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z4bulcid41215. [aya These are called Kashāyas. That the Kashāyas strengthen the coating of Karma is now testified by eminent clairvoyants and psychic researchers. The Kashāyas though themselves formless are yet capable of compelling the Jiya to be born in the physical body. They form one sheath of Karma on another as it were and these aggregates build up the physical body ever afterwards. They continue to dominate the physical body and govern all its actions unless resolute effort is made to shake off their tyranny. Yoga teaches how to get rid of them. It is in the natural order of things that, as the Kashāyas constitute the main cause of compelling Jiva to evolve in the Cycle of Births, they ought in the first instance to be rooted out if Jiva is to free himself of the recurring Cycle and to be firmly sacred on the new changing throne of self-illumination.
आत्मा ज्ञातव्यः--
आत्मस्वरूपं प्रथमं प्रविधुर्योगश्रियां प्रोत्सहमानचित्ताः। स एव योगस्य यदस्ति भूमिराकाशचित्रोपममन्यथा स्यात् ॥१॥
Those whose minds are eager for the acquisition of the Yoga-wealth should first recognise the nature of the Soul, because Soul is the proper field for practising Yoga ; otherwise the practice of Yoga would be tentamount to drawing a picture in the void. (1)
Notes :--There was a city called Suketpura, in the Bharata Kshetra, lying in Jambudwip. It was charmingly decorated with magnificent buildings, etc.,
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