50 Success Classics Winning Wisdom for Work & Life

Success Classics

1. Optimism: Optimism is power. This is a secret discovered by all who succeed against great odds.Optimistic people tend to succeed not simply because they believe that everything will turn out right, but because the expectation of success makes them work harder. If you expect little, you will not be motivated even to try.
2. A definite aim, purpose, or vision: Success requires a concentration of effort. Most people disperse their energies over too many things and so fail to be outstanding in anything.
3. Willingness to work: With hard work you acquire knowledge about yourself that idleness never reveals.
4. Discipline: Enduring success is built on discipline. Like compound interest, this subject may be boring, but its results in the long term can be spectacular.
5. An integrated mind: Successful people trust their intuition, and because intuitions are usually right, they seem to enjoy more luck than others.
6. Prolific reading: Look into the habits of the successful and you will find that they are usually great readers. If you can read about the accomplishments of those you admire, you cannot help but lift your own sights.
7. Risk taking: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Be action oriented.
8. Realizing the power of expectation: Successful people expect the best and they generally get it, because expectations have a way of attracting to you their material equivalent.
9. Mastery: Advanced beings can turn any situation to their advantage.
10. Well-roundedness: Achievements mean little if we are not a success as a person. The capacities to love, listen, and learn are vital for our own well-being.

Becoming a leader involves:

1. Continuous learning and never-dying curiosity.
2. A compelling vision: leaders first define their reality (what they believe is possible), then set about “managing their dream.”
3. Developing the ability to communicate that vision and inspire others to follow it.
4. Tolerating uncertainty and taking on risk: a degree of daring.
5. Personal integrity: self-knowledge, candor, maturity, welcoming criticism.
6. Being a one-off, an original: “Leaders learn from others, but are not made by others.”
7. Reinvention: to create new things sometimes involves recreating yourself. You may be influenced by your genes and environment, but leaders take all their influences and create something unique.
8. Taking time off to think and reflect, which brings answers and produces resolutions.
9. Passion for the promises of life: a belief in the best, for yourself and others.
10. Seeing success in small, everyday increments and joys, not waiting years for the Big Success to arrive.
11. Using the context of your life, rather than surrendering to it.

Great ideas for Salesperson:

1. The best salespeople do not “sell”—they find out what the other person wants, then help them find the best way to get it.
2. When trying to sell something, talk mostly in terms of “you” and “your.” This lets the other person know you are thinking mainly of their interests.
3. Forget witty conversation—be a good listener instead.
4. Invest in increasing your knowledge of your own industry. You can’t afford not to.
5. In contacts with clients, praise your competitors. It shows clients you are even-handed and won’t hide anything from them.
6. Use “witnesses” (i.e., satisfied clients) to sell your product to new clients. Then you can say, “Don’t listen to me, listen to them.”
7. Use a magic question to keep yourself in the presence of a potential client. Ask them: “How did you happen to get into this business, Mr/s…?” The history of a person’s career is always of the highest interest to them.
8. Prepare for an audience of one as you would an audience of a hundred; i.e., prepare properly for every meeting.
9. Be like Abraham Lincoln with his famous two-minute Gettysburg Address, and remember that the book of Genesis is only 442 words long—become a “master of brevity.”
10. When you greet someone, say their name.
11. For 30 days, smile frequently and watch it transform your life.
12. Don’t ever engage another person in argument. Instead, ask questions whose answers are likely to bring them round to your viewpoint.
13. To succeed as a salesperson, you require a level of self-discipline, determination, and courage that will serve you well in any other field.

The five laws of gold

1. Money comes to those who save.
2. Money multiplies for those who invest it.
3. Money stays with the person who entrusts it to wise people.
4. Money is lost when invested in things with which you are not familiar.
5. Money is lost at a fast rate by pursuing get-rich-quick schemes.

Individual Success

1. Make your own luck. Whatever you do, do it to your utmost. Become a reader. Be a saver, but be generous. Never cheat, steal, or lie. Don’t drink or smoke.
2. 12 words that you must repeat to yourself three times a day so you remember to spend your time productively. This self-instruction reads, “I must do the most productive thing possible at every given moment.”
3. Success leaves clues, but they must be acted on.
4. Be voracious in your learning, and ensure that others benefit from your intellectual and monetary wealth.
5. The more you read about the lives and actions of successful people, the more likely it is that you will set the bar higher for yourself.
6. Measuring your life daily against written goals is a fundamental of success.
7. You don’t need to worry about the details of how the goal will be achieved, however; what is important is to be certain and exact about what you want.
8. “There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.” If you fail to make the one you’ve set, don’t conclude that goal setting doesn’t work. 
9. Instead, seek to increase your knowledge of it. Remember that clear goals provide the strength to keep going; without them it is easy to collapse at the first obstacle. 
10. “Thinking big” does work in relation to career goals, financial security, and great relationships—but it is more significant than that. You are challenged to see yourself in a brighter light, to have a larger conception of life.
11. Enlarge your circle: These relationships were not cultivated so that he could name-drop, but so that he could learn directly from their unique knowledge and experience. Always seek out interesting people.
12. Enlarge your understanding of success to include self-knowledge and greater connection to others. You have everything in you that you need to succeed.
13. Seek knowledge and value, not money alone: Knowledge gained from reading and study represented real value; a good life was one that truly opened the mind. Money alone was worthless.
14. Work for your own success, but ensure that your achievements lift up the wider community.
15. Clarity about goals saves a huge amount of energy that can be deployed productively in other areas.
16. What you believe about yourself, the world will believe about you.
17. The best way of developing self-confidence quickly is through speaking to groups. Remember that enthusiasm alone can transform your life and your earnings. Every Saturday morning he sat down and planned the week ahead.
18. Be master of your mood Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
19. Dharma is the duty that is yours to fulfill in your lifetime. Adharma is going against your purpose in life, which only gives you and the world misery.
20. Create a noble aim for your life, then make use of every moment to achieve it.
21. Whatever you desire is probably close at hand, if you are willing to open your eyes and your mind.
22. Always imagine the best possible outcome, and the forming of reality will follow this design.
23. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
24. “Expect the best, and get it.” Wiseman, too, found that people’s lives show a remarkable degree of fit with their expectations. Not only do they feel that they deserve good things, but they feel some amount of control over making them materialize.
25. Through visualization of what you desire on a repetitive basis, the thing will come into being through the organization of existing modes of production. This is the secret shortcut to gaining what you need.
26. Life will pay whatever price you ask of it.
27. Winners almost always do what they think is the most productive thing possible at every given moment; losers never do.
28. The simplest, most uncomplicated way is often the most successful.
29. Your body is smarter than you think: trust it to achieve the goals you have set.
30. The burst of energy, creativity, and resolve that comes from existing in the moment is  what the writer Eckhart Tolle calls “the power of now.”
31. Hard work, continuous self-improvement, and a sense of building for the future create identity. From identity comes focus, from focus, success.
32. Be the best at what you do and the world will beat a path to your door.

