Chapter Xiii. Higher Reason And Judgment : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 101 CHAPTER XIII. HIGHER REASON AND JUDGMENT. ANOTHER requisite is "Fearlessness". "What a tiresome rigmarole of requisites! I know it all!" you may say. But you don't! I, too, thought so years ago. You have...
Chapter Xv. The Role Of Prayer : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 117 CHAPTER XV. THE ROLE OF PRAYER. O Lord purify us with water, purify us with solar rays, purify us with medicinal herbs and, above all, purify us with Wisdom, i.e., endow us with POWERS OF MIND by enlightening...
Chapter Viii. Manthe Master : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 50 CHAPTER VIII. MAN--THE MASTER. MEN are going up an ascending scale of existence. Some have their feet still planted upon the lowest rungs of the ladder. Others have climbed higher and higher. At the start...
Chapter Vi. Spiritual Unfoldment : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 34 CHAPTER VI. SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT. THE heart of man pants for many things. "Desire moves man more than aught else". Passions may lash up the lake of his mind into a thousand pulsations; grief may burn the ir...
Chapter Xviii. Self De Hypnotisation : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 152 CHAPTER XVIII. SELF-DE-HYPNOTISATION. In the foregoing papers, I have tried to enforce upon my readers the indispensable necessity of shifting our point of view from the lower to the higher planes...
Chapter Xix. Self De Hypnotisationii : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 156 CHAPTER XIX. SELF-DE-HYPNOTISATION--II. The way is long; yet despair not, awake, arise and stop not until the goal is reached--Katha Upanishads. Life is a constant accumulation of Knowledge. The vast majority...
Chapter Iii. Read And Reflect : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 20 CHAPTER III. READ AND REFLECT. "WHATEVER is worth doing is worth doing well;"--an age-worn saying but one which cannot be rung too often on human ears. We are mostly selfish--and all blame to us!--and this...
Chapter Xvi. Thought. Creative And Exhaustive : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 130 CHAPTER XVI. THOUGHT: CREATIVE AND EXHAUSTIVE. The right exercise of thought-power is an act of creation. "Each thought is a soul," says Lytton. "What you think that you are, what you shall think that you...
Chapter Ii. The Ideal And The Practical : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 15 CHAPTER II. THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICAL. HERE are two words--IMAGINATION and FANCY. What is the distinction between the two? Well, the one is closely related to the positive and the conscious side of our...
Chapter I. The Yogi Conception Of Life : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 9 CHAPTER I. THE YOGI CONCEPTION OF LIFE. IF we study the action of mind upon mind, of mind over matter, of mind over the human body, we may realize how "each man is a power in himself"--to use Mr. Randall's...
Chapter Xx. Character Building : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 176 CHAPTER XX. CHARACTER-BUILDING. Knowledge gives power. Power controls. Man stands for inner perfection. Our character is the sum-total of our inner unfoldment. What is unfoldment? I told you in my paper...
Chapter Xvii. Meditation Exercise : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 142 CHAPTER XVII. MEDITATION EXERCISE. 1. I will be what I will to be. I "can" and I "will" be Free. 2. Locked up in my soul is All-Power,--All-Wisdom,--All-Love. My first, last and only mission in life is to give...
Chapter Vii. Cause And Effect : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 42 CHAPTER VII. CAUSE AND EFFECT. BY your great enemy I mean yourself. If you have the power to face your Own Soul in the darkness and silence, you will have conquered the physical or Animal-Self that dwells...
Chapter Xiv. Conquest Of Fear : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 112 CHAPTER XIV. CONQUEST OF FEAR. "There Is Nothing To Fear But Fear"." Fear is one of the cardinal emotions that result from the play of certain forces in the human personality. Our emotional nature is not our...
Chapter Xii. Constructive Idealism : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 88 CHAPTER XII. CONSTRUCTIVE IDEALISM. What is Constructive Idealism? It is a process whereby we strive to construct, develop and project an ideal personality on the spiritual, mental and physical rungs of hum...
Chapter Xi. Who Can Be A Yogi : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 75 CHAPTER XI. WHO CAN BE A YOGI? TRUTH knows no death; no birth. It is Eternal; has always been, will always be. Time cannot exhaust its force, for it carries its power within itself. Deep in the heart of Truth...
Introduction : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], INTRODUCTION Verily, in whom unwisdom is destroyed by the wisdom of the Self, in them, Wisdom, shining as the Sun, reveals the Supreme.--Bhagavad Gita. Yoga is a subject which has enthralled the attenti...
Chapter Ix. Self Development : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 56 CHAPTER IX. SELF-DEVELOPMENT. "The Objective Mood". MAN should ever strive to develop intrinsic worth. Life becomes a song of harmony, Peace and Power, when once you have developed and expanded the Will-power...
Chapter V. Double Consciousness : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 30 CHAPTER V. DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS. THE ancients had a most significant concept as to the intellectual make-up of Man, and before we proceed with our personal remarks on this topic, we shall try to give our...
Title Page : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], YOGA LESSONS FOR DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS BY SWAMIE A. P. MUKERJI ASSOCIATE EDITOR, KALPAKA MAGAZINE OF INDIA PUBLISHED BY YOGI PUBLICATION SOCIETY MASONIC TEMPLE, CHICAGO, ILL. REPRESENTATIVES L. N. FOWLER...
Chapter Iv. Man. Animal And Divine : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 25 CHAPTER IV. MAN: ANIMAL AND DIVINE. BY the side of the Ganges, close to the Desaswamedh Ghat, there sits a man of nearly seventy. He is stark naked. Clad in nature's own garb, the Paramahamsa remains seated...
Chapter X. Developing The Spiritual Consciousness : * "Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness", by A.P. Mukerji, [1911], p. 61 CHAPTER X. DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS. "The mind which follows the rambling senses, makes the Soul as helpless as the boat which the wind leads astray upon the waters." Bhagavad Gita. MAN is man by...
