"Life itself is nothing more than a cinema play unrolling its
episodes from the cradle to the grave. Where now are the past
scenes - can you hold them? Where are those yet to come -
can you grasp them? Instead of trying to find the Real, the
Enduring, the Eternal, you come here and waste time on what
is even more deceptive than ordinary existence - a wholly
imaginary story, an illusion within the great illusion."
" Do not
ask me to poke my finger in the ashes and pick out dead
experiences. I live neither in the past nor the future. In the
depths of the human spirit, these things are no more real than
shadows. That also is the wisdom I have learnt."
"Nature has measured out 21,600 breath-rhythms to every
man, which he must use up daily and nightly from one sunrise
till the next. Quick, noisy and tumultuous breathing exceeds
this measure and therefore shortens one's life. Slow, deep and
quiet breathing economizes this allowance, and so lengthens
life. Every breath which is saved goes to build up a great
reserve, and out of this reserve a man can draw extra years for
living. Yogis do not take so many breaths as other men; nor
do they need to for - but, alas! how can I explain further
without transgressing my oaths?"
Thereupon Brama assumes that position which has been
made familiar to the Western world by the numerous pictures
and images of the Buddha. Sitting perfectly erect, he folds the
right leg so as to tuck the foot into the left groin. Then he
folds the other leg and brings his left foot across to the right
thigh, where its heel touches the lower corner of the abdomen.
The soles of his feet are turned up. It is an artistic and
balanced pose;
"Have not our masters the keys to the powers of breath?
They know how close is the connection between the blood and
the breath; they understand how the mind, too, follows the
path of the breath; and they have the secret of how it is possible
to awaken awareness of the soul through workings of the breath
and thought. Shall I not say that breath is but the expression
in this world of a subtler force, which is the real sustainer of the
body? It is this force which hides in the vital organs, though
it is unseeable. When it leaves the body the breathing stops
in obedience and death is the result. But through the control
of breath it is possible to get some control over this unseeable
current. But though we bring our body under extreme
control - even to the point of controlling the beats of the heart -
do you think that our ancient sages had only the body and its
powers in view when they first taught our system?"
"Why, then, do you go about like a bee which sucks mere
drops of the honey of knowledge, when the heavy mass of pure
honey awaits you?"
"You have thought yourself into your present ignorance;
now think yourself back into wisdom, which is the same as
self-understanding. Thought is like a bullock cart which
carries a man into the darkness of a mountain tunnel. Turn
it backwards and you will be carried back to the light
again."
I am compelled to smile at this unsolicited testimony to himself
"The wise should not punish bad people but should correct them through gentle persuasion "
"The mind becomes pure by over and over again about the source of evils."
"Every one who is born must die. The body is not the soul. Therefore nobody need to feel miserable for the death of the body". It was April 15 in the year 1950 that has moral body passed away. His spirit merged with divinity at the same time
