Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. I
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Similarly, we can send electricity to any part of the
world, but we have to send it
by means of wires.
Nature can send a vast mass of electricity without any
wires at all.
Why cannot we do the same ? We can
send mental electricity. What we call mind is very
much the same as electricity. It is clear that this
nerve fluid has some amount of electricity, because it
is polarised, and it answers all electrical directions.
We can only send our electricity through these nerve
channels. Why not send the mental electricity without
this aid ? The Yogi says
it is perfectly possible and
practicable, and that when you can do that you will
work all over the universe. You will be able to work
with any body anywhere, without the help of any nerv
ous system. When the soul is acting through these
channels we say a man is living and when those chan
nels die the man is said to be dead. But when a man
is able to act either with or without these channels,
birth and death will have no meaning for him. All
the bodies in the universe are made up of Tanmdtras,
and it is only in the arrangement of them that there
comes a difference. If you are the arranger you can
arrange that body in one way or another. Who makes
up this body but you
? Who eats the food ? If an
other ate the food for you you would not live long.
Who makes the blood out of it ? You, certainly. Who
assimilates the blood, and sends it through the veins?
You. Who creates the nerves, and makes all the
muscles ?
substance.
You are the manufacturer, out of your own
You are the manufacturer of the body, and