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Efficacy of Rajayoga : The Natural Path
It is because the functions of the Big Mind on it cease to exist on account of our doings, and our going on the wrong path. It gets saturated with these things so much that we feel nothing of reality, but feel only the impressions which these things have already made. The impressions grow so powerful that they begin to overrule our senses. The surroundings, no doubt, leave impressions on it. Now, when we give place to that important idea - the pious one, on the mind of ours - the impressions we had made begin to lose their density, and in course of time we are free from these things. The effect of what is prevailing in that Big Mind is felt as well. If you go on practicing you will feel the same thing in your individual mind as there is above it. When you feel these things permanently in your individual mind, think that you have lost its individuality. When the time of creation came, the latent motion beneath the Centre grew stronger, causing a stirring movement which later led to the formation of the universe. That may be called the first, or Super- Mind of the Almighty. We owe our origin to that mind which we call the first Mind. On the back side of the first Mind there is Centre or the state of tam which is clearly explained in the book Imperience Beckons. If you have brought your individual mind to the level of first Mind, then you have only to jump
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