An Introduction to Yoga

INTRODUCTION TO YOGA.

within your powers, and that even some of the lower practices of Yoga, some of the simpler applications of the laws of the unfolding of consciousness to yourself, will benefit you in this world as well as in all others. For you are really merely quickening your growth, your unfolding, taking advantage of the powers nature puts within your hands, and deliberately eliminating the conditions which would not help you in your work, but rather hinder your march forward. If you see it in that light, it seems to me that Yoga will be to you a far more real, practical thing, than it is when you merely read some fragments about it taken from Sanskrit original: "Samskṛt"; the ancient liturgical language of India. books, and often mistranslated into English, and you will begin to feel that to be a Yoga practitioner original: "Yogī"; one who practices the disciplines of Yoga. is not necessarily a thing for a life far off, an incarnation far removed from the present one.

MAN A DUALITY.

In the original manuscript, pencil underlining appears under the following phrases: "two great facts regarding man, Mind and Body. First, he is a Unit, a Unit of consciousness."

Some of the terms used in Yoga are necessary to be known. For Yoga takes man for a special purpose and studies him for a special end, and, therefore, only troubles itself about two great facts regarding man, Mind and Body. First, he is a Unit, a Unit of consciousness. That is a point to be definitely grasped. There is only one of him in each set of envelopes Refers to the various layers or "bodies" (physical, emotional, mental) that surround the core consciousness., and sometimes the Theosophist A member of the Theosophical Society, which seeks to reconcile science, philosophy, and religion through the study of divine wisdom. has to revise his ideas about man when he begins this practical line. Theosophy A system of esoteric philosophy centered on the direct knowledge of the mysteries of being and nature., quite usefully and rightly, for the understanding of the human