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અધ્યાત્મતત્વાલક,
[सातभु
outward peace with inward tranquillity. The natural attributes of the soul are infinite knowledge, infinite perception, infinite happiness and infinite power. These acquisitions could be secured only by long and continued practice of right conduct brought on by right belief and right knowledge, because spiritual development grows side by side with that of physic and moral powers, so it is higly essential to eliminate the impure Kārmic forces ( passions, feelings, emotions and actions ) which clog the natural purity of the soul, i. e., its inhering attributes and real properties and also to put an efficient check over the fresh entry of Kārmic energies brought on in various ways. Manifold are the methods and processes laid down in the scriptural text by the holy and venerable sages and saints from the infallible teaching of the Omniscient Masters as are briefly indicated hereafter.
पातञ्जलयोगमालोचयति
मानसवृत्तिनिरोधं सम्प्रज्ञातेतरप्रकारतया । योगं वदन्ति तज्झा ध्यानविशेषोऽत्र च प्रथमः ॥ १ ॥
वृत्तिक्षयस्वरूपोऽसम्प्रज्ञातोऽस्ति, वृत्तयो मनसः । क्षीणा भवन्ति सर्वाः केवलबोधस्तदोदेति ॥ २ ॥ देहस्य वृत्तयः खलु यदा निरुद्धा भवन्ति तत्कालः । योगोऽसम्प्रज्ञाताद् न भिद्यते नितिद्वारम् ॥ ३ ॥
Restraining the functions of the mind is called
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