INNER OPENING

For many purposes the in going movement is indispensable. Its effect is to break or atleast to open and pass the barrier between this outer instrumental consciousness and the inner being which it very partially strives to express, and to make possible in future a conscious awareness of all the endless riches of possibility and experience and new being and new life that lie untapped behind the veil of this small and very blind and limited material personality which men erroneously think to be the whole of themselves. It is the beginning and constant enlarging of this deeper and fuller and richer awareness that is accomplished between the inward plunge and the return from this inner world to the waking state.

The piercing of the veil between the outer consciousness and the inner being is one of the crucial movements in yoga. For yoga means union with the Divine, but it also means awaking first to your inner self and then to your higher self, – a movement inward and a movement upward. It is, in fact, only through the awakening and coming to the front of the inner being that you can get into union with the Divine.

She forced her way through body to the soul.
Across a perilous border line she passed
Where life dips into the subconscient dusk
Or struggles from Matter into chaos of mind.