Raja-Yoga

136 RAjA YOGA.
a new impression in the brain, cut new channels
through the brain-stuff, and that is
why we find that
in the practice of Yoga (it being an entirely new set of
thoughts and motives) there is so much physical resist
ance at first. That is
why we find that the part of re
ligion which deals with the world side of nature can be
so widely accepted, while the other part, the Philos
ophy, or the Psychology, which deals with the inner
nature of man, is so frequently neglected. We must
remember the definition of this world of ours; it is
only the Infinite Existence projected into the plane of
consciousness. A little of the Infinite is
projected
into consciousness, and that we call our world. So
there is an Infinite beyond, and religion has to deal
with both, with the little lump we call our world, and
with the Infinite beyond. Any religion which deals
alone with either one of these two will be defective.
It must deal with both. That part of religion which
deals with this part of the Infinite which has come into
this plane of consciousness, got itself caught, as it
were, in the plane of consciousness, in the cage of
time, space, and causation, is quite familiar to us, be
cause we are in that already, and ideas about this
world have been with us almost from time immemorial.
The part of religion which deals with the Infinite be
yond comes entirely new to us, and getting ideas
about it
produces new channels in the brain, disturbing
the whole system, and that is
why you find in the
practice of Yoga ordinary people are at first turned out
of their grooves. In order to lessen these disturb-