[9] Patanjali’s Yoga Aphorisms, 30 & 31, Part I.
[10] The following from the Kaushitaki Upanishad, (see Max Muller’s translation, and also that published in the Bibliotheka Indica, with Sankaracharya’s commentary—Cowell’s tran.) may be of interest to students. “Agatasatru to him: Bàlàki, where did this person here sleep? Where was he? Whence did he come back? Bàlàki did not know. And Agatasatru said to him: ‘Where this person here slept, where he was, whence he thus came back, is this: The arteries of the heart called Hita extend from the heart of the person towards the surrounding body. Small as a hair divided a thousand times, they stand, full of a thin fluid of various colors, white, black, yellow, red. In these the person is when sleeping, he sees no dream (Sushupti). Then he becomes one with that prâna (breath) alone.’” (Elsewhere the number of these arteries is said to be 101.) “And as a razor might be fitted in a razor case, or as fire in the fire place, even thus this conscious self enters into the self of the body, to the very hair and nails; he is the master of all, and eats with and enjoys with them. So long as Indra did not understand that self, the Asuras (lower principles in man) conquered him. When he understood it, he conquered the Asuras, and obtained the pre-eminence among all gods. And thus also he who knows this obtains pre-eminence, sovereignty, supremacy.” And in the Khandogya Upanishad, VI Prap. 8, Kh. 1: “When the man sleeps here, my dear son, he becomes united with the True—in Sushupti sleep—he is gone to his own self. Therefore they say, he sleeps (Swapita), because he is gone (apita) to his own (sva).” And in Prasna Up II, 1, “There are 101 arteries from the heart; one of them penetrates the crown of the head; moving upwards by it man reaches the immortal; the others serve for departing in different directions.” [Ed.]
[11] This opens up an intensely interesting and highly important subject, which cannot be here treated of, but which will be in future papers. Meanwhile, Theosophists can exercise their intuition in respect to it. |Ed.
[12] Guru, a spiritual teacher.
[13] Vide Light on the Path, Rule 1, note, part 1.
[14] There is one exceptional case where the Guru’s goal is seen, and then the Guru has to die, for there can be no two equals.
[15] There is no contradiction between this and the preceding paragraph where it is said “To see the Guru’s goal is impossible.” During the initiation ceremony, there is no separateness between those engaged in it. They all become one whole, and therefore, even the High Hierophant, while engaged in an initiation, is no more his separate self, but is only a part of the whole, of which the candidate is also a part, and then, for the time being, having as much power and knowledge as the very highest present. [Ed.]
[16] Rig Veda, IV, VII, 9.
[17] Divine science.
[18] “The knowledge of Yoga, which is, joining with your higher self.”