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68 series of thoughts and on different subjects, as in the intellectual method. Under this method are included all forms of worship (such as prayer, from which we must eliminate all thoughts of worldly things), or objects of reverence. The Spiritual self must fix its attention deeply on whatsoever it chooses to concentrate on. It may be any thing that it likes. The Spiritual self may create a Personal God, an Impersonal Omnipresent God, or any other thing. It must simply concentrate on one subject of thought in good earnest.

By this process the Spiritual self becomes gradually freed from the disturbances of vagrant thoughts—the second series of disturbances—and gets time and opportunity to think itself in itself. When we pray earnestly, we forget all bodily sensations and drive away all intruding thoughts that try to engage our attention.

The deeper our prayer, the more intense is the satisfaction felt, and this becomes the