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Jnana Yoga
Just as the appearance of the sun dispels only from the eyes of men the veil of darkness, but does not create anything new, so also knowledge of Myself destroys the veil of darkness from a man’s intellect.
This Atman is self-luminous, unborn, immeasurable, knowledge absolute, Omniscient, One without a second, indivisible and beyond speech, impelled by whom the speech and the Pranas do their functions.
The delusion of the mind lasts only so long as there is the notion of difference or duality in the Absolute Atman, because that delusion depends on that Atman.
When the mind fancies that there is duality the delusion arises. Atman alone really exists. The duality is baseless.
Those who are conceited as wise men regard the duality perceived through names and forms and consisting of the five elements as irrefutable and as a proved reality, and hold that the Vedantic view is only a matter of mere compliment or glorification. This view is certainly not held by those who know the truth.
If the body of a Yogin who is not ripe in his Yogic practices, is rendered unfit by disease and other obstacles that may crop up in the course of the practice, then the following remedies are prescribed.
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