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is effectually secured by the negation of cause, but we cannot assert the converse that the negation of cause will necessarily follow the negation of effect. We thus see that for spiritual progress what is required is to so modify the cause as to be helpful to the journey on the onward path.
Bodily purification without mental is of no account. It is well said - " वशं मनो यस्य समाहितं स्यात् किं तस्य कार्य नियमैर्यमैश्च ? । हृतं मनो यस्य च दुर्विकल्पैः किं तस्य कार्य नियमैर्यमैश्च ” ? ॥ Another writer says - " रागद्वेषौ यदि स्यातां तपसा किं प्रयोजनम् ? । तावेव यदि न स्यातां तपसा किं प्रयोजनम् " ? ।
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So long as the germ of sin remains to corrode mind, mere outward application of medicines will not bring about the required cure. It is the root cause that must be removed. Otherwise every thing is sure to be ineffectual. With mind unrestrained, Liberality, Learning, Study, Japas, and Worship are of no avail to him whose mind is perturbed by the Kashāyās. Best Yoga consists in curbing the mind.
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Mental purification is no light nition of mind is संकल्पविकल्पात्मकं मनः । of mind to be tossed about with ideas one after the other. Restlessness is in a way its differentia. Arjuna says in the Gita that the restraint of mind is even more difficult than that of mind. But it must be achieved for spiritual progress. Really nothing is impossible if only we adopt right methods. If we continually practise the art of imposing limitations on the ceaseless activities of mind, gradually it will attain
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