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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga692
To our students, we would say: During the struggle ahead of the race, play
well your part, doing the best you can, living each day by itself, meeting
each new phase of life with confidence and courage. Be not deluded by
appearances, nor follow after strange prophets. Let the evolutionary
processes work themselves out, and do you fall in with the wave without
struggling, and without overmuch striving. The Law is working itself out
well—of that be assured. Those who have entered into even a partial
understanding and recognition of the One Life underlying, will find, that
they will be as the chosen people during the changes that are coming to
the race. They have attained that which the race is reaching toward in pain
and travail. And the force behind the Law will carry them along, for they
will be the leaven that is to lighten the great mass of the race in the new
dispensation. Not by deed, or by action, but by Thought, will these people
leaven the mass. The Thought is even now at work, and all who read these
words are playing a part in the work, although they may know it not. If the
race could realize this truth of the One Life underlying, to-day, the Change
would occur in a moment, but it will not come in that way. When this
understanding gradually dawns upon the race—this new consciousness—
then will Things take their proper places, and the Lion and the Lamb lie
down together in peace.
We have thought it well to say these things in this the last lesson of this
course. They are needed words—they will serve to point out the way to
those who are able to read. “Watch and wait for the Silence that will follow
the Storm.”
In this series of lessons we have endeavored to give you a plain, practical
presentation of some of the more important features of “Raja Yoga.” But this
phase of the subject, as important and interesting as it is, is not the highest
phase of the great Yoga teachings. It is merely the preparation of the soil of
the mind for what comes afterward. The phase called “Gnani Yoga”—the
Yoga of Wisdom—is the highest of all the various phases of Yoga, although
each of the lower steps is important in itself. We find ourselves approaching