(The sense-organs) devoid of atman as a result of sinful actions perish like the waves in a great ocean. While the embodied soul is asleep or agitated, the subtle Soul wanders about along wi... Read more
Vyasa said: O Brahmins! Intelligent scholars, the followers of Kapila and his Saamkhya system, speak of five defects in the body. They are conversant with the path. Listen, O excellent sages... Read more
The maximum duration of happiness is clearly known, O excellent sages. The misery of persons indulging in worldly pleasures, coming at the appropriate time, is known. The misery, O Brahmins,... Read more
Just as an archer, who does not err and who has full concentration, hits his target, so also the yogi of perfect unison attains to salvation undoubtedly. A person of good concentration can s... Read more
The path that leads to the eastern sea does not go to the western sea. Indeed there is only one path unto liberation. O sinless Ones! Listen to that. One shall dispel anger by patience and f... Read more
Indeed the Atman has neither birth nor death. One shall sport about, after realizing It. One shall neither be angry, nor be delighted. One shall be free of enmity and jealousy. Thus, everyon... Read more
Just as the turtle stretches and withdraws its limbs under its back, so he who has excellent intellect controls his set of sense-organs. The fact that one sees upwards, sideways as well as b... Read more
On attainment of Knowledge, the region of the Brahman, one does not die, one is not reborn, one does not become old and one does not decay. It is where the Supreme Brahman is. IT is Un-manif... Read more
One shall guard hands and feet by means of the eye. One shall guard eyes and ears by means of the mind. One shall guard one’s mind and speech by means of good activity. One shall eschew fear... Read more
O excellent sages! I have thus recounted to you the yoga that bestows liberation, the cause of release from worldly bondage. What else do you wish to hear? Lomaharsana said: On hearing his w... Read more
