Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 223
cession, but for the mind that has realised omnipres
ence all these have finished. Everything has become
present for it; the present alone exists, the past and
future are lost. This stands controlled, and all knowl
edge is there in one second. Everything
is known
like a flash.
33. The resolution in the inverse order of the qualities,
bereft of any motive of action for the Purusa, is
Kaivalya, or it is the establishment of the
power of knowledge in its own nature.
Nature s task is done, this unselfish task which our
sweet nurse Nature had imposed upon herself. As it
were, she gently took the self-forgetting soul by the
Land, and showed him all the experiences in the uni
verse, all manifestations, bringing him higher and
higher through various bodies, till his glory came
back, and he remembered his own nature. Then the
kind mother went back the same way she came, for
others who also have lost their way in the trackless
desert of life. And thus is she working, without
beginning and without end. And thus through pleas
ure and pain, through good and evil, the infinite river
of souls is flowing into the ocean of perfection, of self?
realisation.
Glory unto those who have realised their own
nature ; may their blessings be on us all.