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THE SYSTEMS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
the nostril where he exhales. This will make one F ATH. These should be practised four times in twentyfour hours, in the morning, at noon, in the evening, at midnight, and should be carried to eighty each time. The process in its lowest stage will produce perspiration, in its middle stage tremor, and its highest stage levitation. The student may rub off his body with the perspiration, for this will make his body strong and light. In the beginning of the practice, milk and clarified butter are the best to live upon; the practice being mastered no such rule is necessary. The breath should be mastered slowly and by degrees, just as are trained tigers, bears and other wild beasts, for otherwise the rash student is sure to come to grief. Proper
TUTTIH destroys all diseases, improper one produces them. When the humours of the hists are cleared the body becomeslight and beautiful and digestion becomes strong, health ensues, the retention of breath is done without effort and the 7 (sound) within becomes audible." 30
The opinion of the Yoga author is that by this practice of TOTA the outer covering of the soul--the result of this removed and the real nature of the soul is realized once and for ever. 16. This leads us to the fifth stage through which the practitioner has to pass. By the practice of 4711H the mind becomes fit for being quite absorbed in the subject thought of. It is 914TH which leads the way to this state which is the fifth stage. It is RER (abstraction)-imitating by the senses, the thinking principle by withdrawing themselves from their objects.31 It consists in the senses becoming entirely
30. HP 2.1-20 31. YS 2.54. The meaning is : 'the imitation of the thinking
principle on the part of the senses, by withdrawing themselves from their objects.'
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