Organizational Success

1. Think unconventionally Despise the status quo Dell staff are told to think like entrepreneurs or as if they are owners of Set big goals that may just be do-able Love change.
2. Continually refine your thinking power. Imagine something the world would really need. Make it cheaply as possible and sell it at the lowest price.
3. Carnegie had two rules for speaking: 1 Talk to people, not at them. 2 Be yourself, don’t try to be an “orator."
4. Every successful person knows how to sell what they offer. Enthusiasm and organization are the basic elements in selling.
5. I have found that the best way to get another to acquire a virtue, is to impute it to him. Let a person know you think they can do something, and they will.
6. Achievers have an ingrained philosophy of “It can be done,” while the rest of the population tend to believe the opposite, focusing on fear rather than faith. Successful people are continually wondering “What if?” and setting difficult goals for themselves. They have a different attitude to failure, which is seen more as feedback than as any permanent comment on themselves.
7. Contrary to common understanding, a good man’s actions are not always gentle. They may be ruthless, cold and dispassionate.
8. Willingness to see the benefit in every disappointment may seem a cliché, but it is a mark of successful people.
9. If you buy goods at a high price, he believed, “you’ve just bought someone else’s inefficiency".
10. One of the duties of the leader is to lift up those who are not able to advance themselves.
11. Everyone hungers for appreciation and acceptance. If you can genuinely provide these you will have the key to human influence.
12. Deliver real stars—and stars build great businesses.
13. If you treat your people right, they will treat guests right.” If they are stressed, dissatisfied or poorly trained, it is the customers who will feel the effects.
14. Speak and act well and you will get out of any difficult situation.
15. Without frequent sharpening you become blunt in a productivity sense and lose the ability to connect with the people you love and influence those you work with.
16. Make distinctions, look for subtlety and nuance. Success requires fine observation of human nature and refinement of the self.
17. True leadership arises in the full expression of a person’s unique potential.
18. Recognize and use your background in the service of attaining your goals, and remember to give something back.
19. Whatever best expresses your brilliance will inevitably lead you to wealth. It will free you from poverty and give you a mindset that attracts abundance.
20. Service is the key to success. Don’t just sell things, find out what people really want. This requires greater than normal thought and observation.
21. Leaders seek results. Many have wishes, but effective leaders act.
22. The practice of regular smiling creates a feeling of happiness and goodwill. 
23. Victory comes to those who have developed an ethic of constant refinement and improvement, not those who worry about the competition. People with great character, developed over time, naturally become leaders.
24. It is not that unsuccessful people never see opportunities; they do. But they differ from people who are called winners in that they rarely have the will or the courage to act on a good idea.
25. Even if you are not brilliant, it does not matter in the long run, because the law of averages means that if you persist you will reap rewards.
26. Never underestimate how far you can go by merely being yourself.
27. Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
28. Genius, when you look more closely at it, usually turns out to be the result of uncommon dedication to a task.
29. Seven traits of successful people: passion, belief, strategy, clarity of values, energy, bonding power, and mastery of communication.

Prosperity

1. Wake up late and you seem to be chasing the day; rise early and you feel in control. “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
2. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship… and moreover, fools make Feasts, and wise men eat them.
3. Those who cannot appreciate time have the most money problems.
4. “Know your best quality, your outstanding gift.” Discovering your area of superiority is a central task in life; without this effort you will waste your time imitating others.
5. Wealth comes from increasing your power to think and developing your ability to access the universe’s intelligence.
6. Consciousness was not confined to the brain; rather, the brain was an element of the great unified mind. Therefore, to be open to this larger mind was to have access to all knowledge, power, and creativity.
7. Optimism is power.
8. The ability not only to accept change but to create it is a mark of the dynamic individual.
9. If you do not change, you can become extinct.
10. Learn how money could work for you; unlearn the expectation that you must work for money.
11. Opportunities come from new ideas. Money spent on self-improvement is always a wise investment.
12. Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance. Realize that you can’t manage time; instead, adopt better ways to use your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy.
13. Spiritual energy, or purpose, enables you to manage your time much better because you know your priorities.
14. Downtime It is a very good plan every now and then to go away and have a little relaxation… When you come back to the work your judgement will be surer, since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose the power of judgement.
15. Unlike most addictions, workaholism is often admired, encouraged and materially well-rewarded.” Yet look at the costs. In research studies, those who describe themselves as workaholics are also much more likely to drink more than the average, have stress-related illness, and get divorced.
16. Intermittently disengaging is what allows us to passionately reengage.
17. The longer an employee stays in a particular organization, the more disengaged they are likely to become. Jobs come and go, but what is your real contribution to society, what is your purpose? If you can align your working life with your deepest desires and talents, you will not have to worry about motivation.
18. If you want to be a real leader, Loehr and Schwartz say, you must become a master of your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energies.
19. As you build a bicep or tricep Physically. Emotional flexibility is the ability to handle a range of emotions, even to choose what you will feel, rather than having a small bag of responses that make you rigid and defensive.
20. You can develop your emotional, mental, and spiritual muscles— such as empathy, creativity, confidence, patience, and kindness—in the same way. 
21. To attract prosperity, don’t ever think about yourself as poor or say that you can’t afford something. Count your blessings, focus on abundance, look only for opportunities. If you don’t have something that you desire, use the “vacuum law” of prosperity and create room for it by throwing out old goods. Make way for growth.
22. Prosperity thinking acknowledges the connection between the invisible substance or energy that makes up the universe and your thoughts. By connecting the two, you have greater control over the creation of matter.

