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JnAna: When a man feels disgust for karma and becomes
dispassionate and when his senses are controlled, he should practise
concentration of mind.
When in the act of concentration, the mind suddenly goes
astray and becomes unsettled, you should bring it back under the
control of self, with unremitting efforts, after allowing it to go in its
wandering course a little.
Never neglect however to check the course of the mind with
your Pranas and senses all controlled. With the help of Satvic
Buddhi bring the mind under the control of self.
This control of the mind is the highest yoga. The horseman
slackens the reins at first but never lets go the reins. Reflect on the
creative manifestation of all objects and then the contrary process
of their dissolution, according to the Sankhya method. Do this till
the mind attains calm.
By cultivating a sense of disgust, by the growth of dispassion,
by constant pondering over the teachings of the Guru, the mind gives
up its delusion.
By practising Yama and other ways of Yoga, by discrimination
of self and by worshipping Me, the mind is able to think of the
Supreme.
If by loss of mental balance, the Yogi does some improper
act he should burn up the impurity by Yoga alone, but not by any
other means (not by expiatory rites Sridkara.}
Adherence to the particular path of one's own following is the
right thing. People have been taught to distinguish between right
and wrong, not because the acts are not all impure by their very
nature but because the distinction is necessary to regulate the acts
themselves with a view to cause a final abandonment of all attach-
ments to them. (It may be said that according to the scriptures,
Nitya Karma (acts ordained to be daily performed) and Naimittika
Karma (acts ordained to be occasionally performed) purify the mind.
Hence they are tight (guna). The killing of animals and such other
acts make the mind impure. Hence they are wrong (dosha). Ex-
piatory acts (Prayaschitta) are required to be performed in order
to remove the consequences of wrong acts. Therefore Prayaschitta
is a right thing (guna). How can impurities be destroyed by means
of Yoga then and not by means of Prayaschitta: therefore it is
said that what is called Guna (right) and Dosha (wrong) by injunc-
tions and prohibitions, is only a regulation of acts. The purport is
this. The 'mpurities of a man are not the outcome of his own
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