PATANJALI'S VISION OF ONENESS
AN INTERPRETIVE TRANSLATION BY SWAMI VENKATESANANDA

SRI PATANJALA YOGA DARSANAM

2. 41.

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And, such a habit of cleanliness also leads to the purification of the whole substance, peace and basic goodness of mind, one-pointedness, mastery over the senses, as also the ability (and the qualification) to attain self-knowledge .

II. 42.

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From contentment there flows the most excellent happiness and delight.

II. 43.

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The inner psychic fire destroys all impurities of the heart and mind, and brings about the health, sanity, wholeness or perfection of the physical and vital being (the inner senses).

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By study (not necessarily nor exclusively) of scriptures, and of oneself the consciousness is united with the desired or loved divinity. This divinity may well be a "luminous" internal transmutation-experience or its externalized psychic manifestation, of Carl enlightened being".

II. 45.

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Perfection in self-awareness instantly follows total, dynamic and intelligent surrender of the individual ego-sense (in the sense of the realization of its unreal nature) or the merging of it in the indwelling omnipresence (in the sense of the direct realization He falsity of the "me", the ego-sense, and therefore the sole reality of the indwelling omnipresence) .

II. 46.

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The posture of the body during the practice of contemplation and at other times, as also the posture of the mind (or attitude to life) Should be firm and pleasant.

II. 47.

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Such a posture can be attained (1) by the abandonment of effort and the non-use of will, and (2) by the continuous awareness of the infinite eternal existence.

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Then follows immunity from the onslaughts of the pairs of inseparable opposites - like pain and pleasure, heat and cold, success and failure, honor and dishonor.

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Simultaneously, the interruption find reversal (and therefore the balancing) of the flow of inhalation and exhalation, of the positive (life-promoting) energy and the negative (decay-promoting) energy, constitutes the regulation of the life-force which is then experienced as the totality of all its functional aspects previously and ignorantly viewed as the building up and the breaking down opposed to each other.

II. 50.

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Different techniques involve holding the breath within (after inhalation), or without (after exhalation), or the suspension of the breath, with conscious effort. There are different types, too, some prolonged, some subtle (and short) - different also in regard to the place where the breath is held, the duration of the retention, and the number of times it is practiced.

II. 51.

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There is a fourth type which is the spontaneous suspension of breath, while minutely observing something external or internal.

II. 52.

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Then, the veil of psychic impurity and spiritual ignorance that covers the inner light is thinned and rent asunder.

II. 53.

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And, the mind attains the ability to concentrate, to focus its attention.

II. 54.

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There is psychological freedom when the senses function spontaneously in complete harmony with the inherent intelligence (without thought - or will-interference ) without being drawn into contact with their objects by cravings or false evaluations. This freedom is the fountain-source of energy since in it there is effortless (and therefore non-)movement of the energy.

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With such an abundance of energy it follows that there is complete mastery (in the sense of ever-vigilant understanding) over the senses, as all psychological conflicts and confused movements of thought and energy cease, and the senses function intelligently without disorder and disharmony, inhibitions and excitation.

Chapter 3


Om Shanti.

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