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Can Yoga Pave the way for World Unity ?
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4. (a) Regulate your sex life to conform the marital obligations; (b) refuse to submit
to the force of passion. 5. (a) Accept your dues but accept no more ; (b) disclaim all forms of social injustice. 6. (a) Keep your body and mind pure ; (b) avoid close contact with those who are
physically or mentally contaminated. 7. (a) Be content with what you have ; (b) discredit the enjoyment of immoral gains: 8. (a) Cultivate indifference to both pleasure and pain ; (b) sacrifice no moral princi
ples whatever the risk. 9. (a) Pursue knowledge for the sake of self-realization ; (b) censure prostitution of
intelligence to iniquiteous ends. 10. (a) Discharge your duties honourably and leave the rest to the Absolute; (b) op.
pose all forms of self-aggrandizement. 11. (a) Uphold world fellowship and the commonweal by your catholic thoughts, speech
and actions ; (b) deprecate all attempts to divide humanity. 12. (a) Keep out immoral thoughts; (b) annihilate evil wherever found.
When put into practice the above yoga moral code is enough to assure world unity. What is more according to Yoga, their constant practice leads to greater heights such as immunity from unbalanced emotionalism conducive to physical and mental good health, development of character and personality, bestowing upon the individual the necessary strength and grip over life, adaptation of universal love to behaviour generating selfless social service, freedom from egocentric complexes augmenting an immaculate sense of duty to oneself and society, the acquisition of a highly developed moral conscience, sensitiveness to social justice, purity of the mind concentrated on the higher pursuits of life, evolution of psychic equipoise progressively favourable to self-realization, and, thus, the uninterrupted enjoyment of the blessings of absolute holiness.
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That śramana, who has fivefold carefulness, who is controlled in three ways, who has curbed his five · senses, who has subdued his passions and who is
completedy endowed with faith and knowledge, is called self-disciplined.
XO
---Kundakunda
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