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THE PRACTICAL PATH.
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should place, in his imagination, a throne of the brightness of moon, and should imagine himself seated on this throne, in a calm and peaceful attitude of mind, firmly established in the belief that his atman is fully capable of destroying the eight kinds of karmas which hold him in captivity and bondage. Âgneyi dhârnâ. When the prithvi dhârnâ becomes firmly fixed in the mind, the yogi should imagine himself seated as before, and should further imagine a small lotus of sixteen petals in the region of his navel, with the sixteen vowels, (a), 5 (a), (e), (î), 3 (u), 3 (û), # (ri), 2 (rî), a (lri), p (lrî), 5 (ai), $ (aei), ai (au), åt (aou), # (ang) and 5: (ah), inscribed on its sixteen petals (one on each) and the holy syllable (the middle part of the word arhanta të a) on its pericarp, shining like burnished gold. He should then imagine smoke slowly emanating from the upper stroke of the holy syllable () and, assuming the form of a flame of fire, scorching and burning up, in the region of the heart, another lotus of eight petals representiug the eight kinds of karmas. The fire is finally to be imagined as having spread to all parts of the body, surrounding it in the form of a
triangle, and reducing it to ashes. (C) Âsvâsani dhernd which consists in the con
templation of powerful winds blowing away
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