A compendium of the Raja Yoga philosophy / comprising the principle treatises of Shrimat Sankaracharya and other renowned authors.

  • Śaṅkarācārya
Date:
1888
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Credit: A compendium of the Raja Yoga philosophy / comprising the principle treatises of Shrimat Sankaracharya and other renowned authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wrarcrrat iurmfum ^rfs^r: i HJifT *pt pfPrata% n \ ii G. Now the effects (3) of Indifferences:—S'avia, Dama and four others. The abandonment of all previous impressions ma- turing themselves into tangible effects note (i. e. the controlling of the Antaskarana) is called S’ama (1); complete restraint over the bent of the external senses (over our bodily acts) is called Dama (2). iriffa: 'uwurarf nr i slrmrai raraw nr g>rr irar ii ^ ii 7. The entire turning away from all objects of sense, the almost voluntary absence of all desire for such objects, is the height of Upcirati (3) ; and the patient suffering of all pain or sorrow is the state of happy Titikshd* (4). mtrmmmT; m%: nr^nr i NWmf 5 s^Hrarat^nra. u <jii 8. Faith in the words of the Upanishads, as well also in the words of those who interpret them—the teachers, (as also, and perhaps chietly, in one’s self)—is called S'radd/td (5); the absorption of the mind in the one paramount aim of all exer- tion—the Sat—the Universal Atman—(i. e., excessive desire, to knoiu and realise that Paramatman ; or the utter incapability arising from such a state, of deviating from the right path) is called Samddhdna (G). SURt'TH&fTF: ^ q *?7T^TT f^T I fra ra ngpr ii <*. ii 9. When and how shall, oh my Fate, I be free from the bonds of this world—birth and rebirth—this strong and all absorbing desire constitutes the fourth and last of the four preliminary stages—Desire of Absolution (4). * “ The cessation of desire, a constant readiness to part with every thing in the world”—Thoosophist Vol. V. No. 12. P, 282.