When desire, thought and work are changed

When need, thought and work are modified into will, reason and sacrifice, then the person is turning homewards, then he lives by renunciation. When a person has truly renounced, a peculiar change happens. On the Trail of Forthgoing, you may fight for everything you wish to get ; on the Trail of Return, nature pours her treasures at your feet. When a person has ceased to wish them, then all treasures pour down on him, for he has turned into a channel thru which all good gifts flow to those around him. Seek the good, give up grasping, and then everything will be yours. Stop to suggest that your own tiny water tank could be filled, and you will turn into 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 continual work for the good of all, work which can't fail, because wrought by the Ultimate Employee thru 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 suggests that you haven't yet learnt the true renunciation. You are sticking to the visible, to the fruit of action, and the wealth does not pour thru 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 have to purify each of your three working bodies--mental, planetary and physical. Without that purification you had better leave yoga alone.

First off, how shall you purify the idea body? By right thinking. Then you need to use imagination, your great creative tool, once again. Imagine things, and, imagining them, you may form your thought-body into the organisation that you want. Imagine something strongly, as the painter imagines when he's going to color. Visualize an object if you've got the power of visualization at all : if you've not, attempt to make it.

It is an inventive faculty, naturally, hut the majority have it kind of. See how far you can reproduce completely a face you see daily. By such practice you'll be fortifying your imagination, and by bracing your imagination you'll be making the great tool with which you have got to practice in Yoga.