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clean, undeveloped, tranquil, breathless, bodiless, endless, imperishable, firm, everlasting, unborn and independent, he stands on his own greatness', and having seen (the Self), standing in his own greatness, he looks on the wheel of the world as one (who has alighted from a chariot) looks on its revolving wheel. And thus it is said :
'If a man practises Yoga for six months and is thoroughly free (from the outer world), then the perfect Yoga (union), which is endless, high, and hidden, is accomplished.
But if a man, though well enlightened (by instruction), is still pierced by (the gunas of) passion and darkness, and attached to his children, wife, and house, then perfect Yoga is never accomplished?.'
29. After he had thus spoken (to Brihadratha), Sâkâyanya, absorbed in thought, bowed before him, and said: 'O King, by means of this Brahma-knowledge have the sons of Pragâpati (the Vâlakhilyas) gone to the road of Brahman. Through the practice of Yoga a man obtains contentment, power to endure good and evil, and tranquillity. Let no man preach this most secret doctrine to any one who is not his son or his pupils, and who is not of a serene mind. To him alone who is devoted to his teacher only, and endowed with all necessary qualities, may he communicate it.
1 See Maitr. Up. II, 4; VI, 31. .
? This would seem to have been the end of the dialogue between Pragâpati and the Vâlakhilyas, which, as related by Sākâyanya to King Brihadratha, began in II, 3. See, however, VII, 8.
8 Svet. Up. VI, 22 (p. 267); Brih. Up. VI, 3, 12.
• Here may have been the end of a chapter, but the story of Sâkâyanya and Brihadratha is continued to VI, 30.
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