Raja Yoga - Swami Vivekananda

206 RAjA YOGA.compounds, and yet we are ever identifying ourselveswith them. That is the great mistake that the distinction has been lost. When this power of discrimination has been attained, man sees that everything inthis world, mental and physical, is a compound, and,as such, cannot be the Purusa.54. The saving knowledgeis that knowledge of discrimination which covers all objects, all means.Isolation, that is the goal; when that is attained,the soul will find that it was alone all the time, and itrequired no one to make it happy. As long as werequire someone else to make us happy we are slaves.When the Purusa finds that It is free, and does notrequire anything to complete Itself, that this nature isquite unnecessary, then freedom is attained. Thencomes this Kaivalya.55. By the similarity of purity between the Sattvaandthe Purusa comes Kaivalya.When the soul realises that it depends on nothing inthe universe, from gods to the lowest atom, that iscalled Kaivalya (isolation) and perfection. It isattained when this mixture of purity and impuritycalled mind has been made as pure as the PuruSaItself; then the Sattva, the mind, reflects only the unqualified essence of purity, which is the Puruia*