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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - On Practice

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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...

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