When a man has really renounced, a strange change takes place. On the
Path of Forthgoing, you must fight for everything you want to get; on
the Path of Return, nature pours her treasures at your feet. When a man
has ceased to desire them, then all treasures pour down upon him, for
he has become a channel through which all good gifts flow to those
around him. Seek the good, give up grasping, and then everything will
be yours. Cease to ask that your own little water tank may be filled,
and you will become a pipe, joined to the living source of all waters,
the source which never runs dry, the waters which spring up
unfailingly. Renunciation means the power of unceasing work for the
good of all, work which cannot fail, because wrought by the Supreme
Worker through His servant.
If you are engaged in any true work of charity, and your means are
limited and the wealth does not flow into your hands, what does it
mean? It means that you have not yet learnt the true renunciation. You
are clinging to the visible, to the fruit of action, and so the wealth
does not pour through your hands.
Purification of Bodies
The unfolding of powers belongs to the side of consciousness;
purification of bodies belongs to the side of matter. You must purify
each of your three working bodies—mental, astral and physical. Without
that purification you had better leave yoga alone. First of all, how
shall you purify the thought body? By right thinking. Then you must use
imagination, your great creative tool, once more. Imagine things, and,
imagining them, you will form your thought-body into the organisation
that you desire. Imagine something strongly, as the painter imagines
when he is going to paint. Visualise an object if you have the power of
visualisation at all: if you have not, try to make it. It is an
artistic faculty, of course, hut most people have it more or less. See
how far you can reproduce perfectly a face you see daily. By such
practice you will be strengthening your imagination, and by
strengthening your imagination you will be making the great tool with
which you have to practice in Yoga.
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