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trol of the mind !s gained which inclines it habit- 

 ually to those Kosmic influences which are antag- 

 onistic to all evil tendencies in the lower sheaths 

 that check our evolutionary progress. " Faith," 

 says Rama Prasad, " is nothing more than a men- 

 tal lucidity in which the yet unknown truths of 

 Nature begin to throw their shadows forward. 

 The mind begins, as it were, to feel truth in any 

 and every place; and, drawn by the taste of bliss 

 (Ananda), proceeds with greater zeal to work out 

 the process of its evolution." 



The macrocosmic psychic center which is the 

 prototype of man's sixth Principle Buddhi 

 " is the great reservoir of every actual force In 

 the Universe." Therefore, " by contemplation 

 of the sixth Principle of the Universe, a sympathy 

 is naturally established between it and the human 

 soul. Only that sympathy is necessary for the 

 universal Tattvic law to work with greater effect. 

 The human soul begins to be cleansed of the dust 

 of the world, and in its turn affects the mind in a 

 similar way; and therein the Yogi becomes con- 

 scious of this influence by the slackening of the 

 fetters forged by Prakriti [matter], and a daily, 

 hourly strengthening of heavenward aspirations. 



" The human soul then begins to become a cen- 

 ter of power for its own little universe, just as 

 Ishvara [the macrocosmic Soul] is the center of 

 power in His Universe. . . . When perfec- 



