Page 288 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1
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 Transmission - 1
Yogic knowledge is unmediated knowledge. It is non-sensory and non- mental too. It does not proceed by means of images or imagination of forms, either concrete or abstract, nor does it look out for these presentations. It is an aesthetic-cognitive condition of feeling certain about what is presented to the pure spirit; the pure spirit being one that has discarded its ego-activity or ego-consciousness, or knowledge for self or 'I'.
The attainment of this condition of knowing is what is attempted by all the methods of training known as hatha-yoga (physical control), through breath-control or the stirring up of the inner nerves known as the right- breath (pingala or solar) and the left-breath (ida or lunar) so as to arrive at the vibrations which are central or spinal; or the usually well-known steps of the astangayoga-such as yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, dharana, and dhyana preceded by pratyahara, and finally samadhi. These may be of good help, but only according to the conception that if we control the physical, the mental will automatically get controlled. These yogas more often produce simulacrums or pseudo-conditions rather than the real conditions. One test of this matter is that these become, or tend to become, ends in themselves, i.e. mechanical. They do not lead towards knowledge of the Ultimate or liberation that arise from such a knowledge or being.
The real yoga should be started from the other end by inducing the original movement or vibration that had set in motion these organic creations, and whose impetus has not died out. This is the central force that has to be brought into activity, and it is here that, in yoga, one needs the person who can start it, or give it an impulse from the central point of oneself.
This central force or original vibrations that has enlarged itself from extreme subtlety to the grossest manifestation, is present in the grossest formations. There is one continuous flow of that vibration through out all the organic existence of oneself. The person who can stimulate or make manifest that vibration, or set it into motion again, is the knower of the secret of existence and reality.






























































































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