activity, practice austerity and purity, study the Vedas (the original holy scriptures) and worship the supreme form of God, the Sovereign Person.

Silence must be observed, acquire constancy through the practice of different yogic postures, master the circulation of vital air, detach the senses from their objects, then concentrate the mind on the heart.

We call meditation of the mind, the fact of fixing the breath vital as well as the thought on one of the six circles where the vital breath circulates within the body, and thus to concentrate his mind on the transcendent entertainments of the Sovereign Lord.

Through these practices, or by any other recognized way, one must come to master the unbridled mind, which is defiled by matter and always yields to the attraction of material pleasure, and thus establish oneself in the mind of the Sovereign Lord.

After mastering the mind and sitting postures s, it is necessary to have a seat in a secluded and sanctified place, to sit there in an easy posture, to keep the body upright, and to practice the mastery of the breathing.

The spiritualist must free the passage of the vital breath by breathing as follows: he must first breathe in very deeply, then hold his breath, and finally breathe out. Or, by reversing the process, he can first breathe out, then keep the air out, and finally inhale. The purpose of this practice is to acquire the stability of the mind and to free it from all external disturbances.

Spiritualists who practice these breathing exercises are soon freed from all mental disturbance, just as gold is freed from all impurity when immersed in fire and fanned out.

By the practice of mastery of the breath, one can eliminate the taint of one's physiological condition, and through the concentration of the mind, one can free oneself from any act guilty. Through the discipline of the senses, one can escape contact with matter, and through meditation on God, the Sovereign Person, one can free oneself from the grip of the three attributes or forms of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance, the source of material attachment. When the mind is thus purified by this practice of yoga, it is then necessary to bring the concentration on the tip of the nose, the eyes half-closed, and to contemplate the form of the Sovereign Lord.

The Sovereign Lord shows a smiling face, similar -au-lotus, with eyes with reddish shades like the inside of a lotus, as well as a dark complexion (blue-black) like the petals of the blue lotus. In three of his hands, he carries a conch, a disc and a mace.

A silky fabric, the dazzling yellow of the lotus filaments surrounds his loins. On his chest He wears the Srivatsa, a tuft of white hairs, and the resplendent Kaustubha jewel hangs from his neck. He also wears a garland of pretty wild flowers around his