Raja-Yoga

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APPENDIX. 227
31. It is perfected by the suppression of the modifi
cations.
32 By meditation, posture and performance of one s
duties, it is perfected.
33. Restraint of the Prdna is by means of expulsion
and retention.
34. Posture is that which is steady and easy.
36. Also by non-attachment and practice.
75. By practising the discrimination of the princi
ples of nature from the Puruta, and by giving them
up as not It,
not It,"
discrimination is perfected.
Book IV.
3. Repetition, instruction is to be repeated.
5. As the hawk becomes unhappy
if the food is
taken away from him, and happy if he gives it up him
self (so he who gives up everything voluntarily is
happy).
6. As the snake is
happy in giving up his old skin.
8. That which is not a means of liberation is not to
be thought of; it becomes a cause of bondage, as in
the case of Bharata.
9. From the association of many things
there is
obstruction to meditation, through passion, etc., like
the shell bracelets on the virgin s hand.
10. It is the same, even in the case of two.
11. The hopeless are happy, like the girl Pingald.
13. Although devotion is to be given to many insti
tutes and teachers, the essence is to be taken from them
all,
as the bee takes the essence from many flowers.