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==Hatha Yoga==
The chief processes of Hatha Yoga are ''āsana'' and ''prāṇāyāma''. By its numerous āsanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical Nature and kept within the narrow bounds of her normal operations. In the ancient tradition of Hatha Yoga it has always been supposed that this conquest could be pushed so far even as to conquer to a great extent the force of gravitation. By various subsidiary but elaborate processes the Hatha Yogin next contrives to keep the body free from all impurities and the nervous system unclogged for those exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called ''prāṇāyāma'', the control of the breath or vital power; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. ''Prāṇāyāma'', for the Hatha Yogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature; robust health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity are attained. On the other hand, prāṇāyāma awakens the coiled up serpent of the Pranic dynamism in the vital sheath and opens to the Yogin fields of consciousness, ranges of experience, abnormal faculties denied to the ordinary human life while it puissantly intensifies such normal powers and faculties as he already possesses. These advantages can be further secured and emphasised by other subsidiary processes open to the Hatha Yogin. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p9</ref>
==Heart==
Heredity is only a material shadow of soul-reproduction, of the rebirth of Life and Mind into new forms. Ordinarily, as a constant factor or basis, there is the reproduction of that which was already evolved; for new characteristics to be propagated in the species they must have been accepted, received, sanctioned in the vital and mental worlds; then only can they be automatically self-reproduced from the material seed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/16/evolution#p17</ref>
==Higher Vital==
...the term 'higher vital' is confined to that larger movement of the conscious life-force which is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving and gathering from the world for further action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/planes-and-parts-of-the-being-x#p13</ref>
==Holocaust of the Divine==
The manifestation of the love of the Divine in the world was the great holocaust, the supreme self-giving. The Perfect Consciousness accepted to be merged and absorbed into the unconsciousness of matter, so that consciousness might be awakened in the depths of its obscurity and little by little a Divine Power might rise in it and make the whole of this manifested universe a highest expression of the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. This was the supreme love, to accept the loss of the perfect condition of supreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, to dwell in the world with ignorance and darkness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p6</ref>
==Hostile Forces==
The hostile forces are those which try to pervert everything and are in revolt against the Divine and opposed to the yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/the-divine-and-the-hostile-powers-ii#p15</ref>
The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/opposition-of-the-hostile-forces-i#p8</ref>
The hostile forces have a certain self-chosen function: it is to test the condition of the individual, of the work, of the earth itself and their readiness for the spiritual descent and fulfilment. At every step of the journey, they are there attacking furiously, criticising, suggesting, imposing despondency or inciting to revolt, raising unbelief, amassing difficulties. This opposition has been permitted from of old not merely as a test or ordeal, but as a compulsion on us to seek a greater strength, a more perfect self-knowledge, an intenser purity and force of aspiration, a faith that nothing can crush, a more powerful descent of the Divine Grace.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/opposition-of-the-hostile-forces-i#p12</ref>
==Human being==
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