Yoga Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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MYSTICISM IN INDIA
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to great intellectual moral work as in the Apostle Paul, Sir Isaac Newton and a thousand other instances to refrain entirely from sexual pleasure, nature well knows what to do with those precious atoms. She finds use for them in building up a keener brain and more vital and enduring nerves and muscles.
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The last of the five kinds of forbearance is the avoidance of greediness. That is the fifth sub-rule of the first stage to which the student of Yoga has to submit. Greediness consists not only in conveting more than necessary but also in keeping in possession any thing beyond the very necessaries of life. Some practitionars are known to carry this requirement to the extent of even not accepting anything whatever from others. The Yoga philosophy claims that when desire is destroyed, when in fact even the last and subtle but unconquerable desire for life too is given up, there arises knowledge of the why and wherefore of existence, We thus finish the list of the five classes of forbearance-the first stage through which a student of Yoga has to pass.
The second stage through which he has to pass is Niyama, i. e., observances. The five kinds of forbearance which I mentioned before were negative injunctions; the five kinds of observances which I am now