1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,799 Speaker 1: The sixth lesson Cultivation of perception. Man gains his knowledge 2 00:00:05,879 --> 00:00:10,000 of the outside world through his senses, and consequently many 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,560 of us are in the habit of thinking of these 4 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:15,720 senses as if they did the sensing, instead of being 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,359 merely carriers of the vibrations coming from the outside world, 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,559 which are then presented to the mind for examination. We 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,760 shall speak of this at greater length a little later on. 8 00:00:26,879 --> 00:00:29,800 In this lesson just now, we wish to impress upon 9 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:32,320 you the fact that it is the mind that perceives, 10 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,039 not the census, and consequently a development of perception is 11 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:39,560 really a development of the mind. The Yogis put their 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,920 students through a very arduous course of practice and exercises 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,640 designed to develop their powers of perception. To many, this 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,359 would appear to be merely a development of the senses, 15 00:00:51,439 --> 00:00:54,200 which might appear odd in view of the fact that 16 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,439 the Yogis are constantly preaching the folly of being governed 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,159 and ruled by the senses. But there is nothing paradoxical 18 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,439 about all this, For the Yogis, while preaching the folly 19 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:09,000 of sense life and manifesting the teaching in their lives, 20 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,959 nevertheless believe in any and all exercises calculated to sharpen 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,159 the mind and develop it to a keen state and condition. 22 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,920 They see a great difference between having a sharpened perception 23 00:01:22,439 --> 00:01:24,879 on one hand, and being a slave to the senses 24 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,280 on the other. For instance, what would be thought of 25 00:01:28,359 --> 00:01:31,760 a man who objected to acquiring a keen eyesight for 26 00:01:31,879 --> 00:01:35,319 fear it would lead him away from higher things by 27 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:39,280 reason of his becoming attached to the beautiful things he 28 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:43,640 might see. To realize the folly of this idea, one 29 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,200 may look at its logical conclusion, which would be that 30 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:50,719 one would be much better off if all their senses 31 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,480 were destroyed. The absurdity, not to say wickedness, of such 32 00:01:55,519 --> 00:01:59,079 an idea, will be apparent to everyone after a minute's consideration. 33 00:01:59,599 --> 00:02:02,680 The sea secret of the Yogi theory and teachings regarding 34 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:06,519 the development of the mental powers lies in the word mastery. 35 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:11,240 The yoga student accomplishes and attains this mastery in two ways. 36 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,960 The first way is by subordinating all the feelings, sends, impressions, 37 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,240 et cetera, to the mastery of the eye or veil. 38 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,080 The mastery being obtained in this way by the assertion 39 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,479 of the dominancy of the eye over the faculties and emotions, 40 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:31,800 et cetera. The second step O way lies in the yogi, 41 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,360 once having asserted the mastery, beginning to develop and perfect 42 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:38,680 the mental instrument so as to get better work and 43 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:42,360 returns from it. In this way, he increases his kingdom 44 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,159 and his master over a much larger territory. In order 45 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,159 for one to gain knowledge, it is necessary to use 46 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:52,120 the best advantage the mental instruments and tools that he 47 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,919 finds at his disposal, and again one must develop and 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,759 improve such tools, put a keen edge upon them, etc. 49 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,680 Not only does one gain a great benefit from a 50 00:03:04,719 --> 00:03:09,000 development of the faculties of perception, but he also acquires 51 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,400 an additional benefit from the training of the whole mind, 52 00:03:12,479 --> 00:03:16,280 arising from the mental discipline and training resulting from the 53 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:21,520 former exercises, etc. In other previous lessons, we have pointed 54 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,439 out some of the means by which these faculties might 55 00:03:24,479 --> 00:03:29,560 be greatly improved and their efficiency increased. In this lesson 56 00:03:29,719 --> 00:03:32,639 we shall point out certain directions in which the perceptive 57 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,199 faculties may be trained. We trust that the simplicity of 58 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,240 the idea may not cause any of our students to 59 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,439 lose interest in the work. If they only knew just 60 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:46,080 what such development would lead to, they would gladly follow 61 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,759 our suggestions in the matter. Everyone of the ideas and 62 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,960 the exercises given by us are intended to lead up 63 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,800 to the strengthening of the mind, and the attainment of 64 00:03:55,879 --> 00:04:00,159 powers and the unfoldment of faculties. There is no rawal 65 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,759 road to Raja yoga, but the student will be well 66 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,560 repaid for the work of climbing the hill of attainment. 67 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,080 In the view of the above, let us examine the 68 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:13,080 question of the senses. Through the doors of the senses, 69 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,399 man receives all his information regarding the outside world. If 70 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,519 he keeps these doors but half open or crowded up 71 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,439 with obstacles and rubbish, he may expect to receive but 72 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,920 few messages from outside. But if he keeps his doorways 73 00:04:26,959 --> 00:04:29,199 clear and clean, he will obtain the best that is 74 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:35,120 passing his way. If one were born without sense organs, 75 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,759 no matter how good a mind he might have, he 76 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,439 would be compelled to live his life in a dreamy, 77 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,519 plaid life stage of existence with little or no consciousness. 78 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:47,000 The mind would be like a seed in the earth 79 00:04:47,519 --> 00:04:51,040 that for some reason was prevented from growing. One may 80 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:54,040 object that the highest ideas do not come to us 81 00:04:54,079 --> 00:04:57,000 through the senses. But the reply is that the things 82 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,839 obtained through the senses are the raw material upon which 83 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:04,160 the mind works, and the fashions the beautiful things that 84 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,959 it is able to produce in its highest stages. Just 85 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,240 as is the body dependent for growth upon the nourishment 86 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,399 taken into it, so is the mind dependent for the 87 00:05:14,439 --> 00:05:18,199 growth upon the impressions received from the universe, and these 88 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,560 impressions come largely through the senses. It may be objected 89 00:05:22,639 --> 00:05:25,199 to that we know many things that we have not 90 00:05:25,319 --> 00:05:29,079 received through our senses, But does the objector include the 91 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:32,519 impressions that came through his senses in some previous existence, 92 00:05:32,759 --> 00:05:36,040 and which have been impressed upon its instinctive mind or 93 00:05:36,079 --> 00:05:40,759 soul memory. It is true that there are higher senses 94 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,319 than those usually recognize, but nature insists upon one learning 95 00:05:45,319 --> 00:05:48,920 the lessons of the lower grade before attempting to those 96 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,360 of the higher. Do not forget that all that we 97 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:56,759 know we have worked for. There is nothing that comes 98 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,720 to the idler or shirker. What we know is merely 99 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,680 the result of stowed up accumulations of previous experience. As 100 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,560 Lewis has so well said, so it will be seen 101 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,120 that the Yogi idea that one should develop all parts 102 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,439 of the mind is strictly correct, if one will take 103 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:19,600 the trouble to examine into the manner a man sees 104 00:06:19,639 --> 00:06:22,120 and knows but very little of what is going on 105 00:06:22,199 --> 00:06:25,720 about him. His limitations are great. His powers of vision 106 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,279 report only a few vibrations of light, while below and 107 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,279 about the scale lie in infinity of vibrations unknown to him. 108 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,160 The same is true of the powers of hearing, for 109 00:06:36,319 --> 00:06:39,600 only a comparatively small portion of the sound waves reach 110 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,600 the mind of a man, even some of the animals 111 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:46,800 here more than he does. If a man had only 112 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,639 one sense, he would obtain but a one sense idea 113 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,720 of the outside world. If another sense is added to 114 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:57,120 his knowledge is doubled, and so on. The best proof 115 00:06:57,199 --> 00:07:01,319 of the relation between increased sense, per se and development 116 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,759 is had in the study of the evolution of animal forms. 