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Chapter 12
Yogs:- Here the term 'Yogi', stands for a devotee, who has realized God (who ever remains united with Him), through the path of devotion.
In fact, no person can ever be disunited from God. He, who has realized this fact, is a Yogi.
Yatatnra:- He, who has fully controlled his body, including the mind, intellect and senses, is 'Yatatma. A God-realized devotee has not to control his mind, and intellect etc. These are naturally, under his control. So, in him there is no possibility of any evil, born of contact of senses, with sense-objects. In fact, the mind, intellect and senses should follow a right path. But, these deviate from the right path, because a person is attached, to the world. A devotee's mind, intellect and senses, remain under his control, because he is not in the least, attached to the world, and so his actions are exemplary.
The senses of virtuous and righteous persons, never deviate from the right path. King Dusyanta got attached towards Sakuntala; so he had full confidence that she must belong to a Ksatriya family, rather than a Brahmana. According to the poet Kalidasa, in case of doubt, the inclination of a virtuous person, is testimony of the right path (Abhijnana Sakuntalam 1/21). How can, the mind, intellect and senses of a perfect devotee, deviate from the right path, when the suses of even, a righteous person do not deviate?
Drdhanis-cayah:- An enlightened soul, has a firm determination that the world has no independent existence, while God never ceases to be, and his affinity for Him is eternal. An ignorant person, considers the world as real, and attaches importance to it, while a perfect devotee, does not believe in the existence of the world, for him only, God exists.
In that firm determination, only existence of God, remains. Actually this determination is not of the intellect, it is of the self. But it is reflected, in the intellect.
Conceding the independent existence of the world and assuming affinity with it, doubt and contrary feeling arise in the intellect. Such intellect never becomes steady. The intellect, of a perfect soul remains without any doubt, while that of the ignorant remains, doubtful. The intellect of the ignorant, attaches value to the world and accepts its existence. But the intellect of a perfect soul does not accept existence of anything else, except God. His intellect is totally free from doubt and contrary feeling, and is steadfast, in God only.
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