The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man : an Interpretation

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Quarterly Book Department, 1912 - 183 páginas
Aphoristic work on the meditational fundamentals of the Yoga school of Indic philosophy.
 

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Página 78 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 83 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Página 87 - in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, " I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell; " God knoweth) ; such an one caught up to the third " heaven : and I knew such a man (whether in the body " or out of the body, I cannot tell ; God knoweth), how " that he was caught up into paradise, and heard un" speakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to
Página 51 - And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Página 89 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Página 89 - And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass...
Página 73 - Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens, through tbee, are fresh and strong.
Página 105 - I feel even irritated at having to use these three clumsy words — Past, Present, and Future. Miserable concepts of the objective phases of the subjective whole, they are about as ill adapted for the purpose as an axe for fine carving.
Página 105 - I am with you always, unto the end of the world"; using the eternal present for past and future alike. With the same purpose, the Master speaks of himself as "the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last...
Página 92 - Some there are, though very few, to whom Divine grace has granted this: that they can clearly and most distinctly see, at one and the same moment, as though under one ray of the sun, even the entire circuit of the whole world with its surroundings of ocean and sky, the inmost part of their mind being marvellously enlarged.

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