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    Praeceptum 7 Paramhansa Yogananda

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    A Yogoda Original Lesson. Unedited by the current SRF oligharcy

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    YOCODA SAT-SANGA FOR NIG BY PARAMHANSA YOGAKANDA (To be Confidentially Renerved I i ‘TLY INSTRUCTIONS SUBER'S USE ONLY) AR LEREL, SEEN GOD! ‘Gro.pit > * s : s Gop? From the depths of slumber, As T ascend the spital stairymy of wakefulness, I will whisper: Godt Godt Goa Thov art the food, and when’ break ny fast Qf nigntiy sepamtion tron, Thee, Twill taste Thee, and mentally’ say: Goat’ Goat "Goa! * No matter where I go, the spotlight of my mind WALL ever keep turnitie on Thee; And in the Dattle din of activity, My slent warery wil) be: Godt God! Godt : when boisterous storms of trinls shriek, Ana worries howl at me, I will drown their noise by lovdly chanting: Godt Coat coal : when ny mind weaves dreans With threads of monorics, Then on that magic cloth will I emboas: Goat Godt Goal Every night, in time of decpest sleeps My peace dreans and alls, Joy! And my Joy cones singing éve pS ES aaa oes meno wae a AAA AAA AAAS ARR Godt Godt. Godt “Te In woking, cating, worcing, are: *~>, sleeping, Serving, meditating, olenting, & “nely loving, My Soul will constantily, hum, unheard by any: C Godt Godt Godt PAISIIILIL IRR SEEDPEER eB PRAYER 10 PRECEDE Tif PRAECKPIUM STUDY if "I come to Thee with the sore of my smiles, ‘The taper of my happiness will mergo with Thy Blaze of Riiss. The aroma of ‘hy Soonted Flame and its mrmring joyous waves come floating to me, In Thy qchanting Light I will swim forever. Teech ne to drown in Ty Divine Tighe end Uife, rather than live in a mirqce-parndise of carthliness and die." ~ ¢ PART III. (Review the proceding Parts, I ana II, to conti~ mue the thread of thought and to strengthen the foundation for the Technique of Rejuvenation.) THEOART All Soriptres, mc as Bible has a three-fold meaning. with the three factors of human tal, and the Spiritual, Hence, ‘the Bhagavad Gita or the Christion In other words, tho Scriptures deal existence; narely, the material, the men- all. true Scriptures have been so writ- ten that they serve to be beneficial to the ‘ody, mind, ond the Soul of man. True Scriptures are like the we)” ean quench the three-fola-materinl, mente? men. ct Divine waters, which 1.6 Spiritual thirbte of : i a S-I « P.7 “Pore Two- Self-Reulization my be; and is, attained by some people who are struggling with sick ani otherwise inperfeot bodies, bt it cannot be attained unless you can Jearn to concentrate and ucditate uninterrupt- edly upon God. Since it is difficult to concmtrate md mditate while the aches and pains of the body continually have the attention of the mind, the path of Self-Realization is made mich easier if the imperfco- tions of the body, and the harnonious operntions of its functions are ar- ranged so that the mind need not at any time be interrupted in medita— tion throvgh the demnds of the physical tody. You will find in this series of Praccepta the knowledze by whiah you learn to live more and more by calling upon the eterm? supply Cos- mic Fnergy, vhich 's ever available to us, which fs within and without, and is always all about us, and thus reemrge the body at any and at ald times with vitality, With this knowledge, the body my be made fit in all respects, and a perfect tody, free from disease, presents less re- sistance to the methods. and practices by vhich Self Realization is renched, an? by which the human consciousness, as well as the body, is raised to the fatigueless state... People usually concentrate upon food, air, and sunshine only in order to keop the body well, but a time comes to everyone when health fails in spite of all the outer meena of good food und air supplied to it. Then it is realized that the Body Pattery has tobe recharged by the Inner Source also. r THE CODY BATTS é 1S INNER AND OUTER : : i SOURCES OF SUSTENANCE P Blectriclty Dynamo (Inner Source) Distilled woter (Outer Source) ne me = t Diagram \ ‘Sunshine te Liquias matic, of x iynaMs. of Co: Tri iGoamle Phe rays ct ‘ (49% Th, reless of Wi)" Cosmic Pnergy or? Life Force Miter: ing thrown th ing Body Battery.) “ a S-I * P.7 -Page Three- An automobile battery depends for its life not upon its indirect outer source of distilled water alone, but-upon the vibrating. electric current which flows into it from the dynamo through the mouth of the wires (the direct Inner Source), Scelf-Realization Instruction teaches that, just as an automobile battery necds both distilled water and elcctricity to keep it alive, so the Body Battcry needs recharging with Life Force through the medulla as well. as food and the ;1ysical means of sustain- ing life. Just like the saints of India, Joss, centuries ago, gave utterance to the great Truth thit mn's Body Eottery is charged by the Word of God" (Inner Energy) and not by outer ‘sources alone. IMPORTANCE OF RELAXATION TESTS OF PHYSICAL When you are sitting or lying dom mupletely RELAXATION relaxed with breath expelled, let sombody litt your hands or feet a little way, then drop them, If they fall with a thud, without your gradually lowering them, you are relaxed, a” ‘ Let someone lift you_up ona shake your whole body. If your limbs register no resistance but fly loosely hither and ‘thither like the limbs ofa ragdoll, you are relaxed. 7 In perfect relaxation, no muscles are consciously willed to bo- come energized and tensed. Do not tense any part,’ especially the nook, arms, torso, and legs, By relnxing the muscles and limbs, you help to remove motion and decay from the ovtward body. ; TESTS OF MENTAL You have attained mental ‘relaxation when you can RELAXATION remin without thought for any length of timo desired, _. and when you can bring the consciousness back into the body at will, When you can remain onlm at all times in spite of sovero trials, and when you are launched in undying faith in God and your Guru, thm you are umtally relaxed. FIVE STGES OF 1, Most peonle in this world are so restless MENTAL RELAXATION all the tine that they cannot close their eyes ana keep the eyebal’s still, keep. the body mo= tionless, or concentrate upon one thingat,

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