117 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:09,560 In the early stages of life, the organism has only 118 00:07:09,639 --> 00:07:12,879 the sense of feeling, and very dim at that, and 119 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:18,199 a faint sense of taste. Then developed smell, hearing, and sight, 120 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,000 each marking a distinct advance in the scale of life. 121 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,000 For a new world has been opened out to the 122 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,600 advancing forms of life, and when man develops new senses, 123 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,199 and this is before the race, he will be a 124 00:07:32,279 --> 00:07:37,399 much wiser and greater being. Carpenter, many years ago voiced 125 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:40,279 a thought that will be familiar to those who are 126 00:07:40,279 --> 00:07:44,519 acquainted with the Yogi teachings. Regarding the unfoldment of new senses. 127 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,480 He said, it does not seem at all improbable that 128 00:07:48,519 --> 00:07:51,480 there are properties of matter of which none of our 129 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:56,240 senses can take immediate cognitions, and which other beings might 130 00:07:56,279 --> 00:07:58,920 be formed to perceive in the same manner as we 131 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,920 are sensible to life, sound, etc. And Isaac Taylor said, 132 00:08:04,759 --> 00:08:07,879 it may be that within the field observed by the 133 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:13,079 visible and ponderable universe, there is existing and moving another element, 134 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:18,160 fraught with another species of life, corporal indeed, and various 135 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,560 in its orders, but not open to cognitions of those 136 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:28,079 who are confined to the conditions of animal organization. Is 137 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,519 it to be thought that the eye of man is 138 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,320 the measure of the Creator's power, and that he created 139 00:08:34,399 --> 00:08:37,879 nothing but that which he has exposed to our present senses. 140 00:08:38,639 --> 00:08:42,039 The contrary seems much more than barely possible, ought we 141 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,480 not to think it almost certain? Another writer, Professor Masson, 142 00:08:47,759 --> 00:08:51,200 has said, if a new sense or two were added 143 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:55,440 to the present normal number in man, that which is 144 00:08:55,519 --> 00:08:58,840 now the phenomenal world for all of us, might, for 145 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,840 all that we knows, into something amazingly different and wider 146 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:07,000 in consequence of the additional revelations of these new senses. 147 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,600 But not only is this true, but man may increase 148 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,159 his powers of knowledge and experience if he will but 149 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,879 develop the senses he asks to a higher degree of efficiency, 150 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:25,759 instead of allowing them to remain comparatively atrophied. And toward 151 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:30,360 this end, this lesson is written. The mind obtains its 152 00:09:30,399 --> 00:09:34,240 impressions of objects of the outside world by means of 153 00:09:34,279 --> 00:09:38,480 the brain and sense organs. The sensory organs are the 154 00:09:38,519 --> 00:09:41,840 instruments of the mind, as is also the brain and 155 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:45,799 the entire nervous system. By means of the nerves and 156 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:49,480 the brain. The mind makes use of the sensory organs 157 00:09:49,519 --> 00:09:54,279 in order that it may obtain information regarding external objects. 158 00:09:55,279 --> 00:10:00,120 The senses are usually said to consist of five different forms, 159 00:10:00,799 --> 00:10:09,440 with sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. The Yogis teach 160 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:15,159 that there are higher senses undeveloped or comparatively so in 161 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:19,320 the majority of the race, but toward the unfoldment of 162 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,080 which the race is tending. But we shall not touch 163 00:10:23,159 --> 00:10:26,480 upon these latent senses in this lesson, as they belong 164 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,840 to another phase of the subject. In addition to the 165 00:10:29,919 --> 00:10:34,639 five senses about enumerated, some physiologists and psychologists have held 166 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:38,279 that there are several others in evidence. For instance, the 167 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,320 sense by which the inner organs reveal their presence and 168 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:45,720 condition the muscular system reports to the mind through some 169 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:50,039 sense that is not that of touch, although closely allied 170 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,679 to it, and the feelings of hunger, thirst, etc. Seem 171 00:10:53,759 --> 00:10:57,759 to come to us through an unnamed sense. Bernstein has 172 00:10:57,919 --> 00:11:01,600 distinguished between the five senses and the one just referred 173 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:08,080 to as follows. The characteristic distinction between these common sensations 174 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,879 and the sensations of the senses is that by the 175 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,080 latter we gain knowledge of the occurrences and objects which 176 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,399 belong to the external world, and which sensations we refer 177 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,759 to external objects, while by the former we only feel 178 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:30,919 conditions of our own body. A sensation is the internal 179 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:35,600 mental conception resulting from an external object or fact, exciting 180 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,360 the sense organs and nerves and the brain, thus making 181 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:43,279 the mind aware of the external object. Or fact. As 182 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:46,639 Bain has said, it is the mental impression, feeling, or 183 00:11:46,759 --> 00:11:50,399 conscious state resulting from the action of external things on 184 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,039 some part of the body, called on that account sensitive. 185 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:58,879 Each channel of sense impressions has an organ or organs 186 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:04,080 peculiarly adapted for the excitation of its substance by the 187 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:08,600 particular kind of vibrations through which it receives impressions. The 188 00:12:08,759 --> 00:12:12,320 eye is most cunningly and carefully designed to receive the 189 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:15,960 light waves, and the sound waves produce no effect upon it, 190 00:12:16,519 --> 00:12:21,240 and likewise, the delicate mechanism of the ear responds only 191 00:12:21,279 --> 00:12:25,000 to sound waves, light waves failing to register upon it. 192 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,720 Each set of sensations is entirely different, and the organs 193 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,080 and the nerves designed to register each particular set are 194 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:38,720 peculiarly adapted to their own special work. The organs of sense, 195 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,200 including their special nervous systems, may be compared to a 196 00:12:42,279 --> 00:12:46,080 delicate instrument that the mind has fashioned for itself that 197 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,320 it may investigate, examine, and obtain reports from the outside world. 