closely connected with physical events of your daily life, and can possibly be completely separate from them.

In uncontrolled instinctive belief that we are our bodies, lies the cause of our bondage to the physical world. Well then we can not detach ourselves and look at our body as an object, something other than "ourselves." One day we come into contact with people who believe in some senses, abilities, and worlds more "subtle" than that experienced at the physical level only. Occultists, spiritualists, different and strange sects, and others, attempt to extend the limits of their knowledge beyond the dense matter subject to the five senses. They talk about other kinds of vibrations, accessible to those who have developed the so-called "sixth sense", and others.

There is some truth concerning all this. With exercise, diet, lifestyle, breath control and special search may extend the scope of our perceptions (see Concentration Parts I and II) and experience many of the theoretical claims made in occult books.

Clairvoyance, clairaudience, and visions that come from the "other world" not necessarily inaccessible fantasies and experiences, despite its exuberance and uncertainty of their origin. Often our own imagination and autosuggestion play major roles in our 'experiences on the other side. " Only highly

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educated occultists who have great strength and have had extensive practice in your search, along with the resulting knowledge can be taken into consideration. Even then, mistakes can happen amazing. The worlds suprasensuales visions are too individual and confusing to be confirmed as infallible. That is the reason why the hidden masters put so much emphasis on proper training and higher astral senses in his pupils, teaching them to see things as they do.

About forty years ago (I write this in 1960), the leaders of a global society, in his books and lectures, proclaimed the coming of a new messiah, who claimed to have prepared themselves for that sublime role. They talked about their research astral unmistakably showing the person the new instructor and high spiritual powers. In some countries, people began to deify him beforehand, even vast building stadiums for his preaching.

And the ending? The messiah flatly repudiated his role and left the entire organization, thereby creating confusion and bitter disappointment. The prophecies and visions were wrong.

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Returning to developing methods of occult powers in man (called siddhis in the East), just limit myself to a brief enumeration, since the goal of this work is to study Supraconsciousness, and lower class development, called "psychic".

The mainstream media are conducive to mental concentration domain of one's own mind and its processes breathing exercises that help you master the prana, or vital energy, subtle, and enabling us to act on the astral plane; fasts that strengthen our strength will and purify the body, the drug, which is banned in schools "white", chants and mantras, which are another form of concentration, connected with the use of the power inherent in the sounds, and many other means, that not openly known, and therefore may not be mentioned.

These media can help in developing some ways subtle, somewhat ahead of the present human race, and thus allow peer into other worlds. But does this mean achieving a higher consciousness, to say nothing of the Supraconsciousness, this is the Samadhi? Then the man still remains essentially the same. If he was selfish before, say, their pursuit of astral vision, it will be even later, but you can see elementary human ghosts and other details of the world normally hidden from human perception.

Such a man can still be easily frightened physical death, which is to say that physical existence prefer any other way of life.

No, the way to Supraconsciousness clearly falls into that direction. In support of this, I will mention only that the Maharshi was referring to all occult phenomena, of which we spoke above, as if the game's mind of the man who has no objective reality. Under the term of Mind, Wise supraphysical understand all manifestations, including siddhis (occult powers).

The Christian saints also denied any importance to similar phenomena (see Concentration, Part II).

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Moreover Samādhi development, as discussed in the following chapters, changes the whole consciousness of a man, his point of view, their interests, efforts and goals. Mata egocentric attitude, and shows physical life as it really is, with all its relativity and imperfections. Away the specter of death, which is inseparable from the existence of a body. Then the man does not consider himself as a combination of mind and theoretical "body and soul", of course, having no real knowledge of the past, but only operate with borrowed theories.

No, in the pursuit of Absolute Consciousness (in the Samadhi) there is no room for any relativity or imperfections. The same term (Samadhi) presupposes overcome all things subject to time and space. Worth thinking more deeply about this last sentence, if we form a correct mental conception Supraconsciousness. There is nothing more to get once you reach the fourth estate (see Concentration, Part II, Chapter XIII).

Is this possible? I have my own personal test it. When I saw the teacher knew it was the living example of true Attainment, and its presence could never arise a question

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about the possibility of this Achievement. This was certainly independent of all books and theories on the subject.

In our internal development in the direction of Supraconsciousness profits us nothing except our own distinctive experience. For only then we know, and not just repeat some words coming from outside, which are then dead letters and little else.

My old friend, the late Swami Siddheswarananda of Paris, who spent nearly twenty years in that city, and was head of the Ramakrishna Mission in France, once said:

"In our spiritual work (which is paramount in the effort to achieve true Supraconsciousness) should not accept any statement, heard or heard, without an internal examination. You need a preliminary examination in our consciousness, a process which triggers intellectual intuition in us. One should not merely repeat: Ramakrishna said this, Maharshi said this, and the Swami something else. We should not constantly cite an authority, which may serve merely as a refuge. It is a major obstacle to any progress on that one is looking for just such imaginary refuge, instead of working hard yourself. The instruction must come from within ourselves, it is our own Atman, awakened by our own efforts and pain. Words, talks of a Swami, reading a text of the teachings of Ramakrishna, and others can only be external means to produce an internal survey. This analysis within oneself is absolutely necessary. A reading of the Gita or the Upanishads is just an opportunity for awakening in us spiritual intelligence (Buddhi). We should reach the state of being dissatisfied, because if we rest and remain satisfied no progress will not be possible. (Translated from French.)

This quote can show the attitude of those who reached the Samadhi for themselves and who know from experience.

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CHAPTER III - THEORIES ON HIDDEN WORLDS TOP

Verse 11: "The actions are for the purification of the heart to achieve real substance. The substance can be achieved by correct discrimination, but not for any amount of Karma. "

In order to clarify as much as possible, the difficult problem concerning the Samadhi and their achievement, we must be familiar with the theories of the higher worlds (ie, less material), which is capable of running our consciousness under special conditions. In our present study we can not avoid facing nonmaterial powers affecting our normal consciousness (that is, our everyday consciousness).

These are: our feelings and emotions (called astral processes) and thoughts (called mental processes). We can not see them but they exist and function. The common man, who has no power of discrimination that would allow self-analysis, combines it all together in form and physical life. We can not be satisfied with such simplicity, since it does not allow us to proceed further in our study.

Consequently, it is assumed, as a working theory acceptable, that a demonstration must have at least two elements: the acting force, and the environment or display on or over which that force is manifested. There is no doubt that our emotions and thoughts are forces, which often appear as powerful factors in our lives. They can even kill or resurrect. So there should be some kind of suitable material in which these universal forces can act.

Thus arose the concept hidden astral planes or worlds (feelings and emotions) and mind (thoughts and ideas). They are found in the most ancient records of occultism, taking us back to the days of the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, Hindus, Persians and the Greeks, who borrowed these ideas from the East.

Describe here briefly both of these worlds, invisible to the physical eye. As can be seen by previous comments, the plane (world) Astral penetrates the physical. This is possible because the astral atoms are infinitely more subtle and smaller than physical. Official science tells us that an atom is like a miniature solar system, in which the planets. (Electron-satellites) traveling at great speed around the central body (core), which is like the sun. But never touch and the distances between them are even larger (relatively) than there is between the sun and its satellites, like the Earth and others.

It is because of the distances between elements infinitely large atoms and also between atoms belonging to the physical world that other worlds endowed with different degrees of density in the substance can be easily "embedded" inside it.

The word "embedded" is certainly inadequate, as is also the design of the next dimension (in this case four), but for simplicity we can accept this definition.

In any case, the idea does not contradict the actual conditions for the different kinds of matter belonging to different planes of existence. Thus the astral (emotional) 1) interpenetrating, but 2) also transcends the physical plane in three dimensions, since it has the fourth dimension, related to the third as the third it is with the second. If we grasp this idea, the astral world phenomena find a logical explanation. It

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should be added that the reader should not follow the theories of thinkers-mathematical turn of the century, which assumed that the fourth coordinate (imaginary to our minds, and added to the three coordinates used officially in trigonometry) is just that of time!

It is because, although there is still time on the higher planes, on them has a very different meaning, and can not be compared completely with Earth time. St. Peter the Apostle, in his Second Epistle, tells the amazing fact that "... one day with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. "

This is an interesting and successful attempt to describe in human language (that of the three dimensions) the conditions in the upper worlds. In astro-mental worlds

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(Ie materials yet), the clichés of the three branches of our time (ie past, present and future) have no separate meaning. A deep reflection on the future could give you an accurate and realistic concept of the "upper class time" that exists in the higher worlds, less dense.

Now you can understand why, for example, in our dreams, we can live a long period of experience, apparently extended over years, but in fact we only take a few minutes of time "earthly". These cases are too well known, and many of my readers have certainly experienced this phenomenon personally, apart from the numerous descriptions can be found in many psychological and occult books, so there is no need to cite many examples. Waking during the night one notes the time, falls asleep and has a dream again showing several years of one's life, so that the details are recorded perfectly in memory of the dreamer. However, a glance at the clock which is next to the bed shows that sleep lasted only a few minutes, usually less than a quarter of an hour.

In dreams apparently visited distant countries, sometimes thousands of miles away, and these trips "in dreams" often return with very clear memories recorded in brain memory. Occultists call these experiences "astral travel." Again, on the astral plane, as we can see, the media are much more effective from the point of view of speed, as in the physical world of three planes. I know there are many people, who denies any value to the experiences just described, as well as the existence of any worlds 'higher'.

Unfortunately, these people can not make, or offer any logical and reasonable theory to explain the phenomena of inner life to those who have been faced with these phenomena. But the same people also deny anything we say here about higher states of consciousness, leading to Samadhi, Samadhi and the same. Naturally I have nothing to say to men who are unable to offer anything better than rigid denials. But the title of this chapter is clear: speaking on the occult theories offered in order to explain phenomena that can not otherwise be explained. No scientist ever saw an atom, to say nothing of its components infinitesimal. And yet, the atomic theory works and is accepted in the form of hundreds of thousands of victims in two cities annihilated fifteen years ago, by the actual poisoning of the atmosphere by nuclear tests, to give an appetizer anticipated future developments .

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And the same goes for the approaches to the Samadhi. We have to be reasonable and functional explanations along the trails leading to the final target, which transcends all worlds and matter, the physical (well known to us, we believe) and all theoretical, on teaching the occult.

In short, the first world "higher" above the physical is the emotions and feelings, and is called the astral. When we have to experience these two (ie, emotions and feelings), the subtle matter of the astral plane begins to vibrate in tune with the motivating force that provides the impetus. In our case (I'm talking here about human activities in the astral world) this force shapes and forms in the astral currents that correspond to the ideas created by men themselves, and his name is called willpower. Here probably be protests from some of my readers. "I never wanted that certain feelings arise in me", can they say. "The feelings and emotions that followed were painful and undesirable. And yet, despite all that, I, for my own detriment. That's for sure. "

At first glance there may be some reason for such an attitude, but look better and deeper, and then we'll see something different. The astral world is full of vortices and currents of all kinds, like the ocean is full of fish, animals, plants and streams. When we are fishing, we do not know exactly which fish usually'll take at a given time. But we make a definite effort to catch something and this is the corresponding element in our emotions. When water fisherman catches something she's not, throw back to the unwanted

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inhabitant of the ocean and no one cares more about him, transferring his attention to other things you prefer. In both cases acts! And this means willpower into action.

Our friends who caught unwanted emotions, apparently acted differently. No vibrations reject that approach of emotions they dislike, as they say, but grant them full attention, allowing them to occupy all his consciousness. If so, are not themselves acting element, and perhaps not exercise willpower, although unconsciously? If I put my finger in the fire intentionally or by accident, the result is the same: a certain finger burn, pain and other consequences.

Will power is not merely a clear and aware character. Often the reality may be the opposite. However, the essence remains the same, and that's what I infer from the simple examples just given.

A man conscious, that is, one that does not act impulsively, but everything weighs accepts and rejects, is the best equipped to do real experiments in astral matter. Possessing the vital capacity, which is concentration or one-pointedness in his conscience, a man would, of their own volition, different emotions, destroying as desired, and thus proving to himself what was said in the simile of the fisherman and his capture.

When a man becomes an occult-which means one who practices the occult theories about himself-will then know infinitely more about the astral plane. In my previous books I provided numerous details concerning the activities accessible to the man on the astral plane, so there is no reason to repeat them again. Therefore, I will pass directly to the climax of astral activities of man-its externalization and

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conscious intentional neglect of the physical body and subsequent operation in the astral vehicle, often called the "astrosoma" among occultists. This word, which is of Greek origin, usually denotes what is known as the "astral body." This experiment, which is also a significant achievement for all occult, is a test of the theory of astral world and life, like a nuclear explosion is proof and justification of the atomic theory.

But all the internal processes of our consciousness are mainly subjective, and can not be tested by others, at least not for those who have not had similar experiences, in other words, they do not know as much as us.

This should be recognized and performed strongly, if we successfully pass a further discussion of the topic.

The externalization of astrosoma means simply that man is able to forget the lower world, that is, the physical surroundings, and function consciously in the next higher-the astral plane. At the present level of development, it is assumed, in general, we can not transfer us to the astral, it has its own population, which evolves on that plane, as we do in the physical. From this we can see that our true goal, the attainment of Samadhi, not identical with astral travel. Moreover, the best exponents of spiritual wisdom (very advanced Christian saints, yogis and especially eastern-jivanmuktas Perfect Men or Great Rishis) advise us not even attempt these trails doubtful glimpse into worlds that are not supposed to have to live while we are still in the physical body (see Concentration, Parts II and IV). Such activities do not help us reach the Samadhi, but rather distract our attention and make our path thus unnecessarily longer.

Another world beyond the astral and physical worlds is the mental matter, which interpenetrates both of the others because of its much lower density. When we think, we are working on this plane, while we are still alive and active in our physical bodies. But we see around the world own mind because we can not divide our attention equally on more than one plane. This, of course, applies to the common man. Those who have tried unsuccessfully to obtain a world consciousness as subtle as it is mental, can also succeed and be able to perform the outward, not only to the astral, but also the mind. This is much more difficult, and it is impossible to ethically immature people. This means that a black magician can work well and live consciously in the astral (while still in the physical body), but it can not express itself in the mind. Why? Just because it has the

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subtlety of thought necessary because their goals and ideas are too rude and tacky compared to the fine vibrations of the mental plane.

The great philosophers and highly advanced occultists are able to spend considerably more time on the mental than the physical. This requires a special ability and delight to think very abstract mental currents, put another way, to live in the atmosphere rarificadísima higher regions of thought and ideas. Traditionally, men are supposed to inhabit as Plato that subtle sky thinkers for many thousands of Earth years.

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And again, do you think these heights are identical to Samadhi? Surely not! Listen to what the Great Rishi Ramana says, trying to express the inexpressible truth of Samadhi: "There is only the feeling but I am thinking." Because of the sublime simplicity of this axiom can try to make you with some idea of the state of Supraconsciousness when you act as follows: expeled all thoughts and stand with your latest kernel of existence - your Self!

That is the route used by many disciples true oriental spiritual Masters. Actually, not at all as simple in practice as there are many prerequisites that must be met before it can be achieved the Samadhi. The most important is the ability to fully master's mind, for a period of time defined, not measured in minutes but in hours.

Now, what are the theories about the three worlds in which humans operate as separate entities, necessary to reach the heights of Samadhi? Strictly speaking, no! As has been achieved by men who had never even heard about the higher worlds. In fact, the ideal conditions for a sincere student are passed to the experience of the Real (which is simply the Samādhi) without stopping at intermediate stages of the astral and mental.

This attitude is rather oriental, but the writer prefers to Western, which recommended the gradual conscious step through all levels until it reaches the target.

Western teachers (especially those of the classic and most developed branch of occultism, which is the Hermeticism) are usually of the opinion that an overwhelming number of men can not pass the fourth state without being familiar with the intermediate states.

But we can reason in another way: if our goal, which will lead to Samadhi, is the acknowledgment of the illusion of Maya, which has to be overcome in this physical world, then what purpose would investigate other worlds, no matter how subtle which could be? Maya Maya is forever, so the sooner you will reject one best for you.

In this note we will end this chapter on the higher worlds that are beyond the physical.

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CHAPTER IV - INVOLVING THE DIFFERENT WAYS

SEAT OF AWARENESS IN MAN

Verse 65: "Without dissolve the world of objects, without knowing spiritual truth, where is eternal liberation external mere words, they do not have any results beyond their mere utterance?"

Practically, what does it mean for us the term "consciousness"? The theoretical somersaults not shed much light on this problem. Leaving aside for the moment all learned definitions, look for the closest expression to that awareness. However, we must be careful, and not to be confused with another similar term (though diametrically opposite in meaning)-perception, and raise a practical line of separation between them.

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1. Perception presupposes that we realize something, that is, we know and feel their presence. I can percatarme the presence of a man in my room, even if it is completely dark, or if I have deliberately closed my eyes. This means I know something besides myself. You can add, that there is a visible binary perception: Self and Not-Self, and this would be quite correct. Hermetic Philosophy deals with meticulous studies of the laws that direct ternary and quaternary binaries as a basis for major metaphysical and occult operations. There is no room here to delve more deeply into them, but I talked more about this in another of my works Tarot a Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism.

Two. Consciousness is the other pole of the binary, one element of which was the perception. Here one is less (or hardly any) under the Not-Self. Consciousness belongs to our innermost core without which we are nothing! No one would agree to accept anything as a substitute for your consciousness, that is to himself. Therefore, rejecting all mental conceptions moment we can say is the term conscience clearer and unique, that I can identify as myself, it always stays with me, in all my life normal. I can experience this or that, or not percatarme percatarme some object, thought or feeling, but I can not, without becoming "nothing" - losing my consciousness. Immediately someone objected: "Well, but when I'm under the influence of anesthetics, or when I am in deep sleep, I can not find any sense of myself, and then I am without any awareness at all."

This comment is only apparently true. Not all of us are deprived of self-awareness in the states mentioned above, although such people are still in the minority among ordinary men. There are too many stories confirmed by people who, though fully anesthetized or sunk in deep dreamless sleep, did not lose consciousness or ceased to exist altogether in these conditions.

I also know this from my own experience as well as that of many others, about which I have spoken. Developing a high concentration contributes substantially to the spacing of the elements conditioned and unconditioned man. Moreover, the Samadhi-the very subject of this study is the primary example of existence, that is, to be self-conscious, beyond all bodily and mental conditions.

All this has been said in order to clarify the term "seat of consciousness", which is used in the title of this chapter.

But are we, as we feel every day that consciousness apparently abstract, it can be made better with the magical axiom I am? Certainly not, at least not now, at our present level of evolution. We are compelled to accept and confess this, if we are honest, and if you still have not gotten the realization of the Self within us. And that is so simply because, if we possessed this high degree of internal development, it would read this book, just as a teacher would not study elementary book.

This means that some things are like veils that envelop pure consciousness in man. Ask the first man you meet, who is he? The response will contain

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primarily its name. What is hidden under this label of personality, which is our name? It is worth analyzing more closely.

1. The seat first and foremost our deepest seat of consciousness is, of course, our physical body, with all its properties and individual qualities as our sex. We are invariably men or women, but obviously we can not ascribe to our consciousness that we find that is beyond this veil, any perception of being male or female. Here I am excluding those dreams because they are fairly accurate reflections of our waking life, at least for the largest majority of the people. The following label is our age (physical). It is only natural that, by identifying with the body, accept his age as an integral part of us.

From these come the whole complex of other details to form the ego personality erratic joined by our thinking to be individual in us. Take our education. If our brain is trained say in mathematics, foreign languages, or any other topic, we are usually convinced that they are all components of our personality, and our outward appearance, and others. The social position and family apparently also belong to the same human ego. The overwhelming majority believe in it, often subconsciously, because only a few are able and willing to put in front of him, even once in their lives, the controversial question: Who am I? This short formula has a terrifying power. It is impossible to give here all your applications, simply because if we think further on this subject, we find that there is no end to the mental processes that arise if we use this survey even just with our mind. However, talk about it several times in the course of this book, for the same response to it is the absence of words and thoughts which is simply the Samadhi (also called the state without ego) as told by the Great Rishi truthfully Ramana.

Two. The second envelope (or veil) we wear, apart from physics, is our emotional life and property. We have to be careful not to confuse them with the mind and its functions, even if both may be closely connected and sisters in the life of every day, as often happens in practice.

Despite this fact, both are powers and kinds of matter rather clearly different, and we can never reach any logical conclusion and positive without being trained in discriminating between feelings and thoughts (or the astral and mental, as they say the occult). Now give a number of examples that can help us draw more easily.

Imagine that one morning you are looking at a lovely garden with green lawns, flowers and springtime freshness surrounding their beds and paths. May arise in us a feeling peculiarly pleasurable, which has not yet been transferred to thoughts, words and deeds later. Just that feeling of spring, a pure feeling so alone. And this will be the something that explains the domain and purely emotional reactions in our consciousness. Try this experiment for yourself, modifying it according to your own ideas, and adding as many examples as you see that may be necessary, in order to familiarize yourself a bit with the idea of astral and apart from you. The pure astral currents are usually pleasant and invigorating. They are often connected with some environments, conditions and locations. And you can easily check this.

The countryside, the beautiful views, abundant flowers and charming, and so on, can all be taken into consideration, and the astral currents arising in its vicinity can be recorded and analyzed. Leed book (travel, poetry, and so on, but not a scientific one) finding descriptions that create emotional feelings in you. Understand the and Search them in your memory, and then deliberately evoke Try by an effort of

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your will. No need to label these astral currents, because any mixture of them with mental elements means a mess of purely astral impressions.

As you have no doubt surmised, it is essential that you learn to discriminate between the veils that envelop your core of consciousness as accurately as possible. Probably, you have already guessed the purpose of these simple exercises: give some knowledge of title

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this chapter. An understanding of the basic processes of human consciousness is essential when seeking a higher consciousness approach, held at the Samadhi.

This is an axiom, that should be remembered throughout the study in the following chapters of this book.

In order to end the astral forms of wrappers that look to pure consciousness in us, try to deliberately and artificially create different emotions like love and hate, attraction and repulsion, rest and unrest, satisfaction and desire, peace and turmoil , and others. Begin with the name of feeling, and then remember your past impressions related to creation required, as this can be helpful. At the beginning, probably you will not be able to carry out immediately all this, and it will take some effort with respect to relive the emotions as advised in the previous sentence. Advanced people can dispense memory and astral currents create ad libitum.

The real goal is to create "from nothing." This requires too many previous experiences feelings, they should be well stored in the subconscious counterpart of our astral body, so that the projection comes without previous deliberations.

I have given the basic feelings in pairs, the first element in each pair a positive feeling, and the second is offset as love and hate. Try to shorten the negative side as much as possible and not think about it later. But the exercises would be unilateral, having thus a lowered value, if only to give the so-called good feelings for study. In this case you could be defenseless against negative currents, if you are not familiar with them and the method to throw off them. This should be of Concentration (Part II) which has been fully explained, and where you have given all necessary protective measures.

The third way that he dresses pure consciousness, is the world of thought, mastery of the mind or mental plane according to the occultists. To Him belongs all that we think and consequently say, but without adding any emotional effort. Again, the astral and mental bodies interpenetrate each other a lot, and it is not possible for a person not trained to do the necessary discrimination between these two planes. So we have to pass on some basic exercises.

First, count slowly, pronouncing the numbers in your mind and imagining while each suddenly appearing before your eyes as a white figure on a black background. Start with 1 and continue to where your power and will power will allow. It's easy if you have a little willpower and want the knowledge of some essential processes of one's mind. Take the first simple numbers, projecting on the dark screen of your imagination. You can close your eyes if you think it will be easier, and so Begin: one (1), two (2), three

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(3), and so on as far as you can. For the first year take of one to twenty and then to fifty. Do it slowly, without haste and without thinking about anything but numbers. By doing so, you are acting purely in a subdivision of the plane (or world) mind, and using only the matter of that plane. Surely no feelings in an exercise and that is just what is needed. Next time, think of another simple process, with which no emotion could possibly be connected. For example, repeat in your mind clothe process after you get up from bed in the morning Walk and concentrate on counting your steps for about three to five minutes; Choose appropriate and advantageous point from Timer for cars or trains spend.

The second series will repeat all of the above only in your memory, by the process of creative imagination.

Finally, as you have already learned safely, to some extent, to distinguish thoughts from feelings, try to create purely mental processes in your mind, according to your choice. These may be some of your future activities reviewed as if they came from the past.

The latter can be a dangerous thing because one is exposed subconsciously add to the mental astral vibrations, ie join their emotions to your thoughts, what is not

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allowed for our present purpose. If you understood the purpose of this chapter, you will acquire the ability to practice separation from: discrimination on the three worlds in which they actually live, until abandon all for the Samadhi.

Then you will know what form veils cast shadows on your true and pure consciousness, and know what also stands as obstacles in your way to the Samadhi. In other words, what you have to reject before you can reach this sublime state.

Although, when reached, the Samadhi transcends all human knowledge, one of the approaches to it can be scientifically and the student should know. Of course, in itself, is not sufficient as there are other conditions to be performed and other approaches that should be attempted as well. The following chapters describe these.

To conclude, we can say that the seat of physical awareness (awake state, called Jagrat by Hindus) in an ordinary man is his brain. This has been defined in my previous books as well as in the present as brain consciousness. Emotions and feelings are the fulcrum in the counterparty (or body) corresponding astral, while the functions of the mind are generated in the mental body from where they pass into the brain and waking state. Those who want to investigate the problem more precisely, find details in concentration. For the present study, specifically pertaining to 'fourth' state or Samadhi, the information given here will soon be enough.

In the Hindu scriptures, there are many Upanishads, Gitas and treaties can undoubtedly induce Samadhi. But where and who? Certainly not pretty immature beginners, for lack of preparation, not in a position to decipher the sacred texts speak not "open language" like hidden hand, you always have a veil, thus protecting the contents of desecration and abuse.

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On this point I would recommend that the diligent student would read, with the highest concentration few Ashtavakra Gita verses translated to English by the late master Hari Prasad Shastri in London.

The original works of Sri Ramana Maharshi such Calla its Forty Verses and The Truth Revealed, are supreme, but not too easy to understand properly, if the student is not well acquainted with the philosophy of the contemporary Sage.

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CHAPTER V - THE MODERN PSYCHOLOGY AND METHODS

Verse 67: "The hidden treasure does not come to (the utterance of) the simple word" outside ", but must have reliable information, excavation and removal of stones similarly pure truth that transcends itself Mayan operation (meaning here maya force of evolution) is not obtained without instruction connoisseurs supreme, along with reflection, meditation, and other, not illogical inferences. "

The official psychology is of no use in the study of Samadhi. There are many reasons for this. The first is that psychologists concerned with the analysis of ordinary men, they are simply ignorant of any transcendental experiences, and who have not studied the means that may lead to Supraconsciousness. If there are any unusual events, such as temporary siddhis (occult or psychic powers) in the form of visions, precognition, clairvoyance and mediumship, they are all sporadic and unpredictable phenomena and can not be produced on request.

Its authenticity can not be investigated because scientifically for its highly subjective nature, rare and staff, which can not therefore be properly classified and explained.

The second is that psychology operates mainly in the emotional domains, and partially mentally, man, that is, in the astral and mental manifestations that are a visible and audible to any researcher, endowed with the media only "normal" Knowledge and operation. How can this be of any use in a case in which the goal transcends both of these planes, as the Samadhi is far above and beyond all feelings and thoughts?

One who has not experienced himself Supraconsciousness can not talk about it with any authority, or even give explanations about a totally unknown to him.

The third is that normally operate in our three planes of existence with only the means provided by the same planes. Taking into consideration the higher capacity of the common man, which are his mental powers, we see that they have certain, albeit limited cognition methods, such judgments a priori and a posteriori, logical conclusions, and previous experiences, all of which, in any case, require further development of our knowledge. They're all purely relative connected with this form of existence and no other, that is, the human.

A modern Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo Ghose (who died in 1950) rightly said in one of his aphorisms:

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"When we Passed beyond humanity, then we'll be the man ... »

A psychologist works with your brain on people endowed with similar instruments belonging to the world of physical matter. This is only natural in physical conditions. Supraconsciousness But we are further from the limited means of the mind and its objects of cognition, than any galaxy is what our mother earth physically.

When a psychologist attempts to classify their experiences in order to deduce some laws from them, which can subsequently be applied to all patients, collected mainly from books containing the results of experiments of other specialists, along with its own discoveries necessarily limited to the circle of living brains investigating. For he has not and can not offer any direct knowledge of these things.

And all knowledge which still operates with things is incompatible with the state of Samadhi, like a cube could not be compressed into a square, because of the difference in size between the two geometric elements.

Eternal Consciousness is continuous, no matter what forms sometimes surround the rally. Psychology is only demonstrations, created by a similarly temporary, which we call-while still alive-humans: Like soap bubbles, which are formed only to burst and stop colors reflect on their fragile surfaces .

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Samādhi But, as we shall see in subsequent chapters, is a result of transcending all movements in the brain and in the astral and mental planes of man. Therefore, the desire to get closer to Samadhi, we must seek training and appropriate method of modern psychology that "science" can offer official for this purpose. So our ways and goals are very different, and I have set for beginners in another of my books-Concentration.

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CHAPTER VI - THE TWO WAY THERE TO U.S.

Verse 80: "Only he who is free from the bondage of desires great, so hard to avoid, is able to release, not another, even if you are versed in the six systems of philosophy."

Only males, exceptionally advanced in evolution, come into this world endowed with Supraconsciousness, o-Samadhi. Even the experience immediately after physical birth, but usually after adolescence, as they mature at an early manhood. History does not know of any woman who owned the Samadhi in his youth.

