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The Fourteenth Lesson: The Yogi Path of Attainment207
The Fourteenth Lesson: The Yogi Path of Attainment
The student who has carefully acquainted himself with the fundamental
principles of the Yogi Philosophy, as set forth in these lessons, will readily
see that anyone who grasps and accepts these teachings, and makes them
a part of his everyday life, will naturally live a very different life from one to
whom this present earth-life is all, and who believes that death extinguishes
individuality, and that there is no future life or lives. It will also lead one to
live his life rather differently from the person who believes that we are but
creatures of a rather capricious Providence, having but little responsibility
of our own, and that our “salvation” depends upon a perfunctory “belief” in
certain teachings, and a set form of attendance at certain forms of religious
worship. Remember, now, please, that the Yogi Philosophy has no fault to find
with any form of religion—it teaches that all forms of religion are good, and
each has its particular place to fill—each fills the need of humanity in some
of its stages. It believes that no matter what form of worship is followed—no
matter what conception of Deity is held—that every man really worships
the One Great Intelligence, which we know under many names, and that the
varying forms of such worship are immaterial, the motive behind each being
the real test to be applied.