| 10. Unflinching
devotion to Me in Yoga of nonseparation, resort to solitary places, distaste
for the society of men ;Yoga of nonseparation: aprithaksamadhi, a steady
unflinching meditation on the One with the idea that there is no Being higher,
than the Lord, Vasudeva, and that therefore He is our sole Refuge. And this
devotion is (conducive to) knowledge. Solitary places: which are naturally
free, or made free, from impurities, as also from fear of serpents, thieves
and tigers: such as a jungle, the sandbank of a river, the temple of a God,
and so on. It is in solitude that the mind becomes calm ; so that meditation
of the Self and the like is possible only in a solitary place. Wherefore
resort to solitude is said to be (conducive to) knowledge. Society of men:
of the ordinary unenlightened and undisciplined people, not of the enlightened
and disciplined men, because the society of these latter is an aid to knowledge.
Distaste for the society of ordinary men is knowledge, because it leads
to knowledge. |
