Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 195
mixture of the three, vibration, sensation, and reac
tion. Ordinarily these three are inseparable; but by
practice the Yogi can separate them. When a man
has attained to this, if he makes a Samyama on any
sound, he understands the meaning which that sound
was intended to express, whether it was made by man
or by any other animal.
18. By perceiving the impressions, knowledge of past
life.
Each experience that we have comes in the form of
a wave in the Chitta, and this subsides and becomes
finer and finer, but is never lost. It remains there in
minute form, and if we can bring this wave up again,
it becomes memory. So, if the Yogi can make a
Samyama on these past impressions in the mind, he
will begin to remember all his past lives.
19. By making Samyama on the signs in another s
body knowledge of that mind comes.
Suppose each man has particular signs on his body,
which differentiate him from others; when the Yogi
makes a Samyama on these signs peculiar to a certain
man he knows the nature of the mind of that person.
20. But not its contents, that not being the object of
the Samyama.
He would not know the contents of the mind by
making a Samyama on the body. There would be
required a twofold Samyama^ first on the signs in the