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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 24
22 Meditation is not within the reach of every one ; not all possess the ability; very few indeed (in the west at least) have’ the opportunity, In any case what the Easterns call “one-pointedness”” is an essential preliminary to even early stages of true meditation. And iron will-power is a still earlier qualifi- cation. By meditation I do not mean merely “thinking about” anything, however profoundly, but the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross, fine, or altogether spiritual. Now true magical ce…
1903 · PDF PAGE 23
… purpose has, however, at any rate of recent times, been hopelessly misunderstood. Nobody any longer supposes that any means but that of meditation is of avail to grasp the immediate causes of our being; if some person retorts that he prefers to rely on a Glorified Redeemer, I simply answer that he is the very nobody to whomI now refer. Meditation is then the means; but only the supreme means. The agony column ofthe “Times” is the supreme means of meeting with the gentleman in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing.…
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
…so hardly, travelled. Eight are the limbs of Yoga: morality and virtue, control of body, thought, and force, leading to concen- tration, meditation, and rapture. Only when the last of these has been attained, and itself refined upon by removing the gross and even the fine objects of its sphere can the causes, subtle and coarse, the unborn causes whose seed is hardly sown, of continued existence be grasped and annihilated, so Gite the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction. of Nirvana, while even in this world of pain, where h…
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…s roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will- power, meditation, rapture, such are the stages of his liberation, which resolves itself into a struggle against the law of causality. He cannot prevent past causes taking effect, but he can prevent present causes from haying any future results. The exoteric Christian and Hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for life and individual existence, the most formidab…