Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.238

c16.238

**Contact with steady Minds.** An aid to concentration is stated [i, 37] to be the companionship of those 'who are freed from passion, such as Kṛishṇadvaipāyana, Sanaka, and others'. The Yogī, by bringing his own mind into contact with the steadied minds of these, moulds it into the shape of these minds (Vītarāga-chitta-avalambana-uparaktam vā yoginaḥ chittaṁ sthitipadam labhate).