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24 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjalimakes you ready to receive these steps so that there may notbe any confusion on your part. Yoga training causes absorptionof the reactive nature and makes the mind use the brain cellsfor the externalisation of the soul-light. Then the head is illumined.There is a head-centre to each of us, but there is also ahead-centre to all of us. There is a heart-centre to each of usand there is a heart-centre to all of us. Each of us have a headcentreand a heart-centre, while the earth has one head-centreand one heart-centre for us. The head-centre is what the Masterscall Shambala. The heart-Centre is what they call the Christand the Hierarchy. The Great Ones who exist in these twocentres conduct the Yoga transformation when we begin totake to the Yoga practice of Patanjali.In the second Aphorism ‘Chitta’ means the activity ofthe mind and the senses put together, spoken in terms of energy.‘Vritti’ means the reactive procedure of the Chitta. This is notthe original procedure of man since it is only a response to theenvironment and its memories. ‘Nirodha’ means suspension.We should suspend the reactive nature of Chitta. This is thefirst step of Yoga. Chitta is mind-substance which is called mindstuffby Alice A. Bailey. It is not matter, but it is stuff or substancewhich does not belong to the material plane. As long as theChitta is busy with reactivity it receives impressions throughthe senses. It works as the receiving pole and the mind is alsoat the receiving end. We receive light through our eye, soundthrough our ear, smell through our nose, taste through our tongueand touch through our skin. These five senses work to receivethe impression of the environment in terms of ‘objects.’ Theexternal stimulus is called the object, the response is calledreaction and the receiving points are called senses whichhave their centre in mind.The mind is like a flower of five petals. Butterflies comefrom outside to lodge on the flowers temporarily. Thus the mind
Lesson - 1 25is making us live in terms of its reaction to the objects, We liveas the centre of reception. Our whole life activity becomes areceiving pole. It is only negative in its nature just as we knowthat the negative pole of electricity receives it back. We hearsounds and conversations. We see things around us. We live,at best, a negative existence. That means we have no living ifthere is no environment. Such a living being, we call, the negativeindividual. Within this one there is another one from whom thesefaculties are shining forth. The power of the mind and the powerof the senses shine forth as rays from Him. It is the transmittingpole, the pole of awareness and it exists at the very centre ofthe negative man.Before we receive the Yoga touch, we live with the negativepole. When we go deeper we begin to exit in the inner centrewhere we exist as the transmitting pole. Then we live a positivelife. From there we work and as long as we work, our sensesdo not respond to the objects outside. Suppose you are searchingfor a book on the table. Then you do not see table though it isthere before your eyes. This is because you want to see thebook. Even then you do not see the other books though youread their titles only to know if they are the books you want.The eyes are open but the objects around do not demand yoursight. This is a proof of your existence in the transmitting pole,the positive existence. When you appoint your mind to dosomething, then the mind and the senses are ready to obeyinstinctively.Thus the reactive nature is stopped, when the transmittingpole begins to work. As long as you are passive to the transmittingpole, you begin to work in the receiving pole and you beginto react. Once we get at Patanjali or some Master who canshow us the path, we will switch on to the positive activitywhen everything becomes normal. The process is very simplebut it exists under a spell of secrecy. It is only your intention
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