Society

1. Genuine success is never an accident. The prosperous have a culture of progress that combines curiosity and persistent application.
2. With malice towards none; with charity towards all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds
3. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
4. The world does not demand that you be a lawyer, minister, doctor, farmer, scientist, or merchant; it does not dictate what you shall do, but it does require that you be a master in whatever you undertake.
5. If there were no difficulties there would be no success.
6. There is something infinitely better than to be a millionaire of money, and that is to be a millionaire of brains, of culture, of helpfulness to one’s fellows, a millionaire of character.
7. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
8. Companies that don’t risk anything will inevitably find themselves falling behind those that do. You can lead change or it can lead you.
9. Truly great companies maintain a set of core values and a core purpose that remain fixed while their business strategies and practices continually adapt to a changing world.”
10. If you know who you are, you can be more flexible in what you decide to do, and clearer about what not to do.
11. There is basically one problem in life: congestion. There is basically one solution: circulation. Systematic giving is, therefore, a powerful practice that blesses every phase of our lives, as it keeps us attuned to the wealth of the universe.
12. God does not want you to be poor; appreciate the universe’s abundance and your right to prosperity.
13. Fortune favors the bold. Life does seem to clear a path for those who know what they want. Nature respects purpose. Writing things down clarifies your purpose in a way that idle thought cannot.
14. Achievement is more meaningful when it springs from a base of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
15. While therapy will focus on your problems, a good life coach will work with you on your possibilities.
16. Successful people see things less in terms of good or bad, but as results.
17. Particles do not slowly change and develop over time—they make quantum leaps. Start to think of your brain in an impersonal way; it is your servant to program in order to achieve your highest goals and live by your highest values.
18. Action drives out thought, whereas leaders set aside time for solitude to tap their supreme thinking power.
19. Persistence is not a guarantee of success. Combine persistence with experimentation.
20. Desire and persistence mark you out from the rest.
21. The true leader brings out the best in people in even the toughest situations.
22. People are not born with a millionaire mind. It is a set of attitudes and knowledge that anyone can adopt and acquire.
23. The primary cause of success in life is the ability to set and achieve goals. That’s why the people who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do. You either work to achieve your own goals or you work to achieve someone else’s goals.
24. The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.
25. One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Subduing the other’s military without battle is the most skillful.
26. It is natural and logical that you should become rich through the use of your creative powers.
27. The evolution of the world depended on each of us seeking riches in an honest way.
28. All the great prosperity writers say that the origin of wealth is thought, rather than things.
29. You want wealth so that you can pursue your interests and develop your mind, travel, surround yourself with beauty, and be in a position to give generously.
30. Lucky people see what is there, rather than trying to find what they want to see.
31. You can have everything in life if you will just help others to get what they want.
32. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
33. Nine out of ten married millionaires say that their marriage has been a significant factor in their success. A spouse provides on-tap psychological support and advice that is likely to be honest.
34. Success has more to do with your marital relationship than anything else, but what is the key ingredient to make that a happy relationship? Loyalty.
35. Success is most likely when it becomes a necessity.
36. The poor need inspiration more than charity, and so you should endeavor to show them the path to wealth rather than trying to alleviate poverty.
37. To live soulfully a human being must have love, and it is difficult to love when you are poverty stricken.
38. Consider changing your way of learning and relating to others, and reap the performance benefits.
39. Coaching is about optimizing individuality and uniqueness. It is therefore a more positive way of seeing people.
40. Understand the principles and you understand luck itself. More importantly, these principles can be used to enhance the amount of good luck that you experience in your life.

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Benefits of Kapalabhati and Pranayam

Benefits of Kapalabathi & Pranayam - Baba Ramdev

I would like to talk a little about Kapalabathi. Mooladhara, swadishthana, Manipoora, hrudaya, anahata,vishuddhi, ajya, sahasrar are continuously stimulated. So I talk about it from the spiritual point of view then this is transformation of the energies, It is transformation of our dormant energies. Dormant means.. just like, there is sweetness, sourness, oil in the soil. So much oil is extracted form plantations of mustard, coconut and sunflower seed. There is oil in the land, there is oil in the soil. There is everything but wee need to work to extract it. 

So, Kapalabhati is a means to awaken that which is within us.I saw that when a healthy man does Kapalabhati his energies gets transformed.And 'Kapala' means forehead 'Bhati' means glow, his face starts glowing and without any cosmetic. So, I feel that everybody wants outside and inside beauty. Just one stroke of Kapalabhati can reduce upto one gram of weight, if you control the food that you eat.

One pranayam can regulate total imbalance. And we have done medical research on this, its not just our belief. It is a spiritual and scientific truth also. It is very effective. And, I believe that when the practice of yoga and pranayam is clubbed with devotion, then, the benefits are countless. That's all I would like to say about Kapalabhati.

Apart from this, you would have heard me say about many other benefits like all the fertility issues digestive disorders, piles, fistula can be cured. Total body cells get regenerated. All the cells in bone, blood, brain, kidney, pancreatic, thyroid, everything gets regenerated. This is a huge phenomena.

And above all, the most important thing in the field of yoga is, when you are on the path of spirituality if you encounter a Guru there, then automatically you are blessed. 

Now I want to talk about Oxygen for 2-3 minutes. When I worked on this, I found that our healthy cells are alive because of oxygen and all the unhealthy cells die because of it. Cells working against the body, whether they are cancer cells or harmful bacteria, they die inside itself with practice of Pranayam. If oxygen is provided in abundance, then cancer cells cannot survive in an oxygenated environment. This is proven scientifically.

I found that when we do Bhastrika and Anulom-Vilom pranayam, the stem cells within the body. The genes, chromosomes and nucleus of the cell, the total inner and outer structure of cell becomes absolutely healthy. It is amazing. And each and every cell becomes energetic. One cell is equivalent to one body. If you managed to heal one cell, then everything will become alright. Different glands, organs in our body are formed by the cells and different chemicals and different harmones are secreted by cells. If you make them alright, then everything will become alright. This is the impact of oxygen. Deep breathing happens when you chant mantras, do Bhastrika, do Nadha Yoga, This creates a very deep divine transformation within you.
-Baba Ramdev



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The Causal Body and the Ego

Existence

• The One Existence, the Supreme, from Whom all manifested life proceeds, expresses Himself in a threefold manner, as the Trimurti, the Trinity. This of course, is recognised in practically every religion, under many names: e.g.., Sat, Chit, Ananda: Brahma, Vishnou, Shiva: Ichchha,Jnana, Kriya: Cochma, Binah, Kepher: Father, Son and Holy Spirit: Power, Wisdom, Love: Will, Wisdom and Activity, etc.etc.