So it was with Christ and Maharshi. But the reader and the writer, is concerned above all, of course, with his own case, that is, his own incarnation in the present time, and this is just okay. In any case, you and I were born with inherited Supraconsciousness as our property. This means that if you wish to purchase, you must make definite efforts in that direction.

It would be impossible if we did not know much about the object of our labors.

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In this chapter, called The Two Ways That There Before Us, we become familiar with conditions and positive qualities that give us opportunities for success, as well as negative, making the achievement impossible at the moment. There are three basic types of men, we can distinguish.

The first and third types have only one track, but the second one is faced with two paths and until it reaches the goal, is compelled to tour both. What are these two pathways?

A. Look around you. For what human masses strive in this world? Do you know something about the Samadhi and seek? Certainly not! It is impossible to describe in full detail all the desires that haunt mankind today. But it can be done in a broad outline. If there are exceptions (and inevitable), will not affect the general rules that establish now.

When the child comes to an end, everyone finds that life begins to require certain solutions to many problems connected with physical existence. We list them soon. If one is not born rich, you should seek some means of existence and maintenance. Here belong also our educational efforts, sometimes colored by the "thirst for knowledge", which puts the interests second to earn a living. Then comes the desire to establish a firm foundation material for honors, highly placed connections, and so on. When, along with advancing age, develop disease, combat can occupy the last years of the life of a man. It is true that a few have also some idealistic tendencies, often vague, and always connected with the species called "Homo sapiens".

All this is a common line: selfishness, or actions they touch directly or indirectly to the individuality of the ego of the doer. Then the man is or is not satisfied with their personal achievements, happy or miserable, but everything in it goes around the world visible, tangible, material.

At this level of development, people have only one way-a material existence from birth to death. The latter is considered the bigger, but inevitably bad. This route does not allow a man any other search transcendental aspect of life, say, a conscious effort to develop one's consciousness beyond the narrow constraints of life in the matter of ego. Therefore, the question of Samadhi can not be taken into consideration with this category of men. This is because they are uniform in their materialism, and still feel no duality.

In them, the philosophical objectives of the unit takes the lowest form, unlike the third category of highly evolved men, the fully spiritualized, which are rare sources of light in the darkness of spiritual night. These people have also only one way, but is diametrically opposed to the way of life of the first category, which has been just described.

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We'll talk about this different kind of unit after we have analyzed the next class, the second, as follows.

B. When man becomes dissatisfied with the line of existence of the category A, important questions begin to arise in your mind. They generally have the following pattern: Where is the beginning of life? What is the purpose of life? What comes after death? What are the reasons for the existence of the

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human species on this planet? What relationships occur between the Microcosm (man) and the macrocosm (universe)? and many other similar questions that are difficult to enumerate.

All of them have a common point: These problems transcend the narrow life of the ego. Some people apparently find answers in their religions, then look no matter relying on the tenets and explanations given by their churches. We will leave this group apart, as they are not active in the spiritual quest, believing that they have already found the true way. It is solely your own business.

But some people are not satisfied with no easy solution, and begin to look for themselves trying to experience what they have read about the higher states of consciousness that lie beyond the physical plane and the others. Sometimes such seekers find the idea of Supraconsciousness-Samadhi, and follow it. Thus arises the second type of man, the seeker of spiritual life, spiritual truth, despite the fact that moral even partially at least, in the dense matter, through the intermediary of his body. If this is your case, and you are separated from the first group ("A"), which has only one purpose, that is, the material life. It is evident that we can not find Samādhi seekers in the first group.

Search engines are the second group ("B"), and it is from them that we now turn, in this part of this chapter.

Now, a search engine (such as a man call the second group) receives some internal lighting, and begin to realize that you can not trust their mortal counterparts, which did not exist before his birth, and not exist after death. It is now wise enough to not get high with the idea of "agnostic" of the annihilation of his conscious being with the physical body. Perhaps even, having no direct experience of truth immortal existence (that comes much later), and intuitively feel where lies his safe haven. Well, at this stage, karma usually lets you contact a convenient spiritual teaching, or even-in rare cases-with a living Master, if a being is in our planet as a physical body at that time.

But, usually, the original writing or spoken doctrine, along with, at times, the cooperation of senior disciples of the same Guru, is the endowment of the applicants. This step often brings much enthusiasm and happiness intensified to the point where there's flashes of glory. I think it is a very wise arrangement of the Power Manager, as the trail itself is thorny because karma must be downloaded quickly to let the man free to the hard spiritual work that lies ahead, without being hindered by impact and karmic obstacles.

Thus the initial ecstasy take the first essential boost, which in many cases should be sufficient for the whole life time. The memory of that glory brings solace to the disciple in difficult times, allowing you to stay without breaking under the blows of fate.

This fact is well known to all who enter the Path. I experienced it years before I saw the Master in his physical body, that is, received his permanent darshan. This beatitude comes usually unexpectedly, and not when you want to have it. Spiritus taif

ubi vult is a true axiom in the domain of the spiritual quest.

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On some evenings, to travel long distances by bus in the remote South America, this internal marvel wine itself, bringing a peace that is beyond all, a blessing beyond measure. The normal consciousness was not turned off at all, and had visions: this was the best proof of the reality of these first glimpses of Supernals Maharshi taught by the Master. Lasted five to fifteen minutes, rarely more. Influenced not only the experimenter, but also to the surroundings, in a truly mystical. Chapter XLVII of In Days of Great Peace read:

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"It is interesting to note that this state has its own set of vibrations, extremely subtle and powerful. They influence our surroundings, we can easily observe its effect on people when we experience ourselves this state, although imperfectly. When we are on the threshold of sunrise (beginning) of Samadhi, talk to others, or when you first get out of the sun (final phase) of Samadhi, we can see that people behave-probably unconsciously - somewhat differently, and speaks to us in a different tone than usual, though from the outside can not see anything except our "normal" people ordinary. But each has its own Samādhi deep in his heart in a dormant state, that someday will be revealed. So this germ "sleeper" of the Spirit responds to vibrations from the spirit awakened. "

This is the beginning. And now the title of this chapter comes to mind-The Two Ways That There Before Us. Well, from now on, live as if we were constantly at a crossroads. Make no mistake about the meaning of these words as used here. It means that, while known about the absolute superiority of consciousness and spiritual heritage that is in himself, the disciple will be constantly faced karmic elements of its current incarnation, which apparently will bring setbacks, bitterness, sometimes leading to a man even close to despair. But in vain! True Path can not miss. It may be obscured if we are too reckless, and let the visible world glamor and sensitive take over. But finally, the errant son returns to his spiritual father, as is beautifully described by Christ, and explained by the Maharshi: "He who comes in once on the Path can not lose, like falling prey to the jaws of the tiger not be allowed to ever escape.

I would remind them that all who are working at the crossroads of Attainment, letting them regain their peace when they hear the words of the Masters.

At this time, the most unusual circumstances will face the man. Your environment may become hostile to him because of his new attitude, which will lead to neglect certain aspects of mundane life can betray friends, and men can contend with him for no apparent reason. But know, O disciple!, That the Prince of this world does not forgive those who try to escape his power. One must face it and conquer, or perish for a period of time known as "spiritual eclipse." Those who turn away sometimes wandering souls through many incarnations. And yet again, with bleeding feet and heart, and always return to the point from which deserted. We shall not dwell on it further, closing the issue with the claim that the price of error is high.

However, the bulk of the temptations is not from active interference on the part of the enemy, but of daily life, when we are faced with seemingly small problems, which, however, must be solved according to the new consciousness dawns in us.

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I am deliberately refraining from talking here about Samadhi, leaving later chapters in Parts III and IV of this book, when the student is better equipped to face the ultimate problem of life. But there may be a few examples:

a) Should revenge on those who hurt us?

At this stage we are, as mentioned before, at the crossroads, in two ways. One belongs to the world, the other the Spirit. So I'll also apparent in a dual solution.

1. Never take revenge, but eschew offenders.

Two. Turn your other cheek to the offenders, as Christ taught.

Which of these two solutions will be yours? No one can say, other than you. The same applies to all the following examples.

b) What should be done if your environment or your family opposes active resistance, or obstacles, to your new way of life?

1. The Path should be a secret to all but the Master and his other disciples. It is primarily an inner Path. It is easier to prevent difficulties later combat.

Two. "Render therefore unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God the things of God."

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c) What should be done when you sensual temptations ensue, and feel humiliated and are afraid of succumbing to them?

1. Leed spiritual work when you may be attacked by impure forces. Meditate on issues that will inspire sublime. Make use direct means of defense (see Concentration, Parts II and IV).

Two. Remember "who you are" (leed chapters XXXIV and XLVIII of In Days of Great Peace).

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The next class of obstacles comes from the side of your own mind. Theoretically, the disciple knows that he and his mind are two different things. But knowing practically means no less than achieving complete mastery of thought process, which occurs only at the end of the trail, just before or Master Achievement. Therefore, the two-way street that precedes it is full of struggles to gain supremacy over the mind. The last used many tricks to distract the attention of those who want to become their masters (of the mind).

Questions that arise in us, when analyzed properly, seem futile, unnecessary, and often insoluble. The most common type is related to the endless whys. Why this thing is that and not the other? Why are obstacles placed in our way? Why can not arrive at once at the end of the trail?

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You can find further development of these whys rop yourselves. But the wise person summarily rejects them all, concentrating on the essential work of self because he knows that all issues disappear forever when you reach wisdom, instead of going in search of a relative knowledge.

The duality that surrounds this second type of man, who is en route to the third and final group, where all the lessons have been learned, is certainly tragic. All occultists know about it, and many have described it in his major works. Among these I would like to mention one famous only Zanoni, in Bulwer Lytton.

The best way to understand this problem, which is a binary, is to look carefully at our own consciences. In classical hidden philosophical literature could not find anything so beautiful and full of wisdom about the human psyche, as Plotinus Enneads. At the beginning, the sage gives general advice which is very convenient for all aspirant and disciple:

"Go within yourself and look, and if you're not yet beautiful, do as the sculptor with his statue: it smoothes this line, paves the other, giving her noblest expression, until everything becomes the shining image of perfect beauty. And you should do the same. "

C. It now remains to discuss the third type of man, that is, one who has killed all the hardships and experiences of the second group, who has learned all through grade of Wisdom, which transcends all relative knowledge, and performs as a necessary consequence, that has nothing more to learn. Because perfection does not need any change or addition. You have reached your Samādhi perennial, which is the spiritual consciousness has become permanent, unalterable privilege or the Perfect Master, as we call it. The purpose and possibility for us, still belong to the second type is the same Samādhi, but in our present state of discipleship, we can only expect temporary flight to the land of the Real, Eternal and Blessed. Even this is already a step forward, as anyone who has experienced Kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi (ie without temporarily Supraconsciousness) even once, has been changed forever. This is because it is impossible to erase the memory of Samadhi. We can experience it once in our lives, or even every day, and this will not change the rule. The Samadhi (the type Kevala) can only be experienced when all functions of the body are minimized as small as possible, which means its temporary suspension. The body becomes immobile, sometimes rigid, there are large periods of breath between inhaling and exhaling, and, for a time, you can even stop altogether. But the permanent type (Sahaja Samadhi), which is the sole privilege of the perfect Masters, rejects all the limitations of the body, and is experienced at all times, no matter if the body is awake or asleep, alive or dead. Since neither you nor I

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belong to the small number of the Perfect, we can not have the experience and exact knowledge of Sahaja. It is still a mystery to us how can one live for ever in that state sublime, and at the same time be free of all restrictions placed upon us when we make our highest flights to Kevala. Therefore, it is useless to make guesses about it. We are satisfied with the certain hope that the great day for us that will not be any shadow, and in which we will be forever in the light, turning ourselves into the Light. There is no other way.

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None of this applies to undeveloped unity and life goals, belonging to the primitive type A, for whom everything has yet to be reached, because the latter type is beyond the binary world of the second group (B), which is extends to the absolute unity of Wisdom Total. Its uniqueness is achieved forever. All lower states are transcended and forgotten. They become obsolete. These are just words, of course, but what lies hidden immensity of achieving them! All Highest, about which we can only guess and hope, has become a glorious reality. Since the body is not an obstacle, as the Body Conscious reached primordial purity and perfection. We say we have one or another consciousness. But here is the Consciousness who owns everything, herself being detached from everything. It is simply the One without a second.

Sir Edwin Arnold expressed this well when, in his The Light of Asia, talks about the drop of dew falling from the radiant lotus leaf ocean of Everything (Om mani padme hum The dawn arrives! Dew drop slides to shining sea! ") But this only happens when the" drops "(ie, you and me) become so inbred that their dissolution in the ocean becomes possible without spoiling its crystalline purity eternal. This, of course, are only similes, because the realization of Attainment transcends every word and thought, object and subject. That is the true uniqueness of Samadhi.

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As we can see, only a man of the second type (B) can choose their path. The first type (A) is immature, while the third (C) is beyond all. A person developed the first group does not know, and do not want to know, anything that transcends its narrow objectives and selfish life, devoted as they are to business and material pleasures, when you can get them. So has no choice simply because they choose. That's why the true occultists never try to "convert" anyone to their own beliefs, knowledge and theories they consider to be fair. It would be as futile as trying to explain the beauty of a picture to a blind person. However, the same karma usually takes care of this and not put this group in contact with higher types. But it is a different case of the second group. These men can find books, lectures and other men finally concerned with the advancement of life in themselves. If you find that you absorb spiritual literature, or you find a man who is on the Path, is a sure sign that, in you, there are already some germs of life than waiting for development. In other words, you are invited to spend the second group (B), the "seekers".

In this case I refer to a genuine search and not a superficial and fleeting interest in occult phenomena source, hypnotic tricks, sayings of fortune, ghost stories, and more.

A serious search is always based on finding a solution to the mystery of belonging to your own being, which, until then, is for you as the riddle of the Sphinx. This is because any sincere and successful search engine can be started and driven without the basic element of Self. In modern occult literature there are many references to it. Spiritual Masters also give much value to that search:

"Well, what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what will a man exchange for his soul? "(Matthew, 16, 26).

Up to you to define what kind of human being belong. And if he is the second group, do not forget the correct starting point of all knowledge: finding yourselves!

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But day after day passed, and our way towards the end of wandering in this visible world becomes increasingly shorter. This means that the count of the lessons of life gets shorter every day, up to the last. Then we will face accomplished facts, which can not be changed, and the balance must be struck, which will be the last act in the drama of the incarnation.

For us, it will be a victory march, head held high, another manifestation of life, with fully acquired knowledge and light, or just wander in darkness and fear, the natural continuation of a failed past?

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CHAPTER VII - WHAT IS IT THAT BRINGS THE RAPTURE?

Verse 84: "If the desire for liberation exists in you, sensual objects should be dropped from a great distance as if they were poison, must constantly and fervently seek contentment as if it were ambrosia, and gentleness, forgiveness, sincerity , tranquility and self-control. "

When writing about a subject that is so difficult for most readers as the Samadhi, we have to clarify all terms that are often confused with it. One of the most despistantes is ecstasy. The Samadhi is often called "ecstasy", and hence the visionary ecstasy are mistakenly confused with the Samadhi.

The truth is that both terms, and consequently the corresponding states of consciousness, are two different and incommensurable. Throughout this paper we find sufficient explanations about Samādhi materials, so this chapter is dedicated to the great granddaughter of Samadhi, which is ecstasy.

Its true meaning is "fit", which is accurate and know the terminology used in psychological as well as for our purpose here. When a man is in ecstasy, feels he is in a fit spiritual, that is, beyond their normal senses and perceptions, which are then converted to it like a dream unreal past.

Connect is accepted thing blissful ecstasy experiences with intense feelings of happiness. This is true in general. But ecstasy has usually some defined causes (often material). We know the rapture of love, self-neglect, elation artistic, and others. The experience seems to depend on a particular property of the man, that is, that their emotional side is predominant. We can easily imagine that any kind of ecstasy overwhelm a person dry, cold, unimaginative, whose inner world is rather dull and not impressionable, and we will be right.

At this point we consider the so-called spiritual ecstasy, on which we can learn from the lives of some of the saints. And then we will find that not all of these outstanding men experienced some outburst visible when immersed in prayer or contemplation.

If anyone standing in the environment of, say, S. Francis of Assisi, and St. Teresa, or the Apostle S. John, and others, was able to perceive them their ecstatic states could hardly say the same thing about other saints as S. John Vianney, S. Seraphim of Sarov, and the Maharshi. When the latter responded to questions about the exact meaning of ecstasy, stated: When the mind is transcended and consciousness

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thus plunges into the Samadhi, there can be no ecstasy at all, for the same item might experience (ie, the mind) is absent in the Samadhi. But when the Samadhi comes to an end and the mind emerges again, it often happens that ecstasy appears. This is because the mind is then illuminated by the reflection of the unimaginable spiritual bliss, true Supernals, devoid of all forms and limitations. "In Hindu terminology is called Kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is a very accurate definition and full. Such ecstasy are connected often with tears of joy, laughter, body tremors, singing caught, and others.

Now we can better understand the differences and relationships between them: Samadhi and ecstasy. The first is essential and important for all those who are able to reach it. The second is a reflection and manifestation of the transcendental, immutable and supreme state, in your own mind and emotions, in other words, in the astral and mental. I refer here to the higher form of ecstasy, and not inferior to no other, that sometimes occur as a result of fortunate circumstances of all kinds in one's personal life. Some have emotional distress because of happy love affairs, a monetary gain (in the lottery, and others), and similar conditions. If we analyze our own little ecstasy, almost invariably find their origin in sources similar to those just mentioned. To summarize, we can say that now we know where ecstasy, and how to find its source.

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But there are still some other classes that have a purely mental source. When a philosopher or scientist makes a very important discovery or invention, may also have an ecstatic elevation of his mind. Just remember these few known of us by history: Archimedes, who, when he found the solution to the problem of how to find the specific gravity of the physical bodies, left his bathroom and in vestments something incomplete, ran down the street shouting "Eureka "he was then able to determine the actual amounts of silver and gold in the king's crown.

Isaac Newton, discovering the basic physical law of gravity, was also overwhelmed with joy, because he was finally able to make such a scientific law to observe an object falling to the ground from a height. We're not sure if it really was an apple falling from a tree.

If we summarize what has been said about the Samadhi and ecstasy, a comparison such as "light and reflection" would not be far from the truth, which is otherwise inexpressible in words. Important developments will come from this definition.

a) We should always look for the source or higher reality of our experiences.

b) The primary source is the Supernals-the Samadhi. Only he has and imports.

c) All innumerable ecstasy are-at best-only derived from (b), and, apart from the pleasure they can bring, can not be regarded as true internal lighting factors.

d) Since all views are just different forms of mental activity with which we are not too familiar hitherto, can not help us in our quest for eternal elements obtainable in the Samadhi, but are more distractions. Hinder concentration, which is the basis for Supernals, requiring a domain and elimination last full-even for a limited time-vibrational activity of the mind in us.

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All this is true even despite the fact that some forms of visions may seem 'prophetic', that is, they may have in them a reflection of clichés of past events, present or future. The Western occultism known as "Hermeticism" has made good the field of vision and I talked about them extensively in another of my books, The Tarot, contemporary course of the quintessence of hermetic occultism.

The symbolic vision of St. John in his "Apocalypse", and those of Nostradamus, are well known, and shocking for its accuracy, although somewhat heavy language of the latter (which is a mixture of Latin and Old French), and how they were given to posterity.

We can, of course, question the practical wisdom of all the prophecies, because they excite our curiosity rather than lead to a more careful and activity calculated. As an example, cited the case of Napoleon I and Hitler both knew Nostradamus texts and possibly could not but recognize in them. However, acted exactly as predicted, and therefore could not escape their destinies as mentioned in the prophecies. It's an interesting thought on which all fans prophecy and fortune telling should think deeply. Is there any reason to pursue these illusions divination, they can not really influence the life and karma of humanity?

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PART II

THE THRESHOLD AND STARTED

CHAPTER VIII - JUSTICE IN ACTIONS AND INTENTIONS

Verse 420: "The result of dispassion is correct perception, the result of the correct perception is abstaining from the pleasures of the senses and ceremonial acts. The peace that comes from the realization of truth is the fruit of the abstention of the ceremonial acts, and the pleasures of the senses. "

Upon reaching the end of the first part of this work, just with the definition of terms, methods, events and conditions that we find in our path to Samadhi.

Now the internal preparation is before us. Is it necessary? Yes, in any case, unless you belong to those few who come to this earth and in the Wisdom enlightened, having gotten the final Light glorious past. This refers to the true spiritual teachers, of which I was privileged to see one with my mortal eyes, a fact that has changed my life and that of a few others who have chosen not to share the treasures inmates who received Teacher, with this cruel world, not writing, but stay silent forever. In this way they can avoid conflict with the world, which usually attacks the precursors of human evolution trying to silence their speech.

But: "In my Father's house are many mansions ... 'And different routes leading to them.

However, there are roads to be traveled, means effort and movement. And so it is with those who want to reach the goal before others, and want to know about the first steps that must be taken in the direction of Samadhi. Concentration can be found in methods for developing internal powers, which

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enable us to enter the Path. These consist of various forms of concentration, which is the highest of all our internal forces.

As already said in the first chapter of this book, it is assumed that the diligent student, is really about reaching the Samadhi (Supernals), performed satisfactorily Concentration Part III. This is because the Samadhi is the "feeling of Yo-Yo, but without thoughts", as taught by the contemporary master-Sri Ramana Maharshi. This means that thoughts must be deliberately excluded from the mind, before it reached the desired state of consciousness. It is a condition. But how can one who does not possess the ability to concentrate, to be successful in an attempt to cleanse the mind of thoughts? As you see, it's a vicious cycle, which always leads to the same fulero to be achieved. There are other qualities that must be developed our almost before passing the holy threshold, leading to the temple Samādhi silent.

In the last chapter of Concentration di, as a subject for meditation, the seventeen "Nirvana Verses" without any further development of the same, because they belong to this work, and not the former, which is a preparation for this book.

The Samadhi makes great demands on the applicant. This means that services have to be eradicated and the basic virtues acquired. Make no mistake, these are conditions. If you have still many virtues and few negative qualities (positive qualities), it's just proof that their subtle bodies are raw, and its vibrations slow and clumsy. How can harmonize with absolute purity Supernals? You can not reach the Samadhi just because someone has shown you certain techniques used by advanced adepts, but you may not fit entirely. Remember that in the Samadhi, trascendéis humanity that is in you, reaching the state that perhaps others will take eons to get. Then, instead of being limited and conditioned as before devenís the Infinite and Absolute. What a great job this is!

Can they really achieved these heights? You can, simply because their achievement does not mean rejecting all but the veils that hide the eternal and perfect always Ātman-Ser-Spirit that is in you. These three terms are synonymous.

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If it were otherwise, no achievement would be possible, for the Trinity, as mentioned in the last sentence, can not be created or destroyed. Realize things that are eternal, always and everywhere present, beyond space and space. This process will need deep meditation, before you enter the correct current with your consciousness, which will then reveal what I'm trying to convey in words at this time. But words can not give you the realization of that truth, only your own internal efforts. Take him out now, and read more later.

Extending this analysis, you will see that the eternal element that is in you (the Trinity just mentioned), which is your true self, can have no beginning or end. It seems easy to say but not so easy to live. Meditate again about this axiom with complete peace of mind and clarity of consciousness, and eventually you will know, as they did and make others in the path. Therefore, nothing, absolutely nothing, can change your true core, nothing can add or substantive consideration something. All yogas, exercised saints and other occult methods, operating only on the veils that envelop the Self, but never

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about IT! He can be neither subject nor object, because only He is. All other things are shadows in space and time.

If you wish to succeed on the path, not continue reading until you have understood this truth within you, without any trace of doubt.

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By the title of this chapter, we see that the first preparatory step towards our goal is justice, applied at all times and in all things. Again it is easier said than done.

First, justice should be practiced in our physical activities. Beginning with our own physical tool, the body, we must do justice to our environment. The body must carry out their functions harmoniously, then do not distract us from our ultimate goal.

At this point someone may say he's Ser-Spirit and not the body, and therefore do not want to deal with functions mayávicas (body care in the sense used recently). It all sounds very nice, but it is not reality. Who dares to utter such a phrase, which in its deepest meaning is absolutely true? Are ye independent of your body? Would not it be really affected your: consciousness by a gnawing toothache, fever, rheumatism baldante, and similar conditions? Do not ye would surely affected by bad news about your family, finances or work? Only if under such circumstances can really answer "No!" Shall be independent of all external conditions, making it no less than a Jivanmukta a Reinstated, briefly, a Being perfectly Freed. But in that case there leeríais this book, nor any other.

Therefore, I have to assume that you are not so advanced, and continue.

We have to be, as already said, in fairness to our body, giving you what you really need, no more, no less. If you do so, you will see that ordinary people usually overload their bodies with excess food and drink. This makes the shell too awkward for our purposes, disobedient, and requires much attention.

Accordingly, let's construct the best models of food, sleep, movement and work for yourself. I've never heard of anyone reached the Samadhi, he ate the flesh of other creatures (at least, of the warm-blooded), or that he was a drunkard or addicted to harmful habits, drugs and others. This is the first practical suggestion for all sincere student. The occultists, who never, identify with their bodies, consider its physical counterpart as a temporary instrument, given to them to fulfill certain tasks. If the instrument is treated wrongly, may not be able to provide good service. Therefore, our righteousness to the physical shell and the world around us should be giving them exactly how much media attention and measured and necessary materials. Neither more nor less!

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Permitidle the body only the required amount of anything: food, rest, exercise, movement, natural sports such as walking and swimming (if you like). If all this may seem terribly boring and impossible to an ordinary man, by his identification with the physical body, you require much less effort to advanced occultist, and this is quite understandable. If you can remove unnecessary and harmful habits, that's

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only because the governing body on you. There is no other explanation. But a man who is strong "internally", does not allow such degradation. For it would be the same as if you ordered your boots where walking. The Samadhi is for those who master their bodies, and not for the enslaved.

As a very effective means for systematic cleaning impurities from the body, some occultists recommend taking Turkish baths at least once a week. The writer agrees with this, as confirmatory had experience with these baths, and has noticed the significant benefit derived from them. But they should not spend less than two hours after a meal, before taking a Turkish bath.

However, this kind of bath should not be confused with different types known as steam sauna, Russians and others, which can easily affect too strong hearts. The system uses only dry heat steam, which is harmless to anyone.

Think about this before you commit yourselves to the Sublime Path.

The second application of the Law of Justice will concern the world body and emotional (or astral). It is a complicated and difficult task, as a natural development of the first. The third try only of the mind and its plane. Here you have to give an important warning: Do not think that these things should be taken strictly in turn, that is, first the physical body, then the astral, and finally the mind. Would be a mistake, for the vast amount of time required for such a slow process. The Master Maharshi confirmed this when a visitor cited the old Roman proverb: Mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy spirit in a healthy body), implying that we are supposed to first acquire and then maintain a strong physical shell, and start try after higher things. The Sage replied with a smile: "In that case, there would be a constant care of the body."

This meant to say the absorptive care that does not allow a man no real evolutionary activities, as is the case with human nature to take care of what, according to our present point of view, is more important and dear to us. No, our efforts must be carried out simultaneously in all three directions, or, in other words, on the three planes of existence. Only then can we expect a harmonious development and maintenance of our tools, we finally got rid of them-in the Samadhi.

It's just impossible to explain this issue otherwise than in sequence, you read these instructions as divided into three parts, following each other.

Thus, the principle of justice applied to astral means the rational control of their vibrations. Under the term "vibration" in different planes, we accept consciousness operating at these levels. In short is this: one refused to allow any movements occur disharmonious (or bad) on our emotions and feelings. If we look more closely at this rule, we discover the underlying ordinary moral code, but extended and subtilized to extreme limits of possibility. Overall, the negative vibrations (the details of the student must establish by itself, it is a simple job and individual) are: feelings of anger, fear, jealousy, envy, hatred, lust, regret, despair, and all derivatives This litany malignant. They should have no part in your lives astral. What about emotions-called "desirable" as love, courage, serenity, purity of thought, and so on? Do not worry about them! Human nature is arranged in such a way that there can be no vacuum in the three worlds in which we live normally, until it reaches the Samadhi.

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As the Samadhi is virtually the rejection and transcendence of the three. Vacuum deficiency is meant that instead of negative astral expelled vibrations must come some positive. How can this be? Just try it on you! If you destroy the hatred in you (not that I just forget, but actually you destroy without any possibility of its revival) love

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come as a result. This is the law. And so the same with all the emotions. Someone may protest destroyed instead of hate could arise simply indifference. Not so! Because here the "indifference again mean a negative attitude, locking in the vicious circle narrow your ego, the primary enemy of any expansion of consciousness.

Do not confuse indifference with non-attachment, which is the attribute of great souls. As I sat at the feet of the Master, I never saw any trace of indifference in his wonderful face, but only the sublime freedom of complete achievement, penetrated by spiritual compassion that radiated from him, and melting the hard outer shells surrounding the hearts of men.

Again, the effort to annihilate any negative vibrations of your astral or mental, subconscious process also means purification, technically, the departure of some more veils covering the core immortal, eternal and perfect of all being. So, how could slip something wrong inside of you, if there remains in you an entry for it?

Before reaching your goal, you have to become good psychologists, who try living manifestations in you and your brothers-both men and animals around you. But this does not mean scholastic theoretical exposure, given or accepted, of a system, of which there are still many in the world present. The hatched 'psychological systems "made by those who are not even masters of their own lives, they are useless to you. Your practical psychology should be your own, you learn during the time of a preparatory study such as this. True psychology is and can be, only found in the depths of your own consciousness of being, if we can dive to those depths.

