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MORTIFICATION, STUDY, AND THE SURRENDER OF THE FRUITS OF WORK TO GOD ARE CALLED
KRIYA YOGA

KRIYA YOGA LEADS TO SAMADHI AND ATTENUATES THE PAIN BEARING OBSTRUCTIONS

THE PAIN BEARING OBSTRUCTIONS ARE IGNORANCE, EGOITY, ATTACHMENT, AVERSION, AND
CLINGING TO LIFE

IGNORANCE IS THE PRODUCTIVE FIELD OF ALL THOSE THAT FOLLOW, WHETHER THEY ARE
DORMANT, ATTENUATED, OVER POWERED, OR EXPANDED

IGNORANCE IS TO TAKE WHAT IS NON ETERNAL, IMPURE, PAINFUL, AND NOT SELF, FOR
WHAT IS ETERNAL, PURE, HAPPY AND THE SELF

EGOITY IS THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SEER WITH THE INSTRUMENT OF SEEING

ATTACHMENT IS THAT WHICH DWELLS ON PLEASURE

AVERSION IS THAT WHICH DWELLS ON PAIN

ABIDING IN ITS OWN NATURE AND ESTABLISHED EVEN IN THE LEARNED IS THE CLINGING
TO LIFE

THE FINE IMPRESSIONS ARE TO BE CONQUERED BY RESOLVING THEM INTO THEIR CAUSAL
STATE

BY MEDITATION THEIR MODIFICATIONS ARE TO BE REJECTED

THE "RECEPTACLE OF WORKS" HAS ITS ROOTS IN THE AFORESAID PAIN BEARING
OBSTRUCTIONS, AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LATTER IS IN THIS VISIBLE LIFE OR IN THE
UNSEEN LIFE

THE ROOTS BEING THERE, THE FRUITION COMES IN THE FORM OF SPECIES, LONGEVITY, AND
EXPERIENCE OF PLEASURE AND PAIN

ACTIONS BEAR FRUIT AS PLEASURE OR PAIN. CAUSED BY VIRTUE OR VICE

TO THE DISCRIMINATING, ALL IS, AS IT WERE, PAINFUL BECAUSE EVERYTHING BRINGS
PAIN, EITHER AS CONSEQUENCE OR AS ANTICIPATION OF LOSS OF HAPPINESS OR AS FRESH
CRAVING ARISING FROM IMPRESSIONS OF HAPPINESS, AND ALSO BECAUSE THE GUNAS
COUNTERACT ON ANOTHER

THE MISERY WHICH HAS NOT YET COME IS TO BE AVOIDED

THE CAUSE OF THAT MISERY WHICH IS TO BE AVOIDED IS THE JUNCTION OF THE SEER AND
THE SEEN
  THE SEER IS THE SELF AND THE SEEN IS THE WHOLE NATURE,
  FROM THE MIND DOWN TO THE GROSS MATTER

THE SEEN, WHICH IS COMPOSED OF ELEMENTS AND ORGANS, AND CHARACTERIZED BY
ILLUMINATION, ACTION, AND INERTIA, IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPERIENCE AND RELEASE
OF THE SEER

THE STATES OF THE GUNAS ARE THE GROSS ELEMENTS, THE SUBTLE ELEMENTS, THE COSMIC
INTELLIGENCE AND THE SIGNLESS

THE SEER IS INTELLIGENCE ONLY, AND THOUGH PURE, SEES THROUGH THE COLORING OF THE
INTELLECT

THE TRANSFORMATION THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE NATURE OF THE SEEN IS FOR THE SELF

THOUGH DESTROYED FOR HIM WHOSE GOAL HAS BEEN GAINED, YET NATURE IS NOT DESTROYED
FOR OTHERS, BEING COMMON TO THEM
  THE ACTIVITY OF NATURE IS TO MAKE THE SOUL KNOW
  THAT IT IS SEPERATE FROM NATURE

JUNCTION OF NATURE AND THE SELF IS THE CAUSE OF THE REALIZATION OF THE NATURE OF
THE POWERS OF BOTH THE SEEN AND ITS LORD

IGNORANCE IS ITS CAUSE

THERE BEING ABSENCE OF THAT IGNORANCE, THERE IS ABSENCE OF JUNCTION. THIS IS THE
DESTRUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND THIS IS THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SEER

