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The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath1750
into the elementary stages of the Yogi exercises for developing Universal
Consciousness, and if he is in earnest he will discover means and methods
whereby he may progress. The way is always opened to him who is ready
to tread the path. The following exercise will be found to do much toward
developing the Universal Consciousness in those who faithfully practice it.
Exercise.—Place your body in a reclining, relaxed position. Breathe
rhythmically, and meditate upon your relationship with the Universal Mind
of which you are but an atom. Think of yourself as being in touch with All,
and at-one-ment with All. See All as One, and your Soul as a part of that
One. Feel that you are receiving the vibrations from the great Universal
Mind, and are partaking of its power and strength and wisdom. The two
following lines of meditation may be followed.
(a) With each inhalation, think of yourself as drawing in to yourself the
strength and power of the Universal Mind. When exhaling think of yourself
as passing out to others that same power, at the same time being filled with
love for every living thing, and desiring that it be a partaker of the same
blessings which you are now receiving. Let the Universal Power circulate
through you.
(b) Place your mind in a reverential state, and meditate upon the grandeur
of the Universal Mind, and open yourself to the inflow of the Divine Wisdom,
which will fill you with illuminating wisdom, and then let the same flow out
from you to your brothers and sisters whom you love and would help.
This exercise leaves with those who have practiced it a new-found sense
of strength, power and wisdom, and a feeling of spiritual exaltation and bliss.
It must be practiced only in a serious, reverential mood, and must not be
approached triflingly or lightly.
General Directions.
The exercises given in this chapter require the proper mental attitude
and conditions, and the trifler and person of a non-serious nature, or one
without a sense of spirituality and reverence, had better pass them by, as