Esoteric teachings are to place the mind in correct channels after transmutation is well on its way–until then they would only register as excess intellectual knowledge in the subconscious of the conscious mind. A certain amount of superconscious awakening is necessary to cognize the esoteric modes of thought.§
This is a frank statement. It tells us that a guru educating his chela should not allow books, discussions or knowledge beyond the point of his immediate spiritual unfoldment to enter his mind. No matter how deep, no matter how perfect the knowledge, it would serve to clutter the mind, thus retarding the progress. Rather, daily sādhana, the practice of mantra yoga, wrenches consciousness from the instinctive-intellectual areas of the mind, and the other forms of rāja yoga to be practiced during these early stages correctly channel the life force into the sushumṇā current within the spine. When all the inner currents are well established and direct experience occurs, then esoteric, written teachings may be read, but only to verify the experience experienced by the experiencer.§
When the conscious mind becomes balanced through the practice of nonreaction, the other states of mind elucidate, unravel, themselves before it, through the subsuperconscious mind. This is the nature of the mind–it is also called spiritual evolution.§
Through the constant practice of rāja yoga, within an ashram under the watchful eye of an established guru, the conscious mind of the chela becomes balanced, because the iḍā and piṅgalā currents themselves become balanced. The sushumṇā current becomes prominent. This rāja yoga practice is in itself a fine art, but must be performed under direction and within the proper environment for positive results to be attained.§
The laws of the mind come superconsciously; they pass through the conscious plane and are registered in the subconscious of the conscious mind. Later they are comprehended subconsciously, then put into practical usage consciously.§
In true spiritual unfoldment, knowledge is obtained from within oneself without being pre-programmed through lectures, books or promises. The adept performs his practices. The discovered knowledge is the result. Results properly obtained are then verified by scripture and his guru. Direct experience is the only profound teacher.§
To bring forth a law of the mind or the solution of a problem, three facts or points must be had about the subject in question. Concentrate on each point individually, then meditate upon them collectively. The superconscious, through the subconscious, then will give the law or solution. To hold the law or solution consciously, the three points, which are of the conscious mind and its subconscious, must be remembered in their original logical order.§
Here we are speaking about samyama–thought, meaning and knowledge combined as one. When combined as one, it lifts up the lid of the third eye. What is hidden behind the veil of ignorance is seen. Concentration is an art that once attained leads naturally into meditation, contemplation and samādhi. The three-point concentration spoken of in this aphorism releases the whole of the external from its internal counterpart of the yogī’s awareness. A deep yoga law is discussed here.§
A conscious mind trained by another mind teaching from superconscious states is able to consciously retain its own conscious expressions.§
A satguru who teaches through his superconscious expression or through his silence not only teaches the chela within his immediate vicinity, but all chelas anywhere in the world who have received dīkshā from the guru. There is no space or time that divides the audience chamber in which the guru sits when the superconsciousness speaks out or is in silence. A guru’s dīkshā, initiation, is sought for and valued because of the in-flow of knowledge, sustenance, security and sustaining grace which comes as a result from the guru, wherever the guru might be.§
The superconscious mind can only cognize what the lower states of mind place before it, or what it has placed before itself through the lower states of mind due to some previous cause. This is why the Ego must return to the conscious plane after living in superconscious thought–for all thought is in time and space and is stimulated through the effort of the will. Though the superconscious mind is the essence of time and space, Spirit–Truth–is beyond this object, the mind.§
The superconscious being does not always reside in a superconscious state, though once awakened into permanent superconsciousness, his awareness has free flow through all states of mind and is held intact by the true Self, realized beyond all states of mind. Therefore, the adept living in superconscious states can function quite easily in the conscious mind.§
The deep thinkers of the Far East only have to deal with the instinctive plane. From there they can cut themselves off and become superconscious beings. §
Children are taught likes and dislikes by their parents; mainly they learn this through observation. Later, when able to communicate, their parents teach them whom to love and hate, whom to look up to and whom to look down upon. When an Asian family recognizes Divinity in the child, they strive to live a religious life, setting the highest standards for him to grow up within. He is spared much of which would be taught if he were an ordinary person. Therefore, when spiritually alive, he is free from the world, having never entered it.§
Deep thinkers of the West have to deal with the instinctive and intellectual planes. While the beings of the Far East can cut off the instinctive without comprehension, the beings of the West must thoroughly comprehend the instinctive/intellectual before passing into higher superconscious planes.§
This is because Western thought has no eternal truths as final goals, and the obvious and apparent become burdensome to the mind and, even more so, a barrier when the path of spiritual unfoldment is undertaken. Because the Western people are more analytical when it comes to everything in the outside world, a long preliminary process of trying to understand the instinctive nature and the lower intellectual mind usually occurs before the matter is finally put to rest and the fullness of the higher chakras catches hold.§
The subsuperconscious mind has all the answers. But when the subsubconscious mind is mentally overly congested, the thoughts cannot be passed through. The subsuperconscious mind lies in silent knowing.§
