Merging with Śiva

CANTO FIVE

Control of Speech

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH APHORISM

When transmutation of the intellect is observed–which is bringing the superconscious through the subconscious consciously–subconscious transmutation is well on its way. This is not the end. This is only the beginning!§

Before the actual transmutation of the sexual fluid becomes conscious, the subconscious mind must be thoroughly schooled in the laws of transmutation–schooled by the inner knowing born from the superconscious mind. For this, a qualified teacher is needed. The guru, the dispeller of darkness, gives the keys when the pupil is ready to unlock the final doors to his unfoldment. However, after the pupil has done his part, he will always meet his spiritual teacher. For each step that the sincere disciple takes toward his spiritual teacher, his spiritual teacher takes nine steps toward him.§

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH APHORISM

The use and abuse of the sexual nature causes physical and emotional upheavals. Speaking without due consideration and discrimination causes intellectual and psychic upheavals. Therefore, the control of speech is the second step in the transmutation of the creative forces.§

Speech is the second step in the transmutation process. To speak is to create, as to think is to create. Both go hand in hand. As a child is to man and woman, so is word to thought. Hence the control of the mind and tongue is of the greatest importance in the transmutation process. §

THE TWENTY-NINTH APHORISM

Excessive talk overloads the subconscious mind, thus making it extremely difficult for the superconscious to express itself.§

You know what it is to have a basement full of things you have no use for. This basement may easily be compared to your subconscious mind. Thoughts and words can be compared to things. In your basement you have a furnace that supplies heat to the entire house. Your furnace can be compared to your superconscious mind. If your basement is too congested, you may not be able to get to the furnace to light it and heat your home. So it is within the storehouse of your subconscious. Silence lends itself to understanding. It allows you to perceive, then cognize, for is it not true that we talk excessively in our effort to understand what we are talking about? §

THE THIRTIETH APHORISM

Observation is the first faculty of the awakening of the superconscious regions. This observation is cultivated by abstinence from excessive talk.§

This aphorism is self-explanatory, for we can plainly see that–in recognizing the fact that we have created our surroundings, and everything that happens to us, by our thoughts and desires of the past–it takes the observation of our creations to bring us to the point where we can reconcile them with the thoughts and desires that created them.§

THE THIRTY-FIRST APHORISM

Continuous observation will become paramount through the conscious mind when transmutation is practiced. With the control of the speech, the forces will continue to be transmuted.§

Observation brings us close to seeing forms as they are in relation to other objects. In this I am suggesting the mind and thought as form or objects. When observation is practiced, we lend our lower nature willingly to the great all-knowing superconscious mind and blend our Ego into the essence of time and space, thus bringing forth understanding beyond the realms of reason. Continued observation unfolds perceptive meditation upon what we observe, and perception unfolds the power to cognize. Cognition is the result of perfect subconscious concentration. §

THE THIRTY-SECOND APHORISM

Transmutation brings the superconscious mind close to the conscious plane through the subconscious of the conscious mind. Then a conscious understanding of the subconscious mind as a unit is acquired.§

All the forces of the body having been centered within, without suppression, allows the real self of man to unfold from within freely. When time stops, and space is no more, the consciousness comes into focus. Then the being comprehends the secrets behind the laws of transmutation of the creative forces into their highest forms of expression.§

THE THIRTY-THIRD APHORISM

The final goal of transmutation is to actually have the creative cells ever reproducing, consciously absorbed by the bloodstream. They then feed the brain and stimulate the mind. This results in a consciously conscious comprehension of the function of every current in the body as well as every thought wave, their actions and reactions. When this occurs as a physical process coupled with well-qualified understanding, your results will be unshakable and real.§

There is not too much I can add here except that when the fluids are transmuted, it gives added food and energy to the physical body as well as stability to the emotional body. Through the transmutation process you will be able to control the emotional body, understand it and use it freely as a vehicle to work out the effects of past causes. ¶When the realization of the Self, samādhi, is experienced, all the teachings herein will be clearly understood. The consciousness will reside in the inner being, which knows nothing of the instinctive and intellectual natures, yet it cognizes all form. You will have that peace which surpasses all understanding and be able to look within and without simultaneously. The grand fulfillment of this incarnation awaits your command over your instinctive and intellectual natures.§