The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c16.47

c16.47

Aryan culture was the consecration of mind and body for communion with the Higher Intelligence by a special series of exercises, both mental and physical. Patanjali was the chief exponent of this science of mysticism, which gradually became one of the fundamental doctrines of Indo-Aryan religion. The miraculous powers attributed to those who were expert in the science naturally led to much charlatanism and abuse; and even the most saintly of Hindu men and women have sometimes failed to recognise that, just as Reason without Intuition may tend to spiritual blindness, so the finest intuitive faculties without the complementary reasoning intelligence may be as a sharp razor in the hands of a child.