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Raja-Yoga - Chapter-1 - Introductory -3. - Swami Vivekananda : Chicago 1893.

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, April  19, 2021. 08:24. AM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTORY-3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is only one method by which to attain this knowledge, that which is called concentration. The chemist in his laboratory concentrates all the energies of his mind into one focus, and throws them upon the materials he is analysing, and so finds out their secrets. The astronomer concentrates all the energies of his mind and projects them through his telescope upon the skies; and the stars, the sun, and the moon, give up their secrets to him. The more I can concentrate my thoughts on the matter on which I am talking to you, the more light I can throw upon you. You are listening to me, and the

Religion and Social Values - 1-6. Swami Krishnananda.

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, April 12, 2021. 09:53. AM. Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World -6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes, you may be warned that this is not the true state of affairs. You get warnings from various sides—from your office, from your social relationships, from your own body also—that things are not exactly as you think. There is something different from what you are imagining in your mind. Now, this is a point which is not visible outside to the naked eye because it is only inside, not outside. But the urges of your mind, which channelise themselves through the avenues of the senses, pull you out of yourself in the direction of your activities in office and factory, etc. so forcefully and impetuously that you have no consciousness that there is a dark patch within your own self, which even an X-ray cannot discov