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312 bliss, not that untranquil happiness which is the portion of the mind and the senses, but an inner and serene felicity in which it is safe from the mind’s pert- urbations and can no longer fall away from the spiritual truth of its being. Not even the fieriest assault of mental grief can disturb it ; for mental grief comes to us from outside, is a reaction to external touches, and this is the inner, the self-existent happiness of those who no longer accept the slavery of the unstable mental reactions to external touches. Itis the putting away of the contact with pain, the divorce of the mind’s mar- riage with grief, duhkha-sanyoga-viyogam. The firm winning of this inalienable spiritual bliss is Yoga, it is the divine union; it is the greatest of all gains and the treasure beside which all others lose their value. There- fore is this Yoga to be resolutely practised without yielding to any discouragement by difficulty or failure until the release, until the bliss of Nirvana is secured as an eternal possession.

- The main stress here has fallen on the stilling of the emotive mind, the mind of desire and the senses which are the recipients of outward touches and reply to them with our customary emotional reactions ; but even the mental thought has to be stilled in the silence of the self-existent being. First, all the desires born of the desire- will have to be wholly abandoned without any exception or residue and the senses have to be held in by the mind sothat they shall notrun out to all sides after their usuay disorderly and restless habit ; but next the mind itself hasto be seized by the buddhi and drawninward. One should slowly cease from mental action by a buddhi held in the grasp of fixity and having fixed the mind in the