Guest guest Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 21. To serve as objective field to Purusha, is the essence or nature of the knowable. 22. Although ceasing to exist in relation to him whose purpose is fulfilled, the knowable does not cea exist on account of being of use to others. 23. Alliance is the means of realising the true nature of the object of the Knower and of the owner, the Knower (i.e. the sort of alliance which contributes to the realisation of the Seer and the seen is this relationship). 24. (The alliance has) Avidya or nescience as its cause. 25. The absence of alliance that arises from lack of it (Avidya) is the freedom and that is the state of liberation of the Seer. 26. Clear and distinct (unimpaired) discriminative knowledge is the means of liberation. 27. Seven kinds of ultimate insight come to him (the Yogin who has acquired discriminative enlightenment). 28. Through the practice of the different accessories to Yoga, when impurities are destroyed, there arise enlightenment culminating in discriminative enlightenment. 29. Yama (restraint), Niyama (observance), Asana (posture), Pranayama (regulation of breath), Pratyahara (withholding of senses), Dharana (fixity), Dhyana (meditation) and Samidha (perfect concentration) are the eight means of attaining Yoga. 30. Ahimsa (non-injury), Satya (truth), Asteya (abstention from stealing), Brahmacharya (continence) and Aparigraha (abstinence from avariciousness) are the five Yamas (forms of restraint). to be continued... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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