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Raja-Yoga - Chapter-II : The First Steps. 4. - Swami Vivekananda : Chicago 1893.

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 ==================================================================== #RAMAKRISHNA MATH DELHI ====================================================================== Sunday, November 21, 2021.6:00.AM. Raja-Yoga - Chapter-II : The First Steps.2 - 4. Chapter-II : The First Steps. - 4. ===================================================================== We do not know anything about our own bodies; we cannot know. At best we can take a dead body, and cut it in pieces, and there are some who can take a live animal and cut it in pieces in order to see what is inside the body. Still, that has nothing to do with our own bodies.  We know very little about them. Why do we not?  Because our attention is not discriminating enough to catch the very fine movements that are going on within. We can know of them only when the mind becomes more subtle and enters, as it were, deeper into the body. To get the subtle perception we have to begin with the grosser perceptions. We have to get ho...