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rejects them, he attains the highest. If he is tempted to
acquire these, his farther progress is barred.
39. When the cause of bondage has become
loosened, the Yogi, by his knowledge of
manifestation through the organs, enters
another s body.
The Yogi can enter a dead body, and make it get up and
move, even while he himself is working in another body. Or
he can enter a living body, and hold that man s mind and
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organs in check, and for the time being act through the body
of that man. That is done by the Yogi coming to this
discrimination of Purusa and nature. If he wants to enter
another s body he makes a Samyama on that body and enters
it, because, not only is his Soul omnipresent, but his mind
also, according to the Yogi. It is one bit of the universal
mind. Now, however, it can only work through the nerve
currents in this body, but when the Yogi has loosened
himself from these nerve currents, he will be able to work
through other things.
40. By conquering the current called Udana the
Yogi does not sink in water, or in swamps,
and he can walk on thorns.
Udana is the name of the nerve current that governs the
lungs, and all the upper parts of the body, and when he is
master of it he becomes light in weight. He cannot sink in
water; he can walk on thorns and sword baldes, and stand in
fire, and so on.
41. By the conquest of the current Samana he is
surrounded by blaze.
Whenever he likes light flashes from his body.
42. By making Samyama on the relation
between the ear and the Akaca comes divine
hearing.
There is the Akaca, the ether, and the instrument, the ear. By
making Samyama on them the Yogi gets divine hearing; he
hears everything. Anything spoken or sounded miles away
he can here.
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43. By making Samyama on the relation
between the Akaca and the body the Yogi
becoming light as cotton wool goes through
the skies.
This Akaca is the material of this body; it is only Akaca in a
certain form that has become the body. If the Yogi makes
Samyama on this Akaca material of his body, it acquires the
lightness of Akaca, and can go anywhere through the air.
44. By making Samyama on the real
modifications of the mind, which are
outside, called great disembodiness, comes
disappearance of the covering to light.
The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this
body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and
put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent?
There is no reason why I should. The Yogi wants to feel the
Ego wherever he likes. When he has succeeded in that all
covering to light goes away, and all darkness and ignorance
vanish. Everything appear to him to be full of knowledge.
45. By making Samyama on the elements,
beginning with the gross, and ending with
the superfine, comes mastery of the
elements.
The Yogi make Samyama on the elements, first on the gross,
and then on the finer states. This Samyama is taken up more
by a sect of the Buddhists. They take a lump of clay, and
make Samyama on that, and gradually they begin to see the
fine materials of which is is composed, and when they have
known all the fine materials in it, they get power over that
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element. So with all the elements, the Yogi can conquer
them all.
46. From that comes minuteness, and the rest of
the powers, glorification of the body, and
indestructibleness of the bodily qualities.
This means that the Yogi has attained the eight powers. He
can make himsef as light as a particle, he can make himself
huge, as heavy as the earth, or as light as the air; he will rule
everything he wants, he will conquer everything he wants,
alion will sit at his feet like a lamb, and all his desires be
fulfilled at will.
47. The glorifications of the body are beauty,
complexion, strength, adamantine hardness.
The body becomes indestructible; fire cannot injure it.
Nothing can injure it. Nothing can destroy it until the Yogi
wishes. Breaking the rod of time he lives in this universe
with his body. In the Vedas it is written that for that man
there is no more disease, death or pain.
48. By making Samyama on the objectivity,
knowledge and egoism of the organs, by
gradation comes the conquest of the organs.
In perception of external objects the organs leave their place
in the mind and go towards the object; that is followed by
knowledge and egoism. When the Yogi makes Samyama on
these by gradation he conquers the organs. Take up anything
that you see or feel, a book, for instance, and first con-
centrate the mind on the thing itself. Then on the knowledge
that it is in the form of a book, and then the Ego that sees the
book. By that practice all the organs will be conquers.
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49. From that comes glorified mind, power of
the organs independently of the body, and
conquest of nature.
Just as by the conquest of the elements comes glorified body,
so from the conquest of the mind will come glorified mind.
50. By making Samyama on the Sattva, to him
who has discriminated between the intellect
and the Purusa comes omnipresence and
omniscience.
When we have conquered nature, and realised the difference
between the Purusa and nature, that the Purusa is
indestructible, pure and perfect, when the Yogi has realised
this, then comes omnipotence and omniscience.
51. By giving up even these comes the
destruction of the very seed of evil; he
attains Kaivalya.
He attains aloneness, independence. Then that man is free.
When he gives up even the ideas of omnipotence and
omniscience, there will be entire rejection of enjoyment, of
the temptations from celestial beings. When the Yogi has
seen all these wonderful powers, and rejected them, he
reaches the goal. What are all these powers? Simply
manifestations. They areno better than dreams. Even
omnipotence is a dream. It depends on the mind. So long as
there is a mind it can be understood, but the goal is beyond
even the mind.
52.The Yogi should not feel allured or flattered
by the overtures of celestial beings, for fear
of evil again.
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There are other dangers too; gods and other beings come to
tempt the Yogi. They do not want anyone to be perfectly
free. They are jealous, just as we are, and worse than we
sometimes. They are very much afraid of losing their places.
Those Yogis who do not reach perfection die and become
gods; leaving the direct road they go into one of the side
streets, and get these powers. Then again they have to be
born; but he who is strong enough to withstand these
temptations, and go straight to the goal, becomes free.
53. By making Samyama on a particle of time
and its multiples comes discrimination.
How are we to avoid all these things, these Devas, and
heavens, and powers? By discrimination, by knowing good
from evil. Therefore a Samyama is given by which the
power of discrimination can be strengthened. This is by
making Samyama on a particle of time.
54. Those which cannot be differentiated by
species, sign and place, even they will be
discriminated by the above Samyama.
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