The eight powers

You will have noticed that this book never gives you a table of eight and asks you to learn it. That is deliberate. A numbered system is where an ordinary reader puts a book down, and none of these eight is any use as a word — they are only ever useful as a situation you are actually in.

So they arrived as situations. Here they are collected, for readers who want the system, and for anyone going on to The Inward Singularity, where they are taught properly.

	The power	In this book	Where
1	To withdraw — Vistaar ko Sankeern Karne ki Shakti	Coming in off the day, before anything is charged to you	Chapters 1 and 10
2	To pack up — Sametne ki Shakti	Closing an account, which is not finishing it	Chapter 4
3	To tolerate — Sahan Shakti	Same bill, different balance: having enough in reserve not to be capsized	Chapter 5
4	To adjust, or to accommodate — Samaane ki Shakti	The charge you cannot cancel. Keep the destination, change the route	Chapter 5
5	Of discrimination — Parakh Shakti	Reading the statement: which lines are real, and which are somebody else's	Chapter 6
6	Of judgement — Nirnay Shakti	Signing it off, once	Chapter 6
7	To face — Saamna Karne ki Shakti	The payment you cannot reverse, authorised anyway	Chapter 7
8	To co-operate — Sahyog Shakti	Setting the tempo of the room	Chapter 7

One thing to say plainly about these. The tradition teaches them with a wider meaning than this book uses. To accommodate is to be like the ocean, which takes in every river without its own nature changing. To discriminate is to see the good in a person the way you would see a diamond under dust.

Here each one is taken at its plainest and most testable, because that is where it can be used on a Tuesday afternoon. Neither reading cancels the other — and the wider one is not the author's to summarise.