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THE STRENGTH OF STILLNESS
without the resumption of the inbreathing and outbreathing, then the Prana is truly conquered. This is a law of Nature. When we strive to act, the forces of nature do their will with us; when we grow still, we become their master. But there are two kinds of stillness-the helpless stillness of inertia, which heralds dissolution, and the stillness of assured sovereignty which commands the harmony of life. It is the sovereign stillness which is the calm of the Yogin. The more complete the calm, the mightier the yogic power, the greater the force in action.
In this calm, right knowledge comes. The thoughts of men are a tangle of truth and falsehood, satyam and anritam. (True perception is marred and clouded by fales perception, true judgment lamed by false judgment, true imagination distored by false imagination, true memory deceived by false memory. The activity of the mind must coase, the chitta be purified, a silence fall upon the restlessness of
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