Raja-Yoga

206 RAjA YOGA.
compounds, and yet we are ever identifying ourselves
with them. That is the great mistake that the distinc
tion has been lost. When this power of discrimina
tion has been attained, man sees that everything in
this world, mental and physical, is a compound, and,
as such, cannot be the Purusa.
54. The saving knowledge
is that knowledge of dis
crimination which covers all objects, all means.
Isolation, that is the goal; when that is attained,
the soul will find that it was alone all the time, and it
required no one to make it happy. As long as we
require someone else to make us happy we are slaves.
When the Purusa finds that It is free, and does not
require anything to complete Itself, that this nature is
quite unnecessary, then freedom is attained. Then
comes this Kaivalya.
55. By the similarity of purity between the Sattvaand
the Purusa comes Kaivalya.
When the soul realises that it depends on nothing in
the universe, from gods to the lowest atom, that is
called Kaivalya (isolation) and perfection. It is
attained when this mixture of purity and impurity
called mind has been made as pure as the PuruSa
Itself; then the Sattva, the mind, reflects only the un
qualified essence of purity, which is the Puruia*