Raja Yoga Tips

meditate upon the matters that we shall place before you for

consideration. Allow the matters presented to meet with a hospitable

reception from you, and hold a mental attitude of willingness to receive

what may be waiting for you in the higher regions of your mind.

We wish to call your attention to several mental impressions or

conditions, one after another, in order that you may realize that they

are merely something _incident_ to you, and _not_ YOU yourself--that you

may set them aside and consider them, just as you might anything that you

have been using. You cannot set the "I" aside and so consider it, but the

various forms of the "not I" may be so set aside and considered.

In the First Lesson you gained the perception of the "I" as independent

from the body, the latter merely being an instrument for use. You have

now arrived at the stage when the "I" appears to you to be a mental

creature--a bundle of thoughts, feelings, moods, etc. But you must go

farther. You must be able to distinguish the "I" from these mental

conditions, which are as much tools as is the body and its parts.