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Excerpt from The Sacred Books of the Hindus, Vol. 6: Translated by Various Sanskrit Scholars The v aiéesika is a molcsa-édstra: it teaches a doctrine of release release from the coil of mortality. According to Kanada, man must work out his own salvation. It is given to him, if he will, to hear the Truth from the Scriptures or from a preceptor, on high or here below, to think ever it in his mind, and to meditate upon it in the recesses of' his heart. He can control his sensory and motor organs, and, b eliminating superficial psychic states, make the mind steady-in the Soul. Steadiness of. The mind in the Soul is called Yoga. Yoga, is neither a mystery nor is it in sticism. It is the realisation of the free dom of will, of the free Self. 9 then becomes master of time and space For him there is no distinction of past, present, and future no disti notion of here, there, and elsewhere. The mind being at rest, pleasure and pain do not arise, activity ceases, and the law of Karma is cancell _ red for all time to come. The accumulated Karma'of the past, however, 'remains. Having realised the fundamental freedom of' the sele, = he sees what experiences are in store for him, andlives' out'those exper iences in appropriate forms and surroundings brought about by thecreative poweriof will. In this way he cancels the past as well.. There after, when death takesplace, and the soul. Finally: quits its temporal zabode, it does not pass into other forms of finite life, but remains free for ever till the end of. Time. That freedom is called Mokea, the supreme good, the be-all and end-all oi existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.