The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ======+====== The Inner Life ====== 
 +== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | NOVEMBER 1935 == 
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 One evening our conversation takes a turn which is destined to have important results for me. He describes on occasions the queer customs and peculiar traditions of his countrymen; sometimes he portrays in words a few of the types whom people his amazing land. He drops a remark this evening which enters a strange type, Yogi. I possess but a vague and incoherent idea of what the term really means. It has come to my notice a few times during the course of my reading, but in each occasion the terms of reference differ so much from the others that confusion is the natural result. So when I hear my friend use the word I stop him short and beg for further information. One evening our conversation takes a turn which is destined to have important results for me. He describes on occasions the queer customs and peculiar traditions of his countrymen; sometimes he portrays in words a few of the types whom people his amazing land. He drops a remark this evening which enters a strange type, Yogi. I possess but a vague and incoherent idea of what the term really means. It has come to my notice a few times during the course of my reading, but in each occasion the terms of reference differ so much from the others that confusion is the natural result. So when I hear my friend use the word I stop him short and beg for further information.
  
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 “And yet there seems to be much made of the mysterious powers possessed by Yogis,” I remark. “And yet there seems to be much made of the mysterious powers possessed by Yogis,” I remark.
  
-“Ah! how you must listen to a further definition,” he laughs back at me. “There are strange individuals in solitary retreats far from the big cities, in the seclusion of lonely jungles or mountain caves, men who devote their entire existence to practices which they believe will bring marvelous powers. Some of these men will eschew all mention of religion and scorn it; others, how- +“Ah! how you must listen to a further definition,” he laughs back at me. “There are strange individuals in solitary retreats far from the big cities, in the seclusion of lonely jungles or mountain caves, men who devote their entire existence to practices which they believe will bring marvelous powers. Some of these men will eschew all mention of religion and scorn it; others, however, 
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