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KNOW THYSELF: JNANA YOGA Part II |
For Purchase information Contact:
Prosveta Books
New York (516) 674-4428
West Palm Beach (516) 779-9554
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Ref. : C0018AN
259 pages, 1 photo
ISBN 2-85566-810-7
Table of Contents
1. Beauty
2. Spiritual Work
3. The Power of Thought
4. Knowledge: Heart and Mind
5. The Causal Plane
6. Concentration, Meditation, Contemplation and Identification
7. Prayer
8. Love
9. The Will
10. Art and Music
11. Physical Gestures
12. Respiration
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Know thyself! All science and all wisdom lies 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. A serpent forms a straight or wavy
line, and a line is limited. But the serpent with its tail in its mouth forms a cirde and a cirde
represents the infinite, the limitless, the eternal. He who succeeds in becoming a circle enters
a world without limitations where the 'above' and the '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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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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