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Book four of the yogasutras of pangali by pangali translated by Charles Johnston 1867 to 1931 this LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Kyle James mlan introduction to book four the third book of the sutras has fairly completed the history of the birth and growth of the spiritual man and the enumeration of his powers at least so far as concerned turned that first Epoch in his Immortal Life which immediately succeeds and supersedes the life of the natural man in the fourth book we are to consider what one might call the mechanism of Salvation the ideally simple working of cosmic law which brings the spiritual man to birth growth and fullness of power and prepares him for the splendid toysome further stages of his great journey home the sutras are here brief to obscurity only a few words words for example are given to the great Triune mystery and illusion of time just a phrase or two indicates the sweep of some universal law yet it is hoped that by keeping our eyes fixed on the spiritual man remembering that he is the hearer of the story and that all that is written concerns him and his adventures we may be able to find our way through this Thicket of Tangled words and keep in our hands the clue to the mystery the last part of of the last book needs little introduction in a sense it is the most important part of the whole Treatise since it unmasks the nature of the personality that psychical mind which is the wakeful enemy of all who seek to tread the path even now we can hear it whispering the doubt whether that can be a good path which thus sets mind at Defiance if this then be the most vital and fundamental part of the teaching should it not stand at the very beginning it may seem so at first but had it stood there we should not have comprehended it for He Who would know the doctrine must lead the life doing the will of his father which is in heaven book four one psychic and spiritual Powers may be inborn or they may be gained by the use of drugs or by incantations or by fervor or by meditation interpretation spiritual Powers have been enumerated and described in the preceding sections they are the normal powers of the spiritual man the antitype the Divine addition of the powers of the natural man through these Powers the spiritual man stands sees hears speaks in the spiritual world and the physical man stands sees hears speaks in the natural world there is a counterfeit presentment of the spiritual man in the world of Dreams a shadow Lord of Shadows who has his own dreamy powers of vision of hearing of movement he has left the natural world without reaching the spiritual he has set forth from the shore but he has not gained the further verge of the river he is born along the stream with no foothold on either Shore leaving the actual he has fallen short of the real caught in the limbo of vanities and delusions the cause of this aarant fantasm is always the worship of a false vain self the Lord of Dreams within one's own breast this is the psychic man Lord of delusive and bewildering psychic powers spiritual powers like intellectual or artistic gifts may be inborn the fruit that is of seeds planted and reared with toil in a former birth so also the powers of the psychic man may be inborn a delusive harvest from seeds of delusion psychic Powers may be gained by drugs as poverty shame debasement may be gained by the self-same drugs in their action they are banful cutting the man off from consciousness of the restraining power of His divine nature so that his forces Break Forth exuberant like the laughter of drunkards and he sees and hears things delusive while sinking he believes that he has risen growing weaker he thinks himself full of strength beholding Illusions he takes them to be true such are the the powers gained by drugs they are wholly psychic since the real Powers the spiritual can never be so gained incantations are affirmations of half truths concerning spirit and matter what is and what is not which work upon the mind and slowly build up a wraith of powers and a delusive well-being these two are of the psychic realm of Dreams lastly they are the true powers of the spiritual man built up and realized in medit a through reverent obedience to spiritual law to the pure conditions of being in the Divine realm two the transfer of powers from one vesture to another comes through the flow of the natural creative forces interpretation here if we can perceive it is the whole secret of spiritual birth growth and life spiritual being like all being is but an expression of the self of the inherent power and being of Atma inherent in the self are Consciousness and will which have as their lordly Heritage the wise sweep of the universe through Eternity for the self is one with the Eternal and the consciousness of the self may make itself manifest as seeing hearing tasting feeling or whatsoever perceptive power there may be just as the white sunlight May divide into many colored Rays so may the will of the self manifest itself in in the uttering of words or in handling or in moving and whatever powers of action there are throughout the seven worlds where the self is there will its powers be it is but a question of the vesture through which these Powers shall shine forth and wherever the Consciousness and desire of the ever creative self are fixed there will a vesture be built up where the heart is there will the treasure be also since Through the Ages the desire of the self has been toward the natural World wherein the self sought to mirror himself that he might know himself therefore a vesture of natural elements