Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 185
Sit foi a lew mlimtes all sorts of disturbances come into
the body; but when you have got beyond the idea of
a concrete body you will lose all sense of the body.
You will feel nehher pleasure nor pain. And when
you take your body up again it will feel so rested ;
it is
the only perfect rest that you can give to the body.
When you have succeeded in conquering the body and
keeping it firm, your practice will remain firm, but
while you are disturbed by the body your nerves become
disturbed, and you cannot concentrate the mind. We
can make the seat firm by thinking of the infinite. We
cannot think of the Absolute Infinite, but we can think
of the infinite sky.
47. By slight effort and meditating oa the unlimited
(posture becomes firm and pleasant).
Light and darkness, pleasure and pain, will not then
disturb you.
48. Seat being conquered,
struct.
the dualities do not ob
The dualties are good and bad, heat and cold, and
all the pairs of opposites.
49. Controlling the motion of the exhalation and the
inhalation follows after this.
When the posture has been conquered, then this
motion is to be broken and controlled, and thus we come
to Prdndydma; the controlling of the vital forces of