Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 121
will be the result of constant practice of this higher
concentration ? All old tendencies of restlessness, and
dulness, will be destroyed, as well as the tendencies of
goodness too. It is just the same as with the metals
that are used with gold to take off the dirt and alloy.
When the ore is smelted down, the dross is burnt along
with the alloy. So this constant controlling power will
stop the previous bad tendencies, and, eventually, the
good ones also. Those good and evil tendencies will
suppress each other, and there will remain the Soul, in
all its glorious splendour, untrammelled by either good
or bad, and that Soul is omnipresent, omnipotent, and
omniscient. By giving up all it
powers has become
omnipotent, by giving up all life it is beyond mortal
ity; it has become life itself. Then the Soul will know
It neither had birth nor death, neither want of heaven
nor of earth. It will know that It neither came nor
went; it was nature which was moving, and that move
ment was reflected upon the Soul. The form of the
light is moving, it is reflected and cast by the camera
upon the wall, and the wall foolishly thinks it is mov
ing. So with all of us; it is the Chitta constantly mov
ing, manipulating itself into various forms, and we
think that we are these various forms. All these delu
sions will vanish. When that free Soul will com
mand not pray or beg, but command then what
ever It desires will be immediately fulfilled; whatever
It wants It will be able to do. According to the
Sdnkhya Philosophy there is no God. It says that