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Spiritual Enlightenment
| 156*1. If you desire to attain Moksha or salvation, consider all thoughts of attachment to the body, your passions, desires, etc., and all other persons and objects, as also Paramatma to be different and separate from your real Self.
157. By becoming a Yogi, what will he gain who cannot abstain from attaching his soul to Para-Padartha (foreign substances or things), or he who cannot control his mind by concentration?
158. He who having left his Nija Shuddha Atman (own, pure self) consisting in infinite knowledge, etc., contemplates upon other objects, cannot obtain Kevala Jnana (pure, perfect knowledge).
159. I highly praise those Yogins who are free from Punya (virtue or good deeds) and Papa (evil or bad deeds) and who. purging their minds of Shubha (good) and Ashubha (bad) thoughts contemplate upon their Shuddha Atman (pure self).
160. I highly respect that Yogin who populates the depopulated and depopulates the populated and who has got neither Punya (virtue) nor Papa (evil).
161. O Master! Pray give me such advice as may speedily destroy Moha (attachment or infatuation) and make the mind steady. What purpose can be served by gods, etc.?
162. Moha is soon destroyed, and the mind made steady, by that meditation in which the breath which issues from the nose begins to issue from the tenth door or hole of the body which is situated in the palate and is equal to one-eighth part of an hair.
163. When a man lives in his pure self (that is, becomes absorbed in the meditation of his pure Atman), his Moha is extirpated, his mind is killed (becomes steady), and breath stopped (that is, his breath issuing from the nostrils begins to issue from the palatal hole at intervals). Such a one gets Kevala Jnana (full and pure knowledge) and goes unto Nirvana.
164. One who in his mind thinks of Atman as equal, like
