Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 203
is followed by knowledge and egoism. When the
Yogi makes Samyama on these by gradation he con
quers the organs. Take up anything that you see or
feel, a book, for instance, and first concentrate the
mind on the thing itself. Then on the knowledge that
is in the form of a book, and then the Ego that sees
the book. By that practice all the organs will be
conquered.
48. From that comes glorified mind, power of the
organs independently of the body, and conquest
of nature.
Just as by the conquest of the elements comes
glorified body, so from the conquest of the mind will
come glorified mind.
49. By making Samyama on the Sattva, to him who
has discriminated between the intellect and the
Purusa come omnipresence and omniscience.
When we have conquered nature, and realised the dif
ference between the Puruta and nature, that the PuruSa
is indestructible, pure and perfect, when the Yogi has
realised this, then comes omnipotence and omniscience.
50. By giving up even these comes the destruction of
the very seed of evil ;
he attains Kaivalya.
He attains aloneness, independence. Then that
man is free. When he gives up even the ideas of
omnipotence and omniscience,
there will be entire