Raja-Yoga

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YOGA APHORISMS.
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7. These three are nearer than those that precede.
Before these we had the Prdndydma, the Asana, the
Yama and Niyama; these are external parts of these
three Dhdrand, Dhydna, and Samddhi. Yet these
latter even are external to the seedless Samddhi.
When a man has attained to them he may attain to
omniscience and omnipotence, but that would not be
salvation. These three would not make the mind
Nirvikalpa, changeless, but would leave the seeds for
getting bodies again, only when the seeds are, as the
Yogi says, fried,"
do they lose the possibility of pro
ducing further plants. These powers cannot fry the
seed.
8. But even they
(Samadhi),
are external to the seedless
Compared with that seedless Samddhi, therefore,
even these are external. We have not yet reached the
real Samddhi
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the highest, but to a lower stage, in
which this universe still exists as we see it,
and in
which are all these powers.
9. By the suppression of the disturbed modifications
of the mind, and by the rise of modifications
of control, the mind is said to attain the con
trolling modifications following the control
ling powers of the mind.
That is to say, in this first state of Samddhi, the
modifications of the mind have been controlled, but