Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-16

TICK OF watch, under any circumStan-
ces, for he has acquired absolute mas
terry Of It.
Now a person who has not acquired
this habit should begin by practicing 16
minutes at a time, at sunrise, OF on
resting at noon, at sunset, and on rettT-
ing. After few weeks of such practice,
If Il has been done with a desire to con-
centrate the mind, he viii notice that A
change is coming over his nerves He
has become calmer and more serene,
less liable to irritation and disturbance
from his circumstances. IF he continues
to persevere, the health win greatly i'm
prove, wrinkles viii depart from tbs
skin and 1t will acquire a sort Of clear
ness and transparency indicative OF high
| thinking and clean living. The voice
will grow soft. No yogi ever had a.
harsh, croaktng voice, for the breath
has as much control over the voice as
over the nerves. 1t not only creates the
Rhythmic nerve currents, but it purifies
/ and strengthens the nerves as well
"But we in India have another
breathing exercise that enables us to
| reach q much higher state Of psychic
action. This is forcing the change Of
| breath from noStrn to nostril. The
greater the reaction in any part of the
brain, the greater the concentration Of
all other parts to that part. Why do we
speak of ones being absent-minded
while walking along the street? Be
cause his mind is detached from the
things about him and is busy with some
| strong reaction produced from within.
| Now, when we force the breath we In
crease the rhythmic nervous flow. and
consequently the reaction in the brain
cells,
1.-THE spinal cord in every human be-
ing contains two regular nerve fbres,
one down the right side and the other
down the left side. In the centre of the
- L. III Y1l
through the medulla, which connects
the cord with the brain, and
this tube reaches to the lower
end of the cord. Western Phys
biologists have never known what
this hollow tube was for, for it is com
pletely closed UP at the lower end Of the
| cord in the average person. who en-
ploys only the nerve fibres on either
side for the transmission of the nerve
currents. But the yogi has found a
most important use for this hollow tube,
once he has succeeded in opening its
lower end.
| Connected with the cord at its lower
end is a small bundle of nerve fibres in
| the form of a triangle. This bundle or
coil is great battery, supplying nerv-
Gus energy. By forcing breath from
side to side and increasing the rythm.
one will be able to arouse this coil and
| force open its connection with the hoI-
low tube in the cord. This done.
sweeping current is sent up the hollow
| tube to the brain 1t is precisely like
! telegraphing without wires. Now the
current is open and every inhalation
and exhalation of the breath keeps the
| current in rhythmic notion passing
through the great potential nerve coil
at the lower end of the spinal cord,
! sweeping up through this hollow tube
and reacting into the gray-coated cells
| of the brain ~ L..
in all real yogis and that is why they
can SIT for hours and mediate and
bring their minds to the highest state OF
detachment
Begin this exercise by closing the
! Slrht nostril with the thumb and slowly
1 lnhahng for four seconds through the left
| nostrll. Imagine while doing this that
you are sending a current down the
spinal column. Hold your breath for
i sixteen seconds and try to imagine YOU
are forcing the current through this tri-
angular nerve coil. Then close your left
nostril and open your right through
1 Wnlch you are now to eXhale the breath
at the rate of eight seconds. In this
last you must try to imagine that you
are drawing the current up the spinal
cord. Then inhale through the right
and exhale through the left. Do this
i for four times at sitting and practice
three times a day, morning, noon and
evening; always assume an upright
easy posture, in which the ribs will sup
port the body and the spinal cord hang
free While in this exercise allow no
one to disturb you.
Some persons will begin to feel the
effects of this exercise in a very short
time. For others it will take months
But Its success means a revolution in
the psychic existence of any person. A
person of evil mind and body may ac-
1 quire some power in this way, but only
living are absolutely necessary to reach
and hold a high state of such psychic
| existence, and there is danger for any
person who follows these exercises and
leads an unchaste life of becoming in
sane.
When one is well on the road to sue
cess, the mental phenomena sometimes
appearing win often startle him One
| Will now and then see flashes of beauti-
| full light, hear sounds of sweet music
and smell most fragrant doors, which
would be entirely imperceptible to the
ordinary senses. As the mind gains con-
trol the body seems to become sighter
and much less sensitive to pain hun
ger, thirst and other animal feelings
| The rhythmic thrill and the mental
calmness and Indifference to ordinary
| desires and troubles, cannot be de-
scribed to one who has not experienced
this exalted state. You lie down and
you sleep to rest your body and mind,
but you scarcely know what real rest
is until you have successfully praeticed
these exercises. A real yogi never
sleeps as you do. He simply rests in a
state of consciousness.
Ito aid further the concentration Of
| the mind, there are number of purely
mental exercises such as fixing the eyes
| for is minutes on the tip of the nose:
! fixing the imagination on some point in
! the heart or some other part Of the
| body. and tracing the feeling of the
clothing on the skin from the foot to
| the head. In many cases the mind is
| set to wandering and made to watch its
rambling. Then we discover that some
| thing is in us which does the watching
| like a mother over her child, that some
i thing none of US can understand -
that is the SOUL
The Swami was asked If II ye--
cises would help to make a ,iis n
| the average mind.
Yes" he Immediately repdi
perceptive faculties of the
greatly benefited by the publication Of
the nerves in these breathing exer-
| cises. Genius is memory of world facts
and concentration, and by such training
| the mind can more readily concentrate
| Itself upon any subject, The inclination
! however. of every person who has at
tanned to high psychic state is to with
| draw himself from the affairs of the
| world. for he finds more happiness in
! company with his soul. But, as / said
| a while ago. the subjective training OF
| the mind wiz prove to be superior to its
objective training, for the understand
| ing of the physical nature The mind is