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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga530
worlds, and, instead of feeling small and insignificant by comparison, you
will be conscious of an expansion of Self, until you feel that in those circling
worlds is a part of yourself—that You are there also, while standing upon
the Earth—that you are akin to all parts of the Universe—nay, more, that
they are as much your home as is the spot upon which you are standing.
You will find sweeping upon you a sense of consciousness that the Universe
is your home—not merely a part of it, as you had previously thought. You
will experience a sense of greatness, and broadness and grandness such as
you have never dreamed of. You will begin to realize at least a part of your
Divine inheritance, and to know indeed that you are a Child of the Infinite,
the very essence of your Divine Parent being in the fibres of your being. At
such times of realization one becomes conscious of what lies before the soul
in its upward path, and how small the greatest prizes that Earth has to offer
are when compared to some of these things before the soul, as seen by the
eyes of the Spiritual Mind in moments of clear vision.
You must not dispute with these visions of the greatness of the soul, but
must treat them hospitably, for they are your very own, coming to you from
the regions of your Spiritual Mind which are unfolding into consciousness.
(7) The highest step in this dawning consciousness of the Oneness of All,
is the one in which is realized that there is but One Reality, and at the same
time the sense of consciousness that the “I” is in that Reality. It is most difficult
to express this thought in words for it is something that must be felt, rather
than seen by the Intellect. When the Soul realizes that the Spirit within it is,
at the last, the only real part of it, and that the Absolute and its manifestation
as Spirit is the only real thing in the Universe, a great step has been taken.
But there is still one higher step to be taken before the full sense of the
Oneness and Reality comes to us. That step is the one in which we realize
the Identity of the “I” with the great “I” of the Universe. The mystery of the
manifestation of the Absolute in the form of the Spirit, is veiled from us—
the mind confesses its inability to penetrate behind the veil shielding the
Absolute from view, although it will give us a report of its being conscious