The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali : Part - II On Spiritual Disciplines

Part Two on Spiritual Disciplines 

2.1 Austerity, the study of sacred texts, and the dedication of action to God constitute the  discipline of Mystic Union. 

2.2 This discipline is practised for the purpose of acquiring fixity of mind on the Lord, free from  all impurities and agitations, or on One's Own Reality, and for attenuating the frictions. 

2.3 The five frictions are ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion, and the desire to cling to life.  

2.4 Ignorance is the breeding place for all the others whether they are dormant or attenuated,  partially overcome or fully operative. 

2.5 Ignorance is taking the non-eternal for the eternal, the impure for the pure, evil for good and  non-self as self. 

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