THE MEANS OF DESTRUCTION OF IGNORANCE IS UNBROKEN PRACTICE OF DISCRIMINATION

HIS KNOWLEDGE IS ATTAINED IN SEVEN SUPREME STEPS
  WHEN THIS KNOWLEDGE COMES, IT COMES IN SEVEN STEPS; ONE AFTER ANOTHER AS WE
  ATTAIN ONE OF THESE WE KNOW THAT WE ARE GETTING KNOWLEDGE.
  THE FIRST STEP WILL MAKE US FEEL THAT WE HAVE KNOWN WHAT IS TO BE KNOWN.
  THE SECOND STEP WILL BE THE ABSENCE OF ALL PAIN, IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR
  ANYTHING TO GIVE US PAIN.
  THE THIRD STEP WILL BE THE ATTAINMENT OF FULL KNOWLEDGE, OMNISCIENCE.
  THE FOURTH STEP WILL BE THE ATTAINMENT, THROUGH DISCRIMINATION, OF THE END OF
  ALL OUR DUTIES.
  THE FIFTH STEP WILL BE FREEDOM OF THE CHITTA, REALIZATION THAT ALL TROUBLES
  OF THE MIND HAVE FALLEN AWAY.
  THE SIXTH STEP WILL BE THE REALIZATION OF THE CHITTA TO MELT AWAY INTO ITS
  CAUSES WHENEVER WE DESIRE.
  THE SEVENTH STEP WE WILL FIND OURSELFS ESTABLISHED IN OUR TRUE SELF, THE SELF
  EXISTING ALONE THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE

THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF YOGA THE IMPURITIES ARE DESTROYED
AND KNOWLEDGE IS KINDLED, LEADING UP TO DISCRIMINATION

YAMA, NIYAMA, ASANA, PRANAYAMA, PRATYAHARA, DHARANA, DHYANA AND SAMADHI ARE THE
EIGHT LIMBS OF YOGA
  YAMA      : SELF RESTRAINT
  NIYAMA    : RESTRAINT OF THE MIND
  ASANA     : YOGA POSTURE OF BODY TO CONTROL AND HARNESS PSYCHO PHYSICAL
              ENERGIES OF THE BODY AND MIND
  PRANAYAMA : BREATHING PRACTICES THAT ARE AIDS TO LIBERATION
  PRATYAHARA: RESTRAINING OF THE ORGANS
  DHARANA   : FIXING THE MIND ON A POINT
  DHYANA    : CONCENTRATION
  SAMADHI   : STATE OF COMPLETE MEDITATION ABSORPTION, PEACEFUL BLISS

NON KILLING, TRUTHFULNESS, NON STEALING, CONTINENCE, AND NON RECEIVING ARE
CALLED "YAMA"

THESE, UNBROKEN BY TIME, PLACE, PURPOSE OR CASTE-RULES ARE UNIVERSAL GREAT VOWS

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PURIFICATION, CONTENTMENT, MORTIFICATION, STUDY AND
WORSHIP OF GOD ARE THE "NIYAMAS"

WHEN THOUGHT TO YOGA ARISE, CONTRARY THOUGHTS SHOULD BE EMPLOYED

THE OBSTRUCTIONS TO YOGA ARE KILLING, FALSEHOOD, AND SO FORTH - WHETHER
COMMITTED, CAUSED, OR APPROVED - EITHER THROUGH AVARICE, ANGER, OR IGNORANCE -
WHETHER SLIGHT, MIDDLING, OR GREAT: THEY RESULT IN INFINITE IGNORANCE AND
MISERY, THIS IS THE METHOD OF THINKING THE CONTRARY

WHEN THE PRACTITIONER IS ESTABLISHED IN NON KILLING, ALL ENMITIES CEASE IN HIS
PRESENCE

BY BEING ESTABLISHED IN TRUTHFULNESS, THE PRACTITIONER GETS THE POWER OF
ATTAINING FOR HIMSELF AND OTHERS THE FRUITS OF WORK WITHOUT THE WORK