To return to the annihilation of negative astral vibrations, the student will understand with certainty that this work can not be carried out "with bare hands." Yes, we need to do a good, sharp tools, and this is no other than power, well known to us, concentration, based on the power of will possessed. This is the pivot and fulcrum of all our endeavors. It's like the registration for a college course. This should never be forgotten. If you wish to know the final steps preceding the Samadhi, Realize then that are just special and peaceful use of concentration that allows the arrest of all the vibrations belonging to the three worlds declared. Those who have reached this point you will know what I mean. And it is a great spiritual joy to know fellow travelers who come after toiling immeasurably at the same "point" eternal, beyond which there is nothing to get. Knowing that, within some physical forms (how few at this time!) Eternal and imperishable light is already shining, and then performed there life beyond all death and suffering, the life that extends beyond all, it is-the whole.

About fifty years ago, a Sage, in faraway India, began his work sublime humanity reminding his forgotten legacy, eternal freedom of Being performed in man.

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A man who, without seeking any glory, fame or publicity, settled during his long life in continuous state supreme Samadhi, without being hampered by his life seemingly "normal." He moved, spoke, ate and slept, without leaving, even for a second, his Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi, attainable only by the Men-perfect Masters. The Mystery Achievement covering such glory, for all that we can hope to achieve now, and probably for many, many future lives, is the Kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Where lies the difference between these terms almost synonymous? In the first words of these expressions: Sahaja means uninterrupted, perennial, not broken, while Kevala temporary and limited means. The difference seems to be only in the 'quantity' and not 'quality', and Master Maharshi apparently supported this idea. In speaking of the eternal and temporal Samadhis, noted that it is the mind that makes all the difference. If completely "dead" (Master's own expression) then extends throughout Samādhi in both waking and sleeping states, as well as after the abandonment of the physical body at death.

If the mind as is the case with all of us, is only temporarily subdued and compelled to silence, return to their former activities, for the internal power of a man is not enough to

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abandon all relative, and to not take an interest in these issues (Relativity): Like an airplane, you can stay in the air only while you have enough fuel.

Those who have experienced the Samādhi know that the Master's words are true in all its simplicity. After being in Samadhi for a few minutes (sometimes even hours), we are compelled to return. There is a Power which orders that return, and nothing can resist it. I can only encourage students to read the works of Sri Ramana Maharshi in the original English translations, which are readily available from his old ashram in Tiruvannamalai, South India.

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The most comprehensive and understandable scheme astral our behavior can be obtained from the following conception.

Imagine your emotional activities as a kind of radiation pouring out from you to the outside world. Physics You know that there are different kinds of radiation. Some like, say, sunlight, are beneficial, others, such as rare metals (eg. Strontium 90), are harmful and can cause illness or even death. If astral condescendéis in your negative feelings, such as those listed at the beginning of this chapter, envenenáis the astral atmosphere around you, damaging astrosomas of your surroundings, and further, infecting them, like a contagious disease, thus forcing them to accept and consequently, subsequently emit similar vibrations. Do you understand the injustice of which are guilty in a case?

If you act in the opposite way, that is, if a comprehensive peace and radiate positive feelings, you add your activities to reservoir vibrations astral healthy, exercising thus evolutionary influence on your environment. There is no action without reaction, and no results without a cause. These two axioms should always keep to the inside view of every candidate for higher consciousness. Our friendly feelings directed toward our neighbors, believe in them like. It is a well known fact that humans are very

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susceptible to such emotions, especially those created "instinctively". For example, you can enter a train or tram in which no open seats, but in which, if some passengers feel a little more together, may find place to another traveler.

You see this, but no one moves. An ordinary man feel inner indignation against the selfish passengers. In the astral light that can be seen as vivid currents of, say, red stripes. But this is not important. What really counts is the creation of negative energy currents and poisonous, by the reckless person. This is "illegal" from our point of view, and is therefore a violation of astral justice.

Examples could be cited "ad infinitum," but that is up to the student, not the writer, confined as he is due to space limitations in a book. None of the negative vibrations created by us are justifiable. It can be understood that sometimes have hard feelings against those who do us harm, we believe, but in any case, it is unfair from the spiritual point of view. How can we achieve spiritual awareness Samādhi-if we violate spiritual laws? Between spiritual and material justice is an abyss, over which there was never there, or will there be a bridge. Examples? Well, Christ prayed for His executioners, He advised us to turn the other cheek when we are attacked in one, indeed, he said something that could easily be beyond our understanding: "Resist not evil." The Maharshi, robbed and beaten by robbers, while I had the full opportunity to stop, since his disciples who were with him that night, were more numerous and stronger than his assailants, he ordered them not to resist, and turned right-side shock, when the left had already been attacked. Since spiritual truths inaccessible to reason, leave the explanation to the student's intuition, since intuition is the one with the appropriate instrument for knowledge and spiritual instruction.

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Even the magicians know that the best defense against hostile actions in the astral plane, are forgiveness and prayers sincere and unconditional, for the offender.

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There remains the third kind of attitude to those who are preparing for the Supernals. It is of mental culture, our righteousness mental as happened with the physical and astral justices.

With thoughts as mental products there are different standards. The right thought or right, has several attributes, which, in brief, are as follows:

1. Concentration, ie lack of dissipation of one's thought processes. This means that when we are thinking about, say, an apple, we should not mix with lemons, pears and other fruits. The point of this example should be clear to us. If we have to place a simple object to our mental screen should be the only focus of our concentration. The leads in the direction of the affinities of objects should be excluded. When we need to think about our watch, only your image should be at our vision, and thought should not extend to the watch makers, qualities, courage and so on. This is because, if we extend our focus area, the process becomes a meditation or deliberation about the qualities of the object and other details, which is beyond our purpose, and is therefore a complete distortion of the concentration. We must learn to

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think about very simple things, and only then show us mature enough to more complicated problems connected with the necessary cost of meditation, which is the basis for the Samadhi.

The rule is: think at one point only on an object, no matter the kingdom to which it belongs. Then more complicated processes of your mind will be easy to control and dominate. No subject you to this rule, your mind will always remain something naughty and powerless. Since it is assumed that you have studied other basic work-Concentration (Published by Luis Carcamo, editor. (Madrid, 1978).) - Before reading this book, I have little more to add.

Two. Every problem should be presented clearly in your mind, that is, let not arise no nebulae and indefinite forms in your mind, not vague ideas admitáis. If the matter is not clear enough, CONCENTRAT your attention to it until the 'you see' clearly.

Three. A moment or extremely important, "right thinking" in preparation for the Samadhi, is acquired by the habit of concentration to consider all mental processes that arise in the mind as something separate from yourself, which may be, and is separate from your core self. It is a condition "sine qua non". Never will attain the Samadhi while you identify yourself with your mind, as was the case with your feelings. It is the greatest injustice inflicted on your Being, not freedom from involuntary or habit (acquired in many previous incarnations), to confuse the tools that use the master. This separation basic hidden track, is again achieved by the development of the ability to practice concentration, which leads to the domain of the functions of the mind.

So we see that the machine and the operator or can be one. In religious paths, we assume that the same is achieved by "renunciation of one's own will," as practiced in monasteries and convents. It's a fairly long way, and the novice usually do not know what you are studying in this chapter. He has to believe unconditionally in the wisdom of his prior, it does not give any, or very few psychological explanations required rules connected with the monasteries.

Obedience to spiritual leader is in such cases the cardinal condition in religious orders of all denominations, when these orders still exist. In other words, in those denominations which still given the opportunity to advance to the faithful who feel that their vocation is to enter such an order, and dedicate their lives to his service.

But a few people stronger need different paths, as discussed in this book, which give access to scientific and objective faster.

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April. Justice on discrimination concerning the influence of the environment and other men about the applicant, is necessarily a primary mental virtue for him. We are often thwarted by lack of human friendship, sometimes even animosity, that occurs when we are walking the path. Occasionally I hear students, quite capable on the other hand, say, "All my efforts are aimed at maintaining peace in myself and the world. Despite this, and without cause for one, experiment all kinds of disloyalty and hostility. Where thus lies righteousness? "

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The answer may be twofold.

a) To your mind is: the man does not know his past usually beyond its present incarnation. So, even if in this life seems to be correct in his attitude toward the world (which is very hard to set properly), can come reprisals as a result of past lives, and usually is.

b) To your mind, the solution to this controversial issue will be the answer given in similar circumstances by Thomas a Kempis subordinates his monks in his Imitation of Christ (Book 2, Chapter 1).

"Even Christ was despised by men of the world, and for the most time of need was forgotten between insults Family and friends ...

Christ had enemies and detractors, what you would want everyone to be your enemies and benefactors? When is crowned your patience, if you meet any hardship? '

This can be considered as highly instructive for those able to look into the depths of things with spiritual discernment.

May. Verbiage Avoid at all costs. Learn to think, when you may be compelled to do so, or when you meditate or think to solve a complicated problem, form words and repeat them in your mind. The Great Rishi Ramana, the most eminent authority on spiritual psychology, called, in the words' the grandchildren of the truth ", and emphasized the inadequacy with this speech for searching within one's own Self. The thinking without words and concrete images belongs to individuals who are well advanced in control of their minds. It is also one of the preconditions that lead to Samadhi. Can not be achieved without well-directed efforts (see Concentration, Part III).

June. Pacificad your mind, this is not no thoughts incubated emitáis quickly and relentlessly. Might be unfair to your environment, adversely influencing him, and that means another impediment to you in your path.

July. Learn to be fair in your thoughts about other men. If necessary try them, do always impartially, as if ye yourselves apart mantuvieseis and looking dispassionately, with the same look as much about them as about yourself. If you cease to be in love with your body, this attitude will be established in you without much fighting. Take inspiration from a lack of self-centeredness of the Spiritual Masters, and see how perfect they were.

Read the lives of the saints and the great Teachers of humanity, as this undoubtedly has an incontestable and ennobling influence on the psyche of a man. For those who have a spiritual attitude deeply subtle, the Gospel of St. John will prove to be an inexhaustible source of strength and lift fine. Especially the last sermons of the Son of Man to His disciples, which are filled with mystical light.

A great occultist and wise philosopher, the late Professor G. O. Mebes, the former Imperial University of St. Petersburg (see my Tarot) says: "Bring out the best of your incarnations, because I do not give meaningless, or not at all!"

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Long ago, the word "good" was often replaced with 'fair'. In His dramatic last sentence before being delivered into the hands of His executioners, the Master addressed God as "Father Justo Oh!"

It is synonymous with all other attributes possessed by the Supreme. The reflection of justice in your heart, is a condition for any successful attempt to reach the realm, which we now call 'Samadhi'.

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CHAPTER IX - THE CONSTRUCTION OF INNER SANCTUARY

Verse 138: "O disciple, his mind under control, sense it directly, the Atman in you -" this is me "- crosses through buddhi tranquility of the sea without changing shore of existence, whose waves are birth and death, and brings to fulfillment your term, resting firmly in the form of Brahman. "

Verse 412: "Having laid to rest the antahkarana (mind), the true self, you should perceive, and whose glory is indestructible regular breaks captivity effort infected by the smell of conditioned existence, and becomes fruitful your manhood."

In the previous chapter we learned about the right attitude manifested in the three worlds, needed for the first approximation to the Supernals-the Samadhi. From this we can realize that Samadhi can not be achieved by immature human beings simply because they do not know and do not want to know anything about it because they are absorbed in the lower worlds, not as free travelers, but as a deeply attached and enslaved by the false allure of the gross vibrations of material life. And finally, because of their heavy karma, can not be placed in appropriate conditions to enter the Path. Nothing can help save time, constantly flowing, and gradually correct their faults for the price of suffering.

Christ referred to this internal adulthood in different terms. He once said: "Let the dead bury their dead." But for those around him who were more advanced, advised: "Come after me ..." "They have eyes and see not, have ears and hear not."

It gave me a striking example see with my own eyes. About ten years ago, when, for months, I sat at the Master's feet, trying to absorb the light and get the most out of the living Presence, thousands of people came in the same period to get the darshan of the sage. All were impressed by the size, purity and spiritual wisdom of the late Rishi. They came and went away in a few days, subsequently forgetting their blissful moments at the feet of Maharshi.

But a few remained faithful. In the course of time deepened the direct influence exerted on them by the Master, and when he left this earth forever retained the gold cord.

We know from history that even the most powerful manifestations of the Spirit, embodied in a given period, on this planet, they were never able to convert or instruct all men who lived at that time. In contrast, only a small minority has always been mature enough to accept the message and "bear fruit" as Christ told us.

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None of miracles, cures, or other manifestations of supernatural character, are able to talk to those people underdeveloped, yet deeply immersed in the illusion of a materialistic selfishness. Everything depends on our maturity and our internal contents.

Another preparation for the Supernals in us is a process we call "the Construction of Inner Sanctum." This means achieving, through a well directed meditation, a way of life and incessant appropriate effort, the quiet depths of our conscience, unreachable for any lower vibrations (or low). You must be a point at us in peace to reign supreme, and where we have our last refuge, between the storms of our karma, that roar around our short but estrenuoso Path.

This mystical, but how real, internal point can be found, and you can settle in Him, even temporarily, as many have done. It is important not to talk about him, but discover it. And here, often, lies the tragedy: people who have some flashes of intuition, may know of the need to build on them now that inner sanctuary, as we call it, but lack the technical or willpower, and sometimes both. Here we see the overwhelming importance of holding, and not just a theoretical collection of things.

The old proverbs usually show an amazing wisdom of life, and I would like to quote one of them:

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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Since then, only unrealized intentions. Many years ago, when even condescended (also "good intentions") in discussions with people who only spoke, but it lacked the qualifications to prove what they professed, I was able to notice the truth that he meant this old proverb . But dissipation and verbal discussions obstacles are rather empty, and not a help to get the Samadhi.

Therefore, these things had to be stopped. If you begin to build the inner sanctuary within you, as a precursor, or "outer court" for Supernals, the grace of which are already established in this temple invisible soul, will be granted. They will meet with you in due time, in person or by mail, this is not essential. But then you will know experimentally that, beyond selfish battles, emotional, economic, religious, social, racial and political, which take place on the external side of things (in other words, in the world), there is a safe harbor ineffable peace, which can throw your anchor (ie, the mind), and so find rest for that dream, struggle and strive all beings through their sufferings.

I mentioned that it takes "techniques" to build up the inner sanctuary within us, as for a home of bricks and cement. Therefore, I have to point them out. They are surprisingly simple, almost as simple as the Truth itself, and inaccessible to many for just that simplicity that transcends the limits of the untrained mind and hesitant. Do not yet know much about the mind, the instrument of everyday life, which can be turned into an instrument of Achievement. This has been amply explained in concentration.

We can not do better than take as the foundation of our Inner Sanctum three commandments of the Lord Buddha, given to regulate the internal life of man in the simplest way, without having to do with the many Tuileries of mind.

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The acoto of In Days of Great Peace:

1. Cease to do evil.

Two. Learn to do good.

Three. Cleanse your own heart.

An immensity of understanding, effort and accomplishment is embedded in these brief sentences, and it takes a certain degree of internal maturity to understand. The immature person will pass over them, thinking they are only theoretical indications, when in fact they are the way of life for many incarnations, depending on the point of beginning and development of the search engine.

Such a person would rather look bulky books and thousands of words mentally smooth, artfully weaving a pattern around your spiritual emptiness and futility. This is a very sad truth. The creators of these volumes were just slaves of their own minds, but we seek to build the sanctuary is an abode to free beings that rule over their minds and emotions.

These commands have no value apart from their practice, and are not intended to be dissected by verbalizantes and superficial minds, but-to be lived. And so with all the jewels of truth given to us by the Great Teachers. Inner Sanctuary The foundation will be established for you, just in that day that rehuséis do evil anymore. When this has been done, the walls will be much easier to build, that is, learn to do good. These two stages have to do with your karma, enabling them to move forward without any catastrophe in the astral and mental. And no entity in this vast universe has been able to escape or defy this law. Look at the disciples of the true Masters: are always active according to the line and spiritual legacy of his Master. Why act like this? There are many good reasons for this.

First, pay the debt contracted to receive initiation and support, and purification of their cars subtle (astral and mental) for the Master. This invariably brings back payment grace Instructor. Although genuine disciples are aware of the inability to pay

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back everything they receive and the benefits granted to them, they do the best they can and stop worrying about the rest. Otherwise there.

Second, when working along the lines of his Master, learn their work beforehand, knowing that there will come a day when they too will have to carry all the weight of the cross on his shoulders, as he has done all Master.

Third, the last part of the sanctuary, your roof, you might say-that is the purification of one's heart, can only be built when the first two have been erected, and the bondage of karma has been carried to term:

These three commandments of the Buddha are relative, as every intelligent student will certainly, as there are still "good and evil", yet no effort and action. But who could take advantage of the

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commandments 'absolute', if such could ever exist? Only Perfect, who has transcended all relativity itself. But, do you need one of these commandments and or lessons?

On the other hand, it is impossible to instill the immaterial, the absolute, in a human being not yet fully developed. Instructors are well aware of the world and its conditions, and act according to his wisdom.

There is also another kind of keys to the antechamber of Samadhi. But remember, even without exchanging words in this book speak only of things and most practical, focusing on them as they made it convenient, to instruct achievable, without adding any ballast mind whose scar burden and our minds, as a legacy of past experiences and lives. Also very inquisitive seekers can find different guideposts in the words of other instructors, course not lack the ability to feel the subtle perfume of truth, and are therefore its source.

Such people may find interest in the exposure of the two paths to Achievement, the mind and the heart, which is spoken in Chapters VIII and IX, respectively, of concentration.

The Roman Emperor Titus, a philosopher, and a good man when he was on the throne, used to say that "lost is the day in which one does not do a good work." The realization of the three commandments of the Buddha should start right with this "not losing a single day."

The power that will sustain you in your decision to follow this maxim, grow in proportion to your resistance. This power can not be described, but it can, and should, be felt and known. One of the attributes that can be mentioned is that "is at once both inside and outside of us."

Another means leading to the establishment of the Inner Sanctum within us, is the practice of the well known rule in eastern or Hindu holy books-ahimsa, or harmlessness. We should not harm anyone, or bring any suffering to the world by our actions. It is also a very broad rule, and exclusion from harm in our actions needs a lot of practice and concentration philosophy in life, with keen observation skills.

There is in us a dirty element that abusive speech incites us at alfileteo of our peers, without any reason or purpose. Sometimes people like to be sarcastic, to have sharp tongues. We can not be occupied by the building of the Inner Temple, as mentioned before, and while spreading feelings, thoughts, speech and negative actions around us. Why is this so? Very simple! These negatives are the ugly manifestations of the ego, that bulwark of separateness, of that great lie, which led, as occultists say, the fall of man and his present degradation. But the Samadhi is just full and realized that illusive denial of separation, based essentially on the trascendimiento of mind, which is the last bastion of selfishness. The Supernals is so incompatible with slavery directed by the ego, such as the fire mixed with water. This will be quite clear at the end of this book, when you make attempts to translate the experiences of Samadhi human language.

All this must be clearly understood, and the student should not have any dreamy imagination, it may be able to achieve true Samadhi and still remain a slave to his vices and his Rector supreme-selfishness, or internal belief in their separate existence . During

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throughout his long life can repeat the verses of Shankaracharya or Maharshi, and the sayings of Christ or Buddha, which traditionally ascribed the power to elevate the human consciousness beyond its present level, and still be far from true Samadhi, if materialistic selfishness is his master. This is the cause of the fact that only Perfect Men (Masters), with no trace of separateness in them, can enjoy Sahaja (Perennial) Nirvikalpa (No way) Samadhi.

And it is just the amount of the grand illusion (Maya) of selfishness, which still exists in us in a hidden state, which does not allow us to reach the Sahaja, but only Kevala, ie the Supernals temporary flights of the future.

Nothing can change this fact, and it is up to us, if we are rational beings and evolving, trying to reduce the intervals between these flights as much as possible, and thus extend our lift to the Truth of the Spirit.

Those who are fortunate enough to preserve a genuine faith and love in the Master Teacher (This expression was used by both Sri Maharshi as P. Sédir.), Can be greatly helped in building their Inner Sanctum, by Gnostic prayer, which are present even in the mystical tradition of one of the ancient churches.

Be used as a forklift and purifying meditation throughout life as well as in the last one hour.

"Hoya admit me Your Last Supper, O Son of God!

Well not betray any secrets to your enemies,

Neither will give you a kiss like Judas,

But like the thief gold you:

Remember me, O Lord, to come into Your Kingdom! "

The comments, if needed some can only be found in your own heart.

By practicing these meditations and theurgic formulas (or sentences), the student experiences a wave usually defined internal elation or happiness of a subtle kind, and so-called 'dematerialisation' time, which means turning attention here to the higher spiritual conceptions , undying and unselfish that then arise in consciousness.

Moreover, one can then even fully realize that these are probably just the best moments of life, and one would not trade for any of the attractions and physical gifts or everyday.

Well, then why are there so many failures? Simply because men who experience domestic bliss that are too exposed to the ever-flowing forget turmoil and petty pleasures or desires of material and mortal life. This omission is fatal, it is the only true cause and factor we Path of Attainment sweeps. This statement should be pondered according to one's personal life, to become firmly convinced of their veracity. When this happens, you can see the enemy more clearly, and thus be able to prevent that.

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Those who have succeeded are called, depending on their degree of progress-true saints or yogis, and when running the Path, or Men Perfect Masters.

Therefore, the constant admonitions to his disciples, the Masters are always uniform:

Never forget, but consistently practice these things unceasingly and your meditations and prayers, omitting memorize your beatific influence on you. Comparadlas constantly with the dark unconscious life conditions as are led by the majority of your brethren. Otherwise you could easily forget what should not be forgotten, and only remember your last hour, but it will be too late to fight the visions and nightmares of a frustrated life, an incarnation spiritually barren, bringing new suffering and toil for the future.

This is also one of the causes that make men flee as death.

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Finally, the sanctuary within us, to be erected, means that our fulero no longer lies in the visible and tangible, accessible to our senses. It means that our best part, we consider to be the closest to our core or Ser-being in another world, happier, beautiful and real, because of its relative permanence. This is a result that we have built using purity, inner harmony, and that perennial element in us which is hidden behind all manifested life spark.

Then the temple is ready to receive the light of Samadhi.

Sometimes, those who are mature enough to use mystical prayer mentioned in this chapter, have the immediate result and wonderful experiences. Feelings of immense bliss penetrate them, tears dripping profusely often, the beating of their hearts became as it does in a huff, and even speech dies on his lips. Know that this is the sign that the golden door is ready to open up to you. Persevere and enter the temple built by your own efforts, and consecrated by the almighty Spirit.

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CHAPTER X - THE WORLD AND I

Verse 432: "To be selfless and consciousness of possession, even exist in this body, which is like a shadow, is the characteristic of a jivanmukta.».

Verse 462: "Where does the reality of what is supposed to, and what is the origin of unreality? Whence comes, then, the destruction of the unborn? Where does the prarabdha of what is unreal?

As you can see, the Samadhi requires a lot of changes in your attitude and psychology. The give in this work broadly, if they apply, dispense of the details, as these will be developed by individual student awareness.

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These lines come to us in an unusual way, because only from Samadhi can be seen as relative qualities, grouped just below the level of consciousness Samādhi in the aspirant.

From this comes the claim that, since attitudes can be recognized as precursors of Samadhi, should therefore be practiced by those who have not yet experienced the Supernals, to serve as valuable steps leading to the top. All Part II of this work consists just of these steps.

We now turn to the cardinal problem of our self and the outside world, as far as these two terms still have meaning for us. This problem is resolved in Samadhi forever, beyond all doubts and questions, simply because the duality is unthinkable and impossible in that transcendent state.

On the other hand, is the main condition of Samadhi in the 'Fourth Estate' (see Concentration (Posted by Luis Carcamo, editor (Madrid, 1978).) No me or no-self, but only the unpolarized Reality indivisible, and beyond subject and object. been awake In our "normal" basic duality prevails, and binary: Self and not-self (or the external world) remain. Firstly, let us briefly what the I , in consciousness "normal" common man.

We can not speak of any advanced form of self until we have fully realized what an ordinary human self-EGO.

Sit quietly, preferably alone, and ask yourself: "Who am I right now?" Reject for a while all your theories and teachings-if you are in any way familiar with certain conceptions of the higher forms of I-because you have to start with your experience real and true to yourselves, and not any theory, no matter how acceptable, sublime and true may be for you at this time. A bird starts flying first pushing your body away from the ground by a rebound forced her legs, but first they have to find those legs strong support on the hard surface. Perhaps this analogy will help just for you in your meditation at this time.

So what is it that makes us when we are sitting and trying to approach the nearest possible meaning of our self, and you can not operate with anything else other than your own conscience?

Think about this until you accept it as it expresses your own inner truth. I speak deliberately of your self, then we can not use anything else other than our own conscience. Of course, when resolváis the problem for yourself, you will be in a position to understand something about the other selves, that fill the world around you. These other selves not really exist, but, until it reaches the Samadhi, the illusion remains. "Only the Samādhi can reveal the truth," said the Maharshi.

In our meditation and self-analysis process we inevitably to certain responses, which can be anticipated here. These are:

a) I am this "something" that sits and meditates on Himself.

b) Different thoughts come to me from outer space, but I try to filter them, accepting only those that relate to my current problem-my self each day.

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c) I have also really feeling my physical body, but as I know from previous chapters, is too far from the real me to be considered in this meditation.

d) The ability to think, and, what is of utmost importance, to filter and select my thoughts, allowing only those needed to enter the magic circle of my conscience, certainly an attribute of myself.

e) Therefore, I am not these mental functions in any way.

f) From this real conception comes another, again cardinal value for all students: I can not say I'm This or That, for that is just mental imagery, a product, one thing, and not I, who observes and really meditate about it.

g) Therefore, I end up with all the futile attempts to find myself among things, no matter how eminent or even transcendent can be like. The fact that my conscience is able to deal with them, makes them as just objects, but not the subject itself.

h) Therefore, everything that I find my self now, is That which thinks and feels, and it has many properties and other things. But all these things That you can not have in themselves. This should put an end to our research for a while, this research will be the basis for our relationship with all things and forces that are beyond us, that is, the world as we used to call this "collection" .

How does the world with us?

1. First, the objects apart from our own body, over which we have some authority, including everything we see, hear, touch, and others, are rejected by us as being not-self, they can not help much.

Two. Apart from (1) above, there are some interesting things that can affect us. These are the selves that are supposed to be like us, but who are separated from our self through their bodies visible (and invisible). In them there is also a similar degree of consciousness-life, on whose content we can only guess at more or less likely.

Three. These consciences ingrown-selves, are the active part of the world around us, of our not-self.

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These basic meditations examples will suffice, if practiced consistently, until the matter becomes clear to us. This great problem of man and the universe that surrounds it, has been the subject of many philosophical theories, but here we need only a few specific individual conceptions, and immediately workable. At this point the student will do well to practice both series of meditations, and trying to get some definite conclusions about them. It's always something so intensely individual-as it should be-that I take care of any unnecessary and hopeless task as trying to suggest or print upon you my own solution, which I also had to find at some point in my past. I hope you understand that this is only correct at this stage, at this time. Accordingly, we turn to logical approaches that can be applied to anyone, without limiting its initiative, while helping to develop it.

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There are two known mental conceptions. The first is that we are dependent on the world, being only a part of it and being influenced by him. In this case the binary (part and whole) still continues to exist, and it is difficult to foresee any possible neutralization of it (that is, a solution for it). All we can say is that here the whole seems to have his own life, who proceeds on many lines (current) above and beyond our own line.

Sometimes has a direction similar to ours, and then cooperates with or helps us, as some people like to say. So it's good for us. But often things are just the opposite. And then the forces of the world move in directions vastly different from ours, which intersect and even damaged.

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So bad, not good for us. In our lives we try to balance the influence of the outside world about us, restricting (as we can) the opposing currents, and join cooperatives.

Sometimes we succeed, then we are happy for a while, we often can not control things as we wish, and then live unhappily.

At this level, has not found any permanent solution of the binary, to fight the individuals (egos) apart. All we can do for our present purpose is to note the fact.

The second view is that they are virtually independent of the outside world. If this is done, great things happen in our lives. One then refuses to yield to the temptations and threats of the world because one's attitude can be defined best by the words of a Great Teacher of mankind: "Be in the world but not of it." This means that the man should not be limited by external conditions, and that his true self is beyond them. Analyze what is your position now.

The world's independence is achieved when the events have no power over our moods and states of mind. The bad news, physical shocks or illness, a task successful, robust health, all these things that come from the outside world, become as images, moving in a cinema. The look, but know they are only illusory reflections of the actor's performance, recorded on film, and then projected onto a screen cold and lifeless. Does not happen perhaps the same with our existence here? Some power breathed life into our bodies, that without that breath become the same dust from which they emerged. Many people have complained that the outside world conditions make any deeper introspection inside impossible for them. "I have simply no time for it," they say. "I have taken all my time with real-life problems, and I have nothing for the spiritual aspirations." Here lies the main difficulty and misunderstanding. The base is, of course, identifying their bodies by these people. It is only the body that underlies these different conditions, but not the invisible man, independent (at least should be true if you are advanced enough) of their shells perishable. The misunderstanding lies in the widespread conviction that any diligent internal work, concentration or meditation, is possible only in conditions almost hermit, without having really nothing to do other than the deliberation and contemplation. In fact, such karmic conditions usually only get them very mature souls who have gone through most terrestrial tribulations, and have transferred their consciousness to foundations. If an immature man could get the karma of a person so advanced, it would be extremely unhappy and bored. He fiercely strive to achieve "a more real and

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interesting." While the hermit or the occult happily dwell quietly and meditate, the "worldly man" has no intention of doing anything of the kind. He tries to dive into the vortex of life together.