Group Souls

• Group-Souls remain separate and distinct, throughout all the vicissitudes of their evolution: that is to say, the seven types evolve in parallel streams, the streams never uniting or merging into one another. The seven types are clearly distinguishable in all kingdoms, the successive forms taken by anyone of them making a connected series of elementals, minerals,vegetables,or animals, as the case may be.

Individualisation

• Evolving life takes place viz - Individualisation of the animal the formation of the causal body, the entry into the human kingdom. The three methods of individualisation - through intellect, affection, and will.

Causal body has two main functions:

• To act as a vehicle for the Ego: the causal body is the "body of Manas", the form- aspect of the individual , the true man, the Thinker.
• To act as a receptacle or storehouse for the essence of the man's experiences in his various incarnations. The causal body is that into which is woven everything which can endure, and in which are stored the germs of qualities, to be carried over to the next incarnation

Thought Power - Kriyashakti

• The Mental Body, the mental body serves for the concrete mind, which deals with concrete thoughts; the causal body similarly is the organ, for abstract thinking.
• Any idea will manifest itself externally if one's attention be deeply concentrated upon it. Similarly, an intense volition will be followed by the desired results. This of course, is the secret of all true "magic".
• Higher Manas is divine because it has positive thought, which is Kriyashakti, the power of doing things. Manas, mind, is thus by its very nature, activity. All work is really done by thought power

Chit-Ananda-Sat

• The Chit, or intelligence aspect of man is the first to be evolved: this is the analysing faculty which perceives multiplicity and differences ; then comes Ananda, the wisdom that realises the unity of things, and that accomplishes union, thus finding the joy or bliss that is at the heart of life; lastly, comes the third or highest aspect,  Sat, self-existence, the Unity that is beyond even union.

Causal body

• Nothing good, that is once woven into the causal body, can ever be lost or dissipated: for this is the man that lives, so long as he remains man.
• So many of the causes which influence life, cannot be seen on this lower plane. But, when the consciousness is raised to higher planes, we can see more of the causes, and so can come nearer to calculating the effects.
• The growth and development of the causal body is greatly assisted by the work of the Masters, for they deal more with egos in their causal bodies than with the lower vehicles of men. They devote themselves to the pouring of spiritual influence upon men, raying out, as the sunlight radiates upon flowers, thereby evoking from them all that is noblest and best in them, and so promoting their growth.
• From this highest level of the mental plane come down most of the influences, poured out by the Masters of Wisdom, as They work for the evolution of the human race, acting directly on the souls, or egos, of men, shedding upon them the inspiring energies which stimulate spiritual growth, which enlighten the intellect, and purify the emotions.
• Trishna – that "thirst" which is the primary reason why the ego seeks reincarnation. Trishna will arise and drive him out to seek new experiences.
• Such good karma naturally binds the man to earth just as effectually as evil karma.If he forgets himself entirely, and does good actions out of the fulness of his heart, then the whole force of the result is spent in the building of his own character, and nothing of it remains to bind him to the lower planes

Antahkarana 

• There is always a link or line of communication between the higher self, or ego, and the lower self, or personality. This link is known as antahkarana.
• In the average man there is a perpetual strain going on between the astral and mental bodies, and also neither of these bodies is in the least in tune with the ego, or prepared to act as his vehicle. What is needed is the purification of the personality, and also the channel between it and the ego must be opened and widened.

Ego & The Personality

• Until this is done, the personality sees everything and everybody from its own very limited point of view. The ego cannot see what is really going on; he perceives only the distorted picture of the personality, which is like a camera, with a defective lens, that distorts the light-rays, and a faulty plate, which makes the result blurred, indistinct, and unequal.
• A man may find himself for example, overflowing with affection or devotion, and quite unable on the physical plane to explain why. The cause is usually the stimulation of the ego or, on the other hand,it may be that the ego is taking some special interest in the personality for the time being.
• The physical meditation is not directly for the ego, but for the training of the various vehicles to be a channel for the ego.
• A man who grasps that he is himself that Immortal Ruler, seated within his Self created vehicles of expression, gains a sense of dignity and power which grows ever stronger, and more compelling on the lower nature. The knowledge of the truth makes us free.

The Ego in the Personality

• Life teaches us in two ways, by tuition that the world gives us, and by intuition the working of the inner self. As men develop, their intuition increases, and they do not depend so much as before on the instruction that the world gives.
• Before we invite the inflow of the higher forces, it is all-important first to purify the lower nature. As the Buddha taught, the first rule is: "Cease to do evil".
• If a man is to hear the "still small voice" with certainty and accuracy, he must be still: the outer man must be unshaken by all external things, by the clamour of the big breakers of life that dash against him, as well as by the delicate murmur of the softer ripples. He must learn to be very still, to have no desires and no aversions. Except on rare occasions, when it is unusually strong, it is only when personal desires and aversions have ceased to exist, when the voice of the outer world can no longer command him, that a man can hear the inner voice which should be his unfailing guide. 

The Ego on his plane

• It is by passing up this channel of the Sushumna that a yogi leaves his physical body at will, in such a manner that he can retain full consciousness on higher planes, and bring back into his physical brain a clear memory of his experiences.
• The more highly the ego is developed, the more fully is he able to express himself through the thought images, these becoming steadily fuller expressions of himself. When he gains the level of a Master, he consciously employs them as a means of helping and instructing his pupils.
• The blessing given by the Officiant at Initiation means: " I bless you; I pour my force and blessing into you; see that you in your turn constantly pour out this blessing to others".

