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 <\/span>Energy Inexhaustible <\/span><\/font><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\nO<\/font><\/span>ne of
\nthe most powerful aids that yogic discipline can provide to the sportsman is to
\nteach him how to renew his energies by drawing them from the inexhaustible
\nsource of universal energy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Modern science has made great progress in the art of nourishment,
\nwhich is the best known means of replenishing one’s energies. But this process
\nis at best precarious and subject to all kinds of limitations. We shall not
\nspeak about it here, for the subject has already been discussed at great length.
\nBut it is quite obvious that so long as the world and men are what they are,
\nfood is an indispensable factor. Yogic science knows of other ways of acquiring
\nenergy, and we shall mention two of the most important. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first is to put oneself in relation with the energies
\naccumulated in the terrestrial material world and to draw freely from this
\ninexhaustible source. These material energies are obscure and half unconscious;
\nthey encourage animality in man, but, at the same time, they establish a kind
\nof harmonious relationship between the human being and material Nature. Those
\nwho know how to receive and use these energies are usually successful in life
\nand succeed in everything they undertake. But they are still largely dependent
\non their living conditions and their state of bodily health. The harmony
\ncreated in them is not immune from all attack; it usually vanishes when
\ncircumstances become adverse. The child spontaneously receives this energy from
\nmaterial Nature as he expends all his energies without calculating, joyfully
\nand freely. But in most human beings, as they grow up, this faculty is blunted
\nby the worries of life, as a result of the predominant place which mental
\nactivities come to occupy in the consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, there is a source of energy which, once discovered, is
\nnever exhausted, whatever the outer circumstances and <\/span>
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physical conditions of life may be. It is the energy that can be
\ndescribed as spiritual, and is received no longer from below, from the
\ninconscient depths, but from above, from the supreme origin of the universe and
\nman, from the all-powerful and eternal splendours of the superconscient. It is
\nthere, all around us, permeating everything; and to enter into contact with it
\nand to receive it, it is enough to aspire sincerely for it, to open oneself to
\nit in faith and trust, to widen one’s consciousness and identify it with the
\nuniversal Consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the outset, this may seem very difficult, if not impossible.
\nYet by examining this phenomenon more closely, one can see that it is not so
\nalien, not so remote from the normally developed human consciousness. Indeed,
\nthere are very few people who have not felt, at least once in their lives, as
\nif lifted up beyond themselves, filled with an unexpected and uncommon force
\nwhich, for a time, has made them capable of doing anything whatever; at such
\nmoments nothing seems too difficult and the word \u201cimpossible\u201d loses its
\nmeaning. <\/span><\/p>\n

This experience, however fleeting it may be, gives a glimpse of
\nthe kind of contact with the higher energy that yogic discipline can secure and
\nmaintain. <\/span><\/p>\n

The method of achieving this contact can hardly be given here.
\nBesides, it is something individual and unique for each one, which starts from
\nwhere he stands, adapting itself to his personal needs and helping him to take
\none more step forward. The path is sometimes long and slow, but the result is
\nworth the trouble one takes. We can easily imagine the consequences of this
\npower to draw at will and in all circumstances on the boundless source of an
\nenergy that is all-powerful in its luminous purity. Weariness, exhaustion,
\nillness, old age and even death become mere obstacles on the way, which a
\npersistent will is sure to overcome. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Bulletin,<\/span><\/i> August 1949 <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 264<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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