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study of Hindu life, religion and philosophy, the enquirer is still of opinion that the palm of intellectual advancement belongs to the Western world-let him lose no time in having his own cranium examined by by a competent physician.
Without caring much for what the foreigners have to say in reference to the philosophies of India, we will come to our own subject. I told you that Yoga is the suppression of the manifestation of the mind. The source of the positive power therefore lies in the soul. In the very wordiag of the definition of Yoga is involved the supposition of the existence of a power which can control and suppress the manifestations of the ind. This power is the power of tbe soul-otherwise familiar to us as freedom of the wil. So long as the soul is subject to the mind, it is tossed this way or that in obedience to the mental changes. Instead of the soul being tossed by the mental changes, the mind should vibrate in obediance to the soul-vibrations When once the soul becomes the master of the mind, it can produce any manifestation it likes.
I told you in the beginning that the suppression of all mental changes produces the state called Yoga This state is of two kinds. The first is that in which the mind is at rest only for the time, the other is that in which through supreme universal non-attachment it is centred in Sattva passivity and realizes Sattva
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