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working at, and work at it until you are an artist 

 in that particular faculty. 



That is how form is builded, when the human 

 Self is beginning to co-operate with the work of 

 Ishvara, when the centre is beginning to take the 

 control of its vehicles. It rationalises its workings, 

 and builds and modifies them step by step. When 

 this has been done for many lives, then comes the 

 life for Yoga ; then the man may be taught how to 

 make more rapid progress, and how to vivify the 

 inner and subtler sheaths of his being by certain 

 practices, that will be taught him the moment he is 

 ready but that will never be taught him until he is 

 ready, nay though he range the world over in search 

 of a Guru, or live the life of an ascetic in the cave 

 or in the jungle. That is not enough, so long as 

 his desire is unconquered, so long as his mind is 

 still restless. When the senses are dominated, when 

 the mind is controlled, and not before but then, 

 as certainly as before there will not be the coming 

 a Guru will appear who will take that man by the 

 hand and lead him along the path that is narrow as 

 the edge of a razor, that may only be trodden by the 

 controlled in sense and by the steady in mind, for 

 the fall either to the one side or to the other means 

 delay for many a birth to come. Then is developed 

 that aspect of Bliss which shows itself outwardly 