Knowing this will make your decisions easier and appropriate. But a man who enters the Path has a different attitude toward the world. He knows he has to live among those whom the infallible karma (created by himself, and no one else) gets in your way in this incarnation. And he also knows that, in order to achieve conditions belonging to highly developed souls, must combat imperfections in it yourself, purify your karma accounts, and work progressively over your mind and emotions, to acquire the main virtue, this is , the right focus. But the latter can be carried out even without putting any special system involved. This statement could be amazing from the author who wrote a book called Concentration, but it is. By concentrating all your attention on everything that you do every moment of your life, you will obtain the same results as if pasaseis successfully throughout the course of mental manual above.

So why was it written?, This would be a reasonable question: because such concentration is too difficult and hard for beginners to practice it, and not too easy even for advanced people. Only Masters are perfect in such concentration. That's the answer.

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This concentration on one's own activities in every minute of every day, which is necessarily connected with the internal detachment-that is, merely observing with the greatest attention, or concentration in other words, the work to be done, can be recommended to anyone who is able to do it. I used to do the same since I took out what I wrote in that book. If you wish to know the secret of an exercise and why it is so effective, it Realize that consciousness remains undisturbed and in peace, while the mind machine works apart from it.

When I write everything you read now, my mind is restricted to put ideas into words and sentences. There is no discussion, or thoughts like, "What do you write or tell you now?", "How should I deal with this or another problem?" And others.

Ideas come gradually and quietly from the Silence of consciousness, despite the fact that around me people can be talking, may have appliances in use in a laboratory and sometimes have the need to watch their movements, and addressing complicated dials, and others.

I'm quoting this practical example to clarify for you the problem concerning the role that the outside world can and should play in your lives. And we have to be stronger than this world. Not by a pompous and "exhibitionist" show of force that will test just the opposite, but by a quiet stream and relentless force in our consciousness and full awareness of what is happening inside and outside of us. This is the right attitude in relation to the title of this chapter. This book, as well as concentration, has been written primarily, not in the peaceful silence of the studio in my home, but right in the tumult of worldly life, in the midst of other work. So no one should believe that those conditions are successful you from a study of the concentration, or even the trails leading to the Supernals-the Samadhi. The Maharshi responded

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to questions about barriers to work and internal progress, saying: "It is your mind wandering and your lifestyle perverts who prevent your enlightenment."

This lighting requires the solution of the great problem: "The World and I». You can find it following closely the material presented in this chapter, thereby finding what relationship should exist between your self and the world. The Maharshi taught that there is no such thing as an active and conscious interference in the world to us. The world does not have a separate self, will, or qualities by itself. It's just like us, components (I am referring here to the material manifestation consists of three planes, which we call 'the world'). Dominating and controlling our own microcosm of three planes, we become able to influence the macrocosm.

In the upper grades, of course, is possible only for exceptionally powerful and spiritualized beings. We then speak of "miracles", the foundation of a new religion, or the opening of new spiritual paths by the Messiah or other Messengers from Above-the realm of Truth.

However, on a smaller scale, each of us is contributing something to the world, impressing a good or bad influence on our surroundings, depending on our own internal contents.

"A good man brings good things out of a good treasure, and an evil man brings evil things out of an evil treasure." (Matthew, 12, 35.)

In any case, we are responsible for what we bring to our environment. The world cooperate with us and make our job easier, if we begin to implement the three "commandments" of the Lord Buddha, mentioned in the previous chapter. But the world will apparently be our enemy if we add weight to your karma by our own folly and selfishness.

Everyone should choose their own path knowing the reward that awaits you this in the future. The law of cause and effect can not be tonteada, reduced or avoided. How strange it seems to be the original "philosophy" of men who, while recognizing the need for the law of cause and effect in the material world, the refuse in the more subtle manifestations of being! They know that energy does not disappear in the vast universe, but it is just transformed in different ways. So, why the hidden energy in all our activities should contradict this law?

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CHAPTER XI - THE INNER STRENGTH IS IN U.S.

Verse 448: "By the knowledge that I (the Lakes) am Brahman, Karma acquired in billions of kalpas is extinct, as is the karma of the waking dream life."

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Verse 508: "I am neither the doer nor the instigator, I am neither the promoter nor enjoying joy. I do not see no others to see, but I am the Atman that is self-illuminated and different (than anything else). "

To obtain a higher spiritual status by those who were not born with it, it takes effort, surely no reasonable person will deny. Similarly, the Samadhi can not be easily achieved without considerable show of force. Therefore, to our arsenal of capabilities we need to add the strength that we can help to overcome the many obstacles and difficulties of the Path, about which we will hear more in Part III of this book.

What is man's inner strength? Generally speaking character is a property that allows us to hold fast to the line chosen in life aside and conquer the opposition forces, and thus achieve the ultimate goal. But there are various manifestations of this power, and they will be dedicated this chapter.

A) The internal force is initially required to make a definite decision. Before we get into the Path there are certainly many different avenues that should be considered. Some of them may be superficially more attractive and gains immediate promising life. It's a well known fact in occultism, the strongest temptations that assail the man just when it tries to leave the paths of the struggles and materialistic desires and illusory. You can easily perform the futility of using your perishable incarnations temporarily objectives, which ultimately leave you helpless. It may well be that you know about this terrible 'fire' called frustration, that tortures people losing their lives. This suffering is bitter enough for a man incarnate, but really becomes hellish when a man passes from earthly life to a new form, that of the results. Then, no longer having a physical body can not correct the faults and mistakes he made on the physical plane, and now perceived as clearly.

And all this may still be insufficient to turn to the right path, if we do not have the required amount of inner strength and firmness. There is no better way to develop the practice of concentration.

B) When a decision has been made, and we try to take our first steps on a new path leading to the acquisition of broader perception is in the Supernals, new obstacles appear. These are distractions that come along with the tendency to forget what we decided to do every day in our new path. Then we have to fight them, using our internal strength for this purpose.

Different people need different methods to do this, and they are often too individual to be mentioned here as suitable for most of us.

But the fulcrum of all of them would be a meditation autosugerida:

"I decided on what I have to do to achieve a higher status in my consciousness, elevating the Samadhi. I'm able to do it. It is my firm decision to do so. It is extremely good for me, and nothing better could be chosen by me. I know that all my effort obstacles are sent against FOE. But my strength is greater than all the temptations, and reach my goal. "

This is the grain of self-affirmation that is connected with this show of force. Ad libitum can be used as needed.

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C) greater inner strength is needed for a sustained effort. Later we will see that special meditations are to be carried out regularly (Part III), uninterrupted by any external event.

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say, a toothache cancel our daily program and make us retreat instead of going forward. If not we show our superiority over petty obstacles, how we would be able to withstand greater difficulties, which can be found (and usually will) when we are well advanced on the Path? This steady stream of power will be supported by you, if you try not to forget persistently resides your true "homeland" and "who" you are.

We understand that the firm conviction that we are not the perishable body, and that this is not our dearest possession, or even our fullest expression in this period of our experience, which is still a shell around the core immortal.

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Years ago, when visiting the famous catacombs under Paris, with thousands of skeletons arranged along the streets and corners of the underground kingdom of death, I noticed a very realistic statement inscribed above entrances and main avenues: "We have been what you are now, but you will be what we are. "

Everything is sad and quiet in the house of death, where there are only two colors, the white and the black bones of the inscriptions on the shields of the walls white. However, I noticed that many visitors to the catacombs appeared to be little affected by the ominous truth staring them from the high walls and niches. They walked between the walls of skulls and bones, showing curiosity before speech silent introspection of human remains.

Common to all is that sensitive people avoid thinking about unpleasant things, especially death. In the second half of the twentieth century the problem of death is being treated more often, and more often hear discussions about dying. But fifty years ago was different, and talk of death was rather shunned and regarded with distaste. The force in man does not retract at the thought of death, or is afraid of him. But we should discriminate between lack of fear that comes from such a force, and the bravery hysterical fool.

The Samadhi is not a refuge for cowards, weaklings or ignorant people. Any of these three guys who try to reach it must be prepared for a bitter disappointment, he never will succeed, and will only be frustrated at the end.

The origin of the true strength of man can be traced to the conditions in which this quality was developed and on which it depends. First, there must be an element of knowledge that comes from experience. You know why you should avoid fear and weakness, when he recalls the painful

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consequences that are undergoing these two vices. They should also remember the positive results for its deletion.

This is the normal path of evolution. But there are also people who possess the same knowledge without reference to the memory of past experiences. In such rare cases we speak of intuitive wisdom. This comes from the distant past of man, that is, of the first incarnations, in which these qualities developed empirically.

Second, the internal force should have as one of its roots a conviction of their correctness developed philosophically. You can take an analogy from the physical world-a more powerful, muscular man can make one weak. An occultist, knowing the old Hermetic axiom, "As above, so below, as below so above", will have no doubt about the good reasons to be strong.

Third, the development of inner strength necessary to fight the temptations physical, emotional and mental, which are insurmountable obstacles to spiritual consciousness in us. Here there can be no betrayal. The man must be able to rule (even temporarily, if your rate is Kevala Samadhi) everything is relative and perishable in it, before it can enter the Temple Silent. Nothing else will get it. Therefore, we have to make a closer inspection of the way in which you have to fight the three classes

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weaknesses, temptations in us. The road to Samadhi is not compatible with the harsh practices of fakirs and other puppeteers, who try to bring their bodies lying down on nails, holding a hand up until it withers and dies, and others. Such self-mutilation gives no real strength of character and will. Then a person can still be greedy (and usually is) money, irritable, and impatient in other domains of life, and others. Examples of occult doubtful that people naive offs are sufficient to support this claim.

The inner strength of man should manifest on the physical plane as an ability to be satisfied with simple food and drink, used in reasonable quantities: not too little (as this will only bring about starvation and a weakening of the physical machinery, jamming therefore its resistance) nor long (indulgence in overeating willpower breaks and makes a man lazy). The voice of the body that needs some special meals tasty varieties and refined dishes, be phased out clearly. Enter here the different habits also very common to contemporary men, such as smoking snuff, opium, hashish, marijuana, and others that are definitely murderers of the will of man. The explanation is simple: anyone capable of logical reasoning accept that these habits are harmful, and yet he can not stop what is harmful to him, as if his mind dictate the thinking allowed according to strict logic. Then arises, and quite naturally, the question: who is the rector of a man? Respondeos this problem yourself, and will be of great value to you.

The strength in relation to the temptations and physical conditions is not self-torture meaningless (that is, and can only be unilateral, and therefore always insufficient), only the ability to resist all temptations at will, at any time and under all conditions. In this area you must use a depth psychology, and in a very intelligent. For example, you are very thirsty, which means that your body lose more fluid than you received. A glass of water will be enough to appease the thirst really need, but you could feel need icily

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cold beer, lemonade, or other kind of drink. What will you do finally? The desire must be suppressed, the "lust" rejected, and must be taken ordinary water instead of tasty substitutes.

In other conditions, when they have a special wish for a drink, some friends may offer you a pleasant and refreshing. At this point you can accept it without fear of weakening your will, because your body is not trying then to impose their desire upon you. This rule will work well in almost all conditions of life, and not suffer you to be overcome by "foreign powers." But there is a physical obstacle is much more difficult to conquer-sexual need. It is not easy! No! It is very hard to be able to use our rule of force in this case, as here activity and desire seem to be inseparable. This applies to anyone, with only an infinitesimal number of exceptions, and then only with truly exceptional men. But - wish reach Samadhi, which will make you a human being quite exceptional!

It would be useless to try to explain the special kind of psychology that operates in such rare cases, so the general rule for us will be: since you can not serve both God and Mammon, you have to give up one or the other. Briefly, Supernals and sexuality are polar opposites, and never can be found in practice. However, there may be a 'comfort' at this point: when really your attainment of Samadhi, all lower desires will be eradicated and become vain in a most naturally and efficiently. But before this happens, the efforts and attempts can not be ruled out. As always, I'm talking about the real Samadhi, not any kind of vision or other cheap ecstasy.

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Another source of strength is inner peace. Whoever made peace in itself, it possesses power. I'm not taking into consideration the flashes of energy that is often found in some people, that may appear to be manifestations of inner strength in them. The

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true strength is a quality quite different. It is always available for your lucky owner, who never makes a display cascading from above, and look after the majestic flow of a large river like the Amazon or the Mississippi, you will come to understand the difference.

The Samadhi, indescribable in any language of the mind, has a precursor, this quiet and inesforzada strength of man.

Strength also means the absence of fear. What is fear? The absence of self-assertion in the most critical moments, lack of self-knowledge, and the presence of uncertainty, anticipation of future suffering, and identification of oneself with the body, by the ignorance of one destination and purpose in life.

Upon such a foundation is built the ominous castle of fear. The lower manifestation of fear is physical cowardice in suffering, which could damage or even destroy the body visible. An astute student will say that all these things have a single source profane: identification (conscious or unconscious) with the physical body, and will be right. All evil can be traced back to the body. In his name and for his sake, all sins committed, but not by reason of non-materialistic attitudes. It is a vicious and tragic, this identification with the body, this cage of flesh, which people suffer as birds trapped, throwing against

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the impenetrable walls-even death. And the solution is so simple: is fully realized in the Samadhi, but it is anticipated, immediately bringing solace and victory over the nightmare of death, even in advance, when man is moving up the steps of the invisible but well Real scale, leading to the destruction of the tragic myth - "I am the body."

Those who have read the first two books of my trilogy Mystic (being In Days of Great Peace and Concentration on first and second, respectively) and this, the third and last, the saying of the Wise know Maharshi, who attributed all the destruction achievement Absolute final idea of "Body am '.

The inner power that is within us not only destroys misconceptions, or otherwise would be like a dead end. Actually, when we separated from falsehood, the hidden roots of truth that is in us start sending up their first tiny buds, germinating like a seed that brings air its green stem so that becomes real and visible. It is exactly the same with the destruction of the falsity of "Body am '. Then he begins to feel and perceive in himself growing evidence that show you step by step how you can live without identifying with your physical shell, and live a much better, more reasonable, high and imperishable. Nobody will give any degree until you have passed all your exams in ways that show you have done some internal work, cualificándoos for those grades.

This is exactly the case with the "degree" spiritual. We can not get, and not get something for nothing. But unfortunately, the mass of humanity believes in this nonsense. That is why, in our time, there are so many hidden rascals who try to exploit this folly of men, promising the last to carry out their work for them (of course, for a reward convenient) and that the "start 'essential effortlessly from them. This is why so many books appear to present and "teachings" useless, found sometimes with a "success" in sales. But a few sincere and truthful books that do not hide the truth of the need for a tough job for any achievement, have less acceptance in this twentieth century.

Sages were Romans who knew this, and they said: "The world likes to be fooled."

Lots of people prefer misleading but flattering words, before the quiet and unpretentious speaks of Truth.

In summary, this chapter will conclude with a final comment: The man's inner strength is an additional condition for the attainment of Samadhi, the last only the realization of the force developed to infinity.

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In the Western Scriptures we find a statement, in which we are told that "Heaven must be taken by storm." This fits perfectly with our ideas about achieving Supernals.

Thinking that one is weak and therefore unable to carry out the work and effort, it is time to commit suicide, since it cuts off any possibility for a man, and a lack of faith in the supreme principle of man-the Holy invincible. 's Breath freezes to death a man who denies itself the germ of the Spirit, which aims to eternal Life. Western Master told us in his Gospel, speaking of the relationship between the three manifestations of the One (ie, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit), that:

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"... Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven."

"And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven him, neither in this world nor in the world to come."

Perhaps, having read the previous paragraphs, the great and mysterious words of Christ become more understandable for us.

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CHAPTER XII - THE GREAT LAW OF SACRIFICE

Verse 472: "The great ascetics who have abandoned desires and joys ruled, who have submitted their minds and senses, knowing the supreme truth, finally reach Parinirvana through union with the Atman (the Logos)."

This Act also belongs to the cornerstones of Samādhi that develop in us. What is the sacrifice? Strictly speaking, is to pay something attractive but lower class, for the acquisition of a greater thing, though not immediately perceivable. That is why, outside, this sort of "exchange" seems to be connected with suffering and-perhaps-with the loss. Of course, these are only apparent disadvantages. An occultist that develops will power itself, refuse to satisfy certain of their desires, thereby gaining internal strength and stability in your consciousness.

I admit, could be sometimes grotesque denying oneself certain pleasures, above or controlled or sacrificed. But if a man knows the benefits that could result from doing so, always follow through with it, thus becoming increasingly strong.

However, the first step may lack the beneficial knowledge that the seed of sacrifice brings a rich harvest. Then he follows only the faint voice of his intuition child yet, but this makes no difference as to the final results.

Now, what do we have to sacrifice if we are to achieve the goal, the Samadhi? A more technical answer would seem to be short and simple. Since opening Samadhi is absolute consciousness (ie, spiritual) and universal in man, all that is in us that time is relative and must be removed as obstacles on the Path of Attainment. Such is the axiom that presents the truth, which is much easier said than done.

Therefore, this chapter dedicate different aspects of sacrifice, and the reasons for that is performed.

(A) Sacrifice in the Physical World

Our body is our vehicle, but not our Lord, as it seems to the majority of men in this period. What are our duties to that vehicle? The fact that we are currently in possession of it who still need proof, because the process of evolution. So we should treat him fairly, the same way as a jockey handles his horse. We have to feed it, according to their actual needs, but we can not afford to succumb to the wishes of this cage of

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flesh, and indulgir in luxury, comfort excessive, and others. What is the right way it will be tested by the obvious benefits that follow all reasonable training body. If the latter seems to be spoiled by our previous indulgences, a purification process can be indicated and then started as pranayama (see Concentration, Part III), some kind of diet, and exercise. All this will be successful if our intelligence is strong enough to reach correct conclusions. For example, some people say, "Well, I can limit many excesses in my physical life, but I can not quit. It would make my life too boring. "

Consider the problem.

A guided intelligently mind must accept that, say, smoking is a disadvantage both for our body and for our willpower. Therefore, logically, this habit must be clearly abandoned and sacrificed. If you follow this decision, you have earned a very important battle. If one is so, inquire what is the obstacle that is contributing to your defeat, and find that it is a physical desire of certain reactions in your body, caused by the use of nicotine in your cigarettes. That is what the body wants!

Now, to whom you surrender if you can not stop that desire? The answer is in you. Not being able to take the first step firm, all these become vain. Abandon then your idea of raising your consciousness to the Samādhi himalayanas cusps. It just will not work. This is just a small example, but may be sufficient,

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as all other conditions of the physical plane will just variations-of the newly cited. The lack of the necessary degree of control over the body, strangle concentraros your efforts, meditation, and finally your consciousness separate from the cage of your brain. But there is a warning!

Fight only physical obstacles and kill only the amenities that really hinder your way. This does not mean all habits that is constructed on all your physical life as long as they do not impede your efforts actively. If you prefer to sleep in a position rather than the other, if you prefer rice to potatoes in your diet, or black tea to white tea after your meal, and others, is something that does not matter. Not essential and only insofar as you feel completely able to change at will these habits. This means that if you begin to eat rice instead of potatoes and this brand very little difference to you, you can please the body in this matter.

But if changing some habit seems to make you unhappy and creates in you an internal problem, then combatidlo until complete annihilation. Otherwise, you will not be in a position to make any further progress. I think I've explained the physical control modes sufficiently in order to go to the next step, the practice of the law of sacrifice in the emotional field.

(B) Sacrifice in the Astral

This is a more subtle issue, because it involves the clear perception, that your life belongs to this plane. It has been said enough in Chapters III and IV on theoretical discrimination between the astral and mental worlds, and we have to realize that the practical application is again based on the execution of at least two series of exercises given in Concentration, Part III. So there is no need to quote from that book, because it would be full pages involved.

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Hence, an enumeration of the emotional life extension should be monitored and sacrificed be enough for our purpose in this point. The important principle is always the same emotions and desires sacrificing children acquire inner strength that leads to much greater gains. Another equally important principle for the flight to Samadhi, but less well known is that the factors are satisfied astral unconquered as cornices and tied at the foot of a swimmer. He must plunge, he can not expect to keep his head above the surface. If properly investigated, the reason for this becomes clear and logical. You know that the Samadhi means freedom, absolute, emotions, thoughts, and all duality. If one of these three factors slips lower on your conscience when you try to transfer it to the Fourth Estate (another term for the Samadhi), the main condition just mentioned (ie, freedom) is not satisfied, and there can be no positive result only frustration.

There is a very interesting fact: only astral vibrations (ie, feelings and emotions) below, disorderly or indifferent are obstacles at the beginning, and only they should be culled. This refers to those specified in Chapter VIII which deals with negative astral. But the positive vibrations (love, harmony, inner peace, unselfish attitude, and so on), or, as usually prefer to say, "good", there are obstacles, as they have inquisitorial nature or obtrusive. In other words, do not become unwanted intruders when we need an absolute vacuum and freedom of all influences belonging to the three material worlds.

Those that will adversely affect are defined as negative. Especially pernicious is the useless curiosity, which allows us to focus on what you really want. This obstacle has been treated extensively in Parts I and II of Concentration. The main thing about this particular obstacle is that, at the time you decide to carry out some exercises or meditation, many seemingly urgent problems, all of which demand immediate solution arise in your consciousness. They do not attack you so strong and persistent at times when you're busy with flat and mundane things everyday. This kind of feelings should be rejected without mercy, as they can easily thwart your efforts.

More advanced students, operating with theurgic mantras and techniques (concentrated short sentences and incessantly repeated formulas) can be attacked more dangerous otherwise, which is clearly of some external force centers and enemies, and none that are not

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good. This happens when you repeat mentally high sentence or sentence, and then, instead of a word or godly wise, something is foolish expression tub insert, and often repulsive or even indecent. This happens when we are not alert enough, and consent to automatically verbalizándolas simply repeating phrases, and saturating them with the light of our consciousness, that is, not getting enough attention in meaning.

Those who are affected by this obstacle say it looks like an "alien power" of space surrounding mental astro wanted to damage the inner workings of the occult. The best means against this type of intruder would pay more attention to the mantras or prayers. Can also be used astral armor (see Concentration, Part III). Those familiar with the Western Tradition (IIH) and practical magic, can use his magic sword to clear the astral currents swirling that condense around them (see The Tarot ... Chapters III and V).

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It remains to summarize all that has been said so far in this chapter, and the details described can be summarized to provide the following attitude.

"I am resigning and sacrificing all the astral world to achieve my goal because that goal I can only find fulfillment of the Ultimate Truth in me.

(C) Sacrifice in the Mental

At present we have much more to sacrifice the activities of our minds that people of past ages. Our minds are much more complicated, and we have developed many categories of thought absolutely unknown to our early ancestors. This, of course, refers primarily to the art and science everything connected to it. But this sort of mental development is not any use for upper class consciousness, as is the Samadhi. Rather makes for a contemporary man "civilized" is more difficult to get a real handle on a mental body, which for an aspiring Indian Yoga, or even occultists hundreds or thousands of years. The multiplicity of thoughts, words and complicated combinations in the brain itself must be reduced, in the course of training that is targeted at the Samadhi, just the numbers needed, and finally, they must be removed when the goal is to view.

We can summarize this by repeating again the main feature Supernals: there's nothing left on, only the Absolute.

What is the Absolute? What exists remains, persists when everything changes and all temporal attributes cease to be. If we apply this to our present mental states, we see that there really is little we can "take" with us in the great journey to unconditional eternal Reality domain. Some people may even feel scared by the immensity of things that have to be abandoned. Some examples that should be considered by the individual are:

Delight in endless reading and interest in mental creations of other men who are ignorant of the Path. This is because none of the mental ocean "outside" can help you, but it certainly will make your goal unattainable if you split it in time.

In practice, this does not mean that every printed word, written or spoken should be taboo for you. At first glance a seeker of success not much different from an ordinary man. It may well read your newspaper when it is convenient, and can chat with your neighbor or friend, but if you could perceive the inner side of things, you would see that all these activities are just like dreams, without any real participation in such "maker". He just is not interested in them, having focused on a very different level. This is the right attitude.

The discussions and attempts to convert others to their creed must be killed too, along with all intolerance towards opinions, even the most ignorant, heard by us, as such behavior would be as irrational as useless.

The strength to a sincere attempt to reach the higher state of consciousness is never born of painful doubts or belief. Applicants who succeed are born rather than made in their life time. Such people, from his earliest years, reveals some introspection

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deeper into their inner world and imponderable, being more interested in these issues of what the average man what is with external things.

If you have to take a step in the current incarnation of a search engine how that, he will find, in time, a book or a man that will give the indication and inspiration needed for the Path. But if the higher things apparent interest arises as a result of mental influence of a brilliant orator or logical conviction, usually will not be durable, and should be forgotten. That is why it would be quite useless to try to engage people on a spiritual quest inadequate.

Christ divided the people into two categories, one mature and the other immature. Even the Great Teacher had to recognize the fact of our different positions on evolution, as already mentioned in Chapter IX-when he spoke of the dead bury their dead, and others.

The student will do well to meditate on the impossibility of any general equality in the evolution of man. Always highly developed individuals who have succeeded in rejecting more veils of their shells, and who, therefore, are more and better things around and within them. If, perhaps, religions are more suitable for "mass consumption", the hard path is rarely trodden Samādhi and find the opportunity and privilege to meet a fellow traveler is very light.

Some fifty years ago (I'm writing this in 1960), the subject on which we now speak quite freely in this book was unknown except for a very few occultists, both East and West, and there was no relevant literature value. I am referring to the great idea of achieving the highest state of consciousness called Realization in Samadhi.

But there came a spiritual giant in the person of the Great Rishi Ramana, and now can be found everywhere and even discussed their ideas followed. From time to time highly evolved souls, give a boost to those who are mature enough, and you are able to grasp the opportunity and engage in the Path, one of the first steps is the sacrifice previous multilateral cherished illusions and delusions and mental . The term "sacrifice" is not used without premeditation, as our mistakes, incorrect lifestyles and mistakes are possible, not because they really hate them, but, strangely, because we love them. So the process of getting rid of them is as a sacrifice, until the full light begins to shine on us at the end of the thorny path.

Another kind of mental activity that must be paid is the care in our minds of fantasy and its derivatives, such as false hopes, expectations, dry verbiage, and efforts to carry out the impossible: start to mind the mysteries of reality spiritual, not a result of mental development. The latter, of course, runs parallel to spiritual growth, like the face of a wise man has an intelligent expression, but not vice versa, because that does not create a wise face. As the French say: "Where are snakes in the garden, we know that the rain will come, but not raining by snakes.

Here are some well known lines inspired occult A. Horn:

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"There is no sacrifice at all, because it gives the best that has will be given a much higher and better than I had.

So, where is the sacrifice?

He who gives his love will live in love, and all the sorrows of separation leave in place the joy of marriage, because what you give, that's what will win.

The joys of heaven will be given to waiving the joys of the heart.

No sacrifice, because that breaks the adhesions of the heart, break the shackles of her soul.

Fend of all is rich with That which is higher than everything.

All will be given to the one who possesses the spirit of sacrifice, but all will be taken away from anyone who does not have this spirit.

And truly I tell you, whoever loses his life will find it, because it shall enter into That which is eternal life.

So, there is no sacrifice at all. "

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The following quotations about the idea of sacrifice come from another of my books, The Tarot, A Course Contemporary Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism, Chapter XII:

"The power of sacrifice is supreme. It is between those who sacrificed the most for their younger siblings, arising Regents and real transformers of our planetary lives. The greater the sacrifice, the greater the authority and influence of being, who has mastered the real way to realization and spiritual enlightenment.

There was a man who wanted only the good and the Light, and was subjected to all forms of human suffering.

"His closest friends and disciples left him only in his most difficult and tragic times, when he was anticipating his torture and death.

One even betrayed him into the hands of his executors giddy ...

"He accepted it all in the spirit of sacrifice that lived in it. And the result? This man rules now on the most essential elements of life on this planet, the same as so cruelly disowned him almost two thousand years ago ...

"Sometimes a man, listening to the words that come from the realm of spirit active, as is the case with the fulfillment of the sacrifice, his heart feels trapped in an internal movement, like an earthquake. From that moment, is lost for the relative and temporary, but eternal and absolute gains.

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"Through the introduction of the law supreme sacrifice, gets all Wisdom. Who sacrificed everything, knows everything effortless and fatigue. Who sacrificed everything has conquered life, unlimited in time and space, because it has sacrificed everything is relative, what governs the specter of death ... "

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The Cross, as "a symbol of sacrifice, has a unique power of realization when applied with faith and a pure heart. You can have proof of this in your daily life. When you meditate deeply about the sublime sacrifice, that is, when you meditate about it in the sanctuary of your heart, the world and people around you become changed, and then you are able to see this, not only to imagine. »

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CHAPTER XIII - THE LAW OF TRANSFORMATION

Verse 491: "I am not the doer, nor enjoying, I have no change or action. I am pure intelligence, unique and eternal glory. "

If in our state and period can not enjoy these Samādhi, this means that changes are needed in us, in other words, should occur transformations-we finally become able to transcend all, reaching eternal and unchanging state, which is the end. In previous chapters we call this process "the rejection of the veils" as well really is. But it still belongs to the category of activities defined as "transformation". This word is particularly good, as even etymologically is concerned with the "forms". And they are only the forms that change, not the inner core-the Self, which is unchanged. We can, and we must accept it as a logical knowledge but still theoretical. If we can not still Supernals, it is because we still need many transformations. They are definitely an immutable law in the realm of forms, which are the garments that wrap the contents immaterial.

All manifestations of life suffer incessant transformations, from the stones to mammals with man at its peak. For example, the substance of a rock is ground thermal and atmospheric influences, then is carried by a stream to become fertile soil. Plants use it to build their stems and foliage. The latter can be eaten by animals or humans, becoming components of their blood and bodies, which serve as forms that envelop the invisible principle Consciousness. These paragraphs are talking about physical transformations, the astral and mental will come later.

