Yoga Philosophy. Lectures Delivered in New York Winter of 1895-6 by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga or Conquering the Internal Nature

If we believe that the mind is simply a liner part of the body and that mind acts upon the body in the same way the body must act upon the And. [...] the eyes ; the eyes carry it to the organs the organs to the mind the mind to the14 RAJA YOGA. [...] It is the Alatia that becomes the air that becomes the liquids that becomes the solids ; it is the Akaga that become; the sun the earth the moon the stars the comets ; it is the Aldia that becomes the body the animal body the plants every form that we see everything that can be sensed everthing that exists. [...] At the beginning of creation there is only this Akida ; at the end of the cycle the solids the liquids and the gases all 30Pithy& 31 Melt into the Aki1.4a again and the next creation similarly proceeds out of this Alciga. [...] The sum-total of the energies in the universe remains the same througout only at the end of a cycle these energies quiet down become potential and at the beginning of the next cycle they start up strike upon the Akiga and out"32 RAJA YOGA.