"When the spiritual man is perfectly disentangled from the psychic body,
he attains to mastery over all things and to a knowledge of all."
The spiritual Self, the cosmic conscious Self, must not be confounded with
the psychic body, which is formed from the emotions--passions; fears;
hatreds; ambitions; resentments; envy; regrets. Know thyself as a being
superior to all baser emotions, and the mastery over them is complete. They
are not destroyed, but converted into love--the everlasting Source of Life.
"There should be complete overcoming of allurement or pride in the
invitations of the different regions of life, lest attachment to things
evil arise once more."
It is said that the disciples, seeking the paths of Yoga, reach three
degrees or stages of development; first, those who are just entering the
path; second, those who are in the realm of allurements, subject to
temptations; third, those who have won the victory over the senses and the
external life--_maya_; fourth, those who are firmly entrenched behind the
bulwark of certainty; the spiritual being realized: cosmic consciousness
attained and retained.
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