198 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,000 We have become so accustomed to the workings of the 199 00:12:54,039 --> 00:12:56,679 senses that we take them as a matter of course 200 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,919 and fail to recognize them as a delicate and wonder 201 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,759 instruments that they are designed and perfected by the mind 202 00:13:03,799 --> 00:13:06,720 for its own use. If we will think of the 203 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:11,879 soul as designing, manufacturing, and using these instruments, we may 204 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:14,960 begin to understand their true relations to our lives, and 205 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,399 accordingly treat them with more respect and consideration. We are 206 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,879 in the habit of thinking that we are aware of 207 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,279 all the sensations received by our mind, but this is 208 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,440 very far from being correct. The unconscious regions of the 209 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:34,519 mind are incomparably larger than the small conscious area that 210 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,639 we generally think of when we say my mind. In 211 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,360 future lessons, we shall proceed to consider this wonderful area 212 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,480 and examine what is to be found there. Tie In 213 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:49,240 has well said, there is going on within us a 214 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,919 subterranean process of infinite extent. Its products alone are known 215 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,440 to us, and are only known to us in the mass. 216 00:13:56,879 --> 00:14:00,759 As to elements and their elements, consciousness does not attained 217 00:14:00,759 --> 00:14:04,320 to them. They are to sensations what secondary molecules and 218 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:07,840 primium molecules are to bodies. We get a glance here 219 00:14:07,919 --> 00:14:11,799 and there at obscure and infinite worlds extending beneath our 220 00:14:11,919 --> 00:14:18,440 distinct sensations. These are compounds and wholes. For their elements 221 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,879 to be perceptible to consciousness, it is necessary for them 222 00:14:21,919 --> 00:14:25,759 to be added together, and so to acquire a certain bulk, 223 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:29,039 and to occupy a certain time. For if the group 224 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,399 does not attain this bulk and does not last this time, 225 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,879 we observe no changes in our state. Nevertheless, though it 226 00:14:37,159 --> 00:14:40,720 escapes us, there is one. But we must postpone our 227 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:45,480 consideration of this more than interesting phase of the subject 228 00:14:45,639 --> 00:14:49,120 until some future lesson, when we shall take a trip 229 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,879 into the regions of mind under an above consciousness, and 230 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,799 a most wonderful trip many of us will find it too. 231 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,519 For the present, we must pay over at time to 232 00:15:00,559 --> 00:15:03,799 the channels by which the material for knowledge and thought 233 00:15:04,039 --> 00:15:08,759 enter our minds. For these sense impressions come to us 234 00:15:08,799 --> 00:15:12,919 from without our indeed material upon which the mind works 235 00:15:12,919 --> 00:15:16,919 in order to manufacture the product called thought. This material 236 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,480 be obtained through the channels of the senses, and then 237 00:15:19,559 --> 00:15:23,639 store in that wonderful storehouse the memory, from whence may 238 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:27,639 bring out material from time to time which we proceed 239 00:15:27,679 --> 00:15:31,200 to weave into the fabric of thought. The skill of 240 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,279 the worker depends upon his training and his ability to 241 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:38,080 select and combine the proper materials, and the acquiring of 242 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,600 the good materials to be stowed up is an important 243 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,799 part of the work. A mind without stored of material 244 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:47,480 of impressions and experiences would be like a factory without material. 245 00:15:47,639 --> 00:15:50,960 The machinery would have nothing upon which to work, and 246 00:15:51,039 --> 00:15:55,639 the shop would be idle. As Helm Haltz has said, 247 00:15:56,279 --> 00:16:00,840 apprehension by the senses supplies directly or indirectly the material 248 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,120 of all human knowledge, or at least the stimulus necessary 249 00:16:04,159 --> 00:16:08,360 to develop every inborn faculty of the mind. And Herbert 250 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:11,720 Spencer has this to say of this phase of the subject. 251 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,480 It is almost atruism to say that in proportion to 252 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:19,759 the numerousness of the objects that can be distinguished, and 253 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:24,440 in proportion to the variety of coexistences and sequences that 254 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,679 can be severally responded to, must be the number and 255 00:16:27,799 --> 00:16:30,879 rapidity and the variety of the changes within the organism 256 00:16:31,279 --> 00:16:35,000 must be the amount of vitality. A little reflection upon 257 00:16:35,039 --> 00:16:38,159 this subject will show us that the greater degree of 258 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,000 exercise and training given the senses, they greater the degree 259 00:16:42,039 --> 00:16:45,480 of mental power and capability. As we store our mental 260 00:16:45,519 --> 00:16:49,360 storehouse with the materials to be manufactured into thought, so 261 00:16:49,519 --> 00:16:53,120 is the quality and the quantity of the fabric produced. It. 262 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,960 Therefore behooves us to awaken from our lazy condition of 263 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,960 mind and to proceed to develop our organs of sense 264 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,240 and their attendant mechanism, as by doing so we increase 265 00:17:04,279 --> 00:17:07,839 of a capacity for thought and knowledge. Before passing to 266 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,799 the exercises, however, it may be valved to give a 267 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:14,319 hasty passing glance at the several senses and their peculiarities. 268 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,359 The sense of touch is the simplest and primal sense. 269 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,279 Long before the lower forms of life had developed the 270 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,119 higher senses, they had evidenced the sense of touch or feeling. 271 00:17:25,759 --> 00:17:28,839 Without this sense, they would have been unable to have 272 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,799 found their food or to receive and respond to outside impressions. 273 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,880 To the early forms of life, it was exercised equally 274 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,920 by all parts of the body, although in the higher 275 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:44,440 forms this sense has become somewhat localized, as certain parts 276 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,079 of the body are far more sensitive than the others. 277 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,240 The skin is the seat of the sense of touch, 278 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:53,359 and its nerves are distributed over the entire area of 279 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,640 the skin. The hand and particularly the fingers and their tips, 280 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,240 are the principal organs of this sense. The acuteness of 281 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:06,119 touch varies materially in different parts of the body. Experiments 282 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:10,400 have shown that a pair of compasses would register impressions 283 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,799 as a very slight distance apart. When applied to the 284 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,079 tip of the tongue. The distance at which the two 285 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,039 points could be distinguished from one point on the tip 286 00:18:20,079 --> 00:18:23,559 of the tongue was called one line. Using this line 287 00:18:23,599 --> 00:18:26,680 as a standard, it was found that the palmer surface 288 00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:30,640 of the third finger registered two lines, the surface of 289 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,680 the lips four lines, and the skin of the back 290 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,440 and on the middle of the arm or thigh as 291 00:18:36,519 --> 00:18:40,480 high as sixty lines. The degree of sensitiveness to touch 292 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:45,240 varies greatly with different individuals, some having a very fine 293 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:48,720 sense of touch in their fingers, while others manifested a 294 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:51,720 very much lower degree. In the same way, there is 295 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:54,240 a great difference in the response of the fingers to 296 00:18:54,319 --> 00:18:57,359 eight a great difference in the ability to distinguish the 297 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,880 difference of the weight of objects. It has been found 298 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:04,160 that some people can distinguish differences in weigh down to 299 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,640 very small fractions of an ounce. Fine distinctions in the 300 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,720 differences in temperature have also been noticed. The sense of 301 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:16,240 touch and its development has meant much for man. It 302 00:19:16,319 --> 00:19:19,319 is the one sense in which man surpasses the animals 303 00:19:19,319 --> 00:19:22,680 in the matter of degree and the acuteness. The animal 304 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:26,000 may have a keener smell, taste, hearing, and sight, but 305 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,160 its sense of touch is far beneath that of man. 306 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:34,359 A Naxigurus is quoted as saying that if the animals 307 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,640 had hands and fingers, they would be like men. In 308 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,359 developing the sense of touch, the student must remember that 309 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,200 attention is the key to success. The greater the amount 310 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,079 of attention, the greater the degree of development possible in 311 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,759 the case of any sense. When the attention is concentrated 312 00:19:49,839 --> 00:19:53,799 upon any particular sense, the latter becomes quickened and more acute, 313 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,680 and the repeated exercise under the stimulus of attention will 314 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,000 work wonders in the case of any particular sense. And 315 00:20:01,079 --> 00:20:03,000 on the other hand, the sense of touch may be 316 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,559 almost are completely inhibited by firmly fixing the attention upon 317 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,160 something else. As an extreme proof of this latter fact, 318 00:20:11,279 --> 00:20:13,680 the student is asked to remember the fact that men 319 00:20:13,839 --> 00:20:17,440 have been known to suff excruciating torture, apparently without feeling, 320 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,880 owing to the mind being intently riveted upon some idea 321 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:26,279 or thought. As wild has said the martyr, born about 322 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:30,880 sensuous impressions, is not only able to endure tortures, but 323 00:20:31,039 --> 00:20:34,160 is able to endure and quench them. The pinching and 324 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,240 cutting of the flesh only added energy to the death 325 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,880 song of the American Indian, and even the slave under 326 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,160 the lash is sustained by the indignant sense of his wrongs. 