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Those whose minds are eager for treading the path of Yoga, should first recognize the nature of the Soul; because Soul is the proper field for practising Yoga; otherwise the practice of Yoga would be tantamount to drawing a picture in the void."
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The spiritual field, if constantly tilled with (the plough of} Yoga with proper efforts, yields the divine grandeur involving infinite knowledge, infinite bliss and infinite power.
.: 3 This whole universe is included in the two categories which are not differentiated by anything else. They are animate and inanimate (जीव and अंजीव). Our soul is enshrouded by matter. :
It is a well-known fact that soul is always subjected to various kinds of misery through union with matter. When the discriminating knowledge that the soul and the body are separate, arises, the soul is liberated from all miseries.