Take an ordinary thing, such as a pencil.
Allowing the mind to pursue any associated by-paths... think of the thing in question from the following view-points:
(1) The thing itself.
(2) The place from whence it came.
(3) Its purpose or use.
(4) Its associations.
(5) Its probable end.
Ramacharaka's pencil multiplies into 10,000 things in the Cantos, but the method is the same. Both ABC and Raja Yoga tell the same anecdote of the naturalist Louis Agassiz instructing a student to look closely at a single fish for weeks until the fish rotted away.
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