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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga648
The idea underlying this treatment of the thought-material with interest
and attention is that by so doing a strong “Mental Image” is created, which
may be easily handled by the sub-conscious mind. Remember that you are
passing on “thoughts” for the sub-consciousness to act upon, and that the
more tangible and real these thoughts are, the better can they be handled.
Therefore any plan that will build these thoughts up into “real” things is the
plan to pursue. And attention and interest produce just this result.
If we may be pardoned for using a homely and commonplace illustration
we would say that the idea may be grasped by the illustration of boiling an
egg, whereby the fluid “white” and “yolk” becomes solid and real. Also the
use of a shaving brush by a man, by which the thin lather is gradually worked
up into a rich, thick, creamy mass, is an illustration. Again, the churning of
butter is a favorite illustration of the Hindus, who thus call the attention
of their students to the fact that thought-material if worked upon with
attention and interest become “thought-forms” that may be handled by the
mind just as the hands handle a material object. We ask you to think of these
illustrations, for when you once grasp the idea that we wish to convey to you,
you will have the secret of great thinking powers within your grasp.
And this power of sub-consciousing is not confined alone to the
consideration of philosophical questions. On the contrary it is applicable to
every field of human thought, and may be properly employed in any and
all of them. It is useful in solving the problems of every-day life and work, as
well as to the higher flights of the human mind. And we wish every one of
our students to realize that in this simple lesson we are giving them the key
to a great mental power.
To realize just what we are offering to you, we would remind you of the
old fairy tales of all races, in which there is to be found one or more tales
telling of some poor cobbler, or tailor, or carpenter, as the case may be, who
had by his good deeds, gained favor with the “brownies” or good fairies,
who would come each night when the man and his family were asleep, and
proceed to complete the work that the artisan had laid out for the morrow.