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schools, placing spiritual bliss in strict observance of Vedic injunction and in realizing the unity of the cosmos.
The Yoga philosophy then is based on the idea that if man wants at all to understand his place in nature and to be happy and progressing he must aim at that physical, psychological and moral development which can enable him to pry into depth of nature. He must observe, think and act, he must live, love and progress. His development must be simultaneous on all three planes.
Yoga is a complete suppression of tendency of thinking principle to transform itself into objects thoughts etc. It should distinctly be borne in mind that the thinking principle in this philosophy is not the soul who is the source of all the consciousness and knowledge.
In short, the suppression of all these transformations is the Yoga, which leads to the realization of the self. The Yoga-sūtra says that complete suppression of the transformation of the mind is secured only by sustained application and non-attachment.
Yoga is suppression of the manifestation of the mind. The source of the positive power therefore lies in the soul. In the very wording of the definition of Yoga is involved the supposition of the existence of a power which can control and suppress the manifestation of the mind. The power is power of soul-otherwise familiar to us as freedom of the will. So long as the soul is subject to the mind it is tossed this way or that in obedience to the mental changes.
Kapila refutes the views of Paurāņikas, Tantricas and Vedāntins, on the location of mind in the body of a person. He says: if minds and soul were one and same, one would say “I am the mind' instead of ‘my mind, my hands'. According to him all experiences consists of mental representation, the sattva (purity, passivity) being
46VRG, “The system of Indian philosophy", P-20
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