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Part XIII: Union (Yoga).1577
Having destroyed sense with Sense; mind with Mind; egoism with Egoism; I
stand supreme as the Self of all.
Yogavasishtha.
Use for bow the word of glory, Aum, fix the arrow, thy personal Self, on the
string; and being all attention, take such unerring aim as will fix the arrow in
the target—“The One Self.”
Mundukopanishad.
The emptying of the mind of the whole of its illusion, is the true rechaka (the
process of emptying the lungs of the air they contain; the full realization of
the idea “I am Spirit” is the true puraka (the process of filling the lungs with
air drawn in from without); and the firm steady sustenance of the mind on
this conviction is the true Kumbhaka (the retention of the air inhaled). This
is the true Pranayama of the enlightened; fools find it only in torturing the
nose.
Aparokshanubhuti.
Him death desires to overpower, who wears on his heart the badge of that
necklace upon which the vices are held together by the thread of unbroken
“latent desires.” Death overpowers him whom anger, the fire drying up
the waters of discrimination, has power to affect. The oil-mill presses the
mixed heap of hard sesamum-seeds into an indiscriminate mass;—death
overpowers him, who is similarly pressed by Carnal Lust into a mass, all
indiscriminate and confused.
Yogavasishtha.
Arouse the mind if it fall into lethargy! pacify it back into its place if it run
out; persuade it by proper knowledge if it tend to the objective;—touch it
not when it has found the condition of Peace.
Gaudapadacharya.