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(ii) vimoka (fata) -- freeness of mind, abandonment of desires which bind the mind; (iii) abhyasa (37377) — repetition; (iv) kriya (fy) — works, performance of sacrifice according to one's capacity; (v) kalyana (ory101) — virtuous conduct, truth-speaking; kindness to all, right disposition, charity and non-injury; (vi) anavasāda (3921) -- freedom from dejection, abandoning cowardliness; and (vii) anuddharsa (1760) -- absence of exultation, absence of too much satisfaction. The observance of these disciplines enables an individual to detach himself from the attachment to the external world and make progress in the concentration on his object of meditation. It is necessary to free the mind from alien influences and to fix it constantly on the one single object which is God. Rāmānuja advocates also the practice of the Yoga of the eight limbs (astañgas3781) for such a steady remembrance of God. He stresses the need for observing strictly all the eight parts of Yoga which are the yama, niyama, āsana, prāņāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhārajā, dhyāna and samadhi in order to reach actually the final cxperience of Isvara. When all these conditions which form the physical and mental discipline and go to prepare the mental background of the devotee for the final realisation of God (sifaastapy) are fulfilled, the bhakti becomes strengthened, the individual devotee becomes extremely keen and ardourous for God. He then becomes forgetful of his physical and mental
1 Rāmānuja - Com. on Vedanta Sūtras. Tr. Thibaut, 1.1.1, p. 17.
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