“To the work thou hast the right, O Partha, but not to the fruits thereof”—­Gita.  All clinging to results leads to degeneration.  The soul should cling to nothing.  All work and all effort must be dedicated unto the Higher Self.  When you care for the results you are only worshipping the lower self.  Hence the value of selfless labour, thus the maya-fascinated mind is purified and de-hypnotised and we attain to the emergence of the personal into the Impersonal.  Either say “I am thou, O Lord!” and thus out at the root of the lower “I” and destroy it for ever or say “I am nothing, O Eternal One! thou art everything” and thereby lose the lower into the Higher.  The first is for the Gnani—­the second for the Bhakti Yogi.  Both mean the same thing.  Love everyone but do not depend upon the love of any one.  Give everything.  Take nothing.  Serve every one.  Do not care for service and gratitude in return.  You are the Heir to the Infinite.  All Power is behind you.  But so long as you are a beggar, a beggar shall you remain.  Renounce the lower self, Live for the Higher.  What you call Universal Love is the expression on the lower plane of the subjective reception of ABSOLUTE UNITY on the Buddhic plane and in SAMADHI (Final Illumination).

LESSONS III AND IV.

THE YOGI SELF-DEVELOPER

INTRODUCTION.

In lessons 1 and 2 we have initiated you into the mysteries of Will and Mind-Force, the governing principles of the Universe and the laws of their development.  We have also taught you how to acquire absolute control over Body and Mind.  In these lessons we have striven to point out to you the right “Mental Attitude” towards your daily life, so that while mainly engaged in the task of Self-Culture you might also lend a hand in the great work of strengthening the race.  Moreover our convictions, beliefs, and ideals are no mean, are insignificant factors in the determination of our health and environmental conditions.  They react on our circumstances as well as on the WHOLE MAN.  We have also given you important points of instruction in Soul Unfoldment, Meditation, Bramhacharya, Breathing, Fasting, Health-Culture, Body building and shown you, as distinctly as we could, the exact process of developing a single virtue in your self thereby you may master the process and method of developing other virtues, the lines of action and thought being well nigh similar in all, and foculising at certain common points of primary importance.  We have given the bare body of truth in connection with the development, evolution and unfoldment of the body and the soul, stripping of the metaphysical trappings and the theoretical draperies in which they are clothed.  We have had to literally rend asunder the heavy wheel that had the divine face of truth.  Hence our lessons are brief and to the point.  We have had to contend against and overcome another serious difficulty.