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सप्तम-प्रकरणम् ।
TITUTTI
SEVENTH CHAPTER.
Various kinds of Yoga.
(Shlokas 19 ) One who earnestly and sincerely desires the acquisition of the Yoga-wealth should first try to understand the natural attributes and pure properties of the soul. It embraces the study of realities, doctrines of passions and feelings, cognitions, volitions and other mental faculties and the tenets of the practical morality and ethics &c. The attainment of the highest perfection is his natural goal, and therefore he must adopt such means as would ensure sucCOSS. The practice of steady contemplation on the Ātmā-spirit in all its aspects and directions is the sure means for reaching this noble and sublime goal (ideal). It requires a continued unbroken state of purity of mind and body displayed in the form of indifference to worldly objects and pleasures and
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