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times, you will find that a half-hour's relaxation, or even a little "snooze,"
will do wonders toward refreshing you and enabling you to do better work
when you arise. Many of our most successful business and professional
men, have learned this secret, and many a time when they are reported as
being "very busy for a half-hour" they are really lying on their couches,
relaxing, breathing deeply, and giving nature a chance to recuperate. By
alternating a little rest with one's work, he will be able to do twice as good
work as if he had worked without a break or rest. Think over these things a
little, you people of the Western world, and you may be even more
"strenuous" by varying your strenuosity by occasional relaxation and rest.
A little "letting-go" helps one to take a fresh grip and to hold-on all the
harder.
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Chapter 30:
Regeneration.
In this chapter we can but briefly direct your attention to a subject of vital
importance to the race, but which the race generally is not ready to
seriously consider. Owing to the present state of public opinion upon this
subject, it is impossible to write as plainly as one would like, or as is really
necessary, and all writings upon the subject in question are apt to be
considered as "impure," although the only object of the writer may be to
counteract the impurity and improper practices indulged by the public.
However, some brave writers have managed to give the public a very fair
acquaintance with the subject of regeneration, so that the majority of our
readers will readily understand what we mean.
We will not take up the important subject of the use of regeneration as
applied to the relation of the two sexes, as that subject is so important as to
require a volume by itself, and then, besides, this work is scarcely the one
in which this subject should be discussed in detail. We will, however, say a
few words on the subject. The Yogis regard as wholly unnatural the
excesses entered into by the majority of men, and into which they compel
their partners in matrimony to join. They believe that the sex-principle is
too sacred to be so abused, and feel that man often descends below the
level of the brute in his sex relations. With but one or two exceptions the
lower animals have sexual relations only for the purpose of perpetuating
their kind, and sexual excesses, drains and waste such as man indulges in is
almost entirely unknown to the lower animal.
As man has advanced in the scale of life, however, he has brought to light
new functions of sex, and there is an interchange of certain higher
principles between the sexes, which does not occur to the brutes or to the
more material forms of human life this is reserved for the man and
woman of developed mentality and spirituality. Proper relations between
husband and wife tend to elevate, strengthen, and ennoble, instead of
degrading, weakening and defiling the participants, as is the case when the
said relation is based upon mere sensuality. This is the reason that there is
so much marital in harmony and discord when one of the partners rises to a
higher plane of thought, and finds that his or her partner is unable to
follow. Thereafter their mutual relations are upon different planes, and they
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fail to find in each other that which they might wish for. This is all we wish
to say upon this particular part of the subject here. There are a number of
good books upon the subject, that our students may find by inquiring at the
centres for advanced thought literature in the different cities and towns. We
will confine ourselves in the remainder of this short chapter to the
discussion of the subject of the importance of preserving sexual strength
and health.
While leading a life in which the actual relations of the sexes does not play
an important part, the Yogis recognize and appreciate the importance of
healthy reproductive organism, and their effect upon the general health of
the individual. With these organs in a weakened condition the entire
physical system feels the reflex action and suffers sympathetically. The
Complete Breath (described elsewhere in this book) produces a rhythm
which is nature's own plan for keeping this important part of the system in
normal condition, and, from the first, it will be noticed that the
reproductive functions are strengthened and vitalized, thus, by sympathetic
reflex action, giving tone to the whole system. By this we do not mean that
the animal passions will be aroused far from it. The Yogis are advocates
of continence and chastity, and purity in the marriage relation as well as
out of it. They have learned to control the animal passions, and to hold
them subject to the control of the higher principles of the mind and will.
But sexual control does not mean sexual weakness, and the Yogi teachings
are that the man or woman whose reproductive organism is normal and
healthy will have a stronger will with which to control himself or herself.
