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PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
प्रसंख्यानेऽप्यकुसीदस्य सर्वथा विवेकल्यातेधर्ममेघः
hifa: 112511 28. He who remains undistracted even when he is in posses
sion of all the psychic powers, achieves, as the result of perfect discrimination, that samadhi which is called the “cloud of virtue”.
ततः क्लेशकर्मनिवृत्तिः ॥२६॥ 29. Thence come cessation of ignorance, the cause of suf
fering, and freedom from the power of karma. When a yogi cannot be turned aside from the path of discrimination even when he is faced by the terrible temptations arising from possession of the psychic powers, then knowledge is said to shower down upon him like a rain cloud, a “cloud of virtue," pouring down liberation and the bliss of God. तदा सर्वावरणमलापेतस्य ज्ञानस्याऽनन्त्याज्ञय
Hey 11 3011 30. Then the whole universe, with all its objects of sense
knowledge, becomes as nothing in comparison to that infinite knowledge which is free from all obstructions
and impurities. To man in his ordinary sense-consciousness, the universe seems full of secrets. There seems so infinitely much to be discovered and known. Every object is an invitation to study. He is overcome by a sense of his own ignorance. But to the illumined yogi, the universe does not seem at all mysterious. It is said that, if you know clay, you know the nature of everything that is made of clay. So, if you know the Atman, you know the nature of everything in the universe. Then, all the painstaking researches of science seem like efforts of a child to empty the ocean with a spoon.
