History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.329

v7.c94.329

The Śāntiparva provides²³⁹⁷ that a man is said to be a yogin by those who know the procedure and ordinances of Yoga, when he curbs the senses by his mind and makes the mind itself firm by his intellect and he becomes unmoved (by objects of sense) as if he were a stone, is unshakable like a tree-trunk, strong and motionless like a mountain. The wise call a man yukta (a yogin), when he neither hears, nor smells fragrance, nor tastes nor sees, nor touches and when his mind does not form (ever changing) ideas, when he does not regard anything as his own, when he does not cognise (external objects) as if he were a log of wood and when he can be said to have recovered the original real nature (of the Self). The Devaladharmasūtra provides that all beings come under bondage owing to *ahaṅkāra* (egoism that one will do this or that) and *mamatva* (regarding transient things as owned by oneself) but he who is free from these becomes liberated.²³⁹⁸