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Jnana Yoga
Clearing up all doubts about the Atman by discrimination, by means of Vedas and Tapas and negation of all illusory names and forms, the sage should be fixed in the bliss of Atman having abstained from all sensual pleasures.
The body is not the Atman because it is material. Also the organs, the gods, the Pranas, the air, water, fire, ether, earth, objects of the senses, the mind, the intellect, the Chitta, the Ahamkara and Prakriti are not the Atman, because they are all matter. These do not affect the sage.
For one who has realised My nature, what benefit is there to be derived by controlling the organs which are constituted of the Gunas? Or what loss comes to him whose senses are outgoing? Whether the clouds gather or disperse, what is that to the Sun?
Just as the sky (Akasa) is not affected by he attributes of air, fire, water and earth or by those of the seasons, so also the Immutable which is beyond egoism is not affected by the impurities of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas which lead to births and deaths.
Still, contact with the objects which are created by Maya should be avoided till attachment which taints the mind is completely cut out by the powerful weapon of intense devotion to Me.
When the disease is not properly treated, it gives trouble again and again. Similarly a mind from which desire and Karmas are not completely burnt, troubles the imperfect Yogi who is attached to everything and brings about his fall.
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