Material Things Are Not To Be Despised-without

Rather Hang Thyself Than Belong To The Horde Of Successful Imitators.

The One Aim Of [my] Yoga Is An Inner Self-development By Which Each One Who Follows It Can In Time Discover The One Self In All And Evolve A Higher Consciousness Than The Mental, A Spiritual And Supramental Consciousness Which Will Transform And Divinize Human Nature.

In Order To Explain Why The Ordinary Sadhus And Yogis Take To Tobacco And Gānja [an Intoxicant], I Said That These Cause Stimulation Of The Physical Brain. But These Have Reactions. And To Stimulate The Brain Thus Is Not The Proper Process.

Not Only A Truer Knowledge, But A Greater Power Comes To One In The Quietude And Silence Of A Mind That, Instead Of Bubbling On The Surface, Can Go To Its Own Depths And Listen.

The Navel Region Is The Centre Of The Vital. It Is From Here That The Movements Of The Vital Rise Upward. Above The Navel And Behind The Chest Is The Centre Of The Play Of Emotions And Below This Takes Place The Play Of The Physical. Mulādhāra Is The Base Of The Physical. In Between The Mulādhāra And The Navel, There Is Another Centre Of The Vital.