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KATHOPANISAD

It must be remembered that the theory of the Minalisakas about the existence of strict causality or determinishn between ritual and fruits is repudiated or rather bye•passed when the indivi dual is asked to surrender himself for service to God through illumined love or one-pointed Yoga without seeking any fruits for his actions or ahyas, since this non-seeking of anything for oneself is that which shaps the causal clain, and is the meaning of true love or devotion or pure wisdom or ilannined understanding and service. This "alli concludes with the intimation of certain rules of conduct and instructs certain virtues that are to be cultivated for enabling one to receive the Supreme Grace.

III , The third cell; deals with the ita or the means to the attainment of Supreme Grace, thns expanding the instruction given at the end of the second va}. It days stress on the necessity to control the sense-organs. It mentions further that control is to be exercised gradually in the following order : firstly on the sense-organs , secondly on the objects of enjoyment, thirdly on the mind, fourthly on the intellect, ifthly on the son , sixtbly on the body as a whole (the Unmani fest) and Mastly reach through the above stages (of darana cur-broadly hard) the Supreme Self, whose grace alone is capa ble of granting final Liberation. As many scholars hold, Yoga ॐastra might have got its fundamental clues from this section.

SECOND ADHYAYA

| V Valli. After pointing out the distinctioz between the seeker and the non-5eeker or the indifferent seeker, this sect ; describes the nature of the Supreme Self as dwelling in all creatures, thus distinguishing Him from the embodied jua who resides in a body (IV. 5-8). It may be noted that on account of the ind welling of the Infinite Person in the body of the embodied soul, the Infinite Person assumes the size of a thumb (ungustha-matra) in the heart for the sake of meditation or conceivability

V vali. This vel develops the instruction regarding the ind welling•uature of Brahman with special reference to