Atmayogaasutra

Author(s): Ram
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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16. The Anatman is of two kinds, Shuddha (Pure) and Ashuddha (impure).
17. The Svabhava (nature) of the Shuddha Anatman is Sahatva (coity), Sahayoga (co-operation) Sahajivana (co-living) and Saharakshana (co-defence).
18. The Svabhava (nature) of the Ashuddha Anatman is exclusively opposite to that of the Atman, viz A-samatva (Antirealibrium) A-satya (Anti-truth), Himsa (Violence) and Parayattata ( Bondage, Anti-freedom ). They cause the finite sattva (Jiva, living being) to be Anatmasth or Asvastha (unhealthy), both inwardly and outwardly.
19. From the Ashuddha Anatman; spring forth the mental and intellectual deseases of Ahamkara (me-ness), Kama (desire), Trishna (strong desire), Krodha (Anger), Lobha (Avarice), Moha (delusion) Raga (My-ness), Dvesha (Anti-ness), Ghrina (hatred), Shatruta (enmity), Indriya-rasas (tastes born of sense-organs), and their kinetic ones. From them issue forth infinite physical, mental and psychological deseases. They provide the root-cause of the inmumerable cycles of births, rebirths and re-births in the Samsara, the ceaseless phenomenal flux.
20. The Shuddha Anatman, the right matter, has no independent status. It is an ally either of the Atman or of the Ashudha Anatman, the perverted matter. With the Atman, it makes the eightfold-way (Ashtayama) and, with Ashuddha Anatman, the eightfold-antiway (Ashtapratiyama). The former is in harmony with the realuum and its constituents, hence, it results in the peace, prosperity and happiness of the human being, the society and the thought, and the latter, being in disharmony with them, results in the disturbance, miseries and afflictions of the human being, the society and the thought.
21. The human being, society and thought that live in harmony with the nature and law of the realuum and its constituents, live in tranquility, stillness and harmony. Their rests and motions proceed without any disturbance. No living beings, including the