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Yoga-tatwa Upanishad of
Krishnâ-Yajur Veda. I shall now describe Yoga-tátwa (Yoga-truth) for the 1 benefit of Yogis who are freed from all sins through the hearing and the studying of it. The Supreme Purusha called Vishnu, who is the great Yogis the great bhuta (personage) and the great ascetic, is. seen as a lamp in the path of Truth. The grandfather. (Brahma) having saluted him (Vishnu) and having paid due respects (to him), asked him (thus). Please explain to us the truth of Yoga which includes in it the eight subservients. To which Rishikesa (the Lord of the Senses or Vishnu) replied thus :-Listen. I shall explain its truth. All persons are immersed in happiness and sorrow through the snare (of Maya. Kaivallaya (isolation), the supreme seat, is the path which gives them emancipation, which rends asunder the snare of Maya, which is the destroyer of birth, death, old age and disease, and which enables one to overcome death. There are no other paths to salvation. Those who are full of the knowledge derived from the Shastras are deluded by that knowledge. It is impossible even for the gods to describe that indescribable state. How can that which is self-shining be illuminated by the Shastras? That only which is without parts and stain and which is quiescent, beyond all and free from decay becomes Jiva (entities) on account
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