Even the physical transformation law affects every human being. We accept as true, that the more developed awareness-Being, is coated with finest material forms. I do not mean here any conventional beauty of bodies, which does not always coincide with the degree of internal evolution of a man, but simply the quality and development of the physical matter of the body, which apparently is the most

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subtle, and that is just at the boundary between two different worlds. It is the brain and the nerves. Both are less susceptible fine primitives.

As an example, let us assume that the primitive races generally have a surface (ie, convolutions) in the brain much less developed, and less sensitive skins because of the greater distance between the nodes. Several years ago I read about some scientific experiments that were carried out on the issue. While an individual skinned two punctures different feel on its back surface remote from, say, two millimeters, the distance to a black is about double. From this we can see that there are essential differences in living forms, and so does psychology and mentality, which is too well known to be mentioned in detail.

Put another way, means that drivers astral and mental are different also in different types of human beings. So no, nor can there be, any equality from the scientific point of view. But there is a common factor of all men far more important: the immortal spiritual core, which we discussed in previous chapters, and it just has a quality-perfection.

It's like pure heaven: below may have rain, clouds, and destructive storms, but we know that above all these phenomena is the blue sky, no clouds, no stain, not disturbed by anything, eternally free. We see this when clouds are absent.

And it is this factor that occultists insist on the general brotherhood of all men. Still more advanced beings not distinguish between any form of life, they are able to see behind every form. That is why the Maharshi understood the animals around him, and they were able to understand him, that S. Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds and not afraid to go into the woods, where hungry wolves roamed in winter, attacking all other men except him, and did not allow Albert Schweitzer, an earthworm to dry up

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Death on a sunny path of your garden, but took it off and put it back on the protective moisture of the grass.

In this life we have our forms (bodies) and are limited to some extent by them and we are dependent on them. We can not deny this fact, even if we profess to know the unreality of matter and reality-Spirit Being unique. This does not refer to exceptionally advanced beings, as the great Teachers of mankind, who dominated their wrappers to a degree unimaginable to us, but eventually the law of transformation had to be met, and their bodies returned to the general reservoir area, fact that we call decomposition after physical death.

All this has been mentioned to clarify the action of the transformation on the matter. Our bodies are different from those possessed by our childhood, size, components, development and quality of organs, and also in the ability to respond to different kinds of vibrations in consciousness. These bodies become different with advancing years, until they are unable to exist as separate complicated organisms, ie then die.

But here, again, there is no equality. When the ordinary human being advances in years, becomes less active, and astral and mental functions lose their vigor and previous alert, while senility can occur é even

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idiocy. But people do not lose more developed intelligence and activity, and the opposite happens. They remain bright and wise until the end of their lives, advancing even in these qualities over the years. Internal development clearly dominates the influence of age on such men. Many examples are known, and can be found in the biographies of great men, and the curious student will find for yourself what you want to prove these claims. So many scientists, composers, statesmen, and others (including saints) have not succumbed and do not succumb to old age, and rolled alert mind and energy to death. We find enormous comfort in this, as we see that the "content" prevail over the outer shell. Developed consciousness transforms their bodies according to their needs and objectives.

On this plane vibrations be reflected as consciousness, the active intelligence operating through the brain, which is finer physical matter on this planet, sometimes as confirmed by science. But extremely fine vibration, connected with the manifestation of highly evolved life, need a brain developed accordingly. This can not happen with a baby or a child, and this is the reason why, say, Christ and the Maharshi only reached the full expression of his greatness in the early maturity, when the children and adolescents had been .

On our way to the Supernals have to go after similar transformations. Special exercises and sometimes lifestyles, point to this. Now it may be clear why, for example, in a reasonable course of concentration exercises should be trained and placed with great care, so that development can take place and gradual transformation and harmonious man-not only in his astral and your mind, but also in the physical plane, in an evolutionary way safe and non-hazardous.

In the emotional realm (astral) the law of transformation functions similarly to how it does in the physical world. The intensity, clarity and range of our feelings, undergo constant changes from the cradle to the grave. This is understandable. But, for our purposes, should be transformed into a pattern defined and calculated, on which you read more in the previous chapters. In order to approach the Samadhi, our emotions have to be controlled, put in the desired order, and then selected, that is, which of them have to be discarded as useless or harmful, and which held until the final disposal of all astral dissolved in the ocean to the Supernals, which does not need any of them:

This effort, concurrent with a course concentration leads to the transformation of the astral body. Instead of a "cloud" around the silhouette aforme physical, becomes more contoured, and their colors become harmoniously arranged, gaining clarity and purity as our training progresses.

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But no need to be clairvoyant, and see this process for ourselves. The thing is done, and the property of our emotional life be shown, whether we see it directly, or only perceive change the results. Becoming quiet, self-reliant, not irritable, balanced, bold, well-meaning for all and for all, dedicated to a spiritual idea, all this will prove that we are moving towards our target properly. For no man can dream a messy astral or ever hope to reach Samadhi, The Most High can not be tricked! Those who have reached this state know about it experimentally, but novices should know first what theory (which is why we have written all this) to avoid errors arising from ignorance. Such is our method.

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The training section will be given in Part III can be summarized in the aforementioned third commandment of the Lord Buddha: cleanse your own heart. Christ said the same thing in other words: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

It seems you do not need further explanation: Transformer your impurity in purity, that's all.

The last application of the law of transformation will be related to our mental realm. After what you know about the two previous levels (physical and astral), you are certainly in a position to foresee how the process of transformation in our minds when we are in the path. Undertaking a major course got thinking process control. It seems simple, but it is not. Once the physical and astral are controlled naturally by your mind, you have to find the love to be able to govern the mind itself. Who is he? At this level there would abrumaros with classical terminology, both used and abused. All this would just verbiage, ie patronizing mindset forbidden for those in the path or try to enter it (see Part I of this book).

Therefore I say you're only entitled to control your mind. There is a paradox. Deepen more on that phrase and see what it was intended to express. This statement indicates that you're necessarily above and beyond your mind, as was the case with the emotional and physical worlds. Since the Real You Being can not have any name (Who could treat the Most High as an object and label?), Your task is to reach it.

The fact, for example, that the Maharshi reached the last Samādhi (Sahaja Nirvikalpa) does not grant the same achievement to all who gathered at his feet.

Everyone has to work for yourself, as everyone has to take their own food and digest it in order to live. This comparison is based on the old but true Hermetic axiom, "As above, so below." But there should be any mistake, no one should seek, according to these rules (which belong to the mind), the Self as separate, apart from himself. This is the destructive nonsense, very often found, which leads only to nonsense and pointless wandering. The consciousness of the true self emerge and gradually grow as the conquest of your mind appropriate (see Parts III and IV of Concentration).

The true Self is not discovered, it will transform you entirely on that Being Said yet another way, tear 'veils' surrounding the core. Of course, there is the famous Vichara (see In Days of Great Peace) but this is also only a means, an excellent one, but not the goal itself. The Maharshi is his inconsistent conciseness and accuracy of expression and definition, we said that "the Vichara is like the stick used to light a funeral pyre. He also will be consumed along with all the fuel and the body. " Here the dead body means the lower self, false, ie, the personality of the ego, which has no real existence, being as an illusory mirage.

This as instructive fragment of the Sage Ramana's teachings can be extremely valuable to the seeker who accepts.

After the process of the transformation of your mind has successfully led to the achievement of full control over it, two ways lie open before you. Only one of them leads to Samadhi, as we shall see later. In the first way, a man can become a powerful yogi, an occultist or magician. If successful achievement

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in the path of the left (black) for that particular name incarnation will be black-magician who sticks to the wrong side (or "gloomy").

Both classes of men (although for different purposes) strengthen schools of thought created or followed by them, in order to achieve the realization of their objectives. One can try to help their less developed brethren religious system or creating a new philosophy, one Egregore, and others, support the evolutionary triangle, as would the Hermetists.

The other act differently: try to create involutive currents, pushing men down deeper into materialism to seek new pleasures of the flesh and ambition, sensuality, attracting people descending triangle (involution, ie bad for us in our present time).

But the path of a seeker of Samādhi be very different. Transformation will use their newly won power for their real objective, that is, achieving the absolute freedom of all incarnations and material life, which is the Samadhi. It will probably be just the type "Kevala" (temporary, casual) in this life, but the Kevala, as Maharshi said, will and must be transformed into Sahaja (perennial), and then: "The dewdrop slips to shining sea! "forever. Is Nirvana, Salvation or Liberation, according to the founders of three great religions: Buddhism, Christianity and Vedanta.

Speculating about that state is useless, since none of us has experienced even, so no one can talk about it. That the matter can not be communicated in words or thoughts, it is clear from the many sayings of spiritual instructors, who heard the matter and the state. But we are not comparable to them even when we reached the Kevala, the reflection.

The Lord Buddha said that we should not try to probe what is unfathomable, or try to measure what is immeasurable, as the questioner and respondent errs errs, so we should not talk at all. Christ said: "The eye has not seen and ear has not heard the bliss that is prepared for the righteous. And the Maharshi said, "To what purpose is all this talk about the latter State (State Natural or Sahaja Samadhi)? The talk does not lead to any solution. Realize the Self, and then all questions will be answered by themselves forever. "

It is an interesting fact that those who are well advanced on the path are the least curious people. Never ask to try to get mental explanations (ie, in words) concerning the ultimate goal-the Samadhi. It is certainly possible that a period of hard training burn the vice of mental distress, and with him his sister-curious. But personally, I think here the cause may be due also to that mysterious adherence to internal peace which, once experienced, gives us full assurance, undisturbed tranquility and balance.

It is this last quality that we will learn more in the next chapter, which ends Part II of this book, in which we have been busy the problem which is the threshold and the first steps of the Path to the Samadhi.

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CHAPTER XIV - THE LAW OF BALANCE IN CONSCIOUSNESS

Verse 154: "A wise man should acquire the discrimination between spirit and non-spirit as only being made which is existence, consciousness and bliss absolute bliss stops himself."

The last of the major approaches to the Samadhi is the acquisition of balance in consciousness. This term has several meanings in relation to the subject of this work, and so I consider from various points of view. The central idea of the internal balance seems to be simple. Not allowed to astral or storms. mental disturb the applicant, if you do not achieve very significant delay. This point is also common rules for all occultists, who have different goals of Samadhi.

From this we can conclude that this balance is essential, and we will be right. As usual, we will first discuss the emotional realm. If we can keep our astral balance, means that emotions arise spontaneously in us dare, uncontrolled and unrestrained. Instead of inner peace as a necessary precursor to the Supernals, we will have a life full of emotional storms, no matter what its source. From the technical standpoint, the passionate love or hate, for example, prevent alike Samādhi dawn on us. They can cause certain kinds of ecstasy, it is true, but we know from Chapter VII how it relates to the real ecstasy Supernals, lacking any vision and storm. It is an obstacle, and as such will always avoided by the wise aspirant.

To erect a clearer conception of inner balance will use a simple example, which outlines the very idea of perfect balance us. Imagine a rod hanging from a rope tied to her right in the center. Then be turned a position parallel to the ground, or horizontally. We say that the rod is in a well balanced state. Can we still apply a slight push to the pole, and the top will swing up and down for some time. These movements are symbols of our astral disturbances and storms. If the rod represents our astral consciousness (can serve also as a symbol in the mental world), then we will see that there are many points in the rod, which produce different rolling amplitude, depending on their distances from the center. These points will change their previous positions ideally horizontal they had when the rod was completely balanced.

The closer to the center, the lower the rolling amplitude, and vice versa. But the core remains unshaken. No swings at all, despite the fact that the whole object is moving. Therein lies the solution of the enigma.

To avoid rolling (astral vibrations) we have put ourselves right in the middle. Then, while still in the astral level (which can not be avoided if we are not yet free from the need to embody), do not participate in their vortices. The Hermetists, famous for its exact thought and practice philosophical attitude, offer this symbol that I have used here for a different purpose. Really, do not take just one stick, but two of them to form a square cross search the central figure in maintaining a balanced position, as our staff. This cross then, with your arms perpendicular, representing two worlds: astral and mental, that are contacted, but they are entirely different.

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This concept can serve us well in our attempt to visualize the functioning of the internal equilibrium in us: to be a witness of all our surroundings, which belong to the arms of the cross, but at the same time be fixed and not participate in any of the swings . This is for us the wisdom of the true behavior.

Meditating on this idea, the student will reach the required attitude, and after its conception, to be alive in your consciousness forever. This will assist you at the time you feel the rocking of the cross of his life is hazardous to your internal balance. The Sage Maharshi explains the same truth with his usual supreme simplicity when establishing how we should get our emotional and mental balance, "Be a witness, not a participant of all that

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happening around you in all conditions. Do not apeguéis to these conditions, but merely Free yourselves of all attachment. "

If we do not have any quality required, we should properly carry out training to develop. In this case a simple exercise will help us create this detachment. Exercise has different phases according to the planes on which they are carried out. We started from the bottom, ie, from the physical. Learn to separate you from your body frame. This will bring untold blessings in many ways, including peace in the time of your departure.

Assuming you have already carried out some special exercises and in the series I and II of concentration, it should not therefore be a difficult task for you. Dad a walk through a tranquil garden, or on the trails of a park where not many people around. Try to transfer your self (consciousness) beyond your body, which means that imagine that you see your body from above (about one meter distant) and from behind about two meters away. Notice how if you were just this close to walking your way. Look on the back of the head, shoulders, torso, but mentally all the time Insist on being apart from them. Train yourselves in this way until you have quite successful for a short time, say a minute or two.

Then dont slightly more time, but three minutes is sufficient. But you can also, in very favorable conditions (when no one is in sight or expected anyone), measure the limits of your execution, that is, try the exercise for as long as you can. This will give you more self-confidence, which is essential for every job.

Then, carry out this "separation" in some ways more complicated, while traveling on a train or walking down a crowded street, but never while driving yourselves. There are highly developed occultists can do even this without danger to himself or others, but not essential to your present purpose. Emphasis should be on the point that you are not abandoning your physical counterpart, but only contemplating your direct presence in the body while you exercise even full 'remote control' on him, not allowing him to do anything without your will. This is different from the real "separation" occurs with the externalization of astrosoma practiced by advanced Hermetists (see my Tarot) and having objectives other than those given here.

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Generally, this exercise of "walk behind the body" is not dangerous, if carried out exactly as instructed, except in a few rare cases where such temporary separation and controlled can lead to an abandonment of the body , resulting in a collapse in a kind of lethargy or catalepsy. You yourselves can see where the danger lies. Such people can not practice this exercise outside their own rooms. This happens to those with mediumistic inclinations being animist type rather than intellectual, and not equipped with enough willpower. Consequently, this trail is too hard for them.

By practicing this "separation" of your body, you will find many positive privileges obtained as additional and unexpected rewards. When you have to perform physical labor, associated with a considerable effort, the "separation" of the body, as mentioned before, will give you much more endurance and capacity for greater efforts, and periods of fatigue will be considerably reduced.

All this can be done successfully, only moves that are well known to you and you are used to carry out without any mental effort in your daily life. That is why the first example was a regular walk. You can not (and you should not) try to separate yourself from the body when you work on something that requires a preliminary discussion, and think how it should be done.

They are known to me several cases of people who have used this method to work on their routine. The results were produced with much less effort, and with greater speed and efficiency. Our body is a strange instrument, not completely known to us. It seems to have their own counterparts astral and mental worlds of a man. This has been scientifically shown in Tables human element in ancient Kabbalah. Student

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interested can find it completely covered in my Tarot, Chapter X. This hidden and blurred consciousness, rather automatic in nature, connected with the execution of certain movements can be observed in skilled musicians. Take for example a violinist, which transfers the melody written in notes, directly to movements of your fingers, working without any attention from the side of the mind. This means that the artist does not think about where you should place your fingers to make each note of the score needed. In other words, the notes (and its inherent melody) are automatically transformed into movements of certain body parts of the performer, who pressed the strings and move the bow.

But it is very difficult to do this exercise of "separation" in conjunction with unusual physical activities, such as driving a mechanism with which we are not familiar. In any case, this is not required for our purposes.

The men spiritually perfect (Masters) appear to use their physical bodies in this mode only "separate", which is normal for them. When I saw the Maharshi, the first impression was just that: this man uses his body as a remote controlled machine, being your true self virtually absent from it. He was so different from their surroundings, all those Brahmins, European and other kinds of men around him, in the great hall of his ashram food. Of course, this was only a fraction of their achievement, one rather insignificant, a slight reflection of the inner beauty and power of a man who has reached The Most High.

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When you have acquired the ability to "separation" (in the manner described above), comes the next level of achievement of balance in the emotional realm, or, as we used to say-in the astral. The method is the same: until separéis something of yourself, you can not dominate, that is, control all movements and its cessation. As always, a certain degree of power concentration is essential for success. If you can not silence-even for a short time (a few minutes) - your emotional vibrations, when they wish (so do thoughts), how can you watch them, being, as you are, absorbed and mixed with them?

The general pattern of the necessary exercises, similar to what happened with the physical ride control, is sitting relaxed on the asana (such as occurred in concentration) in a quiet place or room; Call up a simple sentiment, as the memory of pleasure you experienced when hitting the silky skin of your domestic cat, well loved hearing a melody, and others. Do not be discouraged by the apparent simplicity of the first steps. Probably find difficulties when tratéis enough to carry them out as required and intended.

Without this simple beginning there will be a triumphant conclusion, so the writer wants to give you something that you really will finally bear you on your own feet and become independent of elementary instructions. The scriptures that deal Samādhi texts only they can give, valuable, of course, but only when you are able to use them. Countless thousands have read these texts, the Upanishads, Vedas, works of Patanjali and Shankaracharya, and the Master's teachings modern-Sri Maharshi, but how many of them got the same goal lift all this literature? A great ascetic Christian and spiritual philosopher, Thomas to Kernpis, he experienced what he wrote, not simply wove his mind or compiled from the words of others, wisely says: All Scripture must be read in the spirit in which it was written. The meaning of this is none other than that without a suitable preparation one can not expect any benefit even the most sublime utterance of truth. The chapters in this book have been written just to help a sincere and thorough search to be in itself a convenient approximation to the Consciousness of the Future, as may be called the mysterious Samādhi. For no man, including large trainers, can give an immature person what it can not understand, make and, therefore, the thing you can not strive. This should be covered tightly to read these chapters. Men are exposed to expect some thunderous words from the Masters, that will instantly transform, and become angels, despite the fact that they are still full of relativity in his lower desires and selfish lifestyles. This can never happen.

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A beautiful summer morning, eleven years ago, when I was sitting at the feet of my Master, a gentleman entered the room where he lived the Maharshi, sitting on his bed and giving his darshan (or grooming) as the Hindus say.

The man was a prominent engineer a Western firm, who, I believe, locomotives and other machinery sent to Madras. Having heard about the powers of Bhagavan (honorific name for the Rishis, with a meaning close to "divine"), as well as being slightly familiar with the movement called "Self-realization of USA, founded by one of the minor Indian yogis- abrupt, but with due reverence and sincerity, asked the Master to give him Maharshi Self-realization, before the afternoon if possible, for he had important business in Madras and had to go back there, leaving the ashram before sunset .

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Do not be like this man, moreover decent, but he was deeply immersed in basic ignorance of character and true techniques-search goals and spiritual attainment.

When you have managed to evoke some emotional vibrations in your consciousness according to your own choice and will, laid off each with the firm: "Iros!» Try then to remain free of all emotions for a while. This will succeed when you can kill all interest in them, as indicated in concentration. Would be a valuable technique that simultaneously with this exercise, also usaseis techniques from the first physical grade, that is, the separation of your body sitting as you did before you walk, and others. Then say to yourself, I see the fact that Mr. X or Mrs. Y is now experiencing this feeling. With some practice and consistency (which is a key to success) gradually attain to what you need. The emotions created and observed may vary of course according to your own choice. But do not use a complicated, especially at the beginning and for a time not too long. Two or three minutes for clear observation will suffice in each case.

The next step, perhaps more difficult, but absolutely achievable, is the same "impartial observation" of your feelings, induced artificially not for you, but for your daily life. Anyone says anything, which causes certain movements in your astral. Do not identify yourself with it, but Observe them. What they discover practicing this method is difficult to predict exactly, since individual experiences and how they differ in the details. So do not list them here, highlighting only the most essential points.

You will do your separateness of your feelings, and from then on you will be a changed person. Then the full balance and harmony in your astral be an accomplished fact, and this will push back a step closer to Samādhi you're looking for. It now remains to check and balance your mind. We need a short and simple definition of this element of our consciousness. Theories elaborate and complicated terms and will not empty. So why not borrow the knowledge of those who really know? As the Master Sri Maharshi once said to his assistants: "The mind is only the thoughts, the sum of which is in you."

If you accept this axiom, all internal work will be greatly helped and made easier and faster.

The basic method to get a balanced mind is similar to what was previously applied to the astral. The mind of the common man is like a rudderless boat tossed on a stormy sea. A man does not know where they come from your thoughts or if you are really helpful for your purposes. There is an excellent and unbeatable method for absolute control of the mind. It is finding its source. How can this be? Unfortunately, very little can be added by speaking these words, that is, find the source. This should be carried out in the state of passive concentration, when all thoughts, at least for a while, are expelled from the mind. Cread then you will go into the farthest recesses of your consciousness where thoughts arise, the beginning of the mind. This should be done without words with only pure abstruse effort to achieve the goal. Finally, to complete this definition

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necessarily reaper may be added that the process of "search" the source can be viewed (or symbolized) as if aplicaseis drill diamond sharp as your consciousness to a channel inquisitive imagination, making it deeper and deeper. But such comparisons are often dangerous, since students often try to carry them

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out, and to think about such holes exist as real. Therefore, to conclude, it may be added that under no circumstances can be used a word in the above process to find the source, for all palabreo must be completely destroyed, as a habit that hinders the way before you.

As a result of a successful attempt, one enters the supramental consciousness perception from which can then firmly establish harmony in your mind, as is required for the Samadhi. Expressly said 'perceptions of supramental consciousness, "not consciousness itself, which is at the end of the trail, when virtually have been eliminated all the problems and all the exercises have been carried out successfully.

Another method is similar to the aforementioned astral investigation. From the state of internal concentration (passive) observe your passing thoughts like clouds in the blue sky. Observe this process as being apart, belonging to Mr. X or Mrs. Y (your name), but not what you feel that is true in times of such interesting and unusual moreover psychological experiments. These are less difficult than they seem at first glance. They are quite possible. The record, as elsewhere, will be the measure of your success.

Not that anyone, without exception, will be able to carry out such an inquiry, and thus establish full balance as required in its mental counterpart. If, as you read this and you try to capture something with this simple exercise, you feel complete darkness as an impenetrable wall before you, could very well be a sign that every attempt is premature.

Now, let's take a brief look at the true meaning of internal balance in ourselves, got to get a correct approach to the Samadhi.

1. Physically, since you will not be subject to every whim of your body, your nerves, moods and desires. You will be able to quiet him whenever you wish, reducing them to a minimum resistance. Know that a body not subject your enemy is clearly higher goals. And so does your astral and your mind. There is neither place nor intention of investigating the cause of a state of things well, and that does not belong to the subject. But this problem, important for purely occult studies, is widely covered in the Hermetic Philosophy (see my Tarot).

Two. Astrally, you will not be thrown from one emotion to another, without damages a place of respite for the establishment of peace in you. Then you will know nothingness experimentally astral storm regarding life and higher goals.

Three. On the mental plane will be in a position to find the necessary starting point, which leads to the inner silence, the silent mind, which is the antechamber to Samadhi.

Those who have reached this state know of its importance to all spiritual research. We find this term, inner silence, sometimes hidden under different expressions or mystical techniques, depending on the category of men who use them, as with many Christian saints, Hindu mystics, yogis and Rishis genuine, Suns, old and true Rosicrucians and Hermetic Kabbalists eminent. If the exponents belong to Western schools of occultism, are often sever the very term "Silence" using symbols and similes, taken or

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adapted from Alchemy, as did Paracelsus Pasqualis Martinez, Marquis S. Guaita, and sometimes Eliphas Lévi.

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Only one thing matters: find this Silence, and not just talk about Him Unfortunately, rare are those who are and many who speak, without having the right experience.

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PART III

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CHAPTER XV - INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL BARRIERS TO ACHIEVING

Verse 151: "Just as the water in the tank covered by a buildup of moss is not shown, so the Atman wrapped by the five covers, produced by his own power and beginning with the annamaya, is silent."

The third part of this work is restricted to the exposure of an active method, which can lead to a successful applicant and their target persistent: If in Parts I and II were occupied passive conditions and preparations, here we try to step in the true Path to the Samadhi. The student should never forget that you can not take these steps until you have met the conditions mentioned in the previous chapters. Can not be a "green beginner" in Part III of this course. Should possess a considerable degree of concentration, as a basic and indispensable quality of his mind. You should also have a moral model as mentioned in the chapters of Part II. From numerous letters I receive from my readers and students of concentration, I can see where the difficulties lie for them in relation to the conduct of the instructions given in that book. And so this should also apply to this manual. So why not anticipate these doubts and questions?

Well, the first problem with most readers is that they can be treated immediately to carry out what they find in this Part, which is a sort of "way" towards your goal. There will be little hope for them if they are ready with the conditions shown at the beginning of this chapter. The main weapon for the attainment of Samadhi meditation is correct and persistent. Meditation is the top of the highest function of man's material principle, which we call mind.

I say "material" deliberately, because these three human manifestations, which we call physical, astral and mental, are conglomerates of matter, and there are great similarities between these three. Just like you can not expect an untrained physical body, sick, or just weak perform any outstanding athletic feat, and without proper preparation of our subtle bodies (ie, astral and mental) can not expect to be outstanding performers in their kingdoms individuals. Never get proper meditation itself unless we are saints or yogis genuine terms that mean men who have carried out all the preparatory work in its previous incarnations, and are now merely reaping the harvest.

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Meditation is a natural and normal higher functions of our counterparty (or body) mind (see In Days of Great Peace and Concentration, where many chapters have been devoted to the problem of meditation). So training is necessary, and I presume you will agree with me, even from a purely logical point of view, and go the next seven chapters with full attention and will do practical use of the material contained in them. This is the best guarantee of success. The task is undoubtedly hard, as was the case with a major, perhaps the hardest that a human being can perform. But, if you feel a real boost to climb to the summits, covered with eternal snows and absolute pristine and pure consciousness (which, after all, are you even now), this means that a mysterious phone call has come to you from those heights. This call is infallible. They do not come to those who are not in a position to begin to carry out the promotion. That is what every student should know, is his first real initiation into the Truth of Being is perfectly possible to exhaust lives, one after the other, without listening to this call, as happens to the vast majority of the millions. If you want to follow a path well, starting at birth ignorance and ends in uncertainty, unconscious and suffering of death, it is entirely your affair. One can not be other than it is.

As stated, this part of the book develop the theme of the meditations. We will use a number, which was given without comment at the end of Concentration, as a finishing touch for the successful student. Now we must make full use of these seventeen verses, which lead to Samadhi,

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giving an outline of the activities and mental attitudes that are useful to begin the true meditation. The latter, as we know from Part IV of Concentration, is beyond all mental processes to affirm the subject of meditation in one's mind. This is all we can do. For that which ends the mental effort and starts the new world for us (the "Fourth Estate", see Concentration) is beyond the language of the mind, and therefore can not be expressed in words, or given through the medium any book or conversation. But a good start can mean a good result.

Verse 1: I'm not what this world calls me, my name, my body, my feelings and thoughts, because in a relatively short time all these cease to exist.

The first part of this sentence is-according to the classic rules of occult-negative. Why is this so? Simply because we are utterly unable to define who we really are. This is expressed in the famous formula advaita mantra: "Neti! Neti! "(This does not! This not!).

Only we're not denying that any of the things perishable. What remains is our true self. There can be only one thing, and we can not say that everyone possesses, the truth is that She possesses each of us (as we still believe we are separate beings). Stop it now and think deeply about this concept, until it becomes clear to you really. The rule of meditation is that we can not proceed with any further development of it, if the preceding parts are not devoid of all doubts for us. Otherwise there would only be a waste of time that will lead to discouragement. The laws governing man's higher mental activity (ie, meditation), should and must be observed. Some occultists call the point of meditation highest-in which there are no thoughts at all-contemplation. We disagree with this definition, it is inaccurate and unscientific. Contemplation requires an object, and when meditation generates thoughtless state, goes beyond subject and object.

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So why use a term that has no practical meaning for those who really meditate, instead of merely talking about it, without having experienced any higher state of consciousness? Let's strict and short from the beginning.

Returning to verse 1, we see that all the labels that the world gives us, should be rejected. Your name really has no meaning. If you want you can change to another label, so devoid of any real significance as it was the first.

In previous chapters we have learned not to confuse us with not only our physical body, but also with the two subtle. This cage is certainly mortal flesh and devoid of any reality of existence. Go to a cemetery and see the graves of your parents or grandparents. Where are their bodies so well you knew when they were "alive"? They no longer exist. The same will happen to you, and a living consciousness, dressed in a shell (body) still living, could go to your grave and go through the same thoughts, as you have done you.

Meditate on this chain of events in order to be freed from the illusion lethal, destructive and spoil everything, 'I am the body. " It's heresy! As a result, the last trace of this lie must be eradicated from your consciousness. Of course, at first only will realize this as an intellectual conception, but later on you will become a living truth and internal. It is an interesting law: to the extent that you are delivered from that misconception through denial, positive affirmation that you are apart from your body, it will grow in you, replacing the previous subconscious belief.

So there is nothing to fear if you follow our trail. Now comes our divorce of feelings and thoughts, our mental and astral shells. If the separation of the physical body succeeded deliver you the astral and mental will bring many difficulties. Proceed later.