Buddhic Plane

• When the consciousness is raised to the buddhic vehicle, a very remarkable thing happens to the causal body: it vanishes, and the Initiate is under no compulsion ever again to take it up; but naturally this cannot be done until all the karma of the lower planes is exhausted.
• When the buddhic consciousness fully impresses the physical brain, it gives such a new value to the factors of life that a man no longer looks upon a person or object, but is that person or object. He is able to recognise the motives of others as his own motives, even though he perfectly understands that another part of himself, possessing more knowledge, or a different view point, may act quite differently.
• When once a man enters upon the Path, and converges all his energies upon it, his rate of progress is enormously accelerated. His progress will not be by arithmetical progression, i.e., in the ratio 2,4,6,8 etc., nor by geometrical progression, i.e., in the ratio 2,4,8,16, etc., but by powers, in the ratio 2,4,16,256, etc.,. This fact should afford great encouragement to the serious student. 
• As the consciousness rises still further up into the higher planes, it will be seen that it overlaps those on either side of it more and more, until eventually when the "centre" is reached, there is practically a complete merging of consciousness.
• A selfish man could not function on the buddhic plane, for the essence of that plane is sympathy and perfect comprehension, which excludes selfishness.
• It must be recollected that, whilst the buddhic consciousness brings a man in to union with all that is glorious and wonderful in others, into union, in fact, with the Masters Themselves, yet it also, and necessarily, brings him into harmony with the vicious and the criminal.
• When separateness is abandoned, and unity is realised, a man finds that he is merged in the Divine Life, and that the attitude of love is the only one which he can adopt, towards any of his fellowmen, whether they be high or low.
• When we raise our consciousness to the buddhic level, we find the consciousness of the other man as part of ourselves. We find a point of consciousness which  represents him - we might call it a hole rather than a point. We can pour ourselves down that hole, and enter into his consciousness, at any lower level that we wish, and therefore can see everything precisely as he sees it - from inside him, instead of from outside. It will easily be understood how much that lends itself to perfect   understanding and sympathy.
• In the Yoga system, turiya, a lofty state of trance, is related to the buddhi consciousness, just as sushupti is related to the mental consciousness,svapna to the astral, and jagrat to the physical. niruddha , or Self-controlled, corresponds to activity on the buddhic plane.
• The extension of the buddhic plane is so great, that what may be called the buddhic bodies of the different planets of our chain meet one another, so that there is one buddhic body for the whole chain. Hence it is possible for a man, in his buddhic body, to pass from one of these planets to another.

• All desires for lower things, such as craving for power, money, position, and so forth. All such desires necessarily cause disturbance and suffering: hence, from this point of view, what is most needed for progress is serenity.
• Âtma is not the Self, but is this consciousness knowing the Self. Buddhi is this consciousness, knowing the life in the forms, by its own direct perception. Manas is the same consciousness looking out upon the world of objects.
• Jivanmukhta, a liberated life, a free being,His will is one with the Universal Will, that of the One without a second. He stands ever in the light of Nirvana, even in His waking consciousness, should He choose to remain on earth in a physical body.

If we think of the ego as the soul of the physical body, we may consider the Monad as the soul of the ego in turn.

In attempting the cure of disease

• First Ray – draw health and strength from the great fountain of Universal Life.
• Second Ray – know how to exercise his will-power upon it to the best advantage
• Third Ray – invoke Great Planetary Spirits, and choose a moment when astrological influences were benefit for the application of his remedies
• Fourth Ray – physical means, such as massage.
• The Fifth Ray -  employ drugs.
• The Sixth Ray - employ faith-healing.
• The Seventh Ray man - use mantras, or magical invocations.

Master - Discipleship

• The Masters aid, in countless ways, the progress of humanity. From the highest sphere, They shed down on all the world light and life, that may be taken up and assimilated, as freely as the sunshine, by all who are receptive enough to take it in.
• While the earlier stages of progress are so slow as to be almost imperceptible, when the Master turns His attention upon the man, develops him, and arouses his own will to take part in the work, the speed of his advancement increases in geometrical progression.
• In the stage of Probation, the Master makes a living image of the pupil, moulding out of mental, astral and etheric matter an exact counterpart of the causal, mental, astral and etheric bodies of the neophyte, and keeps this image at hand, so that He may look at it periodically.
• When the pupil is Accepted, the Master dissolves the "living images", because, they are no longer necessary. The consciousness of the pupil is then united with that of his Master, in such a way that whatever the pupil feels or thinks is within the astral and mental bodies of his Master. If and when necessary, the Master can erect a barrier, and so for the time shut off the consciousness of the pupil from His own consciousness.
• At the stage of Sonship, the link with the Master is such that not only the lower mind, but also the ego in the causal body of the pupil, is enfolded within that of the Master, and the Master can no longer draw a veil to shut off the pupil.
• The whole earth is divided into special areas,each in the charge of a Master. These areas, consisting of huge countries or even continents.

-A.E Powell
http://www.golden-dawn.com/eu/UserFiles/en/File/pdf/Arthur_E_Powell_-_The_Causal_Body___The_Ego.pdf

50 New Rules of Work

1. You are not just paid to work. You are paid to be uncomfortable – and to pursue projects that scare you.
2. Take care of your relationships and the money will take care of itself.
3. Lead you first. You can’t help others reach for their highest potential until you’re in the process of reaching for yours.
4. To double your income, triple your rate of learning.
5. While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.
6. Small daily improvements over time create stunning results.
7. Surround yourself with people courageous enough to speak truthfully about what’s best for your organization and the customers you serve.
8. Don’t fall in love with your press releases.
9. Every moment in front of a customer is a moment of truth (to either show you live by the values you profess – or you don’t).
10. Copying what your competition is doing just leads to being second best.
11. Become obsessed with the user experience such that every touchpoint of doing business with you leaves people speechless. No, breathless.
12. If you’re in business, you’re in show business. The moment you get to work, you’re on stage. Give us the performance of your life.
13. Be a Master of Your Craft. And practice + practice + practice.
14. Get fit like Madonna.
15. Read magazines you don’t usually read. Talk to people who you don’t usually speak to. Go to places you don’t commonly visit. Disrupt your thinking so it stays fresh + hungry + brilliant.
16. Remember that what makes a great business – in part – are the seemingly insignificant details. Obsess over them.
17. Good enough just isn’t good enough.
18. Brilliant things happen when you go the extra mile for every single customer.
19. An addiction to distraction is the death of creative production. Enough said.
20. If you’re not failing regularly, you’re definitely not making much progress.
21. Lift your teammates up versus tear your teammates down. Anyone can be a critic. What takes guts is to see the best in people.
22. Remember that a critic is a dreamer gone scared.
23. Leadership’s no longer about position. Now, it’s about passion. And having an impact through the genius-level work that you do.
24. The bigger the dream, the more important the team.
25. If you’re not thinking for yourself, you’re following – not leading.
26. Work hard. But build an exceptional family life. What’s the point of reaching the mountaintop but getting there alone.
27. The job of the leader is to develop more leaders.
28. The antidote to deep change is daily learning. Investing in your professional and personal development is the smartest investment you can make. Period.
29. Smile. It makes a difference.
30. Say “please” and “thank you”. It makes a difference.
31. Shift from doing mindless toil to doing valuable work.
32. Remember that a job is only just a job if all you see it as is a job.
33. Don’t do your best work for the applause it generates but for the personal pride it delivers.
34. The only standard worth reaching for is BIW (Best in World).
35. In the new world of business, everyone works in Human Resources.
36. In the new world of business, everyone’s part of the leadership team.
37. Words can inspire. And words can destroy. Choose yours well.
38. You become your excuses.
39. You’ll get your game-changing ideas away from the office versus in the middle of work. Make time for solitude. Creativity needs the space to present itself.
40. The people who gossip about others when they are not around are the people who will gossip about you when you’re not around.
41. It could take you 30 years to build a great reputation and 30 seconds of bad judgment to lose it.
42. The client is always watching.
43. The way you do one thing defines the way you’ll do everything. Every act matters.
44. To be radically optimistic isn’t soft. It’s hard. Crankiness is easy.
45. People want to be inspired to pursue a vision. It’s your job to give it to them.
46. Every visionary was initially called crazy.
47. The purpose of work is to help people. The other rewards are inevitable by-products of this singular focus.
48. Remember that the things that get scheduled are the things that get done.
49. Keep promises and be impeccable with your word. People buy more than just your products and services. They invest in your credibility.
50. Lead Without a Title.