327 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,759 In the cases of persons engaged in occupations requiring a 328 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:53,559 fine degree of touch, the development is marvelous. The engraver 329 00:20:53,799 --> 00:20:56,640 passes his hand over the plate and is able to 330 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,480 distinguish the slightest imperfection, and the handle of cloth and 331 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:04,000 fabrics is able to distinguish the finest differences simply by 332 00:21:04,039 --> 00:21:08,680 the sense of touch. Wool sorters also exercise a wonderful 333 00:21:08,759 --> 00:21:11,519 high degree of fineness of touch, and the blind are 334 00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:13,799 able to make up for the loss of sight by 335 00:21:13,799 --> 00:21:18,359 their greatly increased sense of touch. Cases being recorded whether 336 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,400 blind have been able to distinguish color by the different 337 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,160 feel of the material. The sense of taste is closely 338 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,559 allied to that of touch. In fact, some authorities have 339 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,880 considered taste as a very highly developed sense of touch. 340 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,799 In certain surfaces of the body, the tongue Notably, it 341 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,400 will be remembered that the tongue has the finest sense 342 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,240 of touch, and it also has the sense of taste 343 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,960 developed to perfection. In taste and touch, the object must 344 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,640 be brought in direct contact with the organ of sense, 345 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,799 which is not the case in smell, hearing or sight. 346 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,319 And be it remembered that the latter senses have special nerves, 347 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,640 while taste is compelled to fall back upon the ordinary 348 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,640 nerves of the touch. It is true that the taste 349 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,200 is confined to a very small part of the surface 350 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,880 of the body, while touch is general, but this only 351 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,359 indicates a special development of the special area. The sense 352 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,039 of taste also depends to a great extent upon the 353 00:22:14,079 --> 00:22:17,559 presence of fluids, and only substances that are soluble make 354 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,160 their presence known through the organs and sense of taste. 355 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:25,200 Physiologists report that the sense of taste in some persons 356 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,519 is so acute that one part of the streich need 357 00:22:28,839 --> 00:22:33,160 in one million parts of water has been distinguished. There 358 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:38,079 are certain occupations, such as that of wine tasters, tea tasters, 359 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,079 et cetera, the followers of which manifest a degree of 360 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,319 fineness of taste almost incredible. The sense of smell is 361 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,480 closely connected with the sense of taste and often acts 362 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,319 in connection therewith as the tiny particles of the substance 363 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,319 in the mouth arise to the organs of smell by 364 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,799 means of the opening or means of communications situated in 365 00:22:59,839 --> 00:23:03,599 the back part of the mouth, besides which the nose 366 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,200 usually detects the odor of substances before they enter the mouth. 367 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,000 The sense of smell operates by reason of the tiny 368 00:23:11,039 --> 00:23:14,559 particles or the object being carried to the mucous membrane 369 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,599 of the interior of the nose by means of the air. 370 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:22,599 The membrane, being moist, seizes and holds these particles for 371 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:27,119 a moment, and the fine nervous organism reports differences and qualities, 372 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,119 and the mind is thus informed of the nature of 373 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,440 the object. This sense of smell is very highly developed 374 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,640 among animals, who are compelled to rely upon it to 375 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,200 a considerable extent, and many occupations among men require the 376 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,799 development of this sense. For instance, the tobacconists, the vine dealer, 377 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,759 the perfumers, the chemist, etc. It is related that in 378 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:54,599 the cases of certain blind people, it has been observed 379 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,079 that they could distinguish persons in this manner. The sense 380 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,319 of hearing is a more complex one than in the 381 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:03,880 case of taste, touch, and smell. In the latter three, 382 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,519 the objects to be sense must be brought in close 383 00:24:06,599 --> 00:24:09,200 contact with the sense organs, while in the hearing the 384 00:24:09,279 --> 00:24:12,799 object may be far removed, the impressions being carried by 385 00:24:12,799 --> 00:24:15,279 the vibrations of the air, which are caught up and 386 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,759 reported upon this nervous organism of the sense of hearing. 387 00:24:19,319 --> 00:24:23,640 The internal mechanism of the ear is most wonderfully intricate 388 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,599 and complex, and excites to wonder the person examining it. 389 00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:31,240 It cannot be described here for want of space, but 390 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,480 the student is advised to inquire into it if he 391 00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:38,359 has access to any library containing books on the subject. 392 00:24:38,559 --> 00:24:41,279 It is a wonderful illustration of the work of the 393 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,519 mind in building up for itself instruments with which to 394 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,759 work to acquire knowledge. The ear records vibrations in the 395 00:24:48,799 --> 00:24:52,359 air from twenty or thirty two per second the rate 396 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,839 of the lowest audible note, to those of thirty eight 397 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,279 thousand per second the rate of the highest audible note. 398 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,680 There is a great difference in individuals in regard to 399 00:25:02,759 --> 00:25:05,680 the fineness of the sense of hearing. But all may 400 00:25:05,759 --> 00:25:09,839 develop this sense by the application of attention. The animals 401 00:25:09,839 --> 00:25:13,720 and the savages have wonderfully acute senses of hearing, developed 402 00:25:13,759 --> 00:25:17,440 only along the lines of distinctness. However, on the other hand, 403 00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:21,319 musicians have developed the sense along different lines. The sense 404 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,880 of sight is generally considered to be the highest and 405 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,039 most complex of all senses of man. It deals with 406 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,200 a far larger number of objects at longer distances, and 407 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,759 gives a far greater variety of reports to the mind 408 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:37,839 than any of its associate senses. It is the sense 409 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,640 of touch magnified many times. As Wilson says of it, 410 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,200 our sight may be considered as a more delicate and 411 00:25:46,279 --> 00:25:49,799 diffusive kind of touch that spreads itself over an infinite 412 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:54,119 number of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into 413 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,240 our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. 