The Yogi believes that much of the perversion of this wonderful part of the
system comes from a lack of normal health and results from a morbid
rather than from a normal condition of the reproductive system. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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times, you will find that a half-hour's relaxation, or even a little "snooze,"
will do wonders toward refreshing you and enabling you to do better work
when you arise. Many of our most successful business and professional
men, have learned this secret, and many a time when they are reported as
being "very busy for a half-hour" they are really lying on their couches,
relaxing, breathing deeply, and giving nature a chance to recuperate. By
alternating a little rest with one's work, he will be able to do twice as good
work as if he had worked without a break or rest. Think over these things a
little, you people of the Western world, and you may be even more
"strenuous" by varying your strenuosity by occasional relaxation and rest.
A little "letting-go" helps one to take a fresh grip and to hold-on all the
harder.
- 162 -
www.metta.org.uk
Chapter 30:
Regeneration.
In this chapter we can but briefly direct your attention to a subject of vital
importance to the race, but which the race generally is not ready to
seriously consider. Owing to the present state of public opinion upon this
subject, it is impossible to write as plainly as one would like, or as is really
necessary, and all writings upon the subject in question are apt to be
considered as "impure," although the only object of the writer may be to
counteract the impurity and improper practices indulged by the public.
However, some brave writers have managed to give the public a very fair
acquaintance with the subject of regeneration, so that the majority of our
readers will readily understand what we mean.
We will not take up the important subject of the use of regeneration as
applied to the relation of the two sexes, as that subject is so important as to
require a volume by itself, and then, besides, this work is scarcely the one
in which this subject should be discussed in detail. We will, however, say a
few words on the subject. The Yogis regard as wholly unnatural the
excesses entered into by the majority of men, and into which they compel
their partners in matrimony to join. They believe that the sex-principle is
too sacred to be so abused, and feel that man often descends below the
level of the brute in his sex relations. With but one or two exceptions the
lower animals have sexual relations only for the purpose of perpetuating
their kind, and sexual excesses, drains and waste such as man indulges in is
almost entirely unknown to the lower animal.
As man has advanced in the scale of life, however, he has brought to light
new functions of sex, and there is an interchange of certain higher
principles between the sexes, which does not occur to the brutes or to the
more material forms of human life this is reserved for the man and
woman of developed mentality and spirituality. Proper relations between
husband and wife tend to elevate, strengthen, and ennoble, instead of
degrading, weakening and defiling the participants, as is the case when the
said relation is based upon mere sensuality. This is the reason that there is
so much marital in harmony and discord when one of the partners rises to a
higher plane of thought, and finds that his or her partner is unable to
follow. Thereafter their mutual relations are upon different planes, and they
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fail to find in each other that which they might wish for. This is all we wish
to say upon this particular part of the subject here. There are a number of
good books upon the subject, that our students may find by inquiring at the
centres for advanced thought literature in the different cities and towns. We
will confine ourselves in the remainder of this short chapter to the
discussion of the subject of the importance of preserving sexual strength
and health.
While leading a life in which the actual relations of the sexes does not play
an important part, the Yogis recognize and appreciate the importance of
healthy reproductive organism, and their effect upon the general health of
the individual. With these organs in a weakened condition the entire
physical system feels the reflex action and suffers sympathetically. The
Complete Breath (described elsewhere in this book) produces a rhythm
which is nature's own plan for keeping this important part of the system in
normal condition, and, from the first, it will be noticed that the
reproductive functions are strengthened and vitalized, thus, by sympathetic
reflex action, giving tone to the whole system. By this we do not mean that
the animal passions will be aroused far from it. The Yogis are advocates
of continence and chastity, and purity in the marriage relation as well as
out of it. They have learned to control the animal passions, and to hold
them subject to the control of the higher principles of the mind and will.
But sexual control does not mean sexual weakness, and the Yogi teachings
are that the man or woman whose reproductive organism is normal and
healthy will have a stronger will with which to control himself or herself.
The Yogi believes that much of the perversion of this wonderful part of the
system comes from a lack of normal health and results from a morbid
rather than from a normal condition of the reproductive system. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]