On Vows

Fix thy Soul’s gaze upon the star wholse ray thou art, the flaming star that shines within the lightless depths of ever-being, the boundless fields of the Unknown.

There, for the self’s purification he should practice meditation with his mind fixed on one point, the modifications of the thinking principle controlled and the action of the sense and organs restrained.….the Yogee should remain, settled in the vow of Brahmacharya.”

During this development the disciple encounters harmony, pure knowledge, pure truth, in different degrees, and, as he enters these degrees, he finds himself becoming part of what might be roughly described as a layer of human consciousness. He encounters his equals, men of his own self-less character, and with them his association becomes permanent and indissoluble, because founded on a vital likeness of nature. To them he becomes pledged by such vows as need no utterance or framework in ordinary words. This is one aspect of what I mean by a Brotherhood.