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jects, not as it is with the ordinary scholar & scientist, his primary
aim. Nevertheless these too we must take into our scope and give
room to God's full joy in the world. The methods of the Yogin are
also different for he tends more and more to the use of direct
vision and the faculties of the vijnana and less and less to intellec-
tual means. The ordinary man studies the object from outside and
infers its inner nature from the results of his external study. The
Yogin seeks to get inside his object, know it from within & use ex-
ternal study only as a means of confirming his view of the outward
action resulting from an already known inner nature.

Brahmavarchasya
Brahmavarchasya is the force of jnana working from within a
man which tends to manifest the divine light, the divine power,
the divine qualities in the human being.

Sthairya
Sthairyam is the capacity of fixity in jnana; the man who is
sthira is able to hold the light and power that enters into him with-
out stumbling or being dazzled and blinded by the shock and to
receive & express the divine gunas in himself without being carried
away by them & subjected to the blind, rushing stream of Prakriti.
He has the dharanasamarthyam & does not, from incapacity of the
adhara, lose or spill these things as they enter into him.

Kshatratejas
Abhayam, sahasam, yasholipsa, atmaslagha, iti kshatratejah.

Abhaya & Sahasa
Abhayam is the passive freedom from fear which with a bold
calmness meets and receives every menace of danger and shock
of misfortune. Sahasam is the active courage and daring which
shrinks from no enterprise however difficult or perilous and can-

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