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Jnana Yoga
Those imperfect unsuccessful Yogins who have been led astray by obstacles caused by the gods in the form of men (friends, relatives, disciples etc.) do again practise Yoga alone in their future life on account of the force of their previous habit, but they do not take to the intensive course of Karma.
This body does any act or undergoes changes till death impelled by past impressions of work or previous tendencies; but thes age, though he is in the body, is free from desires and thirst for objects as he has realised the essential bliss of the Atman and is not affected by work.
He who has fixed his mind in the Atman is not conscious of the body whether standing, sitting, walking, lying down, eating food, passing urine, or performing any other natural function such as seeing or touching.
Even if the sage beholds the external objects, he does not regard them as something real and other than the Atman, because they have already been discarded as unreal through reasoning, inference and discrimination, just as a man on waking from sleep discards the illusory visions of the dream.
When a man is in bondage, the effects of ignorance such as body etc., which are wonderfully wrought by the Gunas and Karma, are not perceived distinct from the Atman. When he attains knowledge of the Self or Brahma Jnana, they disappear or dissolve. But the Atman is neither accepted nor discarded.
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