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Rh banished from his mind, self-controlled in his whole being and consciousness. “He should set ina pure spot his firm seat, neither too high, nor yet too low, covered with a cloth, with a deer-skin, with sacred grass, and there seated with a concentrated mind and with the workings of the mental consciousness and the senses under control he sheuld practise Yoga for self-purificat- ion, déma-viguddhaye.” The posture he takes must be the motionless erect posture proper to the practice of Rajayoga ; the vision should be drawn in and fixed between the eye-brows, “not regarding the regions.” The mind is to be kept calm and free from fear and the vow of Brahmacharya observed ; the whole controlled mentality must be devoted and turned to the Divine so that the lower action of the conciousness shall be merged in the higher peace. For the object to be attained is the still peace of Nirvana. “Thus always putting himself in Yoga by control of his mind the Yogin attains to the supreme peace of Nirvana which has its foundation in Me, cdntim nirvina-paramdim matsansthéim’

This peace of Nirvana is reached when all the mental consciousness is perfectly controlled and liberta ated from desire and remains still in the Self, when motionless like the light of a lamp in a windless place, it ceases from its restless action, shut in from its outward motion, and by the silence and stillness of the mind -the Self is seen within, not disfigured as in the mind, but in the Self, seen, not as it is mistranslated falsely or partially by the mind and represented to us through the ego, but self-perceived by the Self, swaprakisha.Then the soul is satisfied and knows its own true and exceeding