-Robin Sharma

http://www.robinsharma.com/blog/03/the-50-new-rules-of-work/

How Fast Are You Moving When You Are Sitting Still?

The Earth is spinning with a speed of 460 m/s, about 1,070 mph. 

We know the Earth is moving in nearly circular orbit around the Sun. So, We are moving along in this orbit at almost 30 kilometers per second, or just over 67,000 miles per hour. The Earth, anchored to the Sun by gravity, follows along at the same fantastic speed. Sound fast? Hang on: it gets even faster! 

Our Solar System is tucked away in an arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Our galaxy is rotating, and we are rotating around the galaxy's center at about 220 kilometers per second (490,000 miles per hour!)

Our Milky Way galaxy is part of a cluster of galaxies we refer to as the “local group.” Together, they are cruising through space at an astounding 1,000 kilometers per second...

http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/11/earth-speed.html

Saptarishis

In yogic culture, Shiva is not seen as a God. He is the Adiyogi, the first yogi. We do not know exactly how many thousands of years ago, but from interpretations of celestial activity like certain meteors and comets, it is estimated that somewhere between 15,000 to 40,000 years ago, Shiva, the Adiyogi, attained this status. He began an intense, ecstatic upon the Himalayas. When his ecstasy allowed him some movement, he danced wildly. When it became beyond movement, he became utterly still.

People saw that he was experiencing something that nobody had known before, something that they were unable to fathom. So interest developed and people came, wanting to know what this was. People came, waited and left because the man was oblivious to other people's presence. He was either in intense dance or absolute stillness, completely oblivious to that was happening around him. Only seven people hung on. These seven people were insistent that they must learn from him, but Shiva ignored them. They pleaded and begged him, "Please, we want to know what you know." Shiva dismissed them and said, "You fools! The way you are, you are not going to know in a million years. Get lost! You need to prepare. There is a tremendous amount of preparation needed for this. This is not entertainment."

So they started preparing. Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, they prepared. He just chose to ignore them. One day, after eighty-four years of sadhana, on the first full moon day after the solstice had shifted from the summer solstice to the winter - that is when the sun's run with relation to this planet shifted from northern run to the southern run, which in this tradition is known as Uttarayana and Dakshinayana - on that full moon day, the Adiyogi looked at these seven people and saw that they become shining receptacles of knowledge. You must understand, eight-four years of sadhana means 1008 full moons of shadhana. They were absolutely ripe to receive.

So he could not ignore them anymore. They grabbed his attention. He watched them closed for the next twenty-eight days and when the next full moon rose, he decided to become a guru. That full moon day is known as Guru Pournami because the Adiyogi transformed himself into the Adi Guru - the first guru was born on that day. He turned south because these seven people had come to him and pleaded, "It is not just for our own wellbeing. We are asking you to give this knowledge to us to ensure the wellbeing of our race." Because he turned south, when Shiva sits as a teacher, we call him Dakshinamurthy.

So he turned south to shed his grace upon their race and the transmission of yogic science started. When I say yogic science, I am not talking about the yoga class that you go through about how to bend your body which every new born infant knows, or how to hold your breath which every unborn infant knows. This is the science of the human mechanism, understanding the mechanics of human mechanism, to be able to dismantle or put it together. This transmission started and it went on for a longer period of time. when, after many years of transmission, it was complete and it had produced seven, fully enlightened beings, the Adiyogi said, "It's no use for all of you to go down south. One will do for your race. The rest go elsewhere and spread this across the world."

So one went to Central Asia, another went to the Middle East and North African region, another went to South America, another stayed right there, another went to the lower regions of Himalayas, another went to Eastern Asia and another who is very important to us, travelled south. The one who travelled south into the southern peninsula is of greatest significance to us because he is Agastya Muni. 

When we say south, it means anything south of the Himalayas. He came south and made the spiritual process a part of everybody's life. They say he did not spare a single human habitation in the subcontinent. He made sure every human habitation in the region was touched, not as a teaching but by making the spiritual process a part of their life. You can still find the remnants of his work in every family in this country who are unknowingly doing some kind of yoga in distorted forms. If you look carefully at your own family, the way you sit, the way you do things, whatever is being done traditionally are the remnants of Agastya's work.
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

http://www.ishafoundation.org/news/columns/Bliss/2013/TheNavhindTimes-25-Dec-2012.pdf

The Mental Body

Functions of the mental body thus:

• To serve as the vehicle of the Self for the purpose of concrete thinking.
• To express such concrete thoughts through the physical body, working through the astral body, the etheric brain, and the cerebrospinal system.
• To develop the powers of memory and imagination.
• To serve, as evolution proceeds, as a separate vehicle of consciousness on the mental plane