414 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,680 The sense of sight receives its impressions from the outside 415 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,799 world by means of waves that travel from body to body, 416 00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:07,920 from cern to earth, and from lamb to eye. These 417 00:26:08,039 --> 00:26:11,759 waves of light rise from the vibration in substance of 418 00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:16,720 an almost incredible degree of rapidity. The lowest light vibration 419 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:21,599 is about four hundred fifty quadrullian per second, while the 420 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:27,359 highest is about seven hundred fifty quadrullion per second. These 421 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,279 figures deal only with the vibrations recognizable by the eye 422 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,920 as light. Above and below these figures of the scale 423 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,400 are countless other degrees invisible to the eye, although some 424 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,480 of them may be recorded by instruments. The different sensations 425 00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:47,039 of colour depend upon the rate of vibrations, red being 426 00:26:47,039 --> 00:26:49,920 the limit of the lowest, the violet the limit of 427 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:55,559 the highest visible vibrations, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo 428 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,480 being the intermediate rates or colors. The cultivation of the 429 00:26:59,519 --> 00:27:02,000 sense of slight under the aid of attention is most 430 00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:05,519 important to ale persons. By being able to clearly see 431 00:27:05,559 --> 00:27:08,039 and distinguish the parts of an object, a degree of 432 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,680 knowledge regarding it is obtained that one may not require 433 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,359 without this said exercise of the faculty. We have spoken 434 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,440 of this under the subject of attention in a previous lesson, 435 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,119 to which lesson we again refer the student. The fixing 436 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,720 of the eye upon an object has the power of 437 00:27:24,839 --> 00:27:29,200 concentrating the thoughts and preventing them from wondering. The eye 438 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,559 has other properties and qualities that will be dwelt upon 439 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,720 in future lessons. It has other uses than seeing. The 440 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,960 influence of an eye is a marvelous thing and may 441 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,319 be cultivated and developed. We trust that what we have 442 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,279 said will bring the student into a realization of the 443 00:27:45,319 --> 00:27:49,160 importance of developing the powers of perception. The senses have 444 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,559 been developed by the mind during a long period of 445 00:27:51,599 --> 00:27:54,960 evolution and effort that surely would not have been given 446 00:27:55,079 --> 00:27:59,400 unless the object in view was worth it. All. The 447 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:04,039 eye insists upon obtaining knowledge of the universe, and much 448 00:28:04,079 --> 00:28:06,920 of this knowledge may be obtained only through the senses. 449 00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:10,359 The yogi student must be wide awake and possessed of 450 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,039 developed senses and powers of perception, the senses of sight 451 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,400 and hearing, the two latest in the scale of evolutionary 452 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,559 growth and unfoldment. Must make himself aware of what is 453 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:24,279 going on about and around him, so that he may 454 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:29,279 catch the best vibrations. It would surprise many vestners if 455 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,480 they would come in contact with the highly developed Yogi 456 00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:37,079 and witness the marvelously finely developed senses he possesses. He 457 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,599 is able to distinguish the finest differences in things, and 458 00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:44,319 his mind is so trained that in thought he may 459 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,319 draw conclusions from what he has perceived, in a manner 460 00:28:47,319 --> 00:28:51,759 that seems almost second sight to the uninitiated. In fact, 461 00:28:51,799 --> 00:28:54,559 a certain degree of second sight is possible to one 462 00:28:54,559 --> 00:28:58,039 who develops his sense of sight under the urge of attention. 463 00:28:58,839 --> 00:29:01,319 A new world is open out to such a person. 464 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,599 One must learn to master the senses, not only in 465 00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:08,200 the direction of being independent of and superior to their urgings, 466 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,519 but also in the matter of developing them to a 467 00:29:10,599 --> 00:29:14,759 higher degree. The development of the physical senses also has 468 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,799 much to do with the development of the astral sensors, 469 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,039 of which we have spoken in our fourteen lessons, and 470 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,160 of which we may have more to say in the 471 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,079 present series. The idea of Raja Yoga is to render 472 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,160 the student the possessor of a highly developed mind, with 473 00:29:30,359 --> 00:29:34,359 highly developed instruments with which the mind may work. In 474 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,960 our future lessons, we shall give the student many illustrations, directions, 475 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,000 and exercises calculated to develop the different faculties of the mind, 476 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,240 not only the ordinary faculties of everyday use, but others 477 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,920 hidden behind these familiar faculties and senses. Commencing with the 478 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,640 next lesson, we shall present a system of exercises, drills, etc. 479 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,640 The purpose of which will be the about mentioned development 480 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,680 of the faculties of the mind. In this lesson we 481 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,559 shall not attempt to give specific exercises, but will content 482 00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:10,240 ourselves with calling the attention of the student to a 483 00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:13,799 few general rules underlying the development of perception. 484 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 2: Part two. A mind without stored up material of impressions 485 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,279 and experiences would be like a factory without material. The 486 00:30:23,319 --> 00:30:25,839 machinery would have nothing upon which to work, and the 487 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,559 shop would be idle. As Helmholtz has said, apprehension by 488 00:30:30,599 --> 00:30:33,799 the senses supplies directly or indirectly the material of all 489 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,319 human knowledge, or at least the stimulus necessary to develop 490 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:41,079 every inborn faculty of the mind. And Herbert Spencer has 491 00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:43,720 this to say of this phase of the subject. It 492 00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:46,319 is almost a truism to say that, in proportion to 493 00:30:46,359 --> 00:30:49,359 the numerousness of the objects that can be distinguished, and 494 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,599 in proportion to the variety of coexistences and sequences that 495 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,880 can be severally responded to, must be the number and 496 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,200 rapidity and variety of the changes within the organism the 497 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,559 amount of vitality. A little reflection upon this subject will 498 00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:07,200 show us that the greater degree of exercise and training 499 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,200 given the senses the greater the degree of mental power 500 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,200 and capability. As we store our mental storehouse with materials 501 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,240 to be manufactured into thought, so is the quality and 502 00:31:17,319 --> 00:31:21,359 quantity of the fabric produced. It. Therefore, behooves us to 503 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,200 awaken from our lazy condition of mind and to proceed 504 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,440 to develop our organs of sense and their attendant mechanism, 505 00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:30,440 as by doing so we increase our capacity for thought 506 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,640 and knowledge. Before passing to the exercises, however, it may 507 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,880 be well to give a hasty passing glance at the 508 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,960 several senses and their peculiarities. The sense of touch is 509 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,680 the simplest and primal sense. Long before the lower forms 510 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,559 of life had developed the higher senses, they had evidence 511 00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:51,720 the sense of touch or feeling. Without this sense, they 512 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,839 would have been unable to have found their food or 513 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,400 to receive and respond to outside impressions. In the early 514 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,000 forms of life, it was exercised equally by all parts 515 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:02,759 the body, although in the higher forms this sense has 516 00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:05,799 become somewhat localized, as certain parts of the body are 517 00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:09,079 far more sensitive than our others. The skin is the 518 00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:11,519 seat of the sense of touch, and its nerves are 519 00:32:11,519 --> 00:32:14,960 distributed over the entire area of the skin the hand, 520 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000 and particularly the fingers and their tips, are the principal 521 00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:22,440 organs of the sense. The acuteness of touch varies materially 522 00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:25,400 in different parts of the body. Experiments have shown that 523 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,200 a pair of compasses would register impressions as a very 524 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,680 slight distance apart when applied to the tip of the tongue. 