"I am not my feelings, because they come and go. I can even create them (eg, through the power of my memory, and others), destroy, switch them and forget them. And I can free myself of all emotions when I concentrate on the inner silence in me. Therefore, there is no doubt that the astral is just a shell, but never my self.

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It will be similar to the thoughts. The same test we had with the feelings we confirmed that our consciousness (our self) may well exist, and realize this life, when we disconnect from mental bondage. The same concentration proves the existence of our being beyond both think like thoughts.

In the Silence still exist, although there is neither object nor subject. Try now to create the kind of inner stillness you learned of Concentration and then say, "now I have experienced the truth of this meditation. No more doubts I have already. Meditate on this.

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obstacle is our karma, and that of those who are closest to us. Despite all appearances, we must accept the truth that fate always puts us in the best ways possible conditions from the evolutionary standpoint. We think differently, but this will be just another burden for us. We should do our best under all circumstances, and this will suffice to all karma. Not everyone can be a millionaire or some other kind of potentate, but also, not all have to have poor health, unpleasant living conditions, and others.

Always remember the story of the man who complained about his heavy "cross" in this life (ie, karma, as we call it) and that God allowed to choose a new out of the millions that were shown, which belonged to another people. The tested all, and finally found one that seemed to be the most comfortable for him. He asked the Lord to give him the cross. Upon receipt and place it on his shoulders, the man realized it was his own old cross.

However, we are entitled to try our best to improve our external conditions, if possible. I would add: graduates only now, at the beginning of our path, because as our internal progress and growing wisdom, the desire to change our terms vanishes like mist in the morning under the sun. Then appreciate our "inner" rather than the "outside". But for the present moment, we can find many obstacles to our company, such as family conditions, disturbing environment, apparent lack of adequate rooms (for meditation), lack of time, and others. All of these can and must be overcome, if our will to step on the Path is strong and genuine enough. I know a man who was greatly hampered in its internal work at home, because his wife and family were hostile to his intentions. I could not find a quiet room, and acquaintances derided their "yogi practices." Not wanting to destroy his family life, he managed to reach his office earlier than necessary, and thus had some time for meditation. Also, after work, visiting the nearby church for half an hour, time that was usually empty. Then was able to bring out your inner work without being disturbed. This is just one example, but there are many other solutions, suitable for everyone.

Worse than the external obstacles are internal. The main were explained at the beginning of this chapter. What remains are under our character defects, such as laziness, doubts when there is nothing to doubt, fear, inaccuracy, bad habits, and the great ruler of all of them, the old enemy, selfishness, in all its forms coarse and subtle.

We can not, without departing from the truth, very accurate means of combating each, that are suitable for everyone at all times. If anyone does, he deceives himself and others. Our method is the development of the power that is in us, then we can spray obstacles (defects in this case), one after another, with no distinction between them.

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Will is the real factor that should run every decision. Some people are perfectly aware, for example, that smoking or drinking, and others, is slowly killing. They want to live, but lack the willpower to cancel their bad habits. This power must be developed and then break barriers within and around you.

The general method is: learn to overcome urges and desires. This is the key. There is a similarity with the athlete, who works with his dumbbells to develop muscle power, allowing you to perform impossible feats for untrained men. The principle here is the same as the muscles develop and achieve efficiency systematically overcome the resistance (weight in this case), and is so overcome our desires develops strength in the human will. This should meditate with great care, and must then be made and accepted by the sincere student of this Path. And there is no substitute for this method, because in the occult, as in ordinary life is difficult, even impossible, to get something for nothing. If you can cheat a bit on the physical plane in the ratio of gross matter which is its main counterpart, would be out of the question in the two higher planes, on which there is no opportunity to be a knave on earth. Here a weakling can dress up, but will not be able to do the same 'there', where all things (feelings and thoughts) are instantly visible to the other inhabitants of the subtle worlds.

I gave many details about the development of willpower in my other books, but are so important to this work, I am compelled to repeat them here briefly.

First, pick your "dumbbells", ie, desires or habits you have to "raise or remove, or delete. Do not use anything useful or good, for your detriment pipelining. There are many undesirable habits on which can perfectly sharpen our scimitar will. Sit down one day, since you have done with a couple of hours for this first battle, and do a review of your habits useful and useless. You can write them down on paper. Select all that common sense tells you that you need to overcome, quitadlos the first opportunity. For example, fumáis? If so, know that this weakness will interrupt your path toward rindiéndoos Samādhi if you continue it. There is no compromise possible. The thing is, when you have to make a greater effort, which requires considerable willpower, the rings disiparéis with your cigarette smoke. It is a curious psychological experience: when you really need our strength will be a sharp and penetrating, insubordinate our negative desires (ie, bad), raising their perfidious heads like jackals of the desert, and bite through your weak decision. But every victory over them makes you weaker and stronger. Always keep this in mind when completing your "list of proscriptions." When ready, start with your smallest item, or otherwise fracasaréis.

Many years ago I started with a habit as seemingly insignificant as eradicate cross my right leg over the left, to sit comfortably in a chair. This advice is what I should have an old occultist whom I knew in my youth. And it was not as easy as it may seem to many readers. In due course, the "big game" came later.

Learn to refuse to your wishes insubstantial, Do you wish to see a movie today that attracts you? Think: "Is it necessary? 'Contribute much to the treasure of my knowledge or experience? Impartially give yourselves the answer, and then act upon it. Do you have the desire to talk to someone about a subject indifferent? Put it before your domestic court for sentencing! Do you have a hurry to get home today? Longer Make your way from the station or bus (or your car, and others) for three to five minutes,

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making a small detour. After each such "victories" say to yourselves: "I have. "I have the power to make things bigger, to do what I want.

You like to take your cake after meals? Suppress for a few days then these goodies from your menu. But be reasonable and not desnutráis your body, as every true asceticism, as observed by the spiritual giants never been devoid of insight and clear understanding of what the body can handle, and what not. Beginners do not have the mystery of the realm of the spirit over matter, you can get what we call "miracles." St. John Vianney, the celebrated "Curé d'Ars. (1786-1859) was

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physically a weakling, and yet their main daily food in the second half of his life was largely a cold potato and bread stale. Mortified his body to the point that before he died he asked to be excused from the usual funeral rites for priests, not wanting to scare anyone with the vision of his body severely tortured.

And yet, died at a very advanced age, and no one can accuse him of suicide. But the same hard life could easily ruin health and early death may bring a layman, who tried to imitate the saint, without having at the same time his iron will and his mysterious spiritual support that made his body resistant to all mortification inflicted on itself. The ends are not necessary for our purpose here, and the contemporary representative of the highest spiritual attainment, the Great Rishi Ramana, no asceticism practiced not visible at all. He slept and ate like those around him. But I doubt we can find in human history similar example of such superhuman willpower as was his. He sat giving his darshan (presence) almost to the end of one of the most excruciatingly painful diseases known to medical science, and for eighteen long months, resigned as hospital treatment and proper care, which would have left those came to see him one last time.

Normally in such cases are heavily drugged patients in the hospital to prevent them from becoming violent with pain.

For us, gradual progress is extremely essential. When developing willpower bring many "prizes", the student should decide for itself the plan for your company. Will power grows in proportion to the efforts made, that is, the larger the sacrifice and renunciation, the greater the results and powers. Those who need to use exceptional forces into play a huge amount of self-restraint, "charging the battery" for it to the limit.

In conclusion I will quote Viveka-Chudamani, Shankaracharya, Verse # 377:

"For one whose being is controlled, I see no better happiness generator that lack of passion ...»

From this we can see that, sacrificing lower things, we get the highest bliss.

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today, leaving, for example, smoking, drinking, eating your sweets and cakes, cross your legs, look around shop window on the way home, and desviaros allow you three miles before entering the house, all certainly these things end up in failure, and bear no nothing really out, merely I will miss you weary and energy, which is necessary for any effort. Other than that, you will forget just what you should and you should not do now. If at this stage you are defeated even in one of your first decisions, your will weaken rather than strengthen it, and the work will have to be redone from the beginning, with the additional burden of your confidence in yourself destroyed. This should be avoided at all costs. The bulk of the defeated candidates belonging to these men just wanted to do everything at once, and that ended up not carrying out anything other than becoming frustrated, which closes any further progress for them for long periods.

Therefore, it should be reasonable and encararnos first a simpler problem to solve it successfully, and then move to another, perhaps a more difficult one. In this case you will be in a better position each time, and your confidence will operate and grow according to your successes.

When willpower is considerably strengthened in you and you may give to more serious things successfully, you can reach another stage, the actual use of power collected. The exact instructions along with all the technical advice can not be given openly, because they are mysterious moments that defy description. In any event, one that has been successful in

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erect such power, know how to use it actively. Our purpose is to destroy the obstacles on the way to the Samadhi. A strong will can affect the karma of a man, and this is the correct meaning of its use in the Path. The heart of the matter is that if a man who has accumulated countless power suppressed desires, really want to perform a difficult task, full power is available and can be thrown into the balance. More can not be said, but a comparison may be instructive. Take a small amount of explosive powder equivalent to the one in a cartridge of ammunition. If open burning is not a show of force produce exceptionally strong, even if placed in a closed container, but gather up the power of a thousand of these cartridges and the blast will be tremendous.

When a man, who has in his 'claim' many astro-mental elements (desires and endeavors, more thoughts) conquered, want something, the effort of his will has great power director. When a spiritual master, who has conquered all desires, weaknesses and attachments, use your will to his high purpose can easily guess the outcome. That is why, in some Eastern sacred books (Upanishads, Vedas), it is considered that the "perfect yogi" to whom an absolute non-attachment (which means complete conquest), possesses the attribute of omnipotence . I hope that now the great idea of where lies the source of man's strength is clear for you.

The saints and eminent occultists are known for their miraculous cures, resurrections from the dead, and other superhuman feats. But there is another aspect of things, far more mystical, leading to omnipotence. It seems easy to say but not to get it. The man who has achieved the absolute detachment from illusion and everything related, and no individual will ever again. He wants nothing for

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himself, no matter what world can manifest. Then their will necessarily becomes the Almighty One Will of All (you can call it God); This speaks for itself and does not need further explanation.

This concept is the basis of why Hindus ascribe to their genuine Gurus (spiritual masters or supermen) all divine powers, and why they say, "Who sees Teacher (Jivanmukta in their terminology) sees the Lord Himself. A Great Teacher once told us: "I and the Father are One" "Because I come from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him who sent me. Such is the mystery of the will and the power inherent in it.

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There are a mass of mind in which the applicant should not indulge fall in your quest for Samadhi. In the last dozen years or so, have appeared in many books by England East, which have titles connected with classical Indian Yoga in Hatha appearance. But if you read carefully, the only thing I can really find them is an attempt to teach Westerners uncomfortable physical contortions that force the body to do all kinds of gymnastics, almost impossible for a normal man take them out, and turn the body into knots deformed and contorted positions. These things are recommended (along with numerous photos of those who carry out) allegedly for the purpose of dominating the body, then the mind, and others. But all this is not really but a caricature and distortion beyond recognition Hatha Yoga fine, as is known classical Hindu scriptures and its western exposure by Ramacharaka.

The authors of such books promise perfect health, youth almost unlimited and very long life to his followers. But if we look more closely at these "teachers" invariably see that they only practice until middle age, while their bodies are still flexible.

They can not stop the normal aging process, and afflictions affect them as much as ordinary men, perhaps even earlier. As for cures, do not use too its specific requirements, but seek medicines and conventional drugs. However there are still men who believe in such impostors.

The real Hatha Yoga includes physical exercises and breathing control, but in a reasonable and graceful, like a useful addition to other higher Yogas, such as Raja,

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Bhakti or Jnana, because they can help students to quiet your mind before meditation, and thus regulate astral and mental functions for better balance.

However, substitutes and exaggerations useless above can only help "teachers-authors' own, as a source of easy profits from copyright and lessons.

Our body is merely a tool, and it is unreasonable and frustrating sacrificing his own life to care only, forgetting the most important thing, our spiritual goal. Moreover, the physical practices of Hatha Yoga, even in its pure form, as previously mentioned, are useful only as thus applied when the exercises are stopped for a few weeks, the beneficent influence invariably fades. This is one of the reasons that this

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pathway abandoned many years ago. The student is warned by these lines and not driven by side trails only raise obstacles in front of him.

Not every obstacle that is in the path can be overcome, and not everyone can reach the consciousness of the Future-the Samadhi, in his present life. Immature people may be unable to carry out the necessary internal work, we are talking about in this book.

There can also be no karmic obstacles to be overcome in this incarnation. But any effort in the right direction will never be lost or frustrated. Sri Aurobindo Ghose properly expressed this idea when he said: "The impossibility of doing something today is just a proof that will be done tomorrow."

Usually, people who are absolutely unable to approach the higher aspects of consciousness are not even interested in it. Such things are not to exist for them. Moreover, acute attention in that direction, no matter if positive or negative, could be a sign of certain possibilities in a man.

He once asked the Master Maharshi how could Paul, who was an ardent opponent of Christianity in the first period of his life, persecuting, torturing and even killing the followers of the new faith, deviniese then one of the stones angle of the Church of Christ. The Sage said it did not matter that Paul hated above Christ. The important thing was that he was always thinking about Christ. We can accept this as confirmation of the value of faith, even if it differs from our conceptions in relation to the object of that faith. Faith is always an attribute of Life. What can be and is wrong is your absence, along with indifference, indolence, stagnation and consequently decay. These are just the attributes of death, not of life.

Verse 2: But I always am.

This is the next meditation used in our struggle with the obstacles on the path. Being simple, does not need much explanation.

My Yo-Self can not be annihilated. If manifest now, even in these constraints embodied life, certain trends towards the Infinite, the Eternal, is proof that these germs are real me. Men may forget, but do not lose, So, really, I always am.

This pattern of meditation should be used until it becomes the normal attitude of our perception of life everlasting, we really are.

Verse 3: I'm the one who controls all these envelopes, I am above and beyond them.

This meditation is a detailed statement of the essential being of one in relation to the bodies themselves. We are so thickened within them, we can never remember too much, not be reminded often enough on our self nonmaterial. If you meditate diligently, you will come gradually to the inner conviction of the true self that is in you, which, until now, has remained undiscovered and unknown.

The transfer of our "center of gravity" in consciousness (this term is not too explicit, but it is difficult to find a better one) from the attachments and materials related to a spiritual concept, not an easy

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endeavor, nor a quick one. It's been eons slavery of matter (Maya), so how can we expect to be able to reject the batches soon beliefs, superstitions and addictions to sensuality and the five senses? Anyone who promises

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such a thing is a deceiver, and a deceiver very harmful. Unfortunately, too many of them are cheating and nourished at the expense of naive and ignorant people.

The objective of this line (3) is to help establish yourself apart from your visible shells, first, and then the invisible. When this has been achieved, things seem to be simple. If you pass a doer to being just an observer in the drama of your life, or as an actor, plays really, not to be himself. This is briefly told the whole truth. And this is our goal at this stage. The observer, or actor, not really suffers what is presented in the theatrical drama. Many small techniques can be used to accelerate the separation process, but most of them are taught only orally by the instructor, preventing to be made public because the laity and untrained they may seem too strange and even ridiculous or fantastic . However, they are often very effective if properly understood. But there is a simple means to bring maximum benefit if practiced. Begin to treat your personality, that is, the physical form, name, position, external appearance and habits as a 'third person'. Try of referring to it as "Mr. or "Mrs." and others, as if you were apart and observing this gentleman or this lady from a distance, looks like a gimmick, but it works better than many other methods "secrets." There is a prominent Indian yogi today has taken this approach even in his official life, and always refers to himself in the third person, avoiding the use of the pronoun me. A useful good attitude, which is beneficial also for the disciples of his ashram.

First of all you should start with your body appearance, and when you are ready you will see that the separation and becoming observers of your feelings and thoughts rather than doers, is much easier than it was in the beginning with your physical shell. This exercise should be performed consistently under all conditions, but gradually. Later will become a constant source of inner joy for you.

Any approach to the Samadhi is empty until the experiences arising from this exercise are fully tamed. I think another practical advice would be useful for all aspiring diligent. When you have on some astral influences in the course of your daily life, that is, when contact with other people receive some impressions or emotional shock, the feel probably in the area of your solar plexus, that is, between the end of sternum and diaphragm. This is because there is placed a very important nerve center, speaking briefly, is the link between the physical and astral bodies. That is why people say that all feelings usually are reflected "in the heart of a man." Actually, not the actual physical heart area, which has little to do with astral communications, but just the solar plexus.

In trying to "separate" from your physical counterpart as just recommended, probably will feel that the hardest part was to stop thinking of your feelings right in the middle under your chest. Therefore, one of your practical efforts should be directed to prevent your emotions affect the solar plexus. This can be done by deep meditation on independence doubt your physical body, and especially at the point of contact of the plexus. Let him, and stand about two feet behind and above, this is the only advice that can be given in words. However, suffice.

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master the astral and mental bodies are more subtle and therefore more complicated to use? The lack of any control prevents our way to the trail.

This does not mean that the applicant should take care of any possible "perfection" of his body, making him completely healthy, athletically strong, and others. It would be superfluous and unnecessary. But should prohibit any himself lazy and unhealthy way of living all the excesses and useless habits, as already mentioned in previous chapters.

A very weak and disobedient body will not allow any significant achievement in, say, meditation, as a brain blood provided insufficient and unhealthy refuses to be a good conductor between the waking state consciousness and the true self. Until you attain the state of supramental consciousness (while you are still incarnate), you are dependent and I still support him on his instrument, which is the brain. If you are able to transfer all your consciousness beyond the three lower planes (physical, astral and mental), then I preocuparéis little about anything else. But this only happens when one is very advanced and has passed victoriously through all lower states. As you can see, it is a circle and no one can escape it, or to defraud the Law of Evolution.

So we have to develop a plan for our physical life, to be in line with our internal efforts. Periods regular sleep, to take food, to work, all these should be reasonably determined in advance, and the rules created and followed faithfully. The food is important, since it affects the effectiveness of the body, and a poor diet results in difficulties to control the body. Heavy meals, meat, alcohol, snuff, strong tea or coffee, are undesirable from the same point of view. Adversely affect the ability of the body mind and especially the functioning of the brain, which then becomes slow and inaccurate. We know that no meditation is possible after using alcohol or narcotics. Swedenborg saw that the enemy was heavy meal of their spiritual flights. Moreover, his visions became rude and incoherent when indulgía in excess of food and drink. In his writings mentions that one day, while I was immersed in ecstasy, had a direct warning, and a "voice" told him, "Do not eat so much!" Obeyed this until the end of his life (see: James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Varieties of Religious Experience). Fresh air, walking, swimming, light dresses whenever possible, sunbathing moderate physical exercises (if you are compelled to be sedentary) are always indicated and as recommended in the karmic possibilities.

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But any exaggeration in the control and care of the body, any ascription to him of a decision-making role in the internal advancement, is as wrong as your complete negligence. We are therefore against, any of the practices of what now is called Hatha Yoga exercises, which simply absorb all the energy of a person and not leave enough for the thing that is much more important, worry about our true self (Atman). The positions and grotesque contortions are just proof that a "yogi" is essentially a materialist so deep, and the "reality" only main things he is tangible and visible, with his own body presiding over them.

All this has distorted the ideas above pure on Yoga, a term that is now connected almost exclusively with physical practices just mentioned. The most venerable superior Yogas like Bhakti, Raja and Jnana especially, have retreated to the shade for most browsers both Western and Eastern. Instead, another anomaly appeared, the meddling in the Hindu scriptural texts, but unfortunately, in the useless comments made by incompetent people, not those who are extremely valuable and offer a real way Attainment (as the words of Sri Shankaracharya and Maharshi Ashtavakra Gita, Gita Ribhu, these being practical manuals, although given in a veiled them accessible only advanced search engines).

This may just be another obstacle in the path to the Samadhi.

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have not yet solved the final binary: self and non-self. Only those who have the Samādhi can talk about it in a satisfactory way. So I will quote the Maharshi. He told us that the Sage who lives in the domain of the only spiritual reality (the Samadhi) is both ignorant and omniscient. First, because there is nothing in the manifested world (temporary and therefore unreal) as you are interested or want to know. Secondly, because the Sage has nothing more than knowing, which is equal to omniscience.

But there is another point. If a Sage is embodied, all the powers of the mind are also available, although it is always reluctant to use them, as we do not like to use horses and carts to travel, preferring higher means fast cars, airplanes, and others. But when a Sage needs to give some lessons to the "sons of mind" (as they usually are), you should use this mind-language words.

Now the sublime Comparad accuracy, clarity and conciseness of the words of Christ or Maharshi, and you will understand that possession of the higher state of consciousness also give better control of the lower states, including that of the mind. The Wisdom of Samadhi is closely connected with man's freedom of thought and feeling. This means you are not compelled to perform any of the above activities. These are big words for those who are able to truly understand them, or to live them in consciousness. Our present state of ignorance is just that of compulsion. Most of us can not imagine life without the visible world around us without thinking and feeling (ie, impressions and mental activities and astral). But Samādhi Supernals-the Ente-is simply the pure, silent and embracing the wisdom, the light that does not support shadow.

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All knowledge necessarily requires two opposing principles: 1. The knower, and 2. The known, which form a binary. To these is added a third element, the fact of knowing. All this is in relativity, and therefore only temporary, not possessing the attribute of permanence, because they must be, and is, incessant changes in the relationships between these elements.

There is no place for such a process exists Samādhi while still in the consciousness like the surface of a pond disturbed not give us a clear reflection of ourselves. We must wait until the waters are completely still.

The Wisdom of Samadhi is the result of the cessation of motion that is in us, that is, compulsive movement. The temporal manifested life depends on movements and changes of all kinds. Life is eternal and absolute Got Peace forever.

Do not be attracted by a prospect so many, and this is the reason that the Samadhi, at its best, can not be reached by most humans.

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CHAPTER XVI - TRACKS & SINKAGES

Verse 166: "Since the false belief that being is merely the body, is the seed that produces pain in the form of birth and the rest, efforts should be made to abandon that idea; attraction to material existence will then stop exist. "

The most ardent desire and intention to enter the path leading to the final break of the human spirit, the Samadhi, is no guarantee of Achievement, as evidenced by some cases. There are many factors that can put a damper on the most intense efforts, but usually people do not know anything about them or about their karmas, which may prohibit achieving the highest goal through several incarnations.

This chapter will try to explain the most common causes that can cause subsidence on the Path. Apart from those that will be mentioned now, there may be other circumstances purely individual and rarely found, which can not be foreseen and included in general rules, and hence the speculation about them is not of any use to you.

The bulk of the losses belong to the lack of persistence in the aspirant. It can be said that over ninety percent of the failed attempts are caused by this fault. Therefore, this point is worthy of your special attention and analysis.

What is really the lack of persistence? The primary cause is, of course, weak willpower of a man. This creates an inability to adhere closely to the intentions and perform in their own lives. Such a person willingly recognize the healthy goals you want to achieve and understand its beneficial influence on itself, but when it comes time to act according to his convictions, not confirmed with action. The effort required for conducting its sublime goals becomes an unbearable burden, and under its impact gradually forgotten, and then give up their efforts. Anyone who allows himself to be overpowered by a habit, have weak willpower, which will make your record on the Path questionable. Such people fall like yellow

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leaves of a tree, without achieving anything that is worth mentioning. Lack of willpower usually means lack of effort and discipline in one's past, stretching back beyond one's present life. We talked about other individuals about willpower and their role in Chapter IX and others.

Persistence can also be affected by insufficient internal conviction of the value and importance of the entire company. Sometimes the sinking of the applicant, who has successfully passed through the first stages of the Path (acquiring the ability to concentrate and the beginning of meditation) is a disappointment and sudden loss of enthusiasm, and with it the energy needed to continue the path. Many causes may be responsible for this kind of failure, the main:

1. The aspirant's mind was not sufficiently subdued and therefore cleaned of building mental clichés based on pure fantasy. One can create unnecessary false images of the future state of Samadhi. This is a serious error, which prevents deformation meditation and purification of man's higher mental state, which is the first condition for the initial lightning Supernals. The student then, after working some time, see who has not made any progress and that consciousness apparently has no light to justify their efforts. Allow your mind to roam the barren side trails of thought and doubts, rather than compelirla to regular meditation. Then the internal balance is lost (see Chapter XIV) and with it the Path.

Two. If sensuality has not been eradicated entirely on the student, but only stunned by his will and efforts by practicing a special occult training using mantras, setrams, and exercises of Hatha Yoga), may one day rise again as a dog running when his chain rusts and breaks. In that case no skipped hostile forces immediately send a hard temptation after another. If the applicant does not have some power

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spiritual experience in itself, or has not secured the help of a true Master (see Concentration, Chapter IX) undoubtedly succumb as the monk Paphnutius in Thais by Anatole France, and finally lose the trail, entering the muddy stream sensuality and all its illusions.

Three. If the power of concentration has been developed sufficiently, the student can not cope with the assaults of thoughts during the time of his meditations. The deep roots of this failure lies hidden in the fact that in this case the pupil has not yet experienced the great peace of your true Self, and therefore has not been able to build a "Inner Sanctum" solid, which was discussed in Chapter IX. This means that there is no safe haven against external influences (thoughts here) and therefore can not come close to the heights of Samadhi. This situation is often found in some applicants failed.

April. While we are still alive in this physical world, and we have a body, it exerts considerable influence on the psyche of a man and even his mind. If you are afflicted, the manifestations of the powers of a man can suffer, except when it is a "Released" or Master made. Sometimes such major institutions embody to help and serve their younger siblings, that is, the rest of us. Since the Act is the supreme sacrifice and transcends all other laws, the Masters is carried out usually to the maximum, that is, make the departure of their physical body (death, as we say) the top of his sacrifice, for our benefit. The story of Christ is too well known to be repeated here, but the Maharshi followed the footsteps of his great predecessors and also accepted a sacrifice only, who tortured his body for over a year, thereby

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alleviating the karma of those around him but undoubtedly the true extent of your redeeming action was much higher, and is beyond our perception.

May. If a man has a very heavy physical karma, as you hit harder when trying to achieve spiritual enlightenment. This is not a malicious joke on the part of a cruel power, but a normal and logical. One can not improve considerably if you still have to pay a heavy prarabdha karma (ie, the part that is intended to be consumed in the present incarnation). Therefore, adhering to a particular path often precipitates a rain disaster and discomfort on the head of a would like. Now if it is able to support all these difficulties, overcome and move on quickly.

But often it is not, and a man breaks down and becomes incapable of doing any further study. Such circumstances are what is known as "karmic brakes." They are very hard to resist and set aside. That is why Christ instructs us to pray in the Lord's Prayer: "And lead us not into temptation."

Accepted in occult circles that without the active assistance of a genuine spiritual master particular time, it is impossible to fight against adverse prarabdha.

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We turn now to the next verse of meditation, which belongs to this chapter.

Verse 4: My true self-Ser starts there, where all the activity of my mind-brain ends.

We know the end Samādhi (aforme type or Nirvikalpa) parallels the development of the knowledge of the Self by man. This results in the fact that even authors who are otherwise competent, joined at both, that is, the final Samadhi Realization as a single concept. Properly speaking, from the practical point of view, both merge into one at the end of the trail, so absolute and perennial Realization and Sahaja Samadhi are one and the same supreme state (the fourth). But from our point of view, until it reaches the glorious goal, the two currents can still be distinguished and separated to a certain degree. This means that some applicants may be more likely to raise their consciousness to the Samadhi that even the knowledge of the Self, and vice versa.

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But for both, the cessation of all mental activity is the main condition as Verse 4 tells us. Anyway, is so logical, that the student should not have any difficulty in meditating on this verse successfully and without any trace of doubt, rising well to the kingdom which is above and beyond the mind. Then you will know what is your true essence.

Verse 5: Who am I?

This verse is none other than the famous Vichara or inquiry about the Self, as given by Master Maharshi. It is the weapon that can shoot down all the obstacles on the path of the aspirant lucky, who knows how to use it. In its external form Vichara still belongs to the realm of the mind, but its true content, when subjected to spiritual distillation process, lose their words and become the power that leads the aspirant

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directly into the realm of Being Remember how the Maharshi, trying to explain this mystery to his inquisitors, it was in the form of a great simile, comparing the Vichara the bottom that lights the funeral pyre (see Chapter XIV), and consequently it is consumed along with the pyre. Obviously there is nothing of the personality of ego, which perishes in the fire of Self-realization This is the final answer to the Survey about Being The Master also said, "The answer to Vichara is the egoless state» . This is another form of the above simile, when the ego dies, all the imperfections and evils be with him forever and can not be restored, as we can not produce new body or timber from the funeral pyre consumed.

The incessant repetition meditation or Vichara in your mind, with the effort to penetrate the mystery silent and devoid of words of your Self is the best weapon against all known failures and karmic problems. This will be the final meditation to conclude this chapter.

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CHAPTER XVII - THE POWER REASON OF HOPE

Verse 153: "When the five sheaths are separated, the pratyagatman (the Logos) pure, eternal happiness, pervading, supreme self-generated light shines."

When presenting this time either openly question: "Can you walk on the path without any hope of reaching your goal? So Hope is one of the major powers, parallel to the force of will that makes our goals are attainable. "Meditate on these concepts until absorb it entirely, without any shadow of doubt. This will be part of the initiation also leads, along with the other, the Samadhi.

After that we further analysis. Hope could be described as intuitive anticipation of a happy solution to a major problem for us. In this case the problem concerns the most precious thing imaginable: our own self, our true self, and personality-shell any time, along with the body, as both will be dissolved without trace in the future, going merely to dead past.

When I say "dead" I say what I mean. An example will explain this better.

