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instance, take his poem Rabbi Ben Ezra:
".........As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry'all good things Are ours, nor soul helps llesh more, now than
flesh helps soul" or in Paracelsus, he says:
"A baffling and pei verting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error; and 10 know Rather consits in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without......... Therefore set free the soul alike in Discovering the true laws by which the flesh Accloys the spirit”.
(4) Bandha is the state of bondage of the soul as already explained. There are many kinds of bonds which have to be broken before Nirvana can be attained.
(5) Samvara is the process of checking the influx of Karmic matter into the constitution of the soul. Obviously, freedom cannot be had so long as the bondage of the soul is not terminated by the removal of tbe particles of matter of which its Karmic bonds are forged. The first