came into being through which blossomed forth the self's powers of perceiving and of will the power to see to hear to speak to walk to handle and when the self thus come to self-consciousness and with it to a knowledge of his imprisonment shall set his desire on the Divine and real world and raises Consciousness thereto the spirit ual vesture shall be built up for him there with its expression of his inherent powers nor will migration thither be difficult for the self since the Divine is no strange or foreign land for him but the house of his home where he dwells from Everlasting three the apparent immediate cause is not the true cause of the creative nature powers but like the husbandman in his field it takes obstacles away interpretation the husbandman tills his field breaking up the clouds of Earth into fine mold penetrable to Air and Rain he sews his seed carefully covering it for fear of birds in the wind he Waters the seed Laden Earth turning the little RS from the irrigation tank now this way and that removing obstacles from the channels until the even flow of water vitalizes the whole field and so the plants germinate and grow first first the blade then the ear then the full corn in the ear but it is not the husbandman who makes them grow it is first the miraculous plasmic power in the grain of seed which brings forth after its kind then the Alchemy of sunlight which in the presence of the green coloring matter of the leaves gathers hydrogen from the water and carbon from the gases in the air and mingles them in the hydrocarbons of plant growth and finally the whole occult vital powers of the plant itself stored up through ages and flowing down from the Primal sources of Life the husbandman but removes the obstacles he plants and Waters but God gives the increase so with the finer husbandman of diviner Fields he tills and sews but the growth of the spiritual man comes through the Surge and flow of divine creative forces and Powers here again God gives the increase the Divine self self puts forth for the manifestation of its powers a new and finer vesture the body of the spiritual man four vestures of Consciousness are built up in Conformity with the position of the feeling selfhood interpretation the self says a great teacher in turn attaches itself to three vestures first to the physical body then to the finer body and thirdly to the causal body finally it stands forth radiant luminous joyous as the self when the self attributes itself to the physical body there arise the states of bodily Consciousness built up about the physical self when the self breaking through this first illusion begins to see and feel in the finer body to find selfhood there then the states of consciousness of the finer body come into being or to speak exactly the finer body and its states of Consciousness arise and grow together but the self must not dwell permanently there it must learn to find itself in the causal body to build up the wide and luminous fields of Consciousness that belong to that nor must it dwell forever there for there Remains the fourth state the Divine with its own Splendor and everlastingness it is all a question of the states of Consciousness all a question of raising the sense of selfhood until it dwells forever forever in the Eternal five in the different fields of manifestation the Consciousness though one is the effective cause of many states of Consciousness interpretation here is the splendid teaching of Oneness that lies at the heart of Eastern wisdom Consciousness is ultimately one everywhere and forever the Eternal the father is the one self of all beings and so in each individual who is but a facet of that self consciousness is one whether it breaks through as the dull fire of physical life or the murky flame of the psychic and passional or the radiance of the spiritual man or the full glory of the Divine it is ever the light not but the light the one Consciousness is the effective cause of all states of Consciousness on every plane six amongst States Of Consciousness that which is born of contemplation is free from the seed of future sorrow interpretation where the Consciousness breaks forth in the physical body and the full play of bodily Life Begins its progression carries with it inevitable limitations birth involves death meetings have their partings hunger alternates with satiety age follows on the heels of Youth so do the states of Consciousness run along the circle of of birth and death with the psychic the alternation between prize and penalty is swifter hope has its shadow of fear or it is no hope exclusive love is tortured by jealousy pleasure passes through deadness into pain pain so cease brings pleasure back again so here too the states of Consciousness run in their Circle in all psychic states there is egotism which indeed is the very essence of the psych and where there is egotism there is never the seed of future sorrow desire carries bondage in its womb but where the pure spiritual consciousness begins free from self and stain the ancient law of retaliation ceases the penalty of Sorrow lapses and is no more imposed the soul now passes no longer from sorrow to sorrow but from glory to glory its growth and Splendor have no limit the good passes to better best seven The Works of followers after Union make neither for bright pleasure nor for dark pain The Works of others make for pleasure or pain or a mingling of these interpretation the man of Desire wins from his works the reward of pleasure or incurs the penalty of pain or as so often happens in life his G like the passionate mood of the lover is part pleasure and and part pain Works done with