From our childhood we have been taught only to pay attention to things external, but never to things internal. So most of us have nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism. To turn the mind, as it were, inside, stop it from going outside, and then to concentrate all its powers, and throw them upon the mind itself, in order that it may know its own nature, analyze itself, is very hard work. Yet that is the only way to anything which will be a scientific approach to the subject.
From Swamiji's book "Raja Yoga," Chapter One, "Introductory." Complete Works, 1.129-30
SOURCE: Ramakrishna Vedanta Society | 58 Deerfield Street | Boston | MA | 02215
SOURCE: Ramakrishna Vedanta Society | 58 Deerfield Street | Boston | MA | 02215
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