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31328. ] SPIRITUAL LIGHT. Yamas as forming the preliminary stage of Yoga. It is but proper that the remover of impediments should top the list. ( 70 ) : These Yamas are called great vows when they are not modified by place, time, species, or urgency. It is not meant to be a great vow when it is qualified in respect of a place, e. g., when one says “I will not commit slaughter in a sacred place, I will not injure or slay on the eleventh day of the month, I will not slay an ascetic, I will not slay except for the sake of gods and Brahmins, or for other sacrificial ceremony. These modifications detract the value and efficacy of the great vow. It must be characterised by absolute spotlessness.
When perverse considerations of taking revenge arise such as, e. g,.“ I will slay him because he has done me wrong, I will ruin him by telling a lie, I will rob him of his money, I will seduce his wife, I will deprive him of his estate. ” Opposites of the same should be cultivated and he must reflect “ I take my refuge in right living extending protection to all living creatures heated as I am upon the coals of this Samsāra ( Cycle of births ). Repeatedly I am drawn towards these aggressions. I resort to that which I once discarded as a dog licks that what he vomitted.” Such repressions of perverse considerations should be employed. . યમ-નિયમને બેગનાં અંગ માનવાનો હેતુ
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