self-seeking bear within them the seeds of future sorrow conversely according to the proverb present pain is future gain but for him who has gone Beyond Desire Whose desire is set on the Eternal neither pain to be avoided nor pleasure to be gained inspires his work he fears no hell and desires No Heaven his one desire is to know the will of the father and finish his work he comes directly in line with the Divine will and works cleanly and immediately without longing or fear his heart dwells in the Eternal and his desires are set on the Eternal eight from the force inherent in Works comes the manifestation of those Dynamic mind images which are conformable to the ripening out of each of these Works interpretation we are now to consider the general mechanism of God in order that we may pass on to the consideration of him who is free from karma karma indeed is the concern of the personal man of his bondage or Freedom it is the succession of the forces which have built up the personal man reproducing themselves in one personality after another now let us take an imaginary case to see how these forces may work out let us think of a man with murderous intent in his heart striking with a dagger at his enemy he makes a red wound in his victim's breast at the same instant he Paints in his own mind a picture of that wound a picture Dynamic with all the fierce willpower he has put into his murderous blow in other words he has made a deep wound in his own psychic body and when he comes to be born again that body will become his outermost vesture upon which with its wound still there bodily tissue will be built up so the man will be born maimed or with the predisposition to some Mortal injury he is unguarded at that point and any trifling accidental blow will pierce the broken joints of his psychic armor thus do the dynamic mind images manifest themselves coming to the surface so that works done in the past May ripen and come to fruition nine Works separated by different nature or place or time are brought together together by the correspondence between memory and dynamic impression interpretation just as in the ripening out of mind images into bodily conditions the effect is brought about by the ray of creative Force sent down by the self somewhat as the light of the Magic Lantern projects the details of a picture on the screen revealing the hidden and making secret things palpable and visible so does this Divine Ray exercise a selective power on the dynamic mind images bringing together into one day of life the seeds gathered from many days the memory constantly exemplifies this power a passage of poetry will call up in the mind like passages of many poets read at different times so a prayer may call up many prayers in like manner the same overruling selective power which is a ray of the higher self gathers together from different births and times and places those mind images which are conformable and may be grouped in the frame of a single life or a single event through this grouping visible bodily conditions or outward circumstances are brought about and by these the soul is taught and trained just as the dynamic mind images of Desire ripen out in bodily conditions and circumstances so the far more Dynamic powers of aspiration wherein the soul reaches toward the Eternal have their function in a finer World building the vesture of the spiritual man 10 the series of dynamic mind images is beginningless because desire is Everlasting interpretation the whole series of dynamic mind images which make up the entire history of the personal man is a part of the mechanism which the self employs to mirror itself in a reflection to embody its powers in an outward form to the end of self-expression self-realization self- knowledge therefore the initial impulse Behind These dynamic mind images comes from the self and is the descending Ray of the self so that it cannot be said that there is any first member of the series of images from which the rest arose the impulse is beginningless since it comes from the self which is from Everlasting desire is not to cease it is to turn to the Eternal and so become aspiration 11 since the dynamic mind images are held together by impulses of Desire by the wish for personal reward by the substratum of mental habit by the support of outer things desired therefore when these cease the self-reproduction of dynamic mind images ceases interpretation we are still concerned with the personal life in its bodily vesture and with the process whereby the forces which have upheld it are gradually transferred to the life of the spiritual man and build up for him his finer vesture in a finer world how is the current to be changed how is the flow of self- reproductive mind images which have built the conditions of Life After Life in this world of bondage to be checked that the time of imprisonment may come to an end the day of Liberation Dawn the answer is given in the Sutra just translated the driving force is withdrawn and directed to the upbuilding of the spiritual body when the building impulses and forces are withdrawn the tendency to to manifest a new psychical body a new body of bondage ceases with them 12 the difference between that which is passed and that which is not yet come according to their Natures depends on the difference of phase of their properties interpretation here we come to a high and difficult matter which has always been held to be of great moment in the Eastern wisdom the thought that the division of time into past present and future is in great measure an illusion that past present future all dwell together in the Eternal now the discernment of this