Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS, 173
Yogt analyses both what is free and what is
bound, and
his ignorance vanishes. He finds that the PuruSa is
free, is the essence of that knowledge which, coming
through the Buddhi, becomes intelligence, and, as
such, is bound.
21. The nature of the experienced is for him.
Nature has no light of its own. As long as the
PuruSa is
present in it, it appears light, but the light
is
borrowed; just as the moon s light is reflected. All
the manifestations of nature are caused by this nature
itself, according to the Yogis; but nature has no pur
pose in view, except to free the Purusa.
22. Though destroyed for him whose goal
has been
gained, yet is not destroyed, being common to
others.
The whole idea of this nature is to make the Soul
know that it is entirely separate from nature, and
when the Soul knows this, nature has no more attrac
tions for it. But the whole of nature vanishes only for
that man who has become free. There will always
remain an infinite number of others, for whom nature
will go on working.
23. Junction is the cause of the realisation of the
nature of both the powers, the experienced
and its Lord.
According to this aphorism, when this Soul comes
into conjunction with nature, both the power of the