The Mental Body

• The stronger the thought the larger the vibration; the more spiritual and unselfish the thought, the higher and more rapid is the vibration. Strength of thought produces brilliancy, spirituality produces delicacy of colour.
• The strong thought of a powerful thinker goes out into the mental world and is caught up by receptive and responsive minds. They reproduce his vibrations, strengthen the thought, and thus help to affect others, the thoughts becoming stronger and stronger and eventually influencing large numbers of people.
• Other methods of using the power of thought to heal, where there is injury the mind can turn its forces to the healing of the injury.
• Man is a creature of reflection; that which he reflects on in this life he becomes the same hereafter.
• An immense amount of suffering is caused by undisciplined imagination. It is important to realise that there is no power in objects of desire as such, unless and until we indulge in imaginations which are creative. 
• Each book is surrounded by a thought – aura built up by the thoughts of all who have read and studied it.
• Working through the mental body; visualisation is simply the power to see clairvoyantly the thought-form he has made.
• To distinguish between the impulse and intuition, calm consideration is necessary and delay is essential. An impulse dies away under such conditions, whilst an intuition grows clearer and stronger. Calmness and serenity enable the lower mind more clearly to hear the intuition and to feel its power. Intuition thus loses nothing, but rather gains from calm delay.
• The student must learn to think steadily and consecutively, not allowing the mind to run suddenly from one thing to another, nor to fritter away its energies over a large number of insignificant thoughts.
• From birth to the age of seven it is considered by many educationists that the child's physical nature should receive most attention ; up to the age of about fourteen the development of emotions should have chief consideration; up to the age of about twenty-one the teacher should appeal especially to the unfolding of the mind.

Meditation

• The student must learn not only to think, but also to cease thinking at will. When the work of thought is over it should be dropped completely and not allowed to drift on vaguely, touching the mind and leaving it, like a boat knocking itself against a rock. A man does not keep a machine running when it is not turning out work, needlessly wearing the machinery. 
• Patanjali in defining Yoga is –chitta-vritti-nirodha, which means restraint [nirodha], of the whirlpools [vritti] of the mind [chitta]
• Concentration means the firm fixing of the mind on one single point without wandering, and without yielding to any distractions caused by external objects, by the activity of the senses or by that of the mind itself.
• The best way to get rid of a "worry channel" is to dig another of an exactly opposite character. This may be done by dwelling in meditation on such a thought as "The Self is Peace; that Self am I. The Self is Strength; that Self am I".
• Meditation is the inexpressible longing of the inner man for the Infinite. Meditation is the blessed furnace in which souls are inflamed with Divine Love. The man of meditation is the man who wastes not time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity. 
• What food is to the physical life, so is meditation to the spiritual life.

Meditation has many objects, of which the principal ones are as follows:

1. At least once a day a man shall think of high and holy things.
2. It accustoms the man to think of such matter, so that after a time they form a background to his daily life, to which his mind returns with pleasure when it is released from the immediate demands of his business.
3. It serves as a kind of astral and mental gymnastics, to preserve these higherbodies in health and to keep the stream of divine life flowing through them. For these purposes it should be remembered that the regularity of the exercises is of the first importance.
4. It may be used to develop character, to build into it various qualities and virtues.
5. It raises the consciousness to higher levels, so as to include the higher and subtler things; through it a man may rise to the presence of the Divine.
6. It opens the nature and calls down blessings from higher planes.
7. It is the way, even though it be only the first halting step upon the way, which leads to higher development and wider knowledge, to the attainment of clairvoyance, and eventually to the higher life beyond this physical world altogether.

How to Meditate?

• In meditation, posture is not unimportant. The body should be put into a comfortable position, and then forgotten. If it is uncomfortable, it cannot be forgotten, as it would constantly call attention to itself.
• The position should be easy and relaxed, the head not sunken upon the chest but lightly balanced; the eyes and mouth closed, the spinal column [along which there is much magnetic flow] erect.
• The feet may be placed together or crossed with the right over the left. This locking of the extremities of the body helps to prevent the outflow of magnetism from the finger-tips, feet, etc.
• Many people meditate daily alone, with success; but there are even greater possibilities when a group of people concentrate their minds on the one thing.
• A striking example of the tremendous power of collective meditation where the crowd became so exalted that people were lifted right out of themselves by their emotions, thus experiencing a tremendous uplift of soul.
• A cold bath or a brisk walk beforehand is useful in order to overcome any tendency to sluggish circulation of the blood, which is obviously detrimental to brain activity
• There is an intimate connection between profound meditation and breathing. It is found in practice that as the body becomes harmonised in meditation the breathing grows deeper, regular and rhythmic, until by degrees it becomes so slow and quiet as to be almost imperceptible.
• There is no objection to simple, deep breathing provided undue strain is not placed upon the heart and lungs, and no attempt is made to concentrate the thought on the various centres, or chakrams, of the body.
• Good incense is also helpful, as it tends to purify the "atmosphere" from the occult standpoint. The student may also gain assistance from beautiful colours, flowers and pictures in his surroundings, and other means of uplifting the mind and feelings.
• He will also find it useful to observe certain dietetic restrictions and, if it can be done without detriment to health, to abstain from flesh-food and alcohol.
• Early morning is probably the most suitable time for meditation because desires and emotions are usually more tranquil after sleep and before the man plunges into the bustle of the world. But whatever time is chosen it should be when there is assurance of being undisturbed. Moreover, as already pointed out, it should always be at the same time, for regularity is of the essence of the prescription.
• The times selected by ancient devotees were sunrise, noon and sunset, these being magnetically the most suitable. It is well to cultivate the habit of turning the mind for a moment at the stroke of every hour during the day to the realisation of oneself as the Spiritual Man.
• It is not well to meditate immediately after a meal, for the obvious reason that it tends to draw blood away from the digestive organs; neither is meditation at night good, because the bodies are tired 
• Meditation is one means of acquiring the art of leaving the body in full Consciousness.
• "Be still, and know that I am God". In that silence and stillness the Voice of the Self shall be heard, the glory of the Self shall be seen. The cloud vanishes and the Self is made manifest.
• Very often the saint and the visionary may have overstrained their brains, so that the physical mechanism is distorted and rendered unstable.
• The development of the mental body, also affects the dream life, and tends to make the dreams become vivid, well-sustained, rational, even instructive.
• Meditation upon a virtue thus causes a man gradually to grow into the possession of that virtue.

Problem solving

• The problem to be solved should be quietly held in the mind when going to sleep; it should not be debated or argued, or sleep may be prevented; it should be merely stated to the mind and left. Then, when during sleep the Thinker is freed from the physical body and brain, he will take up the problem and deal with it. Usually the thinker will impress the solution on the brain so that it will be in the consciousness on awakening. It is a good plan to keep paper and pencil by the bed in order to note down the solution immediately on waking, because a thought thus obtained is very readily erased by the thronging stimuli from the physical world, and is not easily recovered.