Consider someone you knew and that you are the only survivor, say, your grandfather or other relative. You have no doubt that there was, perhaps long ago. You can know his personality, his external form his character. When everyone else who knew him are gone no one will know anything about him other than yourselves, who still live, and whose brains are still those stereotypes of the past. But that's all. When you die, nothing will remain of those memories. And the man (your family) will be completely erased from the image constantly changing world. The next step is a clear advance in the same position applied yourselves. Think calmly about the inevitable end of all manifestation, including yourselves. It is not just thinking, but a serious process of consciousness aimed at making it easier to separate the perishable form called the body.

You will experience this when practicing these exercises, as read by itself in any way can not be a conclusive test.

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An immature person rather repress such mental processes, but others will find them very useful. After all, no one can live your life, and your experience will belong only to you. Therefore, you can operate them according to your needs.

Returning to the subject of this chapter, where we see that we should not place our hope under any circumstances: when it dies and disappears. Hope Well, like everything in this world has two sides: one is right and one wrong, hope for a wise person and a fool. Remember that all these chapters of Parts I to III are in preparation for the Samadhi. Operate for you as you are still a relative entity, even untransformed That which rises as the sun Supernals supreme end. Accordingly related methods can be used for things relating. Survey about the Self is the unique and positive way that the search can be directed. The traditional method used so far in the Hindu Vedanta, should be, and is, negative, and briefly, is contained in the phrase "Neti! Neti! "(This does not! This not!). We should not underestimate its value just because we know the Vichara. The Survey on the Self can not be used by anyone. The Maharshi himself while Vichara recommended as a means par excellence, always issued a warning that we should not get confused and think that will bring us Realization as a tray. The negative method to go 'peeling' shells gradually our central light within us, by meditation on our bodies and attitudes, applying 'Neti! Neti! "To all of them, it is much easier and more accessible to the vast majority of applicants, except those who have had the privilege of sitting at the feet of a true Master of Realization, as was the Maharshi for our period.

Being in Being, perform it, is to retain only the consciousness of being, that is, the absolute Entity, without attributes and illimitable. It is also possible for a man embodied or disembodied. But

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experiencing first, primary Embodiment be performed while one still has a body shape. Subsequently, it is already indifferent, but the beginning has to be done on this earth. This rule affects all human achievements, so there is little hope of life periods post-incarnation and the main lessons are to be taken in advance.

Verse 6: Now I'm creating stillness in my mind. I have no desire to think anymore.

This meditation and all that follow are different from verses 1-5. They deal with the applicant's active effort, it has to reform its transferring knowledge closer to the ultimate goal-the Samadhi. In this verse we quiet our mind, as a precursor to transcend. As we know from the second book of the trilogy (Concentration), the stilling and emptying of the mind is possible only as a successful outcome of passive concentration, which is a much more difficult. But the key is, the condition, the "sine qua non" for all successful attempt to scale the heights of Samadhi.

More than sixty years ago the first practical exponent of Hindu Yoga for the West, Swami Vivekananda (a gifted student of the great Holy Ramarishna), attempted to unify the various yogic methods then existing physical development and all subsequent. The simplified advocando the following pattern:

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a) Twelve dharanas (breathing exercises fixing the mind, similar to those given in concentration as pranayama) are a Dhyāna.

b) Twelve equal to Samādhi Dhyanas.

We disagree with this over-simplification of techniques and theory, since we now have more extensive information about the true meaning of the Supreme State Nirvikalpa Samadhi. It is not enough to carry out 144 dharanas (which in any case is extremely difficult to achieve) to be in the pure Supernals. The leading authority on all matters concerning the Samadhi and Realization, the Great Rishi Ramana Attainment never taught that could be a result or depended on asanas (body postures in Dharana for example) or rhythmic breathing. The yogic exercises separated the growth of spirituality in man. At the appropriate time, he would say, that is, when the mind is absorbed in the Light of Being (in other words, when temporarily enters Kevala Nirvikalpa), breathing becomes rhythmic automatically. And when the dip reaches its climax, breathing stops altogether. From this fact, some exponents of Yoga not as competent have concluded that if respirasen rhythmically detuviesen long breath and then should enter the Samadhi.

But these processes are not reversible at all, and this explains why it can be so sloppy and unmet requirements books by compilers that have never been able to practice what they taught.

However, for many applicants, the stilling of the mind becomes easier if you try to breathe rhythmically, but without any hard effort, as advised in Concentration, Part III.

The second half of verse 6 requires the applicant further: you should not have any desire to think anymore. It seems to be unattainable, since thinking is apparently inherent in one's mind. This is true, but the mind is not really inherent in you! Who says that the mind is essential to be? Only those who do not know any better and higher. And only those who still identify themselves (consciously or subconsciously) with their thinking processes and tool-the brain in the physical body. We know that such an attitude is an obstacle that must be removed. "Okay, so the theory" can object. But how to achieve this in practice, how to do? Both parts of this verse are in harmony and interdependent. If aquietáis your mind, enter into a peculiar state, where you can see it (the mind) in his suspension, while consciousness apart from it now, it expands beyond the muddy waters of the mental ocean. Realize this theory first with your intellect.

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Now comes into play another law governing consciousness at this point. When you attain (even for a short time) full independence of feeling and thought processes, you have no desire to live anymore in the lower worlds, that is, at the level astromental.

Your natural intention then is to stay in this blessed land of peace and fulfillment. As you know better than your usual and customary conditions, provided that you will try to retain top model instead of the previous lower. As you can see, the solution is simple and logical, and fully attainable. The wonder of the magnificent achievements of the great saints now becomes more understandable. At some level up,

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have a powerful attraction to the heights such as that, unfortunately, the common man has more by the lowlands. This can be compared to physical mountains and valleys. At some distance from the surface of a planet's gravity ceases to exert a downward thrust, and in these new conditions, the physical object can be attracted to other celestial bodies. But this critical height must be achieved before the law to operate.

So, in order to lose the desire to think, one must first taste the freedom that the state of thoughts. A dish can not be appreciated until it has been liked. What can be clearer than this?

The idea of Hope, which is called the motive force of Attainment mind, when connected with meditation Verse 6, leads to the following concept:

If we make this verse through our own persistence in fulfilling their education, our hope will become Achievement. This was, is and will be the real target of this mystical force.

Verse 7: Now the sky of my conscience is pure. No clouds of thought into it.

This is another aspect of Verse 6. The hardest things for true and full realization are just the simplest. We can roam freely in the vast forests of the multiple conceptions of mind, theories and problems. This can please our mind, give new fuel as food for thought, and allow it to vibrate at full scale as this force would like to do first and foremost. But can we say that this slavery has brought some happiness? From our point of view, this age is affected by large errors: the tool has been accepted as the master, and the real doer has been brought to the background, even completely forgotten.

On the physical plane, according to the Hermetic axiom always true "As above, so below" and vice versa, similar things have happened. Fifty years ago we lived without the countless plastics, new media, techniques luxury gifts, and so on, but also without pumps "H" without the constant fear of sudden annihilating catastrophe, against which we are completely defenseless and helpless, as hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles. and we can do nothing, because whereas before only the soldiers fighting in the fields, entire nations now recognize as targets for destruction.

Just as the mental processes alone can not bring wisdom, which is beyond the limited knowledge of the mind, and its possibilities, and years of incredible materialistic progress have not been able to get closer to happiness, anything that deserves this name in the social and political harmony. The attentive student certainly discover the real cause of such misfortune at this time: the immense, rapidly growing and giddy materialism, which directs all the efforts and abilities of the human population of this planet to the comfort and service of the body-ego, So little left for anything else. The results were still distinctly.

This planet is a dead thing. The Western occultism knows a lot about the great being whose physical body is our land. Perhaps we can not understand such a life, as is that of a planet, but we can feel some frightened reactions from you. Here I want to suggest the convulsions of the skin of the earth, which cost so many lives and bring destruction to those tiny beings like insects, inhabit the earth's surface. Some occultists believe that the earth does not like too nuclear explosions to go deep into your body and the ominous growl of earthquakes may be the last warning. But the earth, as we

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themselves, not omnipotent and will not be allowed to do whatever you want. There are forces that control the microcosm as the macrocosm. Otherwise, we would have long ago ceased to exist (see the Tarot).

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In this Verse 7, thoughts are called "clouds". For those who have experiential knowledge of higher states of consciousness, that is a truism. The Maharshi taught that all misery and unhappiness comes from the mind and tireless thoughts. When they are removed, the horizon is pure as a cloudless sky. But under the term "mind" meant just that used in Advaita: all functions based on the concept of relativity and the personality-ego.

Here's a warning: Some people, on the other hand completely untrained in concentration, say there are periods when they can not find no thoughts in their minds. Is this what we're looking for in this study? Certainly not! The more primitive the individual man, more "dolce long niente" brain occurs in your mind. This is not freedom and independence that inner-compulsive thinking that if the full-is a precursor of Samadhi: it is simple stagnation of mental functions. It is not what we want.

After being disconnected deliberately dominated mind works perfectly, as a sharp tool and well preserved in the hands of a skilled craftsman.

So these "clouds" should be removed when not needed. This is only possible when there is in us a power independent of the mind, which can obey and obey our will. And this power of ours is always looking at his tools as separate things. This is the initiation of Verse 7.

Verse 8: Now I'm free, I'm beyond it.

The hope of being free is the struggle of man enlightening. This verse tells us that this can be an accomplished fact. Now, really ponder:

When the mind is stilled no desire to think anymore. We become free when there are no clouds covering the horizon of our purified consciousness. Perfect freedom can not be limited by any limitation that comes from the mind, born, in turn, of inner desires. In the Hindu scriptures unwilling man is rightly called the "liberated" or Jivanmukta. If there is desire there can be no perfection or freedom. So here is where we find the logical explanation of these seemingly abstruse qualities ascribed to men who reached the end of the Path. That's why the Samadhi-in which there are no needs or desires-is called the state of absolute bliss. The bliss of eternity on the writer saw in the eyes of his Master.

After you've absorbed the meditation of the first half of verse 8, the second will easily and clearly.

I am beyond everything. This "everything" is, of course, all that is "outside" That, of pure consciousness I am. If you are free, it only means that you are really beyond all ties and forms. Nothing can be added to the immaterial and always free Yo-Being. Just like you can not add water to the fire, because it will

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evaporate, and so all shell evaporates, desire and thought to be facing No more room for them in the fire of the Spirit. Here the fire symbolizes the eternal and indestructible consciousness-Being, which can not be destroyed by any number of water called Maya. It can only be made shade, or covered and veiled, and this is the case of evolution as explained in previous chapters. Another meaning of the term "beyond" can mean that when we are free, we are inaccessible to any attachments to "down." The nature of that "down" is described to us in the following verse.

Verse 9: I'm beyond my body and the entire planet.

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This means that the material webs of different density and quality longer have attraction for the person released. Physically, any material form or carnal consciousness attracts free return.

In eastern Scripture says that the wise man looking with one eye equal to all small or big, beautiful or ugly, good or bad. Nothing affects him, because what he sees as a demonstration is just a temporary veil, soon to be dissipated like the morning mist. And there is nothing in common between what is a Sage and these veils (and he knows). In the Bhagavad Gita it is stated directly, that the Sages are not affected by life or death, and that they did not care. This is because they are in the Samādhi beyond both states, which affect only the shells, but not the essence. If we identify with these shells, responsibility, ignorance and suffering is our problem.

It seems easy to accept all this mentally (as a theory), but not enough. The 'Essence' must be realized as one's self, the unchanging core. The answer to Vichara, which is the instrument of that search is, of course, the discovery of It, born of persistent and well directed meditations. There occult abruptly saying that the answer to Vichara is just I am. If one prefers to invest it all in words, such solution would be acceptable Survey. In any case, even the Master Maharshi once said that the biblical formula of God: "I am who am" illustrates the whole truth as can try to express it in words. The final meditation for this chapter is:

Verse 10: They (ie my body and the entire planet) do not exist, then, were just a dream in my mind.

It is the final blow to the concept of Maya in us. The very existence of the forms is denied. Is this right? Analyze things for yourselves, philosophically, and in accordance with the hidden concepts, as well as those of Advaita-Vedanta, existence means something that Is 1. Not what once was and ceased to be. Two. There it is now, but will cease to be. Three. Not what was and is, but will no longer be in the future. And finally, 4. What will and will not happen, as the above three conditions.

It may take some hard work in order to meditate and digest these definitions, the little word belonging to P.

The synthesis made in the words of these four definitions is simple: It is, Existence, means the attitude we call "eternal". From this point of view (the one that has value for Samādhi seekers), it is clear that our bodies, those of any other and the planet, along with the apparent universe, do not possess, and can not possess the pure attribute Existence. The hope, the power that motivates us to seek and therefore

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allows us to find, not directed to any of the concepts that are incompatible with our term now being explained, the real existence of P.

In Samadhi, this existence is made and lived. That is why it was and is so eagerly sought by advanced souls, and thus glorified by those who have found this state, in which, as they say the ancient sages of India, are able to see all the seemingly infinite universe as a drop of water. Meditate on this!

The mind can refuse to accept such revolutionary claims, but they are not directed towards the mind. They belong to that now in you, That Is What more can be said?

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What is the true origin of Hope? This power is used mostly unconsciously, as soon result of some unknown factors. In our opinion, these factors include: a flash of intuition (knowledge without thinking), along with a widespread perception of the cliches of our karma. In any case can be both if you analyze a personal example, this is a case where you had or have a reasonable hope for your future. Hope is a positive force, and its philosophy and theological dogmas, the Fathers of the early Church in the first centuries of Christianity, Hope stood next to two other cardinal virtues, without which there is no salvation: Faith and Love

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Hope that is clear motivating power has therefore no reasonable man would take any major step work or no hope of successfully fulfill. And the same goes for this study: what if there were diligently intentaríais hope that you might have success?

In our lives, we often too, slightly above many words that really mean a lot, once you are able to find out. As an example we take the concept of Faith by Hope. Do you know the exact meaning of this word apart from the popular, used in ordinary language?

In occultism, the Fe is also recognized as a great power, and the saying of Christ about the faith that can move mountains is fully confirmed in the Western Tradition, and the words of the Great Teacher Truth are recognized as feasible.

Many people know from their own experience that any work or effort undertaken with faith in its success, has a meaning quite different from the work that is poisoned from the start by uncertainty and doubt. This refers particularly to all spiritual research, and many eminent occultists believe strongly that any realization can not be obtained if the applicant is a prey to his doubts, and therefore has no faith.

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CHAPTER XVIII - HOSTILE FORCES IN THE PATH

Verse 162: "I am the body-such is the opinion of a man deceived instructed for the notion of self is in relation to the body, as well as Jiva (monad). For the great soul who possesses discrimination and direct perception, I am Brahman is the conviction with respect to be eternal. "

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Usually begin our study, as we are while we still exist in the domain of relativity, and use relative strengths until we see the end of the Path. You can even say that the main efforts of all applicants are made right in this relative world, despite the fact that in its core (the spiritual heart, as he called the Maharshi) must have the brilliant sparkle of Absolute Light a true reflection of Samadhi to be achieved. When relativity, there must be light and shadow. Both help create the current image of the manifested universe in which we exhaust our incarnations.

In plain language we can say that: evil and good, friends and enemies, light and darkness, happiness and misery, love and hate, and many other binaries of this type are included among the problems that must be solved by every disciple who is in the Path because you will be with them and will have to "neutralize" in his own life. It is impossible in a study of this kind, designed to show the path of Future Consciousness-as it is often called the Samadhi in occult circles-exact instructions to the aspirant as has been done in concentration, which operates mainly with the mind, that is, with a force that can and must be mastered. But here the search is not the relative, but the body-and all the innermost core of man.

In a study like this, the writer not only faces less experienced students who want to be taught. Reflections, or Samādhi germs must already manifest, even in infinitesimal degree, in the disciple. This changes the whole picture of the instructions. Therefore, the main task of the writer is to provide material that, in the past, has been helpful to others, so that it can be helpful for aspiring present. But the way in which it sets the qualities necessary for successful completion of the Path, is their business. That is why, in this book, no numbered exercises and time frames. If would be useful for a single person, capacities and defined point of view, that is, to the writer himself:

To use an analogy, can offer different foods on plates, but it is you who have to pick and eat them. We turn now to our own content to this chapter, with the hope that the meaning of the above is clear to you.

There can be and there will be difficulties if you are in your path with friendly forces. They help in many ways, and have things so that the applicant does not have doubts about the place from where the help. Consequently, there is no need to discuss it.

But things are different if you are on the Path shadows and hostile influences. This is more than likely, by the nature of the constitution of the relative universe, composed as it is by light and shadow.

The first elements hostile to those who'll face is if you talk to people indifferent about your study and your goal. Ridiculizaros can try to break your resolve and persistence. Why do some people act like this? We have to realize a well known fact of psychology hidden (but not necessarily the official) that most ordinary men, ie undeveloped, do not want to see anyone moving and getting a status superior to theirs. Unfortunately this ugly and foolish sort of jealousy flourishes among us very often, and take advantage hostile forces to use them in full. These forces do not come with horns and forks brearos pour hot fish! Act in a hidden, sometimes too difficult to detect, and thus identified. If the common man knew that he had become a tool of the powers of darkness, probably would think twice before committing an evil act. In any case, it is the student's responsibility to act wisely, and do not provide any opportunity in which

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to be damaged. In that case, he must share at least half of the blame for the problems that beset him. They should discuss their intimate and spiritual commitment to others, except those employed as himself on a

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similar search, or those who know more about the Path than himself. Men will always be hostile to anything that can not understand other people, especially if it is a "study mysterious", a Yoga, and others. They will try to play down what they feel is beyond your own scope. The applicant wise take note of this and act accordingly. There is no other possible choice. You can not change the world but you can and should change yourselves.

The following kinds of obstacles can come from your karma not yet exhausted. When we deal with a study like this, really we are challenging our mistakes and past debts, which have yet to be rectified and paid. In plain language, this means that you may call to pay before and in much larger quantities than your average Prarabdha otherwise required as in the case of goods bought in installments if you want to free yourself before loading, you have to increase the amount of payment of installments thereby shortening the time of payment. So do not seek any relief in your karma simply because ye engaged in a work unquestionably "good"-an intensive search of the great heritage of the future-the Samadhi, the new consciousness that others will get in later ages. Done now the origin of the apparent hostility of your karma, and be at peace.

It would probably be interesting for you to know, even approximately, what forms can take the opposition. Its resistance can be manifested in many ways. It is indeed impossible to list them all, because of its endless variety. But in general may be mentioned as follows:

a) Conditions in the family, in the early years, will prevent one from having a certain amount of solitude necessary for meditation and lack of means to provide themselves with better terms.

b) Poor health that does not allow greater mental effort, inevitable efforts to practice concentration.

c) excessive business activities, for which the influences of the outside world does not allow enough time for exercises or meditation, at the end a too tired at the end of your work day to perform any additional tasks.

d) direct resistance one immediate environment as known associates and others.

All of these can, and are due to be overcome. A sufficient goodwill, determined to do what he has been recognized as the only valid goal of one's life, enlightened management of the circumstances and, finally, the inevitable usually aid to those who meet the required qualities can balance opposition and leave enough room for the path given in the incarnation.

If things differently, and you can not find any possible solution, accept it as a sign that this Path is premature for you, and seek another. In any case, if only you try firmly that of becoming a good human

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being, and if you fulfill this decision in your daily life, the path will be closer to you every day, until a mysterious unmistakable sign open the door leading to it .

Other forces may resist your efforts on the foreground, and these are the involutive astral currents. Could be assaulted by outbursts of emotions and feelings that come to your conscience and try to occupy it for their own purposes (see Concentration, Chapter X).

They can literally tempt to attract your attention, which is a vitalizing force for them and for the following obstacles, mental origin.

Thoughts can begin to torment your brain, one seemingly more urgent and "important" than another, not permitting you to find inner silence for a successful meditation. All these streams come from certain astro-mental centers in the universe, who realize human efforts directed towards the Supernals, that is, to become its leader and independent of them, and any external influence. I would not call "evil" to these forces, as some authors, although they are clearly hostile to our developmental efforts. Christ told us: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Low

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this body of flesh an occultist will recognize the three sheaths that cover the awareness of Self-Spirit, that is, our physical counterparts, astral and mental. It is useless for our present purpose to find the "why" of this, inquiring about the causes of a similar state of affairs. Moreover, the explanations can not be given in terms accessible and operational for the ordinary mind. But those who can raise their self-perception aforme region lies beyond the domain of mind, know the causes.

Until we are able to do so simply because "it is so and not otherwise" should suffice. There is no other solution at this time. Then everything will work out for yourself, and no advanced people have questions or concerns at all. This is the sincere hope of every student, and that hope never be frustrated.

At first, some applicants have to suffer the Path extremely intense attacks from above flows, impure emotions that bring them great strength and lots of unremitting thoughts in spurts seemingly endless. The only real weapon against these obstacles are: 1) Persistence and a strong will to persevere in your efforts. 2) A deep realization of the righteousness of your efforts. 3) Turn to the forces 'good' assistants for help. Can be achieved, for example, by some means such as sincere prayers theurgic aimed at impersonal source of all goodness and purity, which we call God. Technical means have also proved effective are given in full detail in Concentration, Part III, and no reason to mention them again in these pages.

For those of you who have kept an intuitive belief in the great Son of man we call Christ, and they know the mystic power of the sign of the cross, to make it on the believer himself, can benefit from its next use.

First, as usual, situate your fingers together right hand on your forehead, slowly pronouncing concentrándoos on these words: "In the Name of the Father" (think about the infinite Source, unknown absolute of everything) do ye then drop your hand to the solar plexus, uttering the same way the words

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of the Son crucified for us. " Here you need an intense job. Think about the great sacrifice of the Son of Man, who suffered for all human beings to alleviate their burdens and pains. Realize this as equally related to all periods, past, present and future, and then, what is the most important moment of the entire operation, including yourselves and your current difficulties between the benefits of the Sacrifice on the Cross. Feel this, as if you were present in it.

There is hardly anything more to say. Whoever is able, perform and follow the stream of grace that comes from the Cross to all who turn to her.

Then colocad your hand on one of your shoulders with the words: "And the Holy Spirit", thinking about the omnipresence and omnipotence of His effulgence. Finally, put your hand on the other shoulder, Amen "in your mind. This is a confirmation of the entire operation.

Certain Christian Saints used a special prayer or invocation to the most mysterious person of the Holy Trinity-the Holy Spirit. His power kept them from all attacks, threatening, as we know, those who go further than others.

Oh Ruler of Heaven, Comforted And Spirit of Truth!

Who live everywhere And all full,

Giver of Life, come to us and dwells in us.

Cleanse us from all impurity and save our souls

Oh merciful Lord!

Some occultists used the sign of the Cross, as mentioned above, even against physical conditions, and operating cash returning to their faith. In the second stage of making the sign of the Cross, when pronounced "Son", placed his hand on the affected body part, such as the chest, eyes, abdomen, and others, remembering that the Crucified was subject to all pain in His cross. If this mystical bond between the Crucified and praying believer has been really established by faith and devotion, the results come in the form of an instant cure.

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Prayer can be greatly strengthened by certain theurgic methods. One of the best and most used among occultists is as follows. Before you begin to pray, remember that prayer was rising, and rises continuously from highly developed and many men are saints as powerful currents from earth to heaven. I used symbols here, hoping that will be clear to the reader. Now, add your own prayers, melting (in the imagination) with bright ascending currents produced by the Saints. Briefly, you will associate with them. If your admiration and appreciation for them is sincere, the results of your prayer, executed in this way, will be amazing, and purifying your consciousness will be produced in emotional and real.

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Prayer to the Holy Spirit (as given above) is particularly suitable for this operation theurgic, because it was and is used by many highly evolved human.

Since then, the Lord's Prayer can also be used successfully in the same way. Another example of action will be prayer theurgic mystical Eastern Saints addressed to God the Father (Higher Principle unmanifested).

"O Lord, teach me to do Thy Will always."

All prayer should be carefully considered before being put into action, so that maximum benefit can be obtained.

In the Eastern Church used a formula to strengthen and empower mystical prayer. Occultists know this addition also used before any individual sentence, which is: "Through the prayers of Your saints." After what has been mentioned about our partnership with the prayers of the saints, there is no need much explanation concerning this form of theurgy. Who are really the men whom we call saints? To a layman, are very good men, who do not commit sins, and have access to the Almighty, while for a scientifically minded occult, apart from being a good man, a saint is also a scholar, who has knowledge of what we suppose to be just a theory: the relationship of microcosm to macrocosm, or of man to God. It is a wonderful state. For one thing, a being like us has a body and its needs while on the other the Holy lives in the realm of the Spirit (ie, God), and has no doubt about it. He is a bridge between heaven and earth as some godly men. The foolish belief that everyone has access to high is ridiculous, because, as Bernard Shaw wisely said: "The conversion of a savage to Christianity is really the conversion of Christianity to savagery."

An undeveloped consciousness can not even imagine the heights in which dwells the All, in His splendor and absolutism. The idea of this is beyond the perception of the vast majority of present-day humanity. How could "see" God?

That is why those who are more knowledgeable honor advanced souls of humanity whose evolution is far beyond the current level. In one Holy, one is the temporary solution Hermetist a very hard binary: life in the field and in the Spirit. The complete solution is the annihilation of this binary in the fire of the Orb of Light Full (see Chapter XXII). Therefore accepted that any contact with such advanced beings such as Saints, is valuable and benefactor for us. The prayers of the Saints have no personal or selfish intentions. They know the unity of life, and pray for everything and everyone. The applicant wise use such opportunities for their own progress. This is the meaning of the phrase about "Prayers of Your Saints."

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From this or otherwise, you have to fight against enemy forces when they appear to act against us. Who will win in this fight against the currents that slow our pursuit? Whoever can deploy more power as well as ensure the protection of positive source mentioned in the first part of this chapter. Obstacles 'mixed',

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a) The drowsiness that consistently overwhelms some applicants when they start. Meditation and other exercises. The weapon against this will give the body a little more sleep, thereby removing possible physical cause of evil. Make use then the force of your will, rejecting the torpor, which is irrational when the body has enough rest in normal time.

b) A more serious phenomenon can be hostile disturbed sleep at night. Some people who are on the Path have to endure this obstacle when lack of sleep appears, usually around 2 to 3 am, after only a few hours of sleep. A man may feel perfectly healthy, and have yet to pass the remaining hours until morning fighting the thoughts that assail him, preventing sleep.

There are several remedies recommended.

1. A cold shower before retiring to bed, best between 10 and 11 pm. In stubborn cases, the body should be washed with a damp towel, leaving no part dry skin. The whole operation should not take more than a minute. Id then immediately to bed without drying the body, but using enough blankets to warm.

Two. Do not go to bed before two hours after the last meal.

Three. Being in bed, uttering the sacred syllable "Aum", counting the repetitions until he fell asleep.

April. When you wake up in the middle of the night and have difficulty returning to sleep, use # 3 as a remedy.

May. The powerful exorcism Concentration given in Chapter IX, used as a mantra, also will help.

June. Sometimes nightmares haunt the applicant. Astral conditions are inadequate, when the body lies astrosoma sleeping and start living your own life on the astral plane. If this happens and dreams are connected with fear, two weapons can be used against it. The first is the aforementioned exorcism. The second, a strong mental repetition, with full concentration, I am. This should be lived with the realization that I'm mean the true existence that can not be affected by anything, and therefore is beyond all dangers and fears. In order to be effective both formulas should exercise (repeated mentally, and loudly when possible) during the day, that is, when you are awake and can memorize well. Gradually both will, as intended, to the state of sleep and work there for you, every time that you need strength, confidence in yourselves and courage in the astral and mental.

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danger in these phenomena, but our individual reactions may be inappropriate and therefore harmful to our psychology and even our health.

A hidden law is that if our consciousness operates normally (in the waking state) on a certain level, then, to fall asleep, we should be aware in the next shot and run over by both him. Now you can understand why, in preparation for the Samadhi (which is beyond the mental plane), try to dominate and subdue the reflections of the astral and mental in ourselves. I deliberately say in us and not the world around us. Unnecessary for our purpose is straightforward, but certain types of occultism also deal with these two higher planes and its inhabitants. In search of the Real Consciousness, upper end (Samadhi) simply do not need no manifestations of Maya, whether we call physical, astral or mental, as all are only temporary illusions, unworthy to be our goal. The Sage Maharshi told us: "What is not permanent is lost, and not worth striving for what is lost." How clear and logical is this conception, but is compelling and director only mature minds. This will end the direct relationship of the forces

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hostile can be found on the path, passing the active part of the study, the following verses to meditate.

Verse 11: Now I woke up from that dream.

If you followed closely the means given in this chapter against hostile forces, found along the trail, it should not escape your attention that the media are directed just against those "dreams of your mind" that appearances are visions, theories and other activities not connected with our astromentales upper Principle (Being immaterial, timeless and not attached to anything), but with our mortal ego-personality. So our next problem is to end the dream not worth the mental plane. Since he is living, and is aware primarily on the physical plane, the ordinary man called astral experiences dreams, that is, things that are unreal, and only appear and disappear. Consequently, such an attitude is not wrong, but for us it should be extended to the mental plane, the realm of the mind. We need to wake beyond mind, and we will have every right to call it illusion, as they did and they do all the great sages and instructors of mankind started. The task is neither light nor easy. The true approach is, like everything in Part III, appropriate meditation only, and applies to this and all other verses given here for your use. Waking up from a dream means realizing the reality, knowing, at the same time, the illusory nature of everything else, it can not be put in the category of the Real, that is, the existence, as explained in Chapter XVII . Think about this in complete inner peace and Analyse what is in you that belongs to the Real, and what to Maya, using the process of "peeling" or "rejection" gradual. There will be a significant internal progress if you follow this advice exactly.

Verse 12: There is nothing around me, only infinite space.

