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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
progress, wilful performance of non-prescribed rituals and dogmatic renunciations of religious rites as worthless are hindrances to the practice of Yoga.
Bhagavān Pātanjali enumerates sickness, languor, doubt, carelessness, laziness, addicting to objects of sense, orroneous perceptions, failure to attain any stage of abstraction and instability as obstacles to be removed by the Yoga-aspirant.
These hindrances grow into habits or rather become fields for the accumulations of the latent deposits of Karma and thereby propagate the Cycle of Births.
Helping factors of the spiritual progress :Pranidhān signifies the practice of performing religious rites with scrupulous care. Compassion, charity and benevolence are its chief traits. Pravritti means progressive activity in spiritual development for reaching the final goal with steady and unwavering application of the mind on the subject taken in hand.
Vighnajaya means removal of the obstacles in the form of external obstructions of nature, internal diseases and subreptions ( Mithyātva ).
Siddhi signifies pious merits acquired through Tattva study and eventual attainment of intuitional knowledge with the feeling of universal love and sympathy and humility. Vinimaya connots high sentiments and activity
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