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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book 2 - The Steps to Union |
10. These five hindrances, when subtly known, can be
overcome by an opposing mental attitude. The words "subtly known" could be paraphrased as "when realized by the inner man," and the thought back of the words has been well explained by Dvivedi in his Comment as follows:
This is the first work of the aspirant to yoga. He must realize the nature of the obstacles and then set in to overcome them, doing the work from the mental plane. He has to gain control of the apparatus of thought; then he has to learn how to use that apparatus, and when this has been accomplished, he begins to offset the hindrances by counter currents. The hindrances themselves are the result of wrong habits of thought and the misuse of the thinking principle. When they are subtly known as the seeds which produce the "obstacle-producing forms," then they can be exterminated in the latent stages by right habits of thought resulting in the setting up of the liberty-producing means. Ignorance (avidya) must be supplanted by the true vidya or knowledge, and as is well know, in this fourth race on this fourth globe and in the fourth round, the four vidyas and the four noble truths and the four basic elements form the sum total of this knowledge. The four vidyas of the Hindu philosophy might be enumerated as follows:
The four noble truths have been stated for us in the words of the Buddha in the following terms:
The four elements have been stated for us in the following extract from the Secret Doctrine (I. 95):
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