This means that everyone is a complete whole, with all five states of mind functioning at every point in time. However, when the sub of the subconscious mind totally takes over consciousness and one becomes a victim of his past, be it positive, negative or mixed, any new input from the superconscious through the subconscious is totally blocked. The superconscious and the small part of the subconscious that it has deposited knowledge within remain waiting for a chance to complete the cycle. This means the answers are always there within everyone. This is why desirelessness, renunciation, giving up the past, are important tenets to be followed for spiritual unfoldment.§
The subconscious mind can only know or put in order what you have already put into it or absorbed from the conscious plane. That is why you have to come back to the conscious plane to accumulate various pieces of information and facts so that when you go back into superconscious realms, the subsuperconscious mind can reorganize that.§
If life is not working out well for you, then it is because the subconscious mind, which governs the fundamental patterns of life, has not been properly, sufficiently impressed. The aphorism says we must then return to some conscious effort to correct the situation, such as affirmation, visualization. To do this, the problem within the subconscious mind must be brought consciously before the vision, as this new information is being added to it. The subconscious then will take all this and rearrange it according to the karmas of the individual.§
They say that the superconscious mind is all-knowing, all-pervading, knows past, present and future. However, the superconscious mind can only know what the lower states of mind put before it for comprehension and elucidation. The superconscious mind is beyond. It can elucidate and predict the future by happenings of the past, blended with the solidarity of character.§
Yes, the superconscious mind is the restful fullness, an allness, a completion. It is the magical corrective mirror. One looks into it and sees his face as it really is. Putting thoughts forward, they come back unaltered, but with insightful solutions attached. This peaceful fullness, all-pervasive knowing, reflects as a mirror the right knowledge when questions are asked of it. It is the venerable conscience within all humans and all living creatures. The allness of everything is the completion of everything. This means that every atom has everything within it that ever existed and will ever exist.§
Willfulness stems from the emotional body.§
When our emotions are not under control, neither is our willpower. Uncontrolled emotions lead us into lower consciousness. Controlled emotions lead us to higher consciousness. Willpower is essential to advancement on the spiritual path.§
The deep thinkers in the Far East have previously passed through the instinctive-intellectual stages of the mind, unconscious through what they were passing. They must return, however, and function fully conscious of each state in which they find themselves. This is termed “Truth in action.”§
In Asia many decades ago, all learning occurred through the process of memory. Much of this is true even today. People are taught what to think, not encouraged to think about what they should be thinking. Learning by rote is not a part of Western education, where children are taught to make decisions at a very young age for themselves and others and learn by their own mistakes. Therefore, it is only the most enlightened persons who are able to return back into their intellectual structure, think and decide for themselves. They become the leaders and advisors of those who are not allowed to think for themselves.§
Those who hermit themselves away from the external world of things, repulsed by the instinctive plane, having previously so suffered through it, are the ones who create a God separate from themselves to depend on and worship. When they realize their true nature, they may function without negative reaction in all states of consciousness.§
This refers to self-appointed yogīs, uninitiated, not dharmically under the guidance of any guru or elder within the community, but apart from the community itself. Having had a few instinctive experiences which they abhor, they retreat to sādhana, to God and themselves, in dualistic apartness. The two of them, they and their God, leave society. This particular God, which they have conjured up within their own mind, they depend on, they worship. This dualistic dependency is the total sum of their so-called yoga. However, when they realize their true nature and learn to accept advaitic union with the Supreme, the great transformation occurs and true rāja yoga begins.§
Walking can quiet the subconscious of the conscious mind. Breathing from the diaphragm gives a balance when the subconscious of the conscious mind is disturbed, for this makes the conscious mind consciously conscious of what is passing through the subconscious of the superconscious, which physical organ is the spleen and is centered in the diaphragm. §
This aphorism tells us that walking and diaphragmatic breathing are very essential for advancement on the spiritual path, and harmonizing all of the currents of the inner and outer bodies and the various states of the mind itself. The spleen is a physical organ. The spleen is also a psychic center, connecting the subconscious with the superconscious. It is a little-known small chakra. §
The mind uses the brain; the brain sends messages to the various nerve centers which appear to be miniature brains. The solar plexus is their focal point; hence the solar plexus is called the seat of emotion. When the breath (breath is life) is sent down into the lower regions of the lungs or diaphragm, the solar plexus pours energy, prāṇa, into the smaller nerve centers all over the body. These external nerve centers or brains thus receiving their energy subconsciously think. These nerve centers are externally represented as people or animals. The internal nerve centers, however, are represented externally by astral and higher mental-plane beings, when seen, termed visions. §
This aphorism is complete within itself and is telling us that the physical body is the all that is objective and subjective. “I am that, I am. All that is is within me. I am the Self all souls are seeking.” But to realize this and get the “I am” out of the way, it is very necessary to understand how the energies work throughout the physical body, and this is only a small part of the understanding to be understood.§
The solar plexus holds the sub of the subconscious mind, but when awakened, it is the sub of the superconscious mind.§
