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Verse 44
and perception. And that, because of being an unperturbed, deeply attentive thoughtfulness proceeding from the soul's own nature, is real meditation.
All impurities of the wavering mind, like attachment, aversion and delusion, which disturb concentration, are washed away by being detached from the sense-objects. As the Yogi establishes himself in the innate nature of the soul, the process of its purification begins.
Real meditation, the supreme kind of austerity, is the chief cause of the stoppage of influx as well as the dissociation of karmas. It leads to positions such as the lord of the celestial beings (devas), and, with progressive cleansing of the soul from the mire of karmic impurities, to perfect conduct, faith, and knowledge, which are capable of destroying all kinds of cobwebs of worldly suffering and constitute the immediate cause of complete emancipation of the soul, that is, liberation.
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