525 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,119 The distance at which the two points could be distinguished 526 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,200 from one point on the tip of the tongue was 527 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,039 called one line. Using this line as a standard, was 528 00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:42,960 found that the palmer surface of the third finger registered 529 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,240 two lines, the surface of the lips four lines, and 530 00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:48,000 the skin of the back and on the middle of 531 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,119 the arm or thigh as high as sixty lines. The 532 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,000 degree of sensitiveness to touch varies greatly, with different individuals, 533 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,920 some having a very fine sense of touch in their fingers, 534 00:32:58,279 --> 00:33:02,000 while others manifested a very much life degree. In the 535 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,200 same way, there is a great difference in the response 536 00:33:04,279 --> 00:33:06,559 to the fingers to weight, a great difference in the 537 00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:09,200 ability to distinguish the difference of the weight of objects. 538 00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:12,200 It has been found that some people can distinguish differences 539 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,440 in weight down to very small fractions of an ounce. 540 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,240 Fine distinctions in the differences in temperature have also been noticed. 541 00:33:19,119 --> 00:33:21,440 The sense of touch, and its development, has meant much 542 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,039 for man. It is the one sense in which man 543 00:33:24,039 --> 00:33:26,960 surpasses the animals in the matter of degree and acuteness. 544 00:33:27,559 --> 00:33:30,720 The animal may have a keener smell, taste, hearing, and sight, 545 00:33:31,119 --> 00:33:33,359 but its sense of touch is far beneath that of man. 546 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,680 Anaxagorus is quoted as saying that if the animals had 547 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,839 hands and fingers, they would be like men. In developing 548 00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:44,240 the sense of touch, the student must remember that attention 549 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,559 is the key to success. The greater the amount of attention, 550 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,440 the greater the degree of development possible in the case 551 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:54,160 of any sense. When the attention is concentrated upon any 552 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,799 particular sense, the latter becomes quickened and more acute, and 553 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,640 repeated exercise under the stimulus of attention will work wonders 554 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,559 in the case of any particular sense. And on the 555 00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:07,119 other hand, the sense of touch may be almost or 556 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,639 completely inhibited by firmly fixing the attention upon something else. 557 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,360 As an extreme proof of this latter fact, the student 558 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,599 is asked to remember the fact that men have been 559 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,679 known to suffer excruciating torture, apparently without feeling owing to 560 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,639 the mind being intently riveted upon some thought or idea. 561 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:28,199 As Wilde has said, the martyr, born above sensuous impressions, 562 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,119 is not only able to endure tortures, but is able 563 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:34,039 to endure and quench them. The pinching and cutting of 564 00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:36,480 the flesh only added energy to the death song of 565 00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:39,440 the American Indian, and even the slave under the lash 566 00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:43,719 is sustained by the indignant sense of his wrongs. In 567 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,960 the cases of persons engaged in occupations requiring a fine 568 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,840 degree of touch, the development is marvelous. The engraver passes 569 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,119 his hand over the plate and is able to distinguish 570 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,079 the slightest imperfection, and the handler of cloth and fabrics 571 00:34:57,119 --> 00:34:59,840 is able to distinguish the finest differences simply by the 572 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,880 s sense of touch. Wool sorders also exercise a wonderfully 573 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,639 high degree of fineness of touch, and the blind are 574 00:35:06,679 --> 00:35:08,320 able to make up for the loss of sight by 575 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,679 their greatly increased sense of touch. Cases being recorded where 576 00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:14,119 the blind have been able to distinguish color by the 577 00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:17,719 different feel of the material. The sense of taste is 578 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,159 closely allied to that of touch. In fact, some authorities 579 00:35:21,199 --> 00:35:23,719 have considered taste as a very highly developed sense of 580 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,599 touch in certain surfaces of the body, the tongue. Notably, 581 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,519 it will be remembered that the tongue has the finest 582 00:35:29,519 --> 00:35:31,760 sense of touch, and it also has the sense of 583 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,400 taste developed to perfection. In taste and touch, the object 584 00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:37,880 must be brought in direct contact of the organ of sense, 585 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,559 which is not the case in smell, hearing, or sight. 586 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,440 And be it remembered that the latter senses have special nerves, 587 00:35:44,519 --> 00:35:47,119 while taste is compelled to fall back upon the ordinary 588 00:35:47,159 --> 00:35:50,039 nerves of touch. It is true that taste is confined 589 00:35:50,039 --> 00:35:52,199 to a very small part of the surface of the body, 590 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,400 while touch is general, but this only indicates a special 591 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,599 development of the special area. The sense of taste also 592 00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:01,400 depends to a great extent upon the presence of fluids, 593 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,880 and only substances that are soluble make their presence known 594 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:09,119 through the organs and sense of taste. Physiologists report that 595 00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:11,519 the sense of taste in some persons is so acute 596 00:36:11,559 --> 00:36:13,960 that one part of strychnine in one million parts of 597 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,119 water has been distinguished. There are certain occupations, such as 598 00:36:18,199 --> 00:36:21,320 that of wine tasters, tea tasters, et cetera. The followers 599 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,480 of which manifest a degree of fineness of taste almost incredible. 600 00:36:25,639 --> 00:36:28,079 The sense of smell is closely connected with the sense 601 00:36:28,079 --> 00:36:31,119 of taste, and often acts in connection therewith as the 602 00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:33,599 tiny particles of the substance in the mouth arise to 603 00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:36,280 the organs of smell by means of opening or means 604 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,880 of communications situated in the back part of the mouth, 605 00:36:39,639 --> 00:36:42,360 besides which the nose usually detects the odor of substances 606 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,599 before they enter the mouth. The sense of smell operates 607 00:36:45,599 --> 00:36:48,239 by reason of the tiny particles or the object being 608 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,519 carried to the mucous membrane of the interior of the 609 00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:53,960 nose by means of the air. The membrane, being moist, 610 00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:56,599 seizes and holds these particles for a moment, and the 611 00:36:56,639 --> 00:36:59,920 fine nervous organism reports differences in qualities and the mind 612 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,920 mind is thus informed of the nature of the object. 613 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,800 The sense of smell is very highly developed among animals, 614 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,559 who are compelled to rely upon it to a considerable extent, 615 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,639 and many occupations among men require the development of this sense. 616 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,760 For instance, the tobacconists, the wine dealer, the perfumers, the chemists, 617 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,719 et cetera. It is related that in the cases of 618 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,199 certain blind people, it has been observed that they could 619 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,280 distinguish persons in this manner. The sense of hearing is 620 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,800 a more complex one than in the case of taste, touch, 621 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,519 and smell. In the latter three, the objects to be 622 00:37:32,559 --> 00:37:35,320 sensed must be brought in close contact with the sense organs, 623 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,000 while in hearing the object may be far removed the 624 00:37:38,039 --> 00:37:40,800 impressions being carried by the vibrations of the air, which 625 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,599 are caught up and reported upon by the nervous organism 626 00:37:43,679 --> 00:37:46,559 of the sense of hearing. The internal mechanism of the 627 00:37:46,599 --> 00:37:49,719 ear is most wonderfully intricate and complex, and excites to 628 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,079 wonder the person examining it. It cannot be described here 629 00:37:53,079 --> 00:37:55,559 for want of space, that the student is advised to 630 00:37:55,599 --> 00:37:58,199 inquire into it if he has any access to any 631 00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,400 library containing books on the subject. It is a wonderful 632 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,800 illustration of the work of the mind in building up 633 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,280 for itself instruments with which to work to acquire knowledge. 