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Tranquility, the seventh, eighth, ninth, upto thirty second the last respectively relate to the Victory over Sense-Organs, Renunciation, Religious Activity, Satiety, Non-Greediness, Desire-lessnes, Monkhood, Sacred Learning, Discrimination, Neutrality, Fear-lessness, Avoidance of Self-Praise, philosophical inright, Total Prosperity, Maturity of the Karms, Aversion to worldly Existence, Avoidance of world-consciousness. Scripntres, Possession Experience, Yoga, Sacrifice, worship, Meditation. Penance, and Lastly Synthesis of all view-points.
It will not be clear that the author has confined the first Astaka to declaring the only objective, summum bonum of the human being. It is perfection (a) To ascend to this highest. level, the author has conceived thirtyone steps, the second being self-absorption.
Just as perfection is not possible without Self-Absorption this self-Absorption also is not possible without Stability of Mind and so on and so forth. And thus, we come to the last one which is the Synthesis of All View-points. In other words, this also means that the succeeding Astaka lays down the effect. and the preceding, the cause. We can also say that all the Astakas,. are in a way, a chain of causes and effects, the ultimate effect. or say the result being perfection. Just said before, perfection is the climax, the summit resulting from self-absorption which again. arises out of stability or Firmness of Mind and so and so forth coming down to Synthesis of all the view-points which is the prime cause.
Now if we begin from this first and fundamental cause(Synthesis of All View-Points) and go up-wards, we will come to Penance which is its effect and so and an so forth. We ultimately come to Perfection (qofar) which is the final result. In this. way, all the Astakas are interrelated, interlocked so to say.
Perfection, Fulness, Total Integration of self is the final goal. of an aspirant should try to realise. But this can only be done if a person becomes Self-absorbed. In fact, Perfection and Self-Absor ption are but the two sides of the same coin. So long as the mind is wavering, there can be no merging in the self. Therefore, the mind should be stable. There are many tempations in the world
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