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brations by the plane of its activity. Thus it is a 

 demonstrable fact, a basic law of nature too long 

 ignored, when not vehemently denied, that with 

 every thought, since the mind reflects its vibrations 

 upon the physical plane below, we are moulding 

 these bodies of ours to ease or disease (see Chap- 

 ter III). Then the greatest need of every human 

 being is to gain control of the mind, and put a stop 

 forever and aye to the discordant hash which the 

 uncontrolled mind contrives to mix out of the or- 

 dinary events and duties of life from hour to hour. 



Not until you can control your body through 

 you mind being brought under control, will you be 

 freed from that body's whimsies ! When you have 

 conquered the vehicle (the body), it will be your 

 willing, skillful servant, fulfilling its divinely plan- 

 ned purpose of furthering growth and develop- 

 ment instead of hampering it. Therefore, before 

 progress can be made upon the spiritual plane, it 

 is absolutely necessary to obtain physical and men- 

 tal control, to bring the lower Principles into work- 

 ing harmony. When we know what the ideal is, 

 as Swami Vivekananda said : " What remains is 

 to practice the methods of reaching it." 



The Swami's inspired aphorisms prefatory to 

 Raja Yoga are of deep significance here : 



" EACH SOUL is POTENTIALLY DIVINE. THE 



GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THIS DIVINITY WITHIN BY 



