ded to the
sum of my consciousness until now I _know myself a deathless being_."

To those who seek the path of Raja Yoga, we recommend meditation upon
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, of which there are several translations, differing
slightly as to interpretation. We have selected some of the most important,
from the translations by Johnston. They are designed to make clear the
difference between the self of personality, and the Self, or _atman_ which
manifests in personality:

"The personal self seeks to feast upon life, through a failure to perceive
the distinction between the personal self and the spiritual man. All
personal experience really exists for the sake of another: namely, the
spiritual man. By perfectly concentrated meditation on experience for the
sake of the Self, comes a knowledge of the spiritual man."

The wise person seeks experience in order that he may attain to the
standard of the spiritual man; doing all things for the lessons that they
teach; working "as those work who are ambitious," and yet having no
personal ambition. Looking on all life, and at the self of personality and
knowing the illusion of the self he is raising the personal self to the
spiritual plane; but always he has the handicap of the desires of the lower
self, the personal, which "seeks to feast on life," because it is born of
the external, and its inherent appetites are for the satisfaction and
pleasures of that physical self.

We do not say to look upon the body with its needs and its desires, as an
enemy to be overcome; or that its allurements are dangerous although
pleasurable. No. We say to the student, "control the desires of the body.
Make them do the bidding of the Self, because it is only by so doing that
you can gain the immortal heights of god-hood, looking down upon the
fleeting dream of personality, with its so-called pleasures, as a bad
nightmare compared to the joys that await the immortals."

Therefore, concentrate upon experience for the sake of the Self that you
are, and learn the lesson of your experience, throwing aside the experience
itself, as you would cast aside the skin of an orange from which the juice
had been extracted. Don't fill the areas of your mortal mind with
rubbish--with memories of "benefits forgot;" or loves unrequited; or
friendships broken; or misspent hours; or unhallowed words and acts.

Cull from each day's experience all that helps to develop the spiritual
man--all that will stand the te