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TFA-TATUTA 1
ध्यानसामग्री।
CHAPTER V.
Requisites for Meditation,
(Shlokas 39 ) Mind-purification.
The purification of mind is the condition procedent, the prime necessity of spiritual advance. It is like striking the deadliest blow at the very root of this world phantom, because it is from the perversion of mental vision that Jiva is hurled into the cycle of birth and rebirth. The Bhagvad-Gitā says: Hi ga Aqsamuti roi JOETANT: 'Mind is the root-cause of captivity and release.' The sage Muni Sundarasuri says :-Neither Japa nor Tapas, neither physical restraint nor mental, neither silence nor Prānāyāma leads to Moksha but pure mind; mental purity is the beginning of Yoga; Yoga leads to Tapas; Tapas to Moksha. One therefore should purify one's mind." If once the conquest of mind is achieved, further
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