truth has been held to be so necessarily a part of wisdom that one of the names of the enlightened is he who has passed beyond the three times past present future so the Western Master said before Abraham was I am and again I Am With You Always until the end of the world using the Eternal present for past and future alike with the same purpose the master speaks of himself as the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last and a master of our own days writes I feel even irritated at having to use these three clumsy words past present and future miserable concepts of the objective phases of the subjective hope whole they are about as ill adapted for their purpose as an axe for fine carving in the Eternal now both past and future are consummated Pand the Swedish philosopher has well stated the same truth neither past nor future can exist to God he lives undividedly without limitations and needs not as man to plot out his existence in a series of moments eternity then is not identical with unending time it is a different form of existence related to time as the perfect to the imperfect man as an entity for himself must have the natural limitations for the part conceived by God man is eternal in the Divine sense but conceived by himself man's eternal life is clothed in the limitations we call time the Eternal is a constant present without beginning or end without past or future 13 these properties whether manifest or latent are of the nature of the three potencies interpretation the three potencies are the three manifested modifications of the one Primal material which stands opposite to perceiving Consciousness these three potencies are called substance Force Darkness or viewed rather from their moral coloring goodness passion in nerdness every material manifestation is a projection of substance into the empty space of Darkness every mental state is either good or passional or inert so whether subjective or objective latent or manifest all things that present themselves to the perceiving Consciousness are compounded of these three this is a fundamental doctrine of the sunia system 14 the external manif estation of an object takes place when the Transformations are in the same phase interpretation we should be inclined to express the same law by saying for example that a sound is audible when it consists of vibrations within the compass of the auditory nerve that an object is visible when either directly or by reflection it sends forth luminiferous vibrations within the compass of the retina and the optic nerve vibrations below or above that Compass make no impression at all and the object remains invisible as for example a kettle of boiling water in a dark room though the kettle is sending forth heat vibrations closely akin to light so when the vibrations of the object and those of the perceptive power are in the same phase the external manifestation of the object takes place there seems to be a further suggestion that the appearance of an object in the present or its remaining here hid in the past or future is likewise a question of phase and just as the range of vibrations perceived might be increased by the development of finer senses so the perception of things past and things to come may be easy from a higher point of view 15 the paths of material things and of states of Consciousness are distinct as is Manifest from the fact that the same object May produce different impressions in different Minds interpretation having shown that our bodily condition and circumstances depend on Karma while Karma depends on perception and will the sage recognizes the fact that from this may be drawn the false deduction that material things are a no wise different from states of mind the same thought has occurred and still occurs to all philosophers and by various reasonings they all come to the same wise conclusion that the material world is not made by the mood of any human mind but is rather the manifestation of the totality of invisible being whether we call this mahat with the Ancients or ether with the moderns 16 nor do material objects depend upon a single mind for how could they remain objective to others if that mind ceased to think of them interpretation this is but a further development of the thought of the preceding Sutra carrying on the thought that while the the universe is spiritual yet its material expression is ordered consistent ruled by law not subject to the whims or affirmations of a single mind unwelcome material things may be escaped by spiritual growth by rising to the realm above them and not by denying their existence on their own plane so that our system is neither materialistic nor idealistic in the extreme sense but rather intuitional and spiritual holding that matter is the manifestation of spirit as a whole a reflection or exteriorization of spirit and like Spirit everywhere obedient to law the path of Liberation is not through denial of matter but through denial of the wills of self through obedience and that aspiration which builds the vesture of the spiritual man 17 an object is perceived or not perceived according as the mind is or is not tinged with the color of the object interpretation the simplest manifestation of this is the matter of attention our minds apprehend what they wish to apprehend all else passes unnoticed or on the other hand we perceive what we resent as for example the noise of a passing train While others used to the sound do not notice it at all but the deeper meaning is that out of the vast totality of objects ever present in the universe the Mind perceives only those with which conform to the Hue of its karma the rest remain