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Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c13.s2.2

Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c13.s2.2

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c13.s2.2

The exponents of yoga have admitted the fact that it may be possible to attain a state of arrest even through some strong sensation or emotion; but that kind of arrest of mind is very transitory and as such falls far short of the final state of Samādhi. Samādhi of yoga proper does not mean a temporary arrest of mind,—it means a permanent state of arrest which removes all our afflictions and which eradicates all mental complexes and root-instincts that serve as the seed of the future recurrence of life and suffering.