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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga652
beginner, and keep on repeatedly bringing up the matter to see what is
being done. Give it time to have the work done on it. Do not be like the boy
who planted seeds, and who each day would pull them up to see whether
they had sprouted, and how much.
Sooner or later, the sub-conscious mind will, of its own choice, lift up
the matter and present it to you in its finished shape for the consideration
of the conscious mind. The sub-conscious mind does not insist that you
shall adopt its views, or accept its work, but merely hands out to you
the result of its sorting, classifying and arranging. The choice and will still
remains yours, but you will often find that there is seen to be one plan or
path that stands out clearly from the others, and you will very likely adopt
that one. The secret is that the sub-conscious mind with its wonderful
patience and care has analyzed the matter, and has separated things before
apparently connected. It has also found resemblances and has combined
things heretofore considered opposed to each other. In short it has done
for you all that you could have done with the expenditure of great work
and time, and done it well. And then it lays the matter before you for your
consideration and verdict.
Its whole work seems to have been in the nature of assorting, dissecting,
analyzing, and arranging the evidence, and then presenting it before you
in a clear, systematic shape. It does not attempt to exercise the judicial
prerogative or function, but seems to recognize that its work ceases with
the presentation of the edited evidence, and that of the conscious mind
begins at the same point.
Now, do not confuse this work with that of the Intuition, which is a very
different mental phase or plane. This sub-conscious working, just mentioned,
plays an entirely different part. It is a good servant, and does not try to be
more. The Intuition, on the contrary, is more like a higher friend—a friend at
court, as it were, who gives us warnings and advice.
In our directions we have told you how to make use of this part of the
mind, consciously and knowingly, so as to obtain the best results, and to