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This book is an introduction to the fascinating study of universal influences, not from a mere observation of their outward effects, but, as it were, from within. Readers will be inspired to a sense of their own kinship with the universe and with universal realities. Swami Kriyananda has been a student and teacher of the ancient science of Raja Yoga since 1948, when he became a direct disciple of the great yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda. He is the founder of Ananda, a yoga community in northern California. His interest in the stars as windows to a higher reality dates back to 1938, when he was twelve years old. It was the stellar mysteries, in fact, that started him on his lifelong search for enlightenment.