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these persons derives from her person is different from that of the others, and yet the object of enjoyment is one and the same. Again, all the pleasure one derives from her changes into disgust if she happen to display nasty temper, or become unchaste. Sometimes in dreams one experiences such pleasures that the sense of enjoyment lingers behind a long time even in the waking state. The Yogi, therefore, holds that pleasure and pain are not in the objects of senses, but in the mind alone,* and are determined by the attitude which it assumes towards them. Knowing this, he discards the pursuit of the pleasures of the world, and becomes absorbed in enjoying the enjoyments of the source of true joy itself.
Sense attractions only go to keep the sense of life confined to the physical body, which we have to break away from. We must refuse to identify ourselves with the body ; and should mentally claim the Regal position which is our own by right. If we can put ourselves in this attitude, even for a brief space of time, we shall realize that the Yogi's bliss cannot be equalled by all the pomp and pageantry and display of power of all the kings in the world.
It is now easy to understand the sense of the saying, “Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or
* We are not to be taken as denying certain physical properties and chemical action to material things; what is meant is the denial of the attribution of pleasure and pain as appertaining to them independently of the mind whose affections they both are in truth.
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