18 January
18 Jan 1896 : Lectures in NY: Morn - "Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms
(Independence) ": Swamiji says : Good and bad deeds are not the direct
causes in the transformations of nature, but they act as breakers of
obstacles to the evolutions of nature: as a farmer breaks the obstacles
to the course of water, which then runs down by its own nature.
The water for irrigation of fields is already in
the canal, only shut in by gates. The farmer opens these gates, and the
water flows in by itself, by the law of gravitation. So all progress
and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it
is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
Eve -
"Pratyahara and Dharana" : He who has succeeded in attaching or
detaching his mind to or from the centres at will has succeeded in
Pratyahara, which means, "gathering towards," checking the outgoing
powers of the mind, freeing it from the thraldom of the senses. When we
can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have
taken a long step towards freedom; before that we are mere machines.
18 Jan 1897 : Swamiji in Lanka
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