BY BEING ESTABLISHED IN NON STEALING, THE PRACTITIONER OBTAINS ALL WEALTH

BY BEING ESTABLISHED IN CONTINENCE, THE PRACTITIONER GAINS ENERGY

WHEN THE PRACTITIONER IS ESTABLISHED IN NON RECEIVING HE GETS THE MEMORY OF
PAST LIFE

WHEN HE IS ESTABLISHED IN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CLEANLINESS, THERE ARISES IN HIM
DISGUST FOR HIS OWN BODY AND DESIRE FOR NON INTERCOURSE WITH OTHERS\

THERE ALSO ARISE PURIFICATION OF THE SATTVA, CHEERFULNESS OF THE MIND,
CONCENTRATION, CONQUEST OF THE ORGANS, AND FITNESS FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE
SELF

FROM CONTENTMENT COMES SUPERLATIVE HAPPINESS

THE MORTIFICATION OF THE ORGANS AND THE BODY, THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR
IMPURITIES, BRINGS POWER TO THEM

BY THE REPETITION OF THE MANTRA COMES THE REALIZATION OF THE HIGHEST DEITY

THROUGH THE SACRIFICING OF ALL TO GOD COMES SAMADHI

POSTURE IS THAT WHICH IS FIRM AND PLEASANT

THROUGH THE LESSENING OF THE NATURAL TENDENCY AND THROUGH MEDITATION ON THE
INFINITE POSTURE BECOMES FIRM AND PLEASANT

POSTURE BEING CONQUERED, THE DUALITIES DO NOT OBSTRUCT

CONTROL OF THE MOTION OF EXHALATION AND INHALATION FOLLOWS AFTER THIS

ITS MODIFICATIONS ARE THREEFOLD, NAMELY, EXTERNAL, INTERNAL AND MOTIONLESS:
THEY ARE REGULATED BY PLACE, TIME, AND NUMBER: AND FURTHER, THEY ARE EITHER
LONG OR SHORT

THE FOURTH IS THE RESTRAINING OF THE PRANA BY DIRECTING IT EITHER TO EXTERNAL
OR TO INTERNAL OBJECTS
  PRANA: ONE OF THE FIVE LIFE FORCES, THE PRANA IS THE UPWARD MOVING BREATH
         WHICH CAUSE THE SPIRIT TO EVOLVE. THE PRANA IS FOUND IN THE REGION
         OF THE HEART
  APANA: ONE OF THE FIVE LIFE FORCES, THE APANA IS DOWNWARD MOVING ONE OF THE
         TWO MAIN VITAL AIRS OF THE BODY. IT IS FOCUSED IN THE LOWER DIGESTIVE
         REGION AND EXTENDS TO THE ANUS. ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLOR ORANGE RED,
         IT GOVERNS THE ELIMINATIVE FUNCTION
 SAMANA: ONE OF THE FIVE LIFE FORCES, SAMANA IS FOCUSED IN THE NAVAL REGION AND
         AIDS DIGESTION AND METABOLISM. ASSOCIATED WITH A SOLAR RED COLOR, WITH
         THE FACULTY OF SIGHT AND WITH THE ASSIMILATIVE FUNCTION
  UDANA: ONE OF THE FIVE LIFE FORCES, THE UDANA IS FOCUSED IN THE REGION OF THE
         THROAT AND CONTROLS METABOLISM, AGING AND COMMUNICATION. ASSOCIATED
         WITH A RED VIOLET COLOR. THE FACULTY OF TOUCH, THE PROCESS OF
         SWALLOWING AND SALIVATION
  VYANA: ONE OF THE FIVE LIFE FORCES, THE VYANA PERVADES THE WHOLE BODY.
         CIRCULATING ENERGIES DERIVED FROM FOOD, BREATH AND THE MIND CONTROLS
         BOTH THE EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTIVE ASPECTS OF THE BEING ASSOCIATED WITH
         A LIGHT BLUE COLOR, WITH THE FACULTY OF HEARING AND WITH BODY POSTURE

BY THAT, THE COVERING OF LIGHT OF THE CHITTA IS ATTENUATED

THE MIND BECOMES FIT FOR DHARANA

PRATYAHARA, OR THE DRAWING IN OF THE ORGANS, IS EFFECTED BY THEIR GIVING UP
THEIR OWN OBJECTS AND TAKING, AS IT WERE, THE FORM OF THE CHITTA

THENCE ARISES SUPREME CONTROL OF THE ORGANS