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YOGA-TATWA UPANISHAD
213 of its environments of virtues and sins. How did that, which is the seat of Paramatma, is eternal, and above the state of all existing things and is the form of wisdom and without stain, attain the state of Jiva ? A bubble arose in it as in water and in this (bubble) arose Ahankara (a state of matter). Hence arose a ball (of body) made of the five (elements) and bound by Dhatus (spiritual substances.) Know that to be Jiva, which is associated with happiness and misery and hence is the term Jiva applied to Paramatma which is pure. That Jiva is considered to be the Kevala (the alone) which is freed from the stains of passion, anger, fear, delusion, greed, pride, lust, birth, death, miserliness, swoon, giddiness, hunger, thirst, ambition, shame, fright, heart burning, grief and gladness.
So I shall tell you the means of destroying (these) sins. How could Gnana (wisdom) capable of giving moksha arise certainly without Yoga ? And even Yoga becomes powerless in (securing) moksha when it is devoid of Gnana. So the aspirant after emancipation should practise (or develop) both Yoga and Gnana. The cycle of births and deaths comes only through ignorance and perishes but with Gnana. Gnana (only was) originally. It is the only means (of salvation) for the known. That is Gnana through which one recognizes (in himself) the real nature of Kaivallya as the supreme seat, the stainless, the partless, and of the nature of Sachchidananda (Beness, consciousness and bliss) without birth, existence and death and without motion and Gnana.
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