Raja-Yoga

22 RAjA YOGA.
30. Then knowledge, bereft of covering and impurities,
becoming infinite, the knowable becomes small.
Knowledge itself is there its
; covering is gone. One
of the Buddhistic scriptures sums up what is meant by
the Buddha (which
is the name of a state).
It defines
it as infinite knowledge, infinite as the sky. Jesus
attained to that and became the Christ. All of you
will attain to that state, and knowledge becoming
infinite, the knowable becomes small. This whole
universe, with all its knowable, becomes as nothing
before the PuruSa. The ordinary man thinks himself
very small, because to him the knowable seems to be
so infinite.
31. Then are finished the successive transformations
of the qualities, they having attained the end.
Then all these various transformations of the quali
ties, which change from species to species, cease for
ever.
32. The changes that exist in relation to moments, and
which are perceived at the other end (at the
end of a series) are succession.
Patanjali here defines the word succession, the
changes that exist in relation to moments. While I
am thinking, many moments pass, and with each
moment there is a change of idea, but we only perceive
these changes at the end of a series. So, perception
of time is
always in the memory. This is called suo