Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 137
ances as much as possible all these methods are devised
by Patanjali) that we may practise any one of them
best suited to us.
35. Those forms of concentration that bring extra
ordinary sense perceptions cause perseverance
of the mind.
This naturally comes with Dhdrdna, concentration;
the Yogis say, if the mind becomes concentrated on the
tip of the nose one begins to smell, after a few days,
wonderful perfumes. If it becomes concentrated at
the root of the tongue one begins to hear sounds; if
on the tip of the tongue one begins to taste wonderful
flavours; if on the middle of the tongue, one feels as if
he were coming in contact with something. If one
concentrates his mind on the palate he begins to see
peculiar things. If a man whose mind is disturbed
wants to take up some of these practices of Yoga, yet
doubts the truth of them, he will have his doubts set
at rest when, after a little practice, these things come
to him, and he will persevere.
36. Or (by the meditation on) the Effulgent One
which is beyond all sorrow.
This is another sort of concentration.
Think of the
lotus of the heart, with petals downwards, and running
through it the Susumnd\ take in the breath, and while
throwing the breath out imagine that the lotus is turned
with the petals upwards, and inside that lotus is an
effulgent light. Meditate on that.