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stance of all the objective world, the reality behind the appearance, the universal and immanent in every being. It is inherently devoid of attachment. It has no awareness of agency or its own needs or nature or possessions. It has no I (I or mine). Memory is a function of the intellect, not the atma. The atma is imperishable. It does not die like the body and mind. It is the essential reality of the individual, the witness — unaffected by all this change in time and space, the imma- nent spirit in the body, complex abode, the mystery that is beyond that complex, the motivating force of the impulses and tensions and the intentions of that complex.
PRANA
C.W. Leadbeater, in his fascinating book The Chakras, defines three principal forces which yogis have described as energizing man’s “gross” and “subtle” bodies. The first of these he calls the “primary” or “life force” described as a stream of divine life, which pours into our body from without to combine with kundalini energy which originates within. To this mixture is added a third force called prana or vitality, which yogis claim comes from the sun like light and heat and is absorbed by a certain energy portal in the body which Leadbeater calls the spleen chakra. This energy may actually be visible as the tiny points of light dancing about in all directions when one looks into a blue sky. When prana is drawn into the force center of the spleen chakra, it is supposedly broken down into streams of different colored energy, which Leadbeater claims can be seen by clairvoyants.
A violet-blue ray moves upward to the throat where the blue aspect energizes the throat center and the violet enters up into the brain. A yellow ray is directed to the heart — a green ray to the abdomen centering in the solar plexus and vivifying the liver, kidneys, intestines and digestive apparatus. A rose-colored ray runs all over the body along the nerves and is clearly the life of the nervous system. This is the specialized vitality which one man may readily pour into another in whom it is deficient. If the nerves are not fully supplied with this rose light, they become sensitive and intensely irritable. A man in robust health usually absorbs and specializes so much more of this vitality than is actually needed by his own body that he is constantly radiating a torrent of rose- colored atoms and so unconsciously pours strength upon his


































































































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