unseen even though close at hand this spiritual law has been well expressed by Emerson through solidest external things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist and does not once suspect their being as soon as he needs a new object suddenly he beholds it and no longer attempts to pass through it but takes another way when he has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from from any one person or thing that object is withdrawn from his observation and though still in his immediate neighborhood he does not suspect its presence nothing is dead men feain themselves dead and endure mock funerals and mournful obituries and there they stand looking out of the window sound and well in some new and strange disguise Jesus is not dead he is very well alive nor John nor Paul nor Muhammad nor arist at times we believe we have seen them all and could easily tell the names under which they go 18 the movements of the psychic nature are perpetually objects of perception since the spiritual man who is the Lord of them remains unchanging interpretation here is teaching of the utmost import both for understanding and for practice to the psychic nature belong all the EB and flow of emotion all hoping and fearing desire and hate the things that make the multitude of men and women deem themselves happy or miserable to it also belong the measuring and comparing the doubt and questioning which for the same multitude make up mental life so that there results the emotion soaked personality with its dark and narrow view of Life the Shivering Terror driven personality that is life itself for all but all of men mankind yet the personality is not the true man not the living Soul at all but only a spectacle which the true man observes let us understand this therefore and draw ourselves up inwardly to the height of the spiritual man who standing in the Quiet Light of the Eternal looks down Serene upon this turmoil of the outer life when first Masters the personality the Mind by thus looking down on it from above from Within by steadily watching its EB and flow as objective outward and therefore not the real self this standing back is the first step Detachment the second to maintain the Vantage ground thus gained is recollection 19 the mind is not self-luminous since it can be seen as an object interpretation this is a further step toward overthrowing the tyranny of the Mind mind the psychic nature of emotion and mental measuring this psychic self the personality claims to be absolute asserting that life is for it and through it it seeks to impose on the whole being of man its narrow materialistic faithless view of life and the universe it would clip the wings of the soaring soul but the soul dethrones the Tyrant by perceiving and steadily affirming that the psychic self is no true self at all all not self luminous but only an object of observation watched by the Serene eyes of the spiritual man 20 nor could the mind at the same time know itself and things external to it interpretation the truth is that the Mind knows neither external things nor itself it's measuring and analyzing it's hoping and fearing hating and Desiring never give it a true measure of life nor any sense of real values ceaselessly active it never really attains to knowledge or if we admit its knowledge it ever falls short of wisdom which comes only through intuition the vision of the spiritual man life cannot be known by the Mind its Secrets cannot be learned through the mind the proof is the ceaseless strife and contradiction of opinion among those who trust in the mind much less can the Mind know itself the more so because it is pervaded by the illusion that it truly knows truly is true knowledge of the Mind comes first when the spiritual man arising stands detached regarding the Mind from above with quiet eyes and seeing it for the tangled web of psychic forces that it truly is but the truth is divined long before it is clearly seen and then Begins the long Battle of the Mind against the real the Mind fighting doggedly craftily for its Supremacy 21 if the mind be thought of as seen by another more inward mind then there would be an endless series of perceiving minds and a confusion of memories interpretation one of the expedients by which the Mind seeks to deny and th the soul when it feels that it is beginning to be circumvented and seen through is to assert that this seeing is the work of a part of itself one part observing the other and thus leaving no need nor place for the spiritual man to this strategy the argument is opposed by our philosopher that this would be no true solution but only a postponement of the solution for we should have to find yet another part of the mind to view the first observing part and then another to observe this and so on endlessly the true solution is that the spiritual man looks down upon the psychic nature and observes it when he views the psychic pictures Gallery this is memory which would be a hopeless inextricable confusion if we thought of one part of the mind with its memories viewing another part with memories of its own the solution of the mystery lies not in the mind but beyond it in the Luminous life of the Risen Lord the spiritual man 22 when the psychical nature takes on the form of the spiritual intelligence by refle ing it then the self becomes conscious of its own spiritual intelligence interpretation we are considering a stage of spiritual life at which the psychical Nature has been cleansed and purified formerly it reflected in its plastic substance the images of the earthy purified now it reflects the image of the Heavenly giving the spiritual intelligence a