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dinary man tries to command it mechanically by physical exercises and other corporeal means, the Hathayogin more greatly and flexibly, but still mechanically by Asana and Pranayama; but for our purpose it can be commanded by more subtle essential and pliable means; first, by a will in the mind widely opening itself to and potently calling in the univesal pranic shakti on which we draw and fixing its stronger presence and more powerful working in the body; secondly by the will in the mind opening itself rather to the spirit and its power and calling in a higher pranic energy from above, & supramental pranic force; thirdly, the last stop, by the highest supramontal will of the spirit, .entering and taking up directly the task of the perfection of the body. In fact, it is always really a will within which drives and makes effective the pranic instrument even when it uses what seem to be purely physical means; but at first it is dependent on the inferior action. When we go higher, the relation is gradually reversed; it is then able to act in its own power or handle the rest only as a subordinate instrumentation.
Most men are not conscious of this pranic force in the body or cannot distinguish it from the more physical form of evergy which it io. forms and uses for its vehicle. But as the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice of Yoga, we can come to be aware of the sea of pranic shakti around us, feel it with the mental consciousness, concretely with a mental sense, soo its conrses and movements, and direct and
