Book Title: Karmayogi
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________________ KAKMAYOGIN. avalanche or the cannon-ball. Is it are one,and all antagonisms amongst imagined that mind-energy is less us are illusion," the power tat dangerous than material? Only would be generated, can hardly t t-measured. 2 has unity of national intention. We must realise our own national intention, and find an equal unity in it. Swadharma-"Better for is his own duty, however ba force ought always to be than the duty of another, though ed communal consciousness. The sed in constructive forme. We that be easy." ought always to devote it to what are called positive ends. We ought never to use it for hatred or julousy or anger, but always in love and faith, and for the upbuilding of something. Even when evil is to be destroyed, or a lie overcome. we must think of the truth that is to be revealed, or the good to be done, and not the evil or the falsehood. bravest, because he may offer himself as sacrifice. The grosbest, because he does not believe that mind is a force, like any other, and rules the world, dues not believe that a poor weapon in the hands of Nepoleon Bonaparte is mere deadly than the best, when used by a coward or a fool, cannot understand, till it has turned and force called into being, and then rent him, the perils of the great subjected to the crushing weight of suppression. directly destructive ends has always The use of mental powers for been regarded as accused. It is what the West calls black magic, and certainly recoils upon the user in every terrible ways. A large beneficence should distinguish the man who knows the power of his own thought. He should not, indeed, assert two conflicting goods at the same time. But out of all that is possible, he should select that, which for reasons that he ap prehends, is most admirable, and desirable, and concentrate upon it. As this emerges into fact, he will find that all that opposes it, is automatically banished or destroyed. The confusion of wishing this and that in opposite directions, is the ordinary way of the orilinary world. This way represents a clearing and rationalising of the ground, it meana dealing scientifically with our ow desires, in such a way as to make then realisable by the world about us, MIDOYAMSA The Power of Mind. All power is in the human mind. We can master anything, simply by giving our attention to it. Even the ideals of the West, the ideals of the new age, are within our grasp, if we study them, if we recognise their necessity, and proceed to work them out. It is natural, however, that under the circumstances feeling wo do, that the study of our own carmistances, and of the new idenis that are to initiate a new age, is the one duty that devolves upon us, it is natural that education should seem to us the supreme ground of battle for our national rights. No one who stands outside the Indian community can Thought builds the universe. The dream of the jealousy with which mind alone is real. All that is the students watch all attempts to seen is but a dream. There is such a curtail or limit their numbers. thing as the conscious holding of Rocords are kept, and accurate news a thought. When this is done, all is carried, that would astonish. that opposos it, or seems contradicthose most concerned, if they knewtory to it,gradually melts away, and we wonder what has become of it, or why we were at one time under its illusion. of it, as to how opportunities are shrinking, and by whose action, in this direction or that. A short tagie ago fees were raised in a certain college. Now, nearly half the Students are to be turned out. All this is noted and discussed amongst the students. Their eyes are not shut, nor are they slow to draw their own inferences from the facts. And there is nothing that so stirs thein, for all the apparent silence that hangs over the country, as this withdrawal of the means of knowgo. THE LAWS OF THOUGHT. Anything may be achieved by thought. Death, discaso, poverty, humiliation, any or all of these may be overcome. The one thought, "I am the strong! I am the strong!" earnestly held, calmly, confidently, unwaveringly and yet silently as serted, is enough. In the presence of one strong thought, all of a contrary opinion or party become apologetic, and seek to defend themselves, or to explain why they cannot quite agree, And this without one word being said. The less selfish the things we wish for, the greater and keener will be the accumulated and maler Immense batteries may be made, by numbers of people uniting to Nor is this unnatural. Education is our one overwhelming wint, in this hour of the nation's history. Knowledge we must have. And knowledge we are determined together to think a given thought.sands have. An immense force has been. If the whole of India could agree to called into being, by the organisa, give, sny ten minutes every evening, tion of schools and colleges. But at the oncoming, of darkness, to once ovoked, such forces must be thinking a single thought, "We are fed and developed along sound one. We are one. Nothing can linds. It is at their peril that' mor, prevail against us, to make us think fals attempt to stand in the path of we are divided. For we are one. We pliel power of our thought-battery "Awake, awake, great India" da un ejaculation which,, saist, within the mind, quietly, by, hundreds of thou of persus at a given hour, would preduge immeasurable force, in proportion to depth of their concentration on the thing itself. Our thought the cleared and ordered. When his, is done, we shall see. to our surprise, that it has become creative. The warld without begins to reflect the world withir, Mers aud, women become jour. Let uastake the, guastion of eduOsation for it. At this mo menti it seems to be slipping out of our grasp. What we have to dread # SFWARE IMITATION. 42 PHAL 1/ CENUINE Aswagandha Wine SPIC INDIAN CHEMICAL GENINALS NERVOUS DEL. PHARMACEUTICAL O -1. WORKS. HOLEDORIA CALCUTTA

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