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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... tation. Therefore it is to the practical part of) Concentration that the Yogi should first direct his attention. c, ' For the purpose of extenuating affliction,'--this has been stated in § 2;--what are here meant by afflictions? He replies-f 3?r%rnirfm%%T:?rtt: II Afflictions to be Apfi, 3,--The afflictions are Ignorance, alleviated by such... . ' practices. Egoism, Desire, Aversion, and Tenacity of mundane existence. a. And the ' afflictions,'--Ignorance and the rest,--the definitions of which will be stated in the sequel, are five; and these, giving rise to distress, the characteristic of which is its being obstructive to what we miserable mortals wish, are called ' afflictions,' because they, operating in the mind, consolidate that modification of the three Qualities which is recognised as mundane existence --the state of existence which it is the aim of the Yogi to eschew. b. Although these are all equal in respect of being afflictions, yet, in order to declare that' Ignorance' (avidya), from its being the root, is the principal one, he says.§ The source of the Aph. 4.--Ignorance is the field of the afflictions. others, whether they be dormant, extenuated intercepted, or simple. a. 'Ignorance' means delusion; the notion, in short, that X iisirsfrfasirT'fr wrasfir: qar i er wrrasm fftfTgJ MftoirM f5rqf??T n what is not Soul is Soul. This is the ' field,'--the place of origin, of the others, viz., ' Egoism,' &c., which are severally fourfold through the division into 'dormant, &c. Therefore, where Ignorance, in the shape of a mistaken notion that what is not soul is soul, becomes inoperative, there the springing up of the ' afflictions' is not seen; but, since, where this mistaken notion really exists, they are seen...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230454934
- ISBN 13 9781230454931
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages46
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