634 00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:11,000 The ear records vibrations in the air from twenty or 635 00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:13,719 thirty two per second, the rate of the lowest audible 636 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,519 note to those of thirty eight thousand per second the 637 00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:19,239 rate of the highest audible. Note there is a great 638 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,840 difference in individuals in regard to the fineness of the 639 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,559 sense of hearing, but all may develop the sense by 640 00:38:24,559 --> 00:38:28,559 the application of attention. The animals and savages have wonderfully 641 00:38:28,599 --> 00:38:32,800 acute senses of hearing, developed only along the lines of distinctness. However, 642 00:38:33,159 --> 00:38:35,679 on the other hand, musicians have developed the sense along 643 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,320 different lines. The sense of sight is generally conceded to 644 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,719 be the highest and most complex of all the senses 645 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,320 of man. It deals with a far larger number of 646 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,159 objects at longer distances, and gives a far greater variety 647 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:51,239 of reports to the mind than any of its associated senses. 648 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,760 It is the sense of touch magnified many times. As 649 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,639 Wilson says of it, our sight may be considered as 650 00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:00,440 a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch than spreads 651 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,360 itself over an infinite number of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, 652 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,800 and brings into our reach some of the most remote 653 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,079 parts of the universe. The sense of sight recedes its 654 00:39:10,079 --> 00:39:12,639 impressions from the outside world by means of waves that 655 00:39:12,679 --> 00:39:15,599 travel from body to body, from sun to earth, and 656 00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:18,719 from lamp to eye. These waves of light arise from 657 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,280 vibrations and substance of an almost incredible degree of rapidity. 658 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,480 The lowest light vibration is about four hundred and fifty 659 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,360 trillion per second, while the highest is about seven hundred 660 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,599 and fifty trillion per second. These figures deal only with 661 00:39:31,639 --> 00:39:35,159 the vibrations recognizable by the eye as light. Above and 662 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,960 below these figures of the scale are countless other degrees 663 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,960 invisible to the eye, although some of them may be 664 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,199 recorded by instruments. The different sensations of color depend upon 665 00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:48,079 the rate of vibrations, red being the limit of the lowest, 666 00:39:48,159 --> 00:39:53,039 and violet the limit of the highest visible vibrations, orange, yellow, green, blue, 667 00:39:53,039 --> 00:39:57,719 and indigo being intermediate rates or colors. The cultivation of 668 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,119 the sense of sight under the aid of attention is 669 00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:03,280 most important to all persons. By being able to clearly 670 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,880 see and distinguish the parts of an object, a degree 671 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,199 of knowledge regarding it is obtained that one may not 672 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,719 acquire without the said exercise of the faculty. We have 673 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,039 spoken of this under the subject of attention in a 674 00:40:14,079 --> 00:40:17,239 previous lesson, to which lesson we again refer the student. 675 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,000 The fixing of the eye upon an object has the 676 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,039 power of concentrating the thoughts and preventing them from wandering. 677 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,119 The eye has other properties and qualities that will be 678 00:40:26,199 --> 00:40:29,880 dwelt upon in future lessons. It has other uses than seeing. 679 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,719 The influence of the eye is a marvelous thing and 680 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,519 may be cultivated and developed. We trust that what we 681 00:40:36,559 --> 00:40:38,679 have said will bring the student to a realization of 682 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,239 the importance of developing the powers of perception. The senses 683 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,559 have been developed by the mind during a long period 684 00:40:44,599 --> 00:40:47,320 of evolution and effort that surely would not have been 685 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,760 given unless the object in view was worth it. All. 686 00:40:50,519 --> 00:40:53,639 The eye insists upon obtaining knowledge of the universe, and 687 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,400 much of this knowledge may be obtained only through the senses. 688 00:40:57,159 --> 00:40:59,920 The yogi student must be wide awake and possessed of 689 00:41:00,039 --> 00:41:03,519 developed senses and powers of perception. The senses of sight 690 00:41:03,559 --> 00:41:06,239 and hearing, the two latest in the scale of evolutionary 691 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,639 growth and unfoldment, must receive a particular degree of attention. 692 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,760 The student must make himself aware of what is going 693 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,440 on about and around him, so that he may catch 694 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,599 the best vibrations. It would surprise many Westerners if they 695 00:41:19,599 --> 00:41:22,039 could come in contact with a highly developed yogi and 696 00:41:22,119 --> 00:41:26,000 witness the marvelously finely developed senses he possesses. He is 697 00:41:26,039 --> 00:41:29,039 able to distinguish the finest differences of things, and his 698 00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:31,760 mind is so trained that in thought he may draw 699 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,440 conclusions from what he has perceived in a manner that 700 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,039 seems almost second sight to the uninitiated. In fact, a 701 00:41:38,079 --> 00:41:40,440 certain degree of second sight is possible to one who 702 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,960 develops his sense of sight under the urge of attention. 703 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,840 A new world is opened out to such a person. 704 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,000 One must learn to master the senses, not only in 705 00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:52,079 the direction of being independent and superior to their urgings, 706 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,360 but also in the matter of developing them to a 707 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,079 high degree. The development of the physical senses also has 708 00:41:58,159 --> 00:42:00,519 much to do with the development of the astrasis senses, 709 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,320 of which we have spoken in our fourteen lessons, and 710 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,199 of which we may have more to say in the 711 00:42:05,199 --> 00:42:09,320 present series. The idea of Raja Yoga is to render 712 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,239 the student the possessor of a highly developed mind, with 713 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,519 highly developed instruments from which the mind may work. In 714 00:42:16,639 --> 00:42:20,480 our future lessons, we shall give the student many illustrations, directions, 715 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,000 and exercises calculated to develop the different faculties of the mind, 716 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,320 not only the ordinary faculties of everyday use, but others 717 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,639 hidden behind these familiar faculties and senses. Commencing with the 718 00:42:31,679 --> 00:42:34,760 next lesson, we shall present a system of exercises, drills, 719 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,079 et cetera, the purpose of which will be the above 720 00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:40,719 mentioned development of the faculties of the mind. In this lesson, 721 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,639 we shall not attempt to give specific exercises, but will 722 00:42:43,679 --> 00:42:46,119 content ourselves with calling the attention of the student to 723 00:42:46,159 --> 00:42:51,239 a few general rules underlying the development of perception. Part three, 724 00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:56,719 General Rules of Perception. The first thing to remember in 725 00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,199 acquiring the art of perception is that one should not 726 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,719 attempt to proceed the whole of a complex thing or 727 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,000 object at the same time or at once. One should 728 00:43:05,039 --> 00:43:08,719 consider the object in detail, and then by grouping the details, 729 00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,360 he will find that he has considered the whole. Let 730 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,960 us take the face of a person as a familiar object. 