The Individual Nature : 9.

Study, reflection and meditation are the processes of the method of self-transcendence.

 A careful analysis and study of the nature of experience, under the guidance of an able spiritual teacher, is indispensable for meditation on the spiritual Reality.

The defects involved in relative experience, and the fact of its being finally centered in and reducible to the reality of the Absolute, are to be discovered in order that attachment to external forms of experience may be withdrawn, and all energy be focused on the supreme Self-consciousness.

The nature of instinctive reactions and blind urges have to be clearly understood before any attempt to control them may be made.

No practice can be of any lasting value, if it is not preceded by a correct knowledge of the inner anatomy and constitution of the meaning and method of that practice.

One must act only after knowing how to act, why to act and what the act really is.

Action must be based on a knowledge thereof. This knowledge, on which all spiritual practices are based, is the forerunner of dispassion for all externalisation towards things.

True renunciation is not the abandonment of any 'thing', but the relinquishment of the thinness in things, the abjectness in objects, the externality in experience, the projectedness in consciousness.
Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....