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life, and a new possibility for mankind - that is the reason why this pranahuti principle of transmission is very important. If you have all the other things with you and not this they are like dead things with you. Instruments which have no meaning, methods which have no value; but if you have this all of them get built up, and you find everything makes for your harmonization and integration. This prana-ahuti-many of us think that this pranahuti is merely the offering of argya into the fire, the ghee into the fire. And in our eating we always feed the five pranas with some food and call it pranahuti. But what is it that you are offering into this fire of the heart, which has fire of a greater life and an immortal one? I believe God himself offers his very breath into us, that is, His mind which is resting in peace which is unfathomable, and which cannot be broken by any amount of confusion. That is what is fed into us. You may call it the sacrifice of the Purusha in the language of the ancient Veda. The Supreme consciousness is offered into you. And this we call the supreme thought, the supreme mind; and when that is introduced our Yoga starts. The others are preliminaries, and as Master has, I think, written somewhere, the real initiation comes long afterwards when the connection between you and the Ultimate is established.
I have suggested, in a way, that the very touch of the Master's life force into one is the beginning of a yoga that will not terminate till the final, complete yoga is had. We start with yoga, we culminate in identity, in union. Such a Sayujya is beyond any description. But we start with it. We grow more and more with it. All the sadhanas become natural to us. The so-called yama and niyama are naturally established in our system because they are basic elements and characters of the Ultimate consciousness which has come to dwell within us; which has come to operate on our very urge. Our organism is not something repellant, something karmically determined by blindness and darkness and ignorance. An omniscient, omnipotent force, such as the prana of the Divine, the supreme mind, the supreme thought, when it enters into our whole being, every one of the several parts of our body and mind get new force, new direction. They become truthful. They yearn for the infinite Brahman. They neither steal nor rob, nor cause injury. Their cleanliness is natural to them. Their devotion to Reality is perfect. And God almost dwells in them, because they have surrendered willingly, freely, to be moulded by the Divine light and the Divine force. But even that is not