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arises the power of passing through endless space.73 And there are many other powers which the yoga claims can arise by reason of performing a on different things. 36. The true yogi does not attach himself to these occult powers. And the Yoga Sutra expressly says in one of its aphorisms that it is by non-attachment to this that there the highest spiritual knowlege (is attained).74 37. We will now discuss this final aim of yoga. In doing so we will have to refer once more to the nature and doings of Prakriti. There are many hundred points for which the Yoga philosophy offers its solution. For instance, how is one body changed into another of a different class even in the same existence ? The answer is that the flow of Prakriti does it all.75 the flow of Prakriti i. e. that inscrutable action of matter which performs all the work of transformation as seen in the material universe. The very potencies of matter do all and by powerful application produce the necessary conditions for independent action. The incidental cause in the production of material results are our virtuous and vicious actions. It may be asked if Prakriti does all by its action and produces transformations equal to its potentialities where is the use of individual good or bad actions. The performance of such acts is not useful in setting up the action of Prakriti but it only prepares the way for its free action by removing if good the obstruction in its way. An illustration in point is that of a husbandsman who only removes the obstacles in the way of the water
73. YS 3.42 74. YS 3.50; As can be seen, Gandhi's sentence needs.
completion 75. YS 4.2
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