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"The Process of Mastering Yourself and Your Destiny"
An excerpt from the Lost Tapes of Maneck Anklesaria
Tape 1: "Lessons on the uses of the Conscious and Subconscious mind, Interpretation of Dreams, Secrets of the Subconscious" June 24, 1957
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Transcript of this section of Maneck's lecture:
The most favorable time for exercising and tapping the subconscious is either at bedtime or the moment of awakening in the morning, or both.
Whenever your mind is not loaded and you are light and not tension with the worldly pressures, that is the best time to touch your subconscious. Some people have got a psychological moment in their life when they feel most relaxed – at seven in the evening, or at nine in the evening, at two o’clock in the morning, at six o’clock in the morning, at two o’clock in the afternoon – find out the moment when you feel most relaxed, when your dynamics of mental energy is working, and work accordingly.
The union with the subconscious mind should be practiced in seclusion. One should be detached from all noises if possible, completely relaxed, and in comfortable reclining position as though in preparation for sleep. The bed chamber darkened, and the eyes closed.
With a little practice, the experimenter will soon develop the power to transfer the faculties of will, memory, and attention into his sleeping state, and thus be able to invoke his subconscious self that way.
Doubt, fear, and despair render the successful application of autosuggestion impossible. Like you are dialing your friend. The phone rings on the other side twice. And you become impatient, and you hang up the telephone, that he is not there or she is not there. In reality, your friend may be running from the back door, from the basement, from the kitchen, but you give up the phone. In the like manner, God is listening to your prayers. Your prayer power’s already touching the button or doorbell of the heavens and the heavenly storehouse. But then you become impatient and block off your own receiving of the divine gift. You are to blame.
So do not be impatient. As I said, take a ninety-nine year old lease on the thing. Practice and learn to control the functions of the body organs to autosuggestion. There is no doubt this can be done and accomplished, and many are doing it successfully. In other words, regulate yourself. Regulate the working of your mind power. Work on your body. Work on your muscles, work on your body organs. If you have got constipation, well work on your stomach so it can be relaxed. You don’t have to have medicines. You don’t need even Doctor Maneck. Just relax. Be your own doctor. Be your own healer. Seek, and the things will come back to you.
I can go and say, seek ye the kingdom of God and then God will open the door and things will come back to you. Knock and tap at your subconscious and subconscious, like a ball from the bottom of the pool, will come up, so your subconscious will bring to you, to the surface, the gifts. But you must be ready for action in utilizing the gifts.
Learn to master your impulses, habits, vices, passions, emotions in the same way. Do not become slaves to something that is unnecessary and undesirable in your life, and say that oh that was bad, I should have done differently. Well many persons do say one day I should have done differently, but next day they do it all over again. He who is master of himself is master of his own destiny. How so ever little is your shortcomings, but why adulterate your fine alchemy with something that is unworthy of your holy body self.
Keep your own counsel and practice secretly. To confide in others will cause you to be laughed at, weaken your faith, and weaken the power of your auto suggestion.
That which is yours is yours. That which is associated with yourself is also yours.
And until that which is yours you can bring it out to the wide world, wide open, registered in your name, associated with your consciousness, keep that which is yours as sacred and secret, unmixed with the vibrations and thoughts of other people, including Tom, Mary, Jane, brother, sister, uncle, auntie, husband, wife, father, mother, and all.
Your own creation and child of your soul is your own. Do not let the vibrations of those people who do not understand be put upon that which is sacred of you, because you are fighting then a fooling battle. You have enough things to contend in this world, why make some more? The saying goes, “empty vessel, sounds much.” If you have got depth and dynamics, you’ll keep quiet until the thing comes to pass as you want it.
More Gems and Morsels
from the Lost Tapes of Maneck
Tape 1: "Lessons on the uses of the Conscious and Subconscious mind, Interpretation of Dreams, Secrets of the Subconscious" June 24, 1957
Click each link to play the audio and read the transcript
1. Become in Tune With Divine Infinite Spirit (1:28)
2. Welcoming the Blessings of Our Subconscious Self (6:12)
3. How to Contact the Inner Self (3:08)
4. The Process of Mastering Yourself and Your Destiny (8:11)
5. Recharging Yourself With a Bath (1:28)
6. Molding the Clay of Your Personality (2:38)
7. Inspiring Exercises for the Morning (5:32)
8. Dreams as Divine Instruments (4:15)
9. The Three Kinds of Dreams (5:53)
10. Going to Sleep Joyfully (3:31)
Philosopher, metaphysician, storyteller,
and teacher of practical and esoteric wisdom
for a happy, healthy, and successful life
A discovery of fifty-year-old reel-to-reel audio tapes with spiritual, metaphysical, psychological, and scientific lectures by a wonderful Indian philosopher who was close friends with Gandhi, Yogananda, and other greats.
Filled with good advice for body, mind, soul, and spirit, powerful metaphysical truths for spiritual realization, and practical tools to help you manifest greater health, happiness, and personal evolution in your own life.
Maneck Anklesaria was born in India in 1899. At age 18, he worked with Mohandas Gandhi for several years, and again worked with Gandhi at age 30. Anklesaria studied at the University of Michigan, and spoke widely throughout the United States and the world for decades, sharing the spiritual wisdom of India with spiritual seekers and students, many of whom experienced great personal benefits from practicing the knowledge and suggestions he offered.
Maneck's content and speaking style is interesting, entertaining, charming, practical, spiritual and scientific, psychological and metaphysical, and applicable to one's own life and spiritual journey.
We have just begun the process of going through forty reel-to-reel tapes of Maneck's lectures from the late 1950s and early 1960s, and are sharing some excerpts here for the benefit of today's seekers who are looking for inspiring, practical, and authentic spiritual advice.
The "lost tapes of Maneck" include full-length lectures on many fascinating topics, including: Understanding Nature’s finer forces, Finding Our Real Self, “The Inner I Am,” The Law of Soul Progression: Karma and Reincarnation, The Alchemy of Spiritual Love, The State of Tranquility, “Rousing Conciousness, Mental Clarvoyance and Clairaudience, Art of Meditation, Healing and Occult Phenomena, Lesson on Love and Marriage, Studies into Nature Consciousness with Relation, Human Evolution, Kaya-Kalpa Art of One At Onement with the Universal Nature Symphony, Divine Healing and Service, Getting Recharged Daily, Your Body is a Metaphysical Expression, Dynamic Brain Power, and more.
These tapes are a treasurehouse of spiritual knowledge and wisdom, with wonderful stories and Maneck's lovely humor to boot.
A Few Gems and Morsels
from the Lost Tapes of Maneck
Tape 1: "Lessons on the uses of the Conscious and Subconscious mind, Interpretation of Dreams, Secrets of the Subconscious" June 24, 1957
Click each link to play the audio and read the transcript
1. Becoming in tune with divine infinite spirit
2. Welcoming the blessings of our subconscious self
3. How to contact the inner self
4. The process of mastering yourself and your destiny
5. Recharging yourself with a bath
6. Molding the clay of your personality with brain power
7. Inspiring exercises for the morning
8. Dreams as divine instruments to open the ivory gates