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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga534
We wish you to try to form at least a faint idea of your Real State of Being,
in order that you may control the lower principles by the force of your
awakened Will, which Will depends upon your degree of consciousness of
the Real Self.
As man grows in understanding and consciousness of the Real Self, so
does his ability to use his Will grow. Will is the attribute of the Real Self. It
is well that this great realization of the Real Self brings with it Love for all
of Life, and Kindness, for, were it not so, the Will that comes to him who
grows into a realization of his real being could be used to the great hurt
of those of the race who had not progressed so far (their relative hurt, we
mean, for in the end, and at the last, no soul is ever really hurt). But the
dawning power brings with it greater Love and Kindness, and the higher
the soul mounts the more is it filled with the higher ideals and the more
does it throw from it the lower animal attributes. It is true that some souls
growing into a consciousness of their real nature, without an understanding
of what it all means, may commit the error of using the awakened Will for
selfish ends, as may be seen in the cases of the Black Magicians spoken of in
the occult writings, and also in the cases of well known characters in history
and in modern life, who manifest an enormous Will which they misuse. All
of this class of people of great Will have stumbled or grown blindly into
a consciousness (or partial consciousness) of the real nature, but lack the
restraining influence of the higher teachings. But such misuse of the Will
brings pain and unrest to the user, and he is eventually driven into the right
road.
We do not expect our students to grasp fully this idea of the Expansion of
Self. Even the highest grasp it only partially. But until you get a glimmering
of the consciousness you will not be able to progress far on the path of
Raja Yoga. You must understand what you are, before you are able to use
the power that lies dormant within you. You must realize that you are the
Master, before you can claim the powers of the Master, and expect to have
your commands obeyed. So bear patiently with us, your Teachers, while we