An Introduction to Yoga/Lecture I/Chapter 3

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An Introduction to Yoga
by Annie Wood Besant
Lecture I/Chapter 3: The Oneness of the Self
183012An Introduction to Yoga — Lecture I/Chapter 3: The Oneness of the SelfAnnie Wood Besant

The Oneness of the Self

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you. He, the Supreme, does not evolve. In Him there are no additions or subtractions. His portions, the Jivatmas, are as Himself, and they only unfold their powers in matter as conditions around them draw those powers forth. If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga will not seem an impossible thing to you.