The Mind of Swami Vivekananda by Gautam Sen

Author:Gautam Sen [Sen, Gautam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mobilism
Publisher: Jaico Books
Published: 2013-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

Raja Yoga: The Royal Road *

Many, many days have passed. All these days Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, has had no food. Is he weak, hungry, miserable? No, he still looks fresh. He is alive and kicking. What does he live on?

He lives on air. That’s right-air!

Albecerius. Carthaginian medium and diviner. St. Augustine’s student is sceptical and wants to test him. He asks, ‘What am I thinking about now?’ Albecerius has hardly had an education, but he promptly quotes a passage from Virgil. ‘That’s what you are thinking about’, he says. The student is dazzled. He acquiesces.

Times have changed, and now it is I974. Uri Geller, former nightclub magician from Israel, is presently in California, bending a fork he does not touch. He just sits and concentrates on it!

The Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, finds that subjects can learn to lower their hand temperature 10° by ‘willing’ the movement of a temperature meter connected to the skin. There are others who can stop their own migraines by monitoring the blood flow to their faces and so reducing arterial swelling.

Vivekananda hears and smiles. He smiles at our scepticism or our open-mouthed bewilderment. Hasn’t he seen enough of such things? Hasn’t he, er, indulged a bit in them himself? —And when certain creeps in America sought his acquaintance with ulterior motives, didn’t he give them the shivers by reading their minds?

How are such things done?

‘According to the Raja-Yogi, the external world is but the gross form of the internal, or subtle. The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. In the same way external forces are simply the grosser parts, of which the internal forces are the finer. The man who has discovered and learned how to manipulate the internal forces will get the whole of nature under his control. The Yogi proposes to himself no less a task than to master the whole universe, to control the whole of nature. He wants to arrive at the point where what we call ‘nature’s laws’ will have no influence over him, where he will be able to get beyond them all. He will be master of the whole of nature, internal and external’.

Now think: what is the nature of cause and effect? You paint a picture. What causes it?—The thought behind it. Could you have painted otherwise? You hit someone. First you are angry, first the thought of anger arises in you, and then you follow it through, you hit. Who said it was bad to build castles in the air? You can’t have them on the ground unless you first build them in the air! That’s the law: the subtle first and then the gross, the unseen first and then the seen. God’s will was the cause of the universe, and the universe itself was the effect of that will.

‘Gather a shell from the strewn beach

And listen at its lips; they sigh

The same desire and mystery

The echo of the whole sea’s speech.

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