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The twelfth chapter starts with Hemchandras statement that all traditional knowledge has been mentioned in the previous chapters and now he puts forth what he has learnt from his own meditational experiences. This chapter contains his true opinion on the subject and conveys his profound learning through self realisation.
This is a subtle suggestion that the only true test of any material in the area of yoga is to practice yoga and validate or invalidate it through direct experience.
In fact, my advise to those who want to study this work as an aid to meditational practices, and not mere literary curiosity, is that they should first read the twelfth chapter. Once that is appreciated, the reader may go through the complete traditional information and pick out what is suitable for his level of practices.
Almost all other treatises on the subject of yoga give more details on the physical part; and the meditational part is left to abstractions. Hemchandra has laid stress on behavioural disciplines and improvement in attitudes and feelings. At the higher stage he stresses on equanimity and not mere austerities. The physical part has only been dealt as an optional aid. His language is simple and style lucid.
The soul is infested with innumereble karmic
particles and as a result manifests itself through physical body, the living being. It has the inherent
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