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seem to forget everything but your personal concerns; you seem thoroughly steeped in animalism, selflove and hatred; you seem quite upset at the loss of your trifling worldly things; you seem swayed to and fro by other's opinions; by your own passions. Come, are you not a slave? Would you dare to part with your fleshy tenement at a moment's notice? Are you not far removed from God? Then, how dare you cry down the Yogi and his efforts to master himself? I say, how dare you? You profess to follow the dictates of the heart and yet your egg-shell existence of narrow selfism has quite dried up the fountain of love within you. No; so long as you are a slave, you cannot love and worship the Infinite. The intellect must be developed along spiritual lines; the will-force must have vanquished the animal cravings which are ever exerting a pull downwards. "The torch of wisdom must be lighted in the secret chamber of your heart." The soul must contemplate the glories of the Infinite Intelligence. Then, the love-force,-"the all-consuming fire?-shall inundate your heart. It will make your whole being vibrate in tune with the Infinite. The student of Yoga is taught to meditate upon the Supreme Euler of the Universe: Omkara! Why? Because to meditate thus is the highest worship. But that I have no power to teach. What is worship ? There is, the worship of Ignorance-Avidya; again there is a worship of the intelligence and illumined soul-the