Raja-Yoga

CHAPTER VII.
DHYANA AND SAMADHI.
WE have finished a cursory
review of the different
steps in Rdja Yoga, except the finer ones, the training
in concentration, which is the aim, the goal, to which
Rdja Yoga will lead us. We see, as human beings,
that all our knowledge which is called rational is
referred to consciousness. I am conscious of this
table, I am conscious of your presence, and so forth,
and that makes me know that you are here, and that
the table is here, and things I see, feel and hear, are
here. At the same time, there is a very great part of
my
existence of which I am not conscious all the
different organs inside the body, the different parts of
the brain, the brain itself; nobody is conscious of
these things.
When I eat food I do it
consciously, when I assimi
late it I do it unconsciously, when the food is manu
factured into blood it is done unconsciously; when out
of the blood all the different parts of my body are
made, it is done unconsciously; and yet it is I who am
doing this; there cannot be twenty people in this one
body. How do I know that I do it,
and nobody else ?
It may be urged that my business is
only in eating the
food, and assimilating the food, and that manufactur-
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