Practical Guidance 221student in helping or impeding him. If the sub-period is
favourable, it will help and if it is unfavourable it will
hinder the expression of the person. During the favourable
sub-periods, he should try to increase his personal
magnetism through meditation and Pra-n.a-ya-ma. During
the unfavourable sub-periods he should try to keep busy
with environment, without being busy mentally. He
should try to neutralise the vibrations of his impulses
through a practice of poise. Untiring patience and
tolerance are absolutely necessary. It is not the suppression
of his impulses that helps him, but it is the practice of the
ease and sportsman spirit, that is, conscious acceptance.
After gaining mastery over the above step, he knows
that there are still other subdivisions which influence him
during a day. The day is also of four quarters of six hours
duration each. From Sunrise to noon is the first quarter
and from noon to Sunset, the second. From Sunset to
midnight, it is the third, and from midnight to Sunrise, it
is the fourth quarter. Each of these four quarters is
favourable and unfavourable alternately (This is proved
by the correspondence of the geometrical truth that when
two straight lines cut across one another, the opposite
angles are equal). One should know the trend of the first
quarter by the reactions to the first few persons or
incidents and decide if it is favourable or not. It continues
for six hours. He should wait or pursue his affairs,
according to the favourable nature or otherwise of the
quarter.