Raja-Yoga

i;6 RAJA YOGA.
aspects of one thing; the internal substance of the
oyster is taking up matter from outside, and manu
facturing the shell. In the same way these internal
fine forces which are called mind take up gross matter
from outside, and from that manufacture this external
shell, or body. If then, we have control of the internal,
it is
very easy to have control of the external. Then
again, these forces are not different. It is not that
some forces are physical, and some mental ;
the physical
forces are but the gross manifestations of the fine
forces, just as the physical world is but the gross mani
festation of the fine world.
26. The means of destruction of ignorance
broken practice of discrimination.
is un
This is the real goal of practice discrimination
between the real and the unreal, knowing that the
Puruta is not nature, that it is neither matter nor mind,
and that because it is not nature,
it cannot possibly
change. It is
only nature which changes, combining,
and recombining, dissolving continually. When through
constant practice we begin to discriminate, ignorance
will vanish, and the PuruSa will begin to shine in its
real nature, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent.
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27. His knowledge is of the sevenfold highest
ground.
When this knowledge comes, it will come, as it were,
seven grades, one after the other, and when one of