Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS.
are for another :
Samyama on this gives knowl
edge of the Purusa.
This power of non-attachment acquired through
purity gives the Yogi the enlightenment called Pratibhd.
36. From that arises the knowledge of hearing, touch
ing, seeing, tasting, and smelling, belonging to
Pratibha.
37. These are obstacles to Samadhi; bnt they are
powers in the worldly state.
If the Yogi knows all these enjoyments of the world
it conies by the junction of the PuruSa and the mind.
If he wants to make Samyama on this, that they are
two different things, nature and soul, he gets knowl
edge of the Puru$a. From that arises discrimination.
When he has got that discrimination he gets the
Pratibhd, the light of supreme genius. These powers,
however, are obstructions to the attainment of the
highest goal, the knowledge of the pure Self, and free
dom; these are, as it were, to be met in the way, and,
if the Yogi rejects them, he attains the highest. If he
is tempted to acquire these, his farther progress is
barred.
38. When the cause of bondage has become loosened,
the Yogi, by his knowledge of manifestation
through the organs, enters another s body.
The Yogi can enter a dead body, and make it
get up
and move, even while he himself is working in another