Chapter 1Religion and Yoga · Religion and the Truth

A very strong time sense [in animals] — at least some of them — but usually it works only in connection with strong desires or habits, e.g. food.

* Cats have a very sure vital perception.

* Most animals do not usually attack unless they are menaced or frightened or somehow made angry — and they can feel the atmosphere of people.

* There are people who can move the ears without doing Yoga at all or calling upon the resources of the Kundalini. I suppose it is simply a movement that man has lost through disuse, not having had like the animals to prick up his ear at every moment to listen to sounds that might indicate danger. I suppose he could revive the faculty if it were of any use.

* Yes — to watch the animals with the right perception of their consciousness helps to get out of the human mental limitations and see the Cosmic Consciousness on earth individualising itself in all forms — plant, animal, man and growing towards what is beyond man.

It is true that the plant world — even the animals if one takes them the right way — can be much better than human beings. It is the mental distortion that makes men worse.

* The plants are very psychic, but they can express it only by silence and beauty.

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