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The Yoga of Patanjali

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62 Lessons on <strong>The</strong> <strong>Yoga</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Patanjali</strong>Master D. K. has microscoped a section <strong>of</strong> the whole picturefor the comprehension <strong>of</strong> the twentieth and twenty first centuryminds. What we are doing now here is that we follow the broaderdivision that is seen through a field-telescope from a distance.You cannot find the details here. In fact, the ancient scripturesdivide each <strong>of</strong> these nine natures into seven and each <strong>of</strong> theseven subdivisions are further divided into seven and explained.<strong>The</strong> seventh subdivision <strong>of</strong> the ninth nature is called the plane<strong>of</strong> the Kumaras, four in number, <strong>of</strong> whom Sanatkumara isone. For the details you should go to the ‘Secret Doctrine’ <strong>of</strong>Blavatsky. For the present you remember that the ninth natureis called the Soul-consciousness in you and the tenth is theLord <strong>of</strong> Pervasion, who exists in you also as He exists inevery atom <strong>of</strong> the Universe. We exist in Him, He exists in us,just as the thousands <strong>of</strong> little vials submerged in a river exist inwater while the same water exists in them. All the bottles are inthe river but everyone has in it the river. <strong>The</strong> tenth one, theLord can be compared with the river in the bottles and aroundthe bottles. This information is given to you from the Bhagavadgitaby way <strong>of</strong> supplementation to the Book <strong>of</strong> <strong>Patanjali</strong>. One thingmore. We have seen that there are seven subdivisions in theninth nature. <strong>The</strong> lowermost subdivision is what we call thehuman-soul. It is working as the colleague <strong>of</strong> the ego, the individualsoul. Among the seven subdivisions <strong>of</strong> the ninth nature, thelowest one is the individual soul and highest one is Sanatkumara.<strong>The</strong> ninth nature belongs to Eternity and it exists alwaysas a co-eternal with the tenth. All the remaining eight naturescome and go and hence they are periodical, not eternal. In theSecret Doctrine you have seen the stanza <strong>of</strong> ‘Book <strong>of</strong> Dzyan’.In one <strong>of</strong> the stanzas, it is said, that the tenth one has the ninthone as His breath. Through this He breathes out all the remainingeight natures, when it is the Day <strong>of</strong> Brahma. Again He breathesin when it is the Night <strong>of</strong> Brahma. This is the inhalation and

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