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KNOW THYSELF: JNANA YOGA
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For Purchase information Contact:
Prosveta Books
New York (516) 674-4428
West Palm Beach (516) 779-9554
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Ref. : C0017AN
246 pages, 1 photo, 1 ill
ISBN 2-85566-446-2
Table of Contents
1. ‘Know Thyself’'
2. The Synoptic Table
3. Spirit and Matter
4. The Soul
5. Sacrifice
6. Food for the Soul and the Spirit
7. Consciousness
8. The Higher Self
9. Truth
10. Freedom
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Know thyself was the maxim inscribed on the pediment of the temple at Delphi. What is this
'self' that we have to know? Is it a question of knowing our own vices and virtues, our
strengths and weaknesses? No: to know oneself is to know the different bodies (the physical,
etheric, mental, causal, buddhic and atmic bodies) of which we are formed and what each of
these bodies needs. If the initiates of old insisted so much on the necessity of self-knowledge
it was because this knowledge opens up tremendous possibilibes for growth, progress and success.
As long as man is ignorant of the needs of his higher self, he will continue to surfeit his
physical body while his soul and spirit suffocate and die of hunger and thirst.
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"Know Thyself!" All science and all wisdom lie in knowing oneself, in finding oneself, in the
fusion of one's lower self with one's higher self. The symbol of the initiate who has succeeded
in finding himself is the serpent with its tail in its mouth. In the ordinary way a serpent forms
a straight line or wavy line, and a line is finite, limited. But the serpent with its tail in its
mouth forms a circle and a circle represents the infinite, the limitless, the eternal. He who
succeeds in becoming a circle enters a world without limitations where 'above' and 'below' are
no longer separated, because all the powers and all the riches and virtues of the true, higher
self have been infused into the lower self. The higher and the lower become one and man becomes
a divinity.
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