The solar plexus is often called the sun center. It is the great balancer of all bodily functions. It contains the fire within the body. When the maṇipūra chakra sleeps, the sub of the subconscious begins to build. The individuals in this state appear to have no will of their own; nor would they dare to even think they could think for themselves. But when the maṇipūra chakra begins to unfold, individual willpower asserts itself–this is not without its problems–and if the individual is a spiritual person, the subsuperconscious mind begins to work through this chakra, healing the past.§
The lymph system is the external manifestation of the nerve forces. The ganglia are the way-house for the nerves. They register the nerve impulse which collects the lymph. This is carried by the blood. §
This aphorism explains how the chakras, ganglia, are the way-house of the nerves, or where the nerves rest or are activated. It also tells us that the lymphatic system is the external manifestation on the physical plane in which the astral nerve energy is contained and flows through. The ganglia, or the chakras, compute or register all nerve impulses, collect and redistribute the lymph which is carried to various parts of the body through the blood.§
Lymph is the manifestation of prāṇa. Thoughts, or thought forms, are the products of the lymph.§
Here we learn that lymph is the physical manifestation of prāṇic energies. Thoughts, which create forms with various shapes, colors and sounds, are not only created by this prāṇa, they draw on the vital forces of the lymph itself. In those who think a lot, vitality is often depleted. Thought, prāṇa and lymph are the vital forces which create the karmas which eventually return to us through others.§
The blood is the carrier for the lymph. The heart is the organ for the blood. The diaphragm is the organ for the lymph. The lymph carries the nerve force–negative chyme and positive chyle. Milk carries the lymph from the cow.§
Here we learn that prāṇa derived from milk carries lymph from the cow, as well as the cow’s mood. Hindus worship the cow, sing to the cow, endeavor to uplift the cow, so that the mood of the cow is the highest it can manifest. The mood, the prāṇa, the lymph go into the milk and uplift those who drink it.§
The spleen is the placenta that nourishes the solar body. The reason why one must keep the body seventy-two hours after death is for the spleen to form the aura around the astral body to give it strength to soar to higher spheres.§
Here we learn that the astral body needs help after death, at least for seventy-two hours. It draws upon the spleen of its former body, now decaying. Cremation should occur after this process has ended. The process is that the astral body draws all of the energies of the physical body into itself. Transmutation is occurring of the physical, emotional, as well as the energies of all of the physical organs, reconstructing the astral body. This is the slow death experience. Immediate cremation is under another law, and more time is needed for the astral body to reconstruct itself within its world. This expedient way is universally an accepted practice, as is no formal funeral for stillborns or infants. Buried bodies remain Earthbound. Entombment is an acceptable practice reserved for satgurus, saints or swāmīs who so choose, and whose bodies are then preserved in salt-filled crypts.§
Insanity results from lack of lymph in the brain. The organ of the mind, namely the brain, is developed to a large extent by deep, expansive thinking. When, however, the lymph and prāṇa (the controlling elements) are removed from the brain, the mind can run without discrimination through its various accustomed channels. It is the lymph and prāṇa which harmonize the mind with the body.§
Some people think that the physical body contains an astral body, and the astral body contains the soul. But here we find that the soul, working through the astral body, lives in a physical body, and for it to function properly, all the elements within that vehicle must be working properly. In the Glossary, we are noting scientific explanations of lymph and spleen, as well as the Vedic explanation of the word prāṇa. Study these carefully for deeper understanding of this aphorism and all related aphorisms that mention lymph, spleen and prāṇa. We call attention here to the import of the words, “the organ of the mind.” This indicates that the mind itself is a perfect, complete entity unto itself, but if its organ, the brain, is deficient, communication to the external world might be limited or void.§
Discrimination is the result of an abundance of lymph in the brain through transmutation of the vital forces.§
The vital sexual forces when transmuted feed the brain, but first all of the chakras leading up to the brain; and not only discrimination, which is depth of perception, is enhanced, but many other soul qualities as well, such as expanding consciousness, seeing through and into inner worlds and more. §
The sex function draws off lymph from the spleen. When done to excess, it draws off the lymph from the heart as well. The cells of the heart are broken down and when replenishing themselves build massively back (as do the muscles develop while lifting weights). The system is accelerated to the height of emotion when the sex function or perverted states thereof accrue. However, the physique is unable to attain normalcy, as the life force of the body, namely the lymph, has been exhausted. Only after the lymph again is carried by the blood in abundance can the physique come back to normalcy. However, during the interval, complications can be and are created, such as enlarging of the heart, weakening of the lungs, cancer, diseases of membranous kinds, etc. §
This aphorism was spoken in the 1950s in a very clear and explicit way. Knowledge of lymph, ductless glands and so-forth should be in the forefront of one’s mind to understand it. It seems complete within itself, and those who have this kind of background knowledge may gain some insights. These aphorisms on lymph, normal sex and the height of emotion from perverted sex indicate the dangers of excessiveness. This excessiveness draws upon the vital forces to such an extent, they are not available, not there, to respond to various germ, virus, disease attacks that would normally be warded off by the properly functioning body in a healthy condition. This shows that the lymph system and immunity are similar, if not one and the same. ¶Note: while in states of meditation, the body and emotions are dismantled but can quickly attain a normal state due to the fact that there is an abundance of lymph surging through the blood and carrying calmed and controlled nerve force through the ductless glands and the sympathetic nervous system.§