visible form the self beholding that visible form in which its spiritual intelligence has as as it were taken palpable shape thereby reaches self-recognition self-c comprehension the self sees itself in this mirror and becomes not only conscious but self-conscious this is from one point of view the purpose of the whole evolutionary process 23 the psychic nature taking on the color of the sea and of things seen leads to the perception of all objects interpretation in the unregenerate man the psychic nature is saturated with images of material things of things seen or heard or tasted or felt and this web of dynamic images forms the ordinary material and driving power of Life the sensation of sweet things tasted clamors to be renewed and drives the man into effort to obtain its renewal so he adds image to image each Dynamic and importunate piling up sins intolerable bird burden then comes regeneration and the washing away of sin through the fiery creative power of the Soul which burns out the stains of the psychic vesture purifying it as gold is refined in the furnace the suffering of regeneration Springs from this indispensable purifying then the psychic vesture begins to take on the color of the Soul no longer stained but suffused with golden light and the man regenerate gleams with the radiance of Eternity thus the spiritual man puts on Fair reignment for of this cleansing it is said though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be white as snow though they be Crimson they shall be as wool 24 the psychic nature which has been printed with mind images of innumerable material things exists now for the spiritual man building for him interpretation the Mind once the Tyrant is now the slave recognized as outward separate not self a well-trained instrument of the spiritual man for it is not ordained for the spiritual man that finding his high realm he shall enter altogether there and pass out of the vision of man kind it is true that he dwells in heaven but he also dwells on Earth he has angels and Arch Angels the hosts of the just made perfect for his familiar friends but he has at the same time found a new ship with the prone Children of Men Who stumble and sin in the dark finding sinlessness he finds also that the world's sin and shame are his not to share but to atone finding kinship with angels He likewise finds his part in the toil of Angels the toil for the Redemption of the world for this work he who now stands in the Heavenly realm needs his instrument on Earth and this instrument he finds ready to his hand and fitted and perfected by the very struggles he has waged against it in the personality the mind of the personal man this once Tyrant is now a servant and perfect Ambassador bearing witness before men of heavenly things and even in this present world doing the will and working the works of the father 25 for him who discerns between the mind and the spiritual man there comes perfect fruition of the longing after the real being of the self interpretation how many times in the long struggle have the Soul's aspirations seemed but a hopeless Impossible Dream a madman's council of perfection yet every finest most impossible aspiration shall be realized and 10 times more than realized once the long arduous fight against the mind and the mind's world view is one and then it will be seen that unfaith and spare were but weapons of the mind to daunt the soul to put off the day when the neck of the Mind shall be put under the foot of the Soul have you aspired well nigh hopeless after immortality you shall be paid by entering the immortality of God have you aspired in misery and pain after consoling healing love you shall be made a dispenser of the Divine love of God himself to weary Souls have you sought ardently in your day of feebleness after power you shall wield power Immortal infinite with God working the works of God have you in lonely Darkness longed for companionship and consolation you shall have Angels and Archangels for your friends and all the immortal hosts of the Dawn these are the fruits of Victory therefore overcome these are the prizes of regeneration therefore die to self that you may rise again to God 26 thereafter the whole personal being bends toward illumination toward eternal life interpretation this is part of the secret of the soul that salvation means not merely that a soul shall be cleansed and raised to heaven but that the whole Realm of the natural Powers shall be redeemed building up even in this present world the kingly figure of the spiritual man the traditions of the ages are full of his footsteps Majestic uncomprehended Shadows myths demigods fill the memories of all the nobler peoples but the time cometh when he shall be known no longer demigod nor myth nor Shadow but the everpresent Redeemer working amid men for the life and cleansing of All Souls 27 in the internals of the battle other thoughts will rise through the impressions of the dynamic mind images interpretation the battle is long and arduous let there be no mistakes to that go not forth to this battle without counting the cost ages have gone to the strengthening of the foe ages of conflict must be spent here the foe wholly conquered becomes the servant the souls minister to Mankind and from these long past ages in hours when the contest Flags will come new foes mind born children springing up to fight for mind reinforcements coming from forgotten years forgotten lives for once this conflict is begun it can be ended only by sweeping Victory and unconditional unreserved surrender of the vanquished 28 these are to be overcome as it was taught that hindrances should be overcome