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Chapter VIII REFLECTIONS
Mind, body and speech are the three channels of activity. The activities may either be auspicious or inauspicious and this depends upon one's reflections or contemplations. As is the reflection, so is the kind of activity.
Maharși Patañjali in Yogadarśana has compared the reflections to the current of the river and said
चित्तनदी नाम उभयतो वाहिनी। i. e., the river of consciousness flows in both directions upward ( auspicious ) as well as downward ( inauspicious ). The river flows in the direction of the current, so is the case with reflections. If the reflections are auspicious then one progresses on the path of righteousness and experiences supreme bliss.
Lord Mahāvīra says, “an aspirant who has purified his soul by meditating on these reflections is compared to a sailing ship; just as a ship crosses the ocean so also the aspirant crosses the ocean of birth and death and is released from all misery.
( Sū. Kr. Sū. 1.15.5 )
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