SAMYAMA (THE YOGA)
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BY MAKING SAMYAMA ON A PARTICLE OF TIME AND ITS MULTIPLEW COMES DISCRIMINATION.
HOW ARE WE TO AVOID ALL THESE THINGS, THESE DEVAS, AND HEAVENS, AND POWERS? BY DISCRIMINATION, BY KNOWING GOOD FROM EVIL. THEREFORE A SAMYAMA IS GIVEN BY WHICH THE POWER OF DISCRIMINATION CAN BEST STRENGTHENED. THIS IS BY MAKING SAMYAMA ON A PARTICLE OF TIME.
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THOSE WHICH CANNOT BE DIFFERENTIATED BY SPECIES, SIGN AND PLACE, EVEN THEY WILL BE DISCRIMINATED BY THE ABOVE SAMYAMA.
THE MISERY THAT WE SUFFER COMES FROM IGNORANCE, FROM NON-DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE UNREAL. WE ALL TAKE THE BAD FOR THE GOOD, THE DREAM FOR THE REALITY. SOUL IS THE ONLY REALITY, AND WE HAVE FORGOTTEN IT. BODY IS AN UNREAL DREAM, AND WE THINK WE ARE ALL BODIES. THIS NON-DISCRIMINATION IS THE CAUSE OF MISERY, AND IT IS CAUSED BY IGNORANCE. WHEN DISCRIMINATION COMES IT BRINGS STRENGTH, AND THEN ALONE CAN WE AVOID ALL THESE VARIOUS IDEAS OF BODY, HEAVENS, AND GODS AND DEVAS. THIS IGNORANCE ARISES THROUGH DIFFERENTIATING BY SPECIES, SIGN OR PLACE. FOR INSTANCE, TAKE A COW. THE COW IS DIFFERENTIATED FROM THE DOG, AS SPECIES.
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EVEN WITH THE COWS ALONE HOW DO WE MAKE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ONE COW AND ANOTHER? BY SINGS. IF TWO OBJECTS ONE COW AND ANOTHER? BY SIGNS. IF TWO OBJECTS ARE EXACTLY SIMILAR THEY CAN BE DISTINGUISHED IF THEY ARE IN DIFFERENT PLACES. WHEN OBJECTS ARE SO MIXED UP THAT EVEN THESE DIFFERENTIATE WILL NOT HELP US, THE POWER OF DISCRIMINATION ACQUIRED BY THE ABOVE-MENTIONED PRACTICE WILL GIVE US THE ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH THEM.
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THE HIGHEST PHILOSOPHY OF THE YOGIS IS BASED UPON THIS FACT, THAT PURUSA IS PURE AND PERFECT, AND IS THE ONLY "SIMPLE" THAT EXISTS IN THIS UNIVERSE. THE BODY AND MIND ARE COMPOUNDS, AND YET WE ARE EVER IDENTIFYING THAT THE DISTINCTION HAS BEEN ATTAINED, MAN SEES THAT EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, IS A COMPOUND, AND AS SUCH, CANNOT BE THE PURUSHA.
THE SAVING KNOWLEDGE IS THAT KNOWLEDGE OF DISCRIMINATION WHICH COVERS ALL OBJECTS, ALL MEANS.
SAVING, BECAUSE THE KNOWLEDGE TAKES THE YOGI ACROSS THE OCEAN OF BIRTH AND DEATH. THE WHOLE OF PRAKRITI IN ALL ITS STATES, SUBTLE AND GROSS, IS WITHIN THE GRASP OF THIS KNOWLEDGE. THERE IS NO SUCCESSION IN PERFECTION BY THIS KNOWLEDGE. IT TAKES IN ALL THINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY, AT A GLANCE.
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BY THE SIMILARLY OF PURITY BETWEEN AND SATTVA AND THE PURUSHA COMES KAIVALYA.
WHEN THE SIMILARITY OF PURITY BETWEEN THE SATTVA AND THE PURUSHA COMES KAIVALYA.
WHEN THE SOUL REALISES THAT IS DEPENDS ON NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE, FROM GOD TO THE LOWEST ATOM, THAT IT IS CALLED KAIVALYA (ISOLATION) AND PERFECTION. IT IS ATTAINED WHEN THIS MIXTURE OF PURITY AND IMPURITY CALLED MIND HAS BEEN MADE AS PURE AS THE PURUSHA ITSELF, THEN THE SATTVA, THE MIND, REFLECTS ONLY THE UNQUALIFIED OF PURITY, WHICH IS THE PURUSHA.
