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## Collection of Yogic Insights
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The mark of attachment is like putting a pot where there is no water... it is ridiculous! 'The mind of the average person, like a calf, follows the cow of cunning, but the mind of a foolishly attached person, like a monkey, pulls the cow of cunning by its tail!' - It pulls cunning around! Such foolish attachment is not to be done by a seeker, because the seeker only desires liberation, and has no other desire or attachment except for the soul.
**(330)** The seeker is **rightly**
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'The soul is one, not another' - attachment. Shrimad Rajchandraji
And this attachment to sophistry is opposed to liberation and is against the soul - it is intoxicating, because the seeker desires the means, and sophistry, becoming a form of anger, destroys it or causes harm. The seeker desires peace of the soul, the ultimate peace, and sophistry is harmful to that peace, it is against liberation. The seeker considers faith to be the first step in the path of liberation, and tries to be steadfast in it, and sophistry breaks faith and makes it unsteady. The seeker, knowing that 'speech is the dharma, silence is the tapas', is extremely humble and always tries to be obedient to dharma; and sophistry, being self-willed, creates false pride in the being. Thus, sophistry is the enemy of the being's emotions in many ways. Therefore, there is never any kind of meeting between the seeker and sophistry, there is a vast difference between them, a clear distinction like light and darkness, they can never meet.
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Therefore, how can a true seeker accept sophistry, which is a hindrance to his desired goal? And if he does not accept it, he will not even touch it from afar, then how can he hold on to it in the form of attachment? Truly! A true seeker of liberation, knowing sophistry to be like Rahu to the moon of the soul, will not desire to accept it; knowing sophistry to be like a ghost or a demon, he will not desire to cling to it; knowing sophistry to be like a crocodile, he will not desire to be caught by it, to fall into its clutches. He will always run away from sophistry, he will never be attached to it. And it is right for the seeker to do so, because the knowers of the path of yoga, for the benefit of future seekers, have said this word of warning against sophistry: 'Those who argue and counter-argue, they are not certain of the truth.'
"वादांश्च प्रतिवादांश्च वदन्तो निश्चितांस्तथा ।
सवां नैव इति तिरुवीयनुत्तौ ॥” Shri Haribhadracharya's Shri Yagabindu.