interpretation these new enemies and fears are to be overcome by ceaselessly renewing the fight by a steadfast dogged persistence whether in Victory or defeat which shall put the stubbornness of the rocks to shame for the soul is older than all things and Invincible it is of the very nature of the soul to be unconquerable therefore fight on undaunted knowing that the spiritual will once awakened shall through the effort of the contest come to its full strength that ground gained can be held permanently that great as is the dead weight of the adversary it is yet measurable while the warrior who fights for you for whom you fight is in might immeasurable Invincible Everlasting 29 he who after he has attained is wholly free from self reaches the essence of all that can be known gathered together like a cloud this is the true spiritual consciousness interpretation it has been said that at the beginning of the way we must kill our ambition the greatest curse the giant wed which grows as strongly in the heart of the devoted disciple as in the man of Desire the remedy is sacrifice of self obedience humility that purity of heart which gives the vision of God thereafter he who has attained is wrapped about with the essence of all that can be known as with a cloud he has that perfect illumination which is the true spiritual consciousness through obedience to the will of God he comes into Oneness of being with God he is initiated into God's view of the universe seeing all life as God sees it 30 thereon comes s ceas from sorrow and the burden of toil interpretation such a one it is said is free from the bond of karma from the burden of toil from that debt to Works which comes from Works done in self-love and desire free from self-will he is free from sorrow too for sorrow comes from the fight of self-will against the Divine will through the correcting stress of the Divine will which seeks to counteract the evil wrought by Disobedience when the conflict with the Divine will ceases then sorrow ceases and he who has grown into Disobedience thereby enters into Joy 31 when all veils are Rent All stains washed away his knowledge becomes infinite little remains for him to know interpretation the first Veil is the delusion that the soul is in some permanent way separate from the Great Soul the Divine Eternal when that Veil is rent Thou shalt discern thy Oneness with everlasting life the second Veil is the delusion of enduring separateness from thy other selves whereas in truth the soul that is in them is one with the soul that is in thee the world's sin and shame are thy sin and shame it's Joy also these veils rent Thou shalt enter into knowledge of divine things and human things little will remain unknown to thee 32 thereafter comes the completion of the series of transformations of the three nature potencies since their purpose is attained interpretation it is a part of the beauty and wisdom of the Great Indian teachings the Vidant and the yoga alike to hold that all life exists for the purpose of soul for the making of the spiritual man they teach that all nature is an orderly process of evolution leading up to this designed for this end existing only for this to bring forth and perfect the spiritual man he is the crown of evolution at his coming the goal of all development is attained 33 the series of Transformations is divided into moments when the series is completed time gives place to duration interpretation there are two kinds of Eternity says the commentary The Eternity in Immortal Life which belongs to the spirit and The Eternity of change which inheres in nature in all that is not Spirit while we are content to live in and for nature in the circle of necessity sansara we Doom ourselves to Perpetual change that which is born must die and that which dies must be reborn it has change ever more a ceaseless series of Transformations but the spiritual man enters a new order for him there is no longer Eternal change but Eternal being he has entered into the joy of his Lord this spiritual birth which makes him heir to the Everlasting sets a term to change it is the culmination the crowning transformation of the whole realm of change 34 pure spiritual life is therefore the inverse resolution of the potencies of nature which have emptied themselves of their value for the spiritual man or it is the return of the power of pure Consciousness to its essential form interpretation here we have a splendid generalization in which our wise philosopher finally reconciles the naturalists and the idealists expressing the crown and end of his teaching first in terms of the naturalist and and then in terms of the idealist the birth and growth of the spiritual man and his entry into the immortal Heritage may be regarded says our philosopher either as the culmination of the whole process of Natural Evolution and involution where that which flowed from out the boundless deep turns again home or it may be looked at as the vians look at it as the restoration of pure spiritual consciousness to its pristine and essential form there is no discrepancy or conflict between these two views which are but two accounts of the same thing therefore those who study the wise philosopher be they naturalist or idealist have no excuse to linger over dialectic subtleties or disputes these things are lifted from their path lest they should be tempted to delay over them and they are left facing the path itself stretching upward and onward from their feet to the Everlasting Hills radiant with infinite light end of book four recording by Kyle James mlan end of The Yoga suas of pangali by pangali translated by Charles Johnston 1867 to 1931