This is an extension of Verse 11, which allows us to deepen increasingly active meditation and achievable. In this we reject all, because this "all" is false, having no existence. But something should be done to enable us "breathe" in this apparent "nothing". And in our help comes "only infinite space." This can not be done through the upper regions of mortal consciousness. Imagine that you are in space, empty, and extending infinitely in all directions. But verbalicéis rather visualize, if you like this concept.

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Be still, no desire, no trace of that tragic extroversion of mind which persistently spoils innumerable incarnations of our brothers who want to live without knowing what is real life. Be in the "center" of the Great Space. Shankaracharya also used this way in its approach to the Samadhi. I always prefer to follow the line of the classical writers of spiritual philosophy, because they actually experienced what they taught, and possessed wisdom, while the ignorant masses, in the best, strive for knowledge only temporary. This verse can remind you exercise properly the end of Part III of Concentration. So was any indication, a suggestion of the existence of deeper experiences. Now you can see for yourselves that is the time to do things, not just think about them.

So, stay as long as you can in the center, with nothing around you, and Rejoice in the joy inherent is the weak tasting ahead of what awaits in the Orb of Light Full-in Kevala Nirvikalpa.

VERSE 13: I like this space-I have no purpose.

In the following, a big step forward, you are not the observer, looking through the eyes of your mind subtle to the space, which symbolizes the infinite and eternity. You are it. I live. There is no longer a symbol, but the realization itself. Think! You are dissolved in the endless space, is not this your liberty absolute and final? Bliss is intensified again. Perhaps, right now, in your conscience purified, perceive what is life and what is immortality. Stay in meditation to be in the space, because nothing more can be added in words to this experience.

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experience that follows, if you had success, is that you will know that there is imperishable dwelling in the heart of your inner sanctuary.

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CHAPTER XIX - THE SUN RISING Samadhi

Verse 134: "This unmanifested spiritual consciousness begins to manifest as the sunrise in the heart pure, shining like the midday sun in the" cave of wisdom ", illuminating the entire universe."

Verse 500: "As the space farther than I thought (I'm pervading). Like the sun, I'm different from what has been made visible (for him). Like a mountain, I am eternally immovable. Like the ocean, I am unlimited. "

The experiences connected with the meditations along the lines of the verses 11 and 13 should finally bring considerable extension of consciousness, and the birth of new ideas, not just theoretical arising from the limited mind, but of direct perception of things that extend beyond the capabilities of mind

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and thought. I remember the words of Omar Khayyam ecstatic when, under the veil of common language, tried to convey the supreme idea of man's spiritual rebirth:

"For a new Marriage I did Jaranero: I divorced the old and barren Reason (mind) of my bed, and took the Daughter of Wine by Wife."

Omar speaks clearly of the need to transcend the limited mind to ascend to the bliss of pure consciousness is living above it. Not all of us can be poets, but this does not distract us from the same experience at the Samadhi Supraconsciousness when the time comes to our maturity.

I turn now to this moment sublime honest to my readers, and especially to applicants on the Path. The whole secret of Attainment resides on personal experience, not study calls philosophical works, written under the dictates of the speculative mind, supositora and hesitant, that, according to the spiritual teaching of the great masters such as Christ, Buddha and Maharshi, is unable to experience the Truth. Mental conceptions clearly exposed flatter people enslaved by their minds, no matter how capable these minds seem to be for us. But they are useless, and therein lies the whole tragedy. Take all Western philosophers: they created certain periods in which intellectuals were interested and perhaps admired their "masters", but at no time were things beyond these limited circles. And so it is still today. But the most essential thing is, that all the thick volumes do not give any experience or happiness inherent in it. Often the creators of these theories themselves mentally and personal conceptions were men deeply unhappy. This provides much food for thought for all acute intellectual. How useful are even smarter mental combinations exposed when sterile and do not produce anything more than temporary mental flavors, leaving the issue of every living cardinal unresolved and the inevitable end as menacing and ominous as it was before? Even the great religions bring much solace and inner harmony, and at least are able to conjure up the old specter of death.

There are cases in which some theories and ideas purely mental (not experienced filmmaker in value), to be put into action, bring a little good to the nations or societies concerned. And even this "little" is overcome by evil brought into play when the ignorant masses try to practice what, in essence, beyond their understanding. Then the evil passions arise no longer limited in their action by the above laws, we rejected.

The Encyclopédistes eighteenth century France had supposedly the best intentions to reform the old and tiresome regime, and thus give the masses more freedom and happiness, based on their discussions and mental theories: but they were far removed from any experience and knowledge of the psychology of the lower classes, since they themselves were rather aristocrats.

But if they could have subsequently rise from their graves and see the French Revolution with all its cruelty, murder, slavery and perversion, instead of the supposed freedom and happiness that followed from his books and pamphlets intentioned, certainly they would rather destroy them allow them to be published.

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Another example may be the practical results of the Russian Revolution of 1918, apparently made on behalf of liberation and social justice, but it really brought poverty to the masses, along with slavery and terror hitherto unknown in history human.

Reformers should have more than intelligent minds and theoretical skills if they hope to bring an improvement rather than a deterioration in conditions. It requires a comprehensive knowledge of man, and not just taken from the point of view of gross materialism.

In this book you have a non-religious approach and philosophy (in the sense mentioned above) to search deeper than man can ever undertake, finding its last-the imperishable core itself. And not by individual speculation (and somewhat dubious), but efforts to acquire the higher level of consciousness, which alone can solve the problems that are far beyond the powers and capacity of mind. For us it is true that for the attainment of some physical and mental abilities should put a lot of effort and work in them (eg, gymnastics, both physical and mental, and other titles), just in the desired direction, and not just load the brain with considerable information and knowledge to be stored in it.

The search for higher consciousness of man was neither new, as many have found this path before us. Here I must warn you before there is a misunderstanding. If, in these pages, you read a lot of criticism of the mind, is not directed against the use or development of this power. Just the opposite! No being spiritually eminent was or weak-minded. Rather, their mental abilities are amazing, and go far beyond all the scholars of his time. Read, for example, the sayings and answers of Christ, the carpenter from Galilee, and try to correct or improve them! Try to give your own answers to the questions posed to him by the most intelligent scholars and intellectuals of his time, without falling into either end, thereby leaving a weak spot for the next attack. Usually, we do not appreciate the wisdom behind the sermons of the Great Teacher, and at the same time, we have nothing better to say or can even be considered equally wise. "Whoever among you is without sin cast the first stone. "Render therefore unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. These, of course, are just two examples.

The main difference that divides an occultist officer is a scientist in his conception of the same power, the mind. While the former believes that the mind is your servant, and education, expand and develop just for better service without ever losing its position as master, the second does not know this division, and usually identified with what should be his servant , but not love.

The first, if sufficiently developed, you can tell your mental apparatus' stop until I tell you to do what I want ", and is able to force the execution of this order. For the second, a process that seems to be annoying and useless.

I leave it to the individual student and the consequences inferred form their own opinion on the matter.

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to other seekers to Samadhi, and can do the same for you. It's so strange that in the kingdom that is the closest to all human beings-their most prized possession, his life, devoid of the specter of death, men forget the old and tested methods of formal learning. For any price you can get a PhD and in tray, but only using a certain amount of years in serious study and practical work. If you get a degree in engineering, you will discover the first test when, for example, to build a bridge tratéis modern, without being a real engineer. The first technician will unmask. So it is with spiritual knowledge, and how could it be otherwise? But many people think you can cover the

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Wisdom merely reading some books or instructions, even if the authors are really competent writers on occult philosophy.

The bulk of the work to be done on the Path belongs to the individual experience of the applicant, according to the lines that take as their guides. Without our own effort, the path and the goal can not be achieved. Nobody can take our food for us.

There are a few "exceptions" (only apparent, of course) and are very rare. It is the case of a man who, by the grace of a powerful master, was allowed to experience once in its lower Samādhi as ecstasy, even despite their lack of training and previous experience necessary.

As a result he wrote a book, which subsequently led to many who were ready to come to the Master. But inspiration, if not followed by proper spiritual work and progress, can not last forever, and eventually loses its power and dissolves in daily life.

Often the Master uses men as His tools to help carry out the fulfillment of His mission in this world problematized, and this is another priceless opportunity for such people to progress rapidly, if you care enough about it.

Now back to the question of personal achievement, which assumes you are studying this work. At this point, when eighteen chapters of explanation, preliminary technical and lie to you, your meditations you should bring the first glimpse of the new consciousness, manifesting itself first through the momentary flashes of light that is in you. It is extremely hard to say exactly what awaits the aspirant, when you see the first rays of the rising sun high in itself. All that can be said is limited to comparisons: for what else we have in our language of the mind? She operates only with categories already known, if not by us, by others. The eternal and universal speech of Absolute Consciousness (the Samādhi) has no alphabet. The rays of the sun are invisible to the eyes of the flesh. Thus the difficulty is immense, and efforts to transfer more estrenuosos higher things are always inadequate when compared to the actual experience. That is why eastern Instructors speak about both pathways, and the need to reach Samadhi (repeated Maharshi: Samadhi alone can reveal the truth), but less about the state itself. They are very careful to tell us something more about the nature of that state. In the past Sri Shankaracharya was perhaps the ablest of them all, it gives some positive descriptions of certain states of consciousness through Samādhi obtainable. Two of them have been given at the beginning of this chapter. Some other, equally inspiring, can be mentioned here:

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"Realize that you are That, Brahman-all that shines, that is beyond the Logos, pervading, uniform, truth, consciousness, bliss, endless, indestructible." (Verse 264).

"When the mind, matured by a relentless discipline of this kind, is immersed in Brahman, then the Samadhi, void of all forms ... becomes itself the producer of the realization of non-dual bliss. "(Verse 363).

"Oh you, man discriminant! Know that renunciation and spiritual knowledge are the two wings of the ego that is in the body. For anything else other than these two can be achieved promotion to the top of the vine nectar that is called liberation. "(Verse 375).

But the Samadhi is not just a search engine that sits on his lotus asana under a tree, which protects it from the merciless Indian sun. As we told the Maharshi concerning Attainment, no difference whether a man is in a London flat, solitary retreat or a jungle. Moreover, the Master added that any external life change will help some, it is the mind seeking to be transformed, then dominated transcended (in Samadhi), and not the labels, one like to put yourself, such as hermit monk, yogi, and others, instead of internal evolutionary processes. So if you the problem arises of Attainment, where ye is virtually immaterial what race or nationality and pertenezcáis. Your maturity is the deciding factor.

If you take this natural process of your spiritual maturity in your own hands, will be accelerated and will come closer to you with every step forward that bear on the thorny path.

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We know that, in this matter, no social or worldly position is any real importance. Those who have succeeded are generally unknown to the world, except for a few in history who have had a defined mission to serve humanity, to form a new religion, and others because they never talk about themselves.

Those who proclaim or announce his 'Samadhi' are just liars, they have no idea that any of that sublime state, and merely mark out a few scriptures that have never even properly understood.

This is because the Samādhi requires such changes in human consciousness, it would be impossible to successfully adept, even the lightest retain remnants of selfishness and pride, which might induce him to talk about himself.

The Master Maharshi, even though I was on top of every possible achievement, he was never heard, throughout his long life, talking about himself in any way. Even the personal pronoun I appears only a few times in the translation of their answers to the questioners. Moreover, while a Master-Guru genuine, never recognized this fact. Possessing the Samadhi (Sahaja) perennial, never mentioned it. And this is the case with all those who really know.

The moment that the applicant will receive the first rays of sun Samādhi is unpredictable. Our research and experiments on this issue appear to be all negative. This meant that external conditions, which can be observed by us, have no-influence apparently spiritual manifestations. Logically, moments of

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illumination should follow successful periods of meditation, but it is not, and that a good health and nerves can promote it, is not enough to cite confirmed. Sometimes when your body is feeling clearly in bad shape, it happens!

Obviously the internal ripeness is beyond all plausible conditions in which we find occasionally. I'm comparing the first manifestations of human consciousness Samādhi with Dawn. This is because they are just like a dawning light, reaching and pervading in man. This light can not be seen with the eyes or by any of the other senses. Often, when the eyes are closed and the impact of the outside world thereby reduced, the phenomenon becomes stronger and lasts longer. Personally, I think it's so great that all consumptive reaction at that time is as deleted. If you are in the presence of other people, ye shall know of the circumstances as usual, but as looking from a distant perspective, not in space, but in your conscience. This remoteness brings a comprehensive, although everything remains as it was.

No abnormal visions or other occurrences. And this is the guarantee that this state is not a mental delusion or ecstasy. All that was visible remains as such, and only visionary perspective is transformed to a higher plane and brighter. The lucidity of this moment of light is paramount. The person experiencing it knows, that if he could call itself "homo sapiens" at some point, it is only now, in these minutes of intense happiness and wisdom. The term "happiness" needs little explanation. One simply is filled with joy that comes directly from the Sun's Samadhi which arises in us. Then one is beyond all speech, so that the coating experience with the language of the mind only comes later, when everything is over, but the mind is still and in a brilliant sunset, after the sunset of the Supernals, and before night Jagrat (normal waking state) to wrap it all again.

Physical movements are not yet disabled, as is the case in full Nirvikalpa Kevala that may last hours. Here one can still stand and walk, but speech comes with difficulty and only on the most simple, affecting only automatic activities of the brain, such as asking or show a ticket, pay money, crossing a street, and others. No mental work beyond these simple patterns is possible unless Hinder lighting moments to break thinking. But all of us are opposed to such action, and only the desire to enjoy dumb-Light for as long as possible. This desire, if it can llamárselo well, does not disturb the peace inherent in Dawn. It seems that then the man is simply beyond all expectations, anxieties and efforts, and know that everything is as it should be. This

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last sentence, but does not reveal even a fraction of the full depth of this knowledge, it may nevertheless be regarded as being the closest to the reality of the experience.

Another view given by a friend who also saw the rising sun in his heart (as he called this spiritual flight) was an immaterial and pervading light, clear as crystal, as a liquid unthinkable in which individual consciousness dissolved to join this illimitable ocean of Everything. Neither the physical world completely disappeared, as their closest fragments were still perceptible, but as in a mirror, reflecting distant images.

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In any case, Maharshi Master's words tell us that in such a state can not have thoughts, but only the pure consciousness of I-Ser, are fully confirmed by those who know.

There is no sadness or regret in us when we return to the shadow of daily life, for we keep forever the wisdom of our spiritual essence indestructible, which is beyond all worlds illusory images of visible and tangible. But the most powerful factor in us is the appearance of pure Esperanza tells us in the language of Silence that our final destination is just that said, a few fragments of which have experienced a little earlier. This Hope finds true fulfillment in the next step, when the real and spontaneous demonstration of the Rising Sun, began to plunge into the Orb of Light Full (Kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi) as a result of calculated and successful efforts. It will tell you all this in the last section of this book, Part IV.

After experiencing what has been tried to describe above, we begin to realize that the main reason we can not even stay forever in the Light resides only in us and nowhere else.

The power that compels us to 'return' to the state of Jagrat is our inability to persist in silent concentration which is the condition of the Dawn. We see that as soon as this concentration fully realize (until then only by chance), we become unwilling, without any "spirit of expectation" (that great enemy of inner peace), and then the reward invariably arrives. I have, besides this, a firm conviction that the spiritual master, who is watching unseen mind when aspirant can exercise its powers, even without any knowledge of the pupil, and mysteriously helps overcome-albeit for a short time- the main obstacles, creating internal attitude he apparently that enables you to experience the first dawn of light.

An applicant may be completely unaware of this fact unseen assistance, but the Great Ones do not care if their actions are recognized or not. I think that even a modern saint (as Dr. Albert Schweitzer) does not care if a worm on a path that saves realizes who saved his life. The difference between those few spiritual giants whose task is to help us, we are wandering and looking for the light through the darkness of this age, and the common man, should be much greater than that between the worm and human shield .

Why do I mention this? In order to make clear that aid is granted only to those who treat themselves to help their neighbor. The Master, as described above, will not help a heartless selfish or those who move along the "knowledge" for their own purposes. The Great Teacher unmistakably said: "Amen I say to you, that ye should do as not one of these children, I would not do to me." The sun is always shining in the spiritual horizon, but the eyes do not see it running, as are only looking down your goals and perishable issues in his earthly existence lightning.

A look, even momentarily, to the above, is the widening of our horizon of existence of the ego usually narrow. Be not deceived, you can reach the point of spiritual enlightenment (we can call it Samadhi) sentándoos in your study with many books at your disposal, or immersed in intellectual speculations and theories. All of them will die along with your body and your brain. From the point of view of realization, even a humble devotee who prays and bows to That which is his highest conception of the Supreme affordable, lies above and is eligible for care from a Master, a cold

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selfish, who believes that collects wisdom of printed or written thoughts, and mental deliberations of other men, who do not know and do not know the truth, but only the divine. You can read all the scriptures, the Bible and other, all along, but if not carrying out what they order, your time is lost. Here I mean the lack of spiritual endeavor that usually manifests in a sentence inegopista and inspired, directed to the Source of all wisdom. An eminent scholar and Indian Vedantist, the author of the famous' Maha Yoga "says it right when he says that" the Vedas and others are just words and little else. " The letter itself is dead. S. The Apostle Paul taught us that even a power like that of the three cardinal Christian virtues-faith-is dead if it is not accompanied by facts.

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Three subsequent meditations belonging to this chapter now lie before us. But a resume would be desirable for this chapter, before we return to the meditations. The conclusive statement is:

The higher states of consciousness are conditioned by: 1) the high moral standards, and 2) the elimination of egoism, and other 3) exercises, meditations and other techniques. The last three) will not be of any use if not accompanied by 1) and 2).

Verse 14: Now there's nothing that can affect me anymore.

What that usually affects us and where are these influences? What affect level of consciousness? These issues, which just happened to us should be answered before we can say that do not apply to us.

We can only be affected in the domain of our three material planes of existence-physical, astral and mental. Refusing to submit to any physical influence means that nothing happens to our body should affect our deepest core-our Being For untrained people is easier said than done. But we have many examples, including history, that some men were indifferent to the sufferings and death of their bodies. And not all of them were saints, caught by religious and spiritual ideas. Some were simply strong and courageous men who defied death because, in themselves, found something stronger than perishable body suffered destruction. Therefore, there can be no doubt that one who strives for the higher, should be helpless in the lower. For our purposes the immunity of physical compulsion that affects our deepest consciousness, is one of the conditions of Attainment. Can be obtained, if we hit our main weapon in the present moment, ie meditation, against the old lie, so deeply rooted in humanity embodied a) I am the body or b) what happens to the body that affects me.

From here to be directed against such formulas mental meditations, and the best would be the Verse 1 used in this book, which serves as a strong and logical rejection of a) and b). The same function with the astral and mental realms.

Emotions must be overcome and should prohibírselas that disturb you at first, during the time of your inner work (exercise), and then in general. There can be no talk about Samadhi where the applicant suffers emotional disturbances, no matter what kind. We know from the description of the first rays of the sun invisible when can arise in us and what it brings. So here also should be no doubt about the mental world, as happened with the astral. In Samādhi no thoughts but only me, so if your application is

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secured against intruders mental (thoughts) can not expect to get something that comes only when all mental vortices are extinct, until "no longer affects" . Again the hidden key to success is as before: your lack of interest (curiosity) in inferior things. You can try the best you can to remove mentally and otherwise logically possible undesirable elements of your consciousness, using the best known techniques for this purpose, but if in your deeper courts have not conquered that secret and live still interested those things eventually will erupt on the surface of your consciousness, as steam under the lid of a kettle, destroying your meditation. This is the main initiation

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practice to solve the difficult problem of astral and mental health of all applicants in all genuine paths.

Verse 15: I'm free of all names and forms.

If the common man is faced with the question: Who is he?, The natural response will call in the best, I'm a man. This term can be understood man's body, along invisible elements which we call their emotional and mental worlds. With such ideas can live your incarnation, while you dream about higher conceptions. The Samadhi is the ultimate denial of everything relative and temporary. That is why it is so difficult, in fact rather impossible, pass by speech or any other form of mental communication, as it belongs to the domain of That which is absolute, irrespective of anything, inaccessible to all influence, unchangeable by any factors beyond time and all kinds of space. So none of the three planes human has access to Samadhi. It left everything before the Great Gate, if I may be allowed to use this symbol.

And those who have lived the Samādhi know that there were (and are) fully, even without these three elements apparently are all human beings. But in the Samadhi, the man, as we used to know, does not exist. That is why the Lord Buddha rejected the idea of "soul", as does the Zen Advaita-Vedanta, and the genuine initiation schools Western Hermetic Tradition (being its conception Ain-Sof, the Unattainable, the Unknown).

In the Christian tradition, now much obscured by the laity, we can still find similar ideas (the dogma that "the material dies, but the spiritual emerges')

Once, when the Wise Maharshi talked about himself, said that he really had no name at all. At that time few realized what he meant, and continued addressing him as before.

In the foregoing description of the Rising Sun may be added, that in this state being "nameless and formless" is fully realized, being Samādhi attributes. It is expected that after all that has been said about the verse 15, the musing about him can be made more easily, and that the student will, at least theoretically, what brings his Supernals and what elements should be abandoned before the threshold of full Samādhi.

At the time, what we call "men" is nonexistent, because then everything becomes Silence Peace and Body Bliss eternally free.

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CHAPTER XX - DISCOVERY AND RESURRECTION

MAN OF ETERNAL PRINCIPLE

Verse 415: "Habiéndote come to Lagos which is eternal, pure knowledge and bliss, leaves this upadhi (the body) that is impure. After there to remember him again, as the memory of what vomited only produces disgust. "

Verse 416: 'The great sage, having burned all this until the roots of the eternal fire, which is essentially non-dual Brahman, remains in Lagos, which is eternal, pure knowledge and bliss. "

Everything that has been said in previous chapters, as well as all that has been written in books and treatises mystical and hidden from any period can be summarized as efforts in the direction of practical and individual discovery of what life is really and the portion of it embodied in man.

Reducing the whole problem to the part of him that is closer to us, we will call-Etero Principle of Man. This is the widest, and hence more abstract concept, independent of many specific terms and definitions, used in religions, philosophy and the occult. In order to make it more palatable to your mind, the following explanations may be used to describe the Eternal Principle of Man.

It is that which exists (in the meaning given in Chapter XVII), lives, and manifests itself in a multitude of ways, so that we can observe and experience them. A clever student might add is that just what was used in this work as "consciousness" and not be far from the truth. The perception is a necessary attribute of that principle, but not the kind you have to take a sun bath, walk or eat, and others. You'll soon see why.

What is eternal always exists and manifests under any conditions. What this attribute does not have continuity, can not belong to our principle in question. When applied to ourselves, would mean that an ordinary human being, "normal" is not provided with this principle, since their perception (a function of consciousness) has many interruptions, as in sleep, fainting, hypnotic states, and others. This explains the famous saying of Krishnamurti. "Your self does not exist even now!" Obviously I spoke of that small, temporary and perishable unfortunately people think that they are themselves. From our point of view, such incomplete perception is similar to that lack true existence. For those not familiar with the practical possibility of uninterrupted consciousness (ie, that always works ceaselessly both the state of death as in sleep), these concepts continue to be unrealistic, and this is quite understandable, and there is no reason to dwell on it any longer: especially as Christ himself called "dead" those people.

In modern occultism (see the Tarot) this state is known as the "sleep of ignorance". P. D. Ouspensky, in his later years, when he managed to become free from the ominous influence of Gurdjieff, referred to him as "the war on mortal dream." Rom Landau, the author of an important book (among others)-God is my adventure, which contains very sharp details, attended Ouspensky's talks in London in the early thirties, and appreciated the inflexible attitude of this intellectual and mystical Russian.

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So we can define the current state of human consciousness as one awake yet. Consequently efforts to raise our consciousness to higher levels and wider, it can easily be said to lead to new real state of 'awake', which, in occult philosophy, is called Samadhi or Supernals. Therefore, the discovery of Samadhi in us is the realization of our eternal principle.

Student is advised to meditate on the contents of this part of this chapter before you start your next.

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In the hope that this has been done, we can now proceed to the true manifestation of this Principle of man. At this level, all labels as 'soul', Spirit, Atman, and others, it is better to forget temporarily, for now, look at us naked response to the definition of that Principle. Not another formula that I am. There is and there can be nothing separate and beyond It. I am is the name of every human being: the magic name that has the unlimited power of realization. It is also the answer to the mysterious and often misunderstood as Vichara, given to us by the great Rishi Ramana as universal means of finding the highest of man.

Therefore I am is the only real talking man, I'm mumbling the unity of all mankind. I say "mumbles" because only a few are able to hear the voice of Truth still tenuous in humanity, and realize their Oneness.

What can you say all the vast universe? Anything else other than I am inevitably spoil the answer. This universe is just unreal, because there is no other like it, and therefore there is nothing to oppose and recreate the binary destructive, as in the lower worlds of the illusory visions constituting the Maya.

Finally, Principle Higher Self (which some like to call "God") has nothing to reveal that magnificent beyond biblical development of the same formula: "I am who am." Meditate on this before going any further.

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When defining the indescribable state of Samadhi, Sri Maharshi said that its main feature is the presence of the unique feeling I am, and nothing else, no thoughts or other external activity of consciousness.

Finally, if we started to use, I am the truth is the ultimate weapon against all problems in all three planes. This means that we then "remember" our high origin, like rays of the Central Light of Absolute Consciousness reflected in us, and that fragment to pass through the manifested world, like a prism breaks up white light in several primary assorted colors. This is a metaphysical explanation of the concepts of 'variety' and 'multiplicity' in the broadest sense. It was used by the great Rishi Ramana when he tried to convey to those who asked the idea of the relationship between God and His universe, including human beings.

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If this phenomenon is applied to the prism. Central Consciousness not disintegrated, we then (in the human world) different manifestations in the form of different men. As above, so below, but this condition does not continue indefinitely. The law makes it Differential evolution gravitate back to the primary Oneness. In other words, again Isis collects the scattered body parts of Osiris, according to the old traditional Egyptian interpretation of that law. It was part of his final initiation.

Here also lies the mystery of the Supernals. From individual pieces of her, not yet reinstated beings (like us), the path leads to the full unit, not broken, reflected in the White Light paramount. Strictly speaking, the title of this chapter could also be the "Eternal Principle Rediscovery of Man" as the essential Oneness was, is and always will be, it is eternal, being only temporarily veiled by plunging into separate mortal existence.

The path is only a path towards the realization of this great principle. Do not think that all this is just theory for those who are initiated into the essence of the Principle. For them it is as real as anything you see around you at this time. It is worth mentioning that the main manifestation of the illusion of separateness (ie, personality and individuality after) is egoism, and combat and destroy this ancient enemy, this evil ghost who deceives mankind as the serpent Biblical tempted and deceived Eve, is the cardinal goal of all spiritual movement (ie, reintegrative). All spiritual giants, which

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called great saints, yogis and Rishis, that is, those conducting the Oneness long before the rest of humanity, have left as first commandment for us who try to follow these leaders: the destruction of the primordial sin (as he called Maharshi), which is the belief of being separate and selfishness.

We can not close our eyes to the sad fact that in the present age (Kali Yuga according to the Hindus), the Eternal Principle is discovered only a few precursors, remaining still the mass of men buried in the morass of separateness-selfishness. Aside from having separate bodies (physical and other) further deepen this creating our own fences that we call: family egoism, selfishness and national egoism class. At its current level, humanity is convinced that this deepening of separation is necessary for their own happiness, which unfortunately can not be found and it is not so.

There is another simile: in a hive, the honey bees divide between separate panels, but when it comes time to collect it is taken out and removed the combs separators until a uniform mass is ready honey.

This is the 'harvesting' of which Christ spoke often as the goal and ultimate end of life.

In Oneness Samādhi fully realized. When we reach this state, we rediscover the One Truth forever. So there are no more questions, ignorance or doubt. But how many are mature enough to make this discovery end?

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From the point of view of the Oneness, the "normal" state of consciousness of selfish power, who believe in its existence "separate" is comparable to spiritual death. The great Teacher once said, "Let the

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dead bury their dead." Therefore, the achievement of the Unit in the Samadhi (can not be done otherwise) is similar to the resurrection. The two basic principles, the sunrise (or birth) in us' Central Consciousness, and the final resurrection to eternal life which is beyond all forms and separation can be found in veiled form in all major religions of this planet. The intelligent student can discern also in ancient mythology. Mention here only Christmas and Easter Christian, which are very transparent symbols evolutionary drama.

These are esoteric and occult teachings, as reflected in names. But we have our own knowledge and experimental evidence of them. And they will find them in the Samadhi, when you may attain. You will find that state like a glorious resurrection, to the realization of the absolute Oneness, and in this lies the unspeakable and incomparable bliss of Supernals.

VERSE 16: I forgot the dream land.

After what I just read, this meditation will not present any difficulties in understanding and practice. Having rediscovered the Truth (another name for the Eternal Principle) and raised in the miracle of spiritual resurrection, who remember the shadows of their former wanderings through earthly incarnations (or other)? Who would like to come down to a dark, damp basement after bathing in the life-giving rays of the sun? You just try to forget the darkness above, as anticipated in Verse 16 of our meditation for this chapter.

In the Samadhi know who we are, and although this spiritual knowledge can not be made in the language of the mind, there is a truth, which invariably will be brought back from Samadhi: I have nothing in common with the meat left shell somewhere land.

The spiritual consciousness leaves no room either for the body, created from dust and returns to it. Is this possible? It is, as we have many tests and examples given by men who showed real contempt and superiority over their carnal covers. The best test of whether a man identifies himself with his body and is able to transcend is death. The saints and martyrs preferred materials openly leave their shells to live in the spirit. It

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same has been done by men who have died for their beliefs or who have sacrificed for others. None of these would have done so, if they had an intuitive knowledge, including direct any, of the prevalence of Spirit over matter. But not all who have shown their willingness to die early were good examples for our present topic.

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