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Beginnings of the Yoga

Call for the Yoga
What do you want the Yoga for? To get power? To attain to peace
and calm? To serve humanity?

None of these motives is sufficient to show that you are meant

for the Path.
The question you are to answer is this: Do you want the Yoga
for the sake of the Divine? Is the Divine the supreme fact of your
life, so much so that it is simply impossible for you to do without
it? Do you feel that your very raison d’être is the Divine and with-
out it there is no meaning in your existence? If so, then only can it
be said that you have a call for the Path.

This is the first thing necessary — aspiration for the Divine.
The next thing you have to do is to tend it, to keep it always
alert and awake and living. And for that what is required is concen-
tration — concentration upon the Divine with a view to an integral
and absolute consecration to its Will and Purpose.
Concentrate in the heart. Enter into it; go within and deep
and far, as far as you can. Gather all the strings of your conscious-
ness that are spread abroad, roll them up and take a plunge and
sink down.

A fire is burning there, in the deep quietude of the heart. It
is the divinity in you — your true being. Hear its voice, follow its
dictates.
There are other centres of concentration, for example, one
above the crown and another between the eye-brows. Each has

its own efficacy and will give you a particular result. But the cen-
tral being lies in the heart and from the heart proceed all central
movements — all dynamism and urge for transformation and
power of realisation. CWM 3: 1

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