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The Instruments of Shakti.
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and activities in which the mind takes up the pranic shakti into itself and this dependence is not felt at all; but even then the force is there, though involved in the pure mental energy. The supermind, when it gets into full strength, can do pretty well what it likes with the pranic shakti, and we find that in the end this lifepower is transformed into the type of a supramentalised prana which is simply one motor power of that greater consciousness. But this belongs to a later stage of the siddhi of the Yoga.
Then again there is the psychic prana; pranic mind or desire soul; this too calls for its own perfection. Here too the first necessity is a fulness of the vital capacity in the mind, its power to do its full work, to take possession of all the impulsions and energies given to our inner psychic life for fulfilment in this existence, to hold them and to be a means for carrying them out with strength, freedom, perfection. Many of the things we need for our perfection, courage, will power effective in life, all the clements of what we now call force of character and force of personality, depend very largely for their completest strength and spring of energetic action on the fulness of the psychic prana. But along with this fulness there must be an established gladness, clearness and pur ty in the psychic life being. This dynamis must not be troubled, perfervid, stormy, fitfully or crudely passionate strength; energy there must be, rapture of its action it must have, but a clear and glad and pure energy, a seated and firmly supported pure rapture. And as a third
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