The Art of Self-Mastery
Neydan Gyam Yesly & Yorg Lis Cherry
It has been clearly stated that life lived by the average individual is hypnotic; that is, the majority of men and
women are not living life as it was intended at all. Not one in a million feels the freedom to live what he
inwardly feels he should live. He has come under the world opinion of himself and this opinion is what he
obeys, rather than the law of his own being. In this respect and to this degree he is living under an hypnotic
spell. He lives under the delusion that he is a mere human being, living in a merely material world, and only
hopes to escape it when he dies and goes to what he calls Heaven. This is not the determination intended
in the plan and purpose of life. Obedience to one's inner nature, the expression of life as he instinctively
feels it ought to be expressed, is the very foundation of the life which the masters reveal as the only true
mode of living.
Now; the difference between the teachings and practices of the masters and those of fakirs is that the fakir
only intensifies the hypnotic condition of the mind. Further false and material pictures are so impressed upon
the sensitive minds of people that they are thrown into further states of hypnosis. The masters say,
"That which seems external exists not at all," by which they mean that it is not what appears that is the
reality of life. The reality of life is that which moves out from the very center of one's being. They seek in
every way to clarify their minds of world impressions and sit in long periods of Samadhi - Silence - in order
that they may see clearly that innermost trend of their nature. Then their next attempt is to live in thought,
word, and act that movement which they have discerned within themselves. True mastery is living the
instruction of the inner teacher, the inner self, and not seeking the opinions of the world.
Nor does the method of the fakirs differ in any large measure from much of the teaching and practice of
the metaphysical world of the West. The gathering of thoughts from teachers and books, building them
into the conscious nature of one's being, is to establish a false determination which is largely hypnotic.
The mere making of one's consciousness over according to thoughts evolved by other's minds is to
impose a false condition upon that individual. To manipulate the body, the affairs, or to concentrate within
the body to awaken its centers or functions is only to throw the individual further out of the true
determination of life and the "last state of that man is worse than the first." Instruction received from the
without must be taken into the mentality and assimilated, analyzed, checked with the deepest facts of
one's own inner nature in order to determine if it be true to the Self. One best consult the Self first and
gain his outer knowledge thus at first hand. The first method is slow and retarding to one's progress,
while the latter is swift and freeing. Notice the difference when you act according to someone's instruction
and when you obey what you instinctively feel to be the right thing to do. This of itself should teach us that
the way of life is from within out.
The forces of life are silent and that is the main reason for the silent nature of the masters. That is the way
they keep in harmony with life itself. Even our Scriptures teach in substance that a multitude of words is
not without sin. Only when we speak in harmony with what we inwardly feel do we let ourselves out into
complete harmony with the true determation of life. Have you not noticed that when you speak what you
feel, just as when you do what you feel is right, that you are free?
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East
Volume 4, page 197-198
It is that which moves in man's innermost nature that is identical with the great Universal Mind or God.
"The law of God is written in your inward parts." Mastership is bringing to the surface what is buried within.
This is brought about only through deep meditation and consulting with the SELF, which is the only
master one can ever find that will lead him to the goal of life.
Overcoming is all a matter of learning to drop all seeming conditions of mind, body, and affairs and to
begin life over again at its beginning. Start with the idea that you are that Self which you inwardly long
to be and so devote yourself to being that Self that everything else is forgotten. Once you have found
your Self and have become that Self, you are a master and a world helper. Many such working together
in Silence will spread an influence over the world more powerful than any movements that originate in
the machinery of organized industry, war, or social reform. The effectiveness of one's life is not so much
in what he does but in how he does it and how he does it is determined by the degree of himself he has
discovered.
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East
Volume 4, page 200
Spirit is Cause and when man returns to Cause, his Source, he becomes whole and sound. He is not only
sound in mind but sound in body and his affairs become sound for his entire being is united into that great
Unity which is the essential nature of all things. It is the soundness or oneness of all things in and with
Source. Soundness or unity cannot mean anything less than the whole. It cannot refer to any individual
or part of the whole. It must refer to the oneness of the whole. Everything is a center of unity or a center
where the oneness of all things must be preserved and manifest. To localize or segregate any fact is to
take it completely out of its nature and to lose its meaning altogether. When Christ spoke, "These and
greater things shall ye do," or when Emil said, "You can do these things just as easily as I can do them,"
they were speaking from this consciousness of the only true unity, the soundness of the individual in his
relationship to and with the whole.
This life of oneness is the life of the masters and anyone may live that life if he will drop his alliances with
institutions and religions and races and nations and accept his alliance with the Universe. This is the
"ark of the covenant" which enabled the Children of Israel to succeed but, when it was lost, they failed to
gain their liberty from opposition.
All separation is purely a matter of individual hypothesis. One cannot really be separated from the whole
for he is created within it, is a part of it, and is like unto it. Love is the great unifier in the consciousness
of man and to keep oneself always in an attitude of love IS to progress toward oneness. It is the only
preserver of life and health and ability. One need not try to love everybody but he must eternally seek
to keep his nature whole through the increase of love. When one's nature expands in love, he will
sooner or later find himself in a loving attitude toward all men and, in this attitude, he not only lifts himself
but all those around him into that same oneness. There are no divisions in an awakened sense of love.
One does not gain mastery or illumination by going to India and sitting at the feet of a master.
One gains mastery by listening to the deepest facts of his own nature and by obeying what he there learns.
There is no help that is needed that is not available instantly if one but turns in this direction and proceeds
from this fact. All the power of the Universe is back of every high motive, every true impulse that stirs in
man's inner nature. It is like the germ of life within the seed and all the forces of nature move to bring it
forth into its full expression of all its potentialities. This is the manner of the masters and their instruction
is always that you must be true to the Self, live the life of the Self, express what is inherently true until
you are outwardly what you inwardly long to be.
When man returns to this motive of life, all that there is in the Universe begins to move in upon him,
to manifest itself through him. Not only must man have the intelligence to direct him and the power to do
that which is to be done, but also the substance that nourishes and supports him in the doing. There is no
lack, except in the realm of hypnotic ideas that have clouded his mind from reality. Back in his native
oneness, where he consciously receives what the Universe is pouring out upon him, there can be no lack
in any phase of his being nor in his affairs.
The Quantum Theory is the approach of Science to this basic fact of life and there can be no true science,
religion, social structure, or successful living outside the undefeatable and indissoluble oneness of all things.
This is the road to mastery, the life of the masters, and the only true life there is. It is to be found just where
you are in the secret places of your own inner nature. The masters teach that liberation is to be found in this
and in no other way. Christ, speaking in the man Jesus, said the same thing when he said, "No man cometh
unto the Father but by me." The same Christ in you speaks the same message to you. Your only contact with
a master is through the mastery in yourself.
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East
Volume 4, page 202-204
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