Raja-Yoga

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YOGA.
is above consciousness, and which, also, is
not accompanied
with the feeling of egoism. The feeling of
egoism is only on the middle plane. When the mind is
above or below that line there is no feeling of I
and yet the mind works. When the mind goes
this beyond
line of self-consciousness it is called Samddhi or
super-consciousness. It is above consciousness. How,
for instance, do we know that a man in Samddhi has
not gone below his consciousness, has not degenerated
instead of going higher ?
In both cases the works are
unaccompanied with egoism ? The answer is by the
effects, by the results of the work, we know that which
is below, and that which is above. When a man goes
into deep sleep he enters a plane beneath consciousness.
He works the body all the time, he breathes he
moves the body, perhaps, in his sleep, without any
accompanying feeling of ego; he is unconscious and
when he returns from his sleep he is the same man
who went into it. The sum-total of the knowledge
which he had before he went into the sleep remains
the same; it has not increased at all. No
ment enlighten-
has come. But if a man goes into Samddhi, if he
goes into it a fool,
he comes out a sage.
What makes the difference ? From one state a man
comes out the very same man that went in, and out of
another state the man becomes enlightened, a sage a
prophet, a saint, his whole character changed his life
changed, illumined. These are the two effects Now
the effects being different, the causes must be different
As this illumination, with which a man comes back from