t knowing why they work; they work because they are compelled to do
so, as slaves of the law; these will work their way out of that necessity
of fulfillment, in the course of time, even though they blindly follow the
urge; but, if they could be made to work as masters of the conditions under
which they labor, instead of as slaves to environment, they would find
themselves at the end of that path. Karma Yoga would have been
accomplished.

"Work as those work who are ambitious" but be not thou enslaved by the
delusion of personal ambition--this is the password to liberation from
Karma Yoga.

_Raja Yoga_ is the way of the strongly individualized _will_. "_Knowledge
is power_" is the hope which encourages the disciple on the path of Raja
Yoga. He seeks to master the personal self by meditation, by concentration
of will; by self discipline and sacrifice. When the ego gains complete
control over the mental faculties, so that the mind may be directed as the
individual will suggests, the student has mastered the path of Raja Yoga.
If his mastery is complete, he finds himself regarding his body as the
instrument of the Self, and the body and its functions are under the
guidance of the ego; the mind is the lever with which this Self raises the
consciousness from the lower to the higher vibrations. The student who has
mastered Raja Yoga can induce the trance state; control his dreams as well
as his waking thoughts; he may learn to practice magic in its higher
aspects, but unless he is extremely careful this power will tempt him to
use his knowledge for selfish or unworthy purposes.

Let the student of Raja Yoga bear in mind the one great and high purpose of
his efforts, which should be: the realization of his spiritual nature, and
the development of his individual self, so that it finally merges into the
spiritual Self, thus gaining immortality "in the flesh."

Does this "flesh" mean the physical body? Not necessarily, because this
that we see and name "the physical body" is not the real body, any more
than the clothing that covers it, is the person, although frequently we
recognize acquaintances _by their clothing_. Immortality in the flesh
means cessation from further incarnations, the last and present personality
including all others in consciousness, until we can say, "I, manifesting in
the physical, as so-and-so, am now and forever immortal, remembering other
manifestations which were not sufficiently complete, but which ad