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births.84 These impressions are to be destroyed like other distractions.85 Even full discrimination is not the desired end and should be suspended by supreme non-attachment which is the nearest road to, the door of कैवल्य. 86 From constant discriminative recognition of the 26 elements of this philosophy results the light of knowledge; after this the yogi works entirely without attachment to any object of desire; then he reaches the state of supreme non-attachment wherein the light of soul breaks out in full. In fact all appears full of soul and there is nothing to interrupt this blissful perception. Then all distortions and actions cease altogether at least for the yogi.87 When the distractions are destroyed and when is rendered powerless for good or for ill, there arises full knowledge which is free from the obscuration caused by and and cleared of all impurities arising from distractions. This knowledge is infinite. As compared to this infinity, that which ordinary men regard as knowable appears but an insignificantly small thing.88 It is easy to know it at any time though it is not possible that the desire to know a comparatively worthless thing should ever arise.
When such knowledge arises and supreme nonattachment is at its highest there arises in the yogi entire cessation of the effects of three Ts, the properties. The properties work for the Purusha; the Purusha having known himself the properties cease to The whole act, they having fulfilled their end.89
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