Raja-Yoga

60 RAjA YOGA.
the Ojas is in a man s head, the more powerful he is,
the more intellectual, the more spiritually strong will
that man be. This is the action of Ojas. One man
may speak beautiful language and beautiful thoughts,
but they do not impress people; another man speaks
neither beautiful language nor beautiful thoughts, yet
his words charm. That is the power of Ojas coming
out. Every movement coming from him will be
powerful.
Now in all mankind there is more or less of this Ojas
stored up. And all the forces that are working in the
body, in their highest form, become Ojas. You must
remember that it is only a question of transformation.
The same force which is working outside, as electricity
or magnetism, will become changed into inner force;
the same forces that are working as muscular energy
will be changed into Ojas. The Yogis say that that
part of the human energy which is expressed as sex
energy, in sexual functions, sexual thought, and so on,
when checked and controlled, easily becomes changed
into Ojas, and as this lowest centre is the one which
guides all these functions, therefore the Yogi pays par
ticular attention to that centre. He tries to take up
all this sexual energy and convert it into Ojas. It is
only the chaste man or woman who can make the Ojas
rise and become stored in the brain, and that is
why
chastity has always been considered the highest virtue,
because man feels that if he is unchaste, spirituality
goes away, he loses mental vigour, and strong moral
stamina. That is
why in all of the religious orders in