In practising meditation the student may find useful a knowledge of the five stages of mind as expounded by Patanjali. He should recollect, however, that these stages are not confined to the mental plane, but exist, in appropriate form, on every plane. They are:-

1. Kshipta: the butterfly mind, which darts constantly from one object to another. It corresponds to activity on the physical plane.
2. Mudha: the confused stage in which the man is swayed and bewildered by emotions; it corresponds to activity in the astral world.
3. Vikshipta: the state of pre-occupation of infatuation by an idea; the man is possessed, we might say obsessed, by an idea. This corresponds to activity in the lower mental world. The man should learn Viveka, which has to do with the Cognitional aspect of consciousness.
4. Ekagrata: one-pointedness; the state of possessing an idea, instead of being possessed by it. This corresponds to activity on the higher mental plane. The man should here learn Vairagya , which has to do with the Activity aspect of consciousness.
5. Niruddha: self-control; rising above all ideas, the man chooses as he wills according to his illumined Will. This corresponds to activity on the buddhic plane.

When complete control has been acquired, so that the man can inhibit all motions of the mind, then he is ready for Samadhi, corresponding to Contemplation

Four States of Mind spoken of in Yoga.

1. Jagrat : waking consciousness
2. Svapna : dream consciousness; consciousness working in the astral body and able to impress its experiences upon the brain.
3. Sushupti : deep-sleep consciousness, working in the mental body, and not able to impress its experiences on the physical brain.
4. Turiya : trance consciousness, so far separated from the brain that it cannot readily be recalled by outer means.

Mental Plane

• As self-consciousness is developed in the astral world, and the brain develops sufficiently to answer to its vibrations, astral consciousness becomes a part of the waking consciousness. Similarly, when mental self-consciousness is developed, and the brain answers to it, the waking consciousness includes the mental. And so on, until all the  consciousness on the five planes is included in the waking consciousness.
• Again, if a man possesses no physical body, then his jagrat or waking consciousness is his astral consciousness. Thus a wider definition of jagrat would be that it is that part of the total consciousness which is working through its outermost vehicle.
• The mesmerised or hypnotised person recollects in his brain nothing of his experiences; the yogi remembers everything that has happened to him.
• What a man thinks on, that he becomes; therefore think on the Eternal. And again : "Man is the creation of thought".
• In this work a man is employing his imagination – the great tool used in Yoga. If a man imagines in his thought that he has a certain quality, he is half way to possessing that quality; if he imagines himself free from a certain failing, he is half way to being free from that failing. So powerful a weapon is a trained imagination that a man may by its use rid himself of half his troubles and his faults.
• For once we have sufficiently experienced the bliss and joyousness of the higher life, by contrast the lower desires pale and lose their attractiveness.
• A mantram is a definite succession of sounds arranged by an occultist in order to bring about certain definite results. Those sounds, repeated rhythmically over and over again in succession, synchronise the vibrations of the vehicles into unity with themselves.

Devachan - Heaven world

• The man withdraws his consciousness into the mental body, ie., "rises" to the mental plane, and in so doing enters what is known as the heaven-world. This is usually called by Theosophists Devachan.
• Even astral life has possibilities of happiness far greater than anything that we can know in the physical life, but the heaven-life is out of all proportion more blissful than the astral. In each higher world the same experience is repeated, each far surpassing the preceding one. This is true not only of the feeling of bliss, but also of wisdom and breadth of view.
• Devachan is a state of consciousness, and may be entered at any time by one who has learned to withdraw his soul from his senses. The more a man evolves, the shorter becomes his astral, and the longer his mental life.
• Hall of Ignorance stands for the physical plane; the Hall of Learning for the astral and lower mental planes; and the Hall of Wisdom for the planes of higher mind and buddhi.
• The feeling of freedom in the mental world is so great that in comparison with it astral life seems a state of bondage.
• As the physical world is three-dimensional, and the astral world four-dimensional, so is the mental world five-dimensional.
• On the mental plane, however, men communicate directly by thought-transference, whatever their language may be.
• On the causal levels, it is possible to see not only what the man's past history has been, but also to a considerable extent the future that lies before him.
• Adepts or Masters for the most part reside on the highest or atomic level of the mental plane.
• Every human being, on his completion of his life on the astral and lower mental planes, obtains at least a flash of consciousness of the ego, in the causal body.
• Experience soon teaches him that nothing which is not good for all can ever be good for him, or for anyone.
• Instead of thinking of raising " ourselves" till we can unite with the glorified higher self, we should realise rather that the higher is the true self, and that to unite the higher to the lower really means to open out the lower, so that the higher may work more freely and fully in and through it.

The Qualifications for the path
Viveka, Vairagya, Shatsampati (Shama, Dama, Uparati, Titiksha, Shraddha, Samadhana), Mumuksha

Discipleship

• The Master can at any time send a thought through the pupil either as a suggestion or a message. If for example, the pupil is writing a letter or giving a lecture, the Master is subconsciously aware of the fact, and may at any moment throw into the mind of the pupil a sentence to be included in the letter or used in the lecture. In earlier stages the pupil is often unaware of this, and supposes the ideas to have arisen spontaneously in his own mind, but he very soon learns to recognise the thought of the Master.
• A true teacher will thus aid his disciples far more by keeping him near than by any spoken words.
• Devotional meditation: Think of the ideal man, the Master, or, if preferred, the deity, or any manifestation of the deity. Allow the thought to play upon the subject from different aspects, so that it constantly awakens admiration, gratitude, reverence, worship. Ponder upon all the qualities manifested in the subject and take each quality in all its aspects and relationships.
• The union between the pupil and the Master, that begins with Acceptance, is permanent, so that the higher vehicles of the pupil are always vibrating in common with those of his Master. The whole time he is being tuned up, thus growing more and more like the Master. At all times the thoughts of the pupil are largely  reoccupied with thoughts of his Master and His influence, so that, while he is sensitively open to Him, he is to a considerable extent closed to lower influences.
• Discrimination will give him mental power; desirelessness: emotional power; self-control: will-power.

-A.E. Powell
For Astral Body: http://globalholisticmotivators.blogspot.in/2013/05/the-astral-body-and-other-astral.html

For Etheric Double: http://globalholisticmotivators.blogspot.in/2013/05/the-etheric-double-health-aura-of-man.html

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