THE EQUINOX
810. read and understand quite easily with the mantragoing;
8.22.
8.40.
9.0.
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one can remember things.
For example, I see my watch chain; I think.
“Gold.
Au, 196 atomic weight.
AuClg, £s 105. od. an ounce ”
and so on aw! infinitum; but the act of writing down
these things stops the mantra.
This may be (partly)
because I always say under my breath each word as I
write it.
[P.S.-But I do so, though less possibly, as
I read]
As I am really awake, I may as well do a little Prana-
yama.
How little I know of magic and the conditions of
success!
My 17 cycles of breath were not absolutely
easy; yet I did them.
After a big dinner!!!
The
sweating was quite suppressed, in spite of the heat
of the night and the exercise ; and the first symptoms of
the Bhuchari-Siddhi—the “jumping about like a frog"
——were well marked.
I am encouraged to spend a few
minutes (still in Asana) reading the Shiva Sanhita.
Asana very painful again.
True, I was doing it very
strictly.
I notice they give a second stage—trembling
of the
body—as preliminary to the jumping about like a frog
—1 had omitted this, as one is so obviously thefgerm of
the other.
The Hindus seem to lack a sense of proportion.
When
the Yogi, by turning his tongue back for one half—
minute,
has conquered old
age, disease and death;
then instead of having a good time he patiently (and
rather pathetically, I think !)
devotes
his youthful