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128 intelligence and will forget to see and be seated in the calm observing soul, thereisa fall from the memory of one’s true self, and by that lapse the intelligent will is also obscured, destroyed even. For, for the time being, it no longer exists to our memory of ourselves, it disappears in a cloud of passion; we become passion, wrath, grief and cease to be self and intelligence and will. This then must be prevented and all the senses brought utterly under control; for only by an absolute control of the senses can the wise and calm intelligence be firmly established in its proper seat.

This cannot be done perfectly by the act of the intelligence itself, by a merely mental self-discipline; it can only be done by Yoga with something which is higher than itself and in which calm and self-mastery are inherent. And this Yoga can only arrive at its success by devoting, by consecrating, by giving up the whole self to the Divine, “to Me,” says Krishna; for the Liberator is within us, but it is not our mind, nor our intelligence, nor our personal will,—they are’ only instruments. It is the Lord in whom, aswe are told in the end, we have utterly to take refuge. And for that we must at first make him the object of our whole being and keep in soul-contact with him. This is the sense of the phrase “he must sit firm ir. Yoga, wholly given up ‘o Me; " but as yet it is the mcrest passing hint after the manner of the Gita, three words only which centain in seed the whole gist of the highest secret yet to be developed. Yukta dsita matparai.

If this is done, then it becomes possible to move. among the objects of sense, in contact with them, acting on them, but with the senses entirely under the control