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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
and studying religious books Then he should go beyond Sattwa Guna also by identifying himself with the Atman or Sakshi, and practising Brahma Abhyasa or Atma-Chintan or Nididhyasan.
When the dweller in the body has crossed these three qualities whence all bodies have been produced, liberated from birth, death, old age, diseases and sorrow, he drinketh the nectar of immortality. He who has crossed the three qualities has the following signs as described in the Gita. "He who hateth not radiance nor outgoing energy, nor even delusion, when present, nor longeth after them when absent; he who, seated as a neutral, is unshaken by the qualities; who saying "The qualities revolve', standeth apart, immovable, balanced in pleasure and pain, self-reliant, to whom a lump of earth, a rock and gold are alike; the same to loved and unloved, firm, the same in censure and praise, the same in honour and ignominy, the same to friend and foe, abandoning all undertakings he is said to have crossed over the qualities. And he who serveth Me exclusively by the Yoga of Devotion, he, crossing beyond qualities, is fit to become the Eternal" Ch. XIV-22, 26
4. KARMA INDRIYAS
A descrciption of these organs will not be out of place here. A Karma Yogi should have a detailed knowledge of the nature and workings of these Indriyas Vak (organ of speech), Panı (hands),
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