Yoga Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund

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OCCULT POWERS
come to the moral plane and these forces act also on this plane. The result of moral acts I have described in another lecture, i.e., the effect on all the different planes of charity, absence of greed, etc., is to act as great reservoirs from which the subtle powers will flow. Unless they are filled in this way; with magnetism and electricity generated on the moral plane, we cannot do anything. We may be able to remember some things and to form intelligent concepts in various subjects, but when comes to actual power of the soul to live on the higher plane, it is always difficult, unless that reservoir is full and can be filled by the moral acts. On all these planes, while they are progressing, the results would become possible to us by degrees. Take for instance the physical plane and if we observe certain rules, rules of diet, of drink, of breathing, of postures, the first result is that we feel that the body becomes lighter, and humors which are injurious indeed, begin to disappear from the body, and lightening forces begin to arise from the lowest plexus and proceed to the higher. If the body is made fit by a long course of discipline, then the lightening forces will come out, but otherwise the lightening forces themselves, if we try to bring them out, become injurious. When a person has mastered all the rules of breathing and of postures, and comes to the mental plane and begins to concentrate, then any of the ethers in the body may be made predominant and powerful, and as the negative vital force is of a five-fold nature and is located in different parts of the body, the first kind from the feet to