731 00:43:14,519 --> 00:43:16,480 If one tries to perceive a face as a whole, 732 00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:18,440 he will find that he will meet with a certain 733 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,519 degree of failure, the impression being indistinct and cloudy. It 734 00:43:21,639 --> 00:43:24,639 following also that the memory of that face will correspond 735 00:43:24,679 --> 00:43:28,440 with the original perception. But let the observer consider the 736 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,920 face and detail first the eyes, then the nose, then 737 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,679 the mouth, then the chin. Then the hair, then the 738 00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:39,159 outline of the face, the complexion, et cetera, and he 739 00:43:39,199 --> 00:43:41,400 will find that he will have acquired a clear and 740 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:45,599 distinct impression or perception of the whole face. The same 741 00:43:45,639 --> 00:43:48,599 rule may be applied to any subject or object. Let 742 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,480 us take another familiar illustration. You wish to observe a building. 743 00:43:53,159 --> 00:43:55,320 If you simply get a general perception of the building 744 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,400 as a whole, you will be able to remember very 745 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:02,519 little about it except as general outlines, size, color, et cetera. 746 00:44:02,559 --> 00:44:05,719 And a description will prove to be very disappointing. But 747 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,760 if you have noted in detail the material used, the 748 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:14,079 shape of the doors, chimney, roof, porches, decorations, trimmings, ornamentation, 749 00:44:14,599 --> 00:44:17,320 size and number of the window panes, et cetera, et cetera, 750 00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,159 the shape and angles of the roof, et cetera, you 751 00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:23,199 will have an intelligent idea of the building in place 752 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,760 of a mere general outline or impression of such as 753 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:30,039 might be acquired by an animal in passing. We will 754 00:44:30,039 --> 00:44:32,559 conclude this lesson with an anecdote of the methods of 755 00:44:32,559 --> 00:44:36,159 that famous naturalist Agazi in his training of his pupils. 756 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,840 His pupils become renowned for their close powers of observation 757 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,079 and perception, and their consequent ability to think about the 758 00:44:43,119 --> 00:44:46,559 things they had seen. Many of them rose to eminent positions, 759 00:44:46,599 --> 00:44:48,800 and claimed that this was largely by reason of their 760 00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,800 careful training. The tail runs that a new student presented 761 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,280 himself to a gazi one day, asking to be set 762 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,079 to work. The naturalists took a fish from a jar 763 00:44:58,159 --> 00:45:00,559 in which it had been preserved, and laidying it before 764 00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:03,280 the young student bade him observe it carefully and be 765 00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,840 ready to report upon what he had noticed about the fish. 766 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,159 The student was then left alone with the fish. There 767 00:45:09,199 --> 00:45:12,119 was nothing especially interesting about that fish. It was like 768 00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:15,039 many other fishes that he had seen before. He noticed 769 00:45:15,039 --> 00:45:18,000 that it had fins and scales, and a mouth, and eyes, yes, 770 00:45:18,079 --> 00:45:20,719 and a tail. In a half hour, he felt certain 771 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,719 that he had observed all about that fish that there 772 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,920 was to be perceived for. The naturalists remained away. The 773 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,480 time rolled on, and the youth, having nothing else to do, 774 00:45:29,639 --> 00:45:32,440 began to grow restless and weary. He started out to 775 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,519 hunt up the teacher, but he failed to find him, 776 00:45:34,559 --> 00:45:36,400 and so had to return and gaze again at that 777 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,920 wearisome fish. Several hours had passed, and he knew but 778 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,840 little more about the fish than he did in the 779 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,880 first place. He went out to lunch, and when he 780 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,960 returned it was still a case of watching the fish. 781 00:45:47,679 --> 00:45:50,519 He felt disgusted and discouraged, and wished he had never 782 00:45:50,559 --> 00:45:53,239 come to Agazzi, whom it seemed was a stupid old 783 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,960 man after all, one away behind the times. Then, in 784 00:45:57,039 --> 00:45:59,199 order to kill time, he began to count the scales. 785 00:46:00,039 --> 00:46:03,000 This completed, he counted the spines of the fins. Then 786 00:46:03,039 --> 00:46:05,199 he began to draw a picture of the fish, and 787 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,800 drawing the picture, he noticed that the fish had no eyelids. 788 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,599 He thus made the discovery that, as his teacher had 789 00:46:10,639 --> 00:46:13,559 expressed it often in lectures, a pencil is the best 790 00:46:13,559 --> 00:46:17,920 of eyes. Shortly after, the teacher returned, and after ascertaining 791 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,159 what the youth had observed, he left rather disappointed, telling 792 00:46:21,159 --> 00:46:22,960 the boy to keep on looking and maybe he would 793 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,440 see something. This put the boy on his medal, and 794 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,559 they began to work with his pencil, putting down the 795 00:46:28,559 --> 00:46:31,280 little details that had escaped him before, but which now 796 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,000 seemed very plain to him. They began to catch the 797 00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:37,239 secret of observation. Little by little he brought to light 798 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,239 new objects of interest about the fish. But this did 799 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,480 not suffice his teacher, who kept him at work on 800 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,239 the same fish for three whole days. At the end 801 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,840 of that time, the student really knew something about the fish, 802 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,719 and better than all, had acquired the knack and habit 803 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,840 of careful observation and perception in detail. Years after the 804 00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:58,360 student then attained to eminence, is reported as saying that 805 00:46:58,519 --> 00:47:01,199 was the best zoological lesson I ever had, A lesson 806 00:47:01,199 --> 00:47:04,480 whose influence has extended to the details of every subsequent study, 807 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,000 A legacy that the professor left to me, as he 808 00:47:07,079 --> 00:47:10,440 left to many others, of inestimable value which we could 809 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:14,119 not buy and with which we cannot part. Apart from 810 00:47:14,119 --> 00:47:16,880 the value to the student of the particular information obtained 811 00:47:17,079 --> 00:47:19,679 was the quickening of the perceptive faculties that enabled him 812 00:47:19,679 --> 00:47:22,199 to observe the important points in a subject or object, 813 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,039 and consequently to deduce important information from that which was observed. 814 00:47:27,639 --> 00:47:30,039 The mind is hungry for knowledge, and it has, by 815 00:47:30,119 --> 00:47:32,719 years of weary evolution and effort, built up a series 816 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,519 of sense systems in order to yield it that knowledge. 817 00:47:35,519 --> 00:47:38,280 And it is still building. The men and women in 818 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,400 the world who have arrived at the point of success, 819 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,920 have availed themselves of these wonderful channels of information, and 820 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,360 by directing them under the guidance of will and attention, 821 00:47:46,639 --> 00:47:50,559 have attained wonderful results. These things are of importance, and 822 00:47:50,639 --> 00:47:52,559 we beg of our students not to pass by this 823 00:47:52,639 --> 00:47:56,519 portion of the subject as uninteresting. Cultivate a spirit of 824 00:47:56,559 --> 00:47:59,239 wide awakeness and perception, and the knowing that will come 825 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,719 to you will surprise as you. Not only do you 826 00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,000 develop the existing senses by such practice and use, but 827 00:48:06,079 --> 00:48:08,480 you help in the unfoldment of the latent powers and 828 00:48:08,559 --> 00:48:12,480 senses that are striving for unfoldment. By using and exercising 829 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,079 the faculties that we have, we help to unfold those 830 00:48:15,119 --> 00:48:20,480 for the coming of which we have been dreaming. Mantram affirmation. 831 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,599 I am a soul possessed of channels of communication with 832 00:48:25,679 --> 00:48:29,119 the outer world. I will use these channels and thereby 833 00:48:29,159 --> 00:48:32,880 acquire the information and knowledge necessary for my mental development. 834 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,079 I will exercise and develop my organs of sense, knowing 835 00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:39,320 that in doing so I shall cause to unfold the 836 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:42,840 higher senses of which they are but forerunners and symbols. 837 00:48:43,639 --> 00:48:46,199 I will be wide awake and open to the inflow 838 00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,239 of knowledge and information. The universe is my home. I 839 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:51,280 will explore it