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The urdhvasthāna mudrā signifies mainly the sarvāngā - sana and secondarily the sirşā sana, vrkşāsana , etc. These Yoga postures or åsanas help mollify the centres of idimpulses; the mollification of these centres, in turn, causes passions to pacify.
52. arfa THTH GEPUTVIH 82. Avi gāmāņugāmañ dūijjejjā. 82. He should undertake journeys on foot from village to
village.
ANNOTATION 82. Passions are more likely to get intensified in conditions of ease and comfort. Undertaking journeys on foot involves intense efforts and endurance of hardships. Hence, it is in itself a means to get onself free from sexual passions through its sublimation.
By trekking one automatically practices the ga mana yoga (i.e. the activity involving walking) and gets easily rid of the fetters of affection which one acquires through continuous acquaintence with one place and its inhabitants.
२३. अवि आहारं वोच्छिदेज्जा। 33. Avi āhāram vocchimdejjā. 33. He should undertake fasting.
ANNOTATION 83. From fasting for a day to fasting for a onger period is prescribed and even fasting unto death is Jermissible for the subdual of sexual passions.
ix. afa og greint for 34. Avi cae itthisu manam. B4. He should give up thinking about the opposite sex.
ANNOTATION 84. It is surroundings that stimulate sexual passions, but it is the thought-process which fans them All the more.
That is why, the passions are said to be born out of
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