Vyasa said Those who are well-read in the scriptures see, with the help of acts laid down in the scriptures, the Soul which is encased in a subtile body and is highly subtile and which is dissociated from the gross body in which it lives.

As the rays of the Sun which move in dense masses through every part of the sky, cannot be seen by the naked eye though their existence can be perceived by reason, likewise, existent beings freed from gross bodies and moving in universe are above the reach of human vision,

As the shining solar disc is seen reflected in the reflected water so the Yogin sees reflected within gross bodies the existent self.

All those souls again that are encased in subtile forins after being alienated from the gross bodies in which they lived, are perceptible to Yogins, who have controlled their senses and who are gifted with knowledge of the soul. Indeed, helped by their own souls, Yogins see those invisible beings,

Whether asleep or awake, during the day or in the night, and during the night or in the day, they who practise Yoga after renouncing all the creations of the understanding the passion engendered by acts, and the power which Yoga begets, succeed in keeping their subtile form under complete control.

The individual soul which lives in such Yogins, always endued with the seven subtile principles, moves in all blissful regions, freed from decrepitude and death. I say “always,' and 'freed from death, as in common parlance, for, in sooth, that subtile form is also terininable.

That man, however, who is under the influence of his mind and understanding, differentiates, even in his dreams, his own body from that of another and experiences both pleasure and pain.

Really, even in his dreams he enjoys happiness and suffers misery; and yielding to anger and cupidity, suffers all sorts of calamities.

In his dreams he acquires great riches and feels highly satisfied: performs meritorious acts, and sees as he does when he is awake.

It is wonderful to mark that individual soul which has to lie within the uterus and amid much internal heat, and which has to pass there full ten months, is not digested and destroyed like food within the stomach.

Men possessed by the qualities of Darkness and Ignorance never succeed in sceing within the gross body the sentiency which is a portion of the Supreme Soul to transcendent effulgence and which lies within the heart of every creature.

They who learn Yoga for the purpose of obtaining a knowledge of Self succeed in getting over the inanimate and gross body, the imperceptible subtile body, and the casual body which is not destroyed on the occasion of even the universal destruction.

Of the duties laid down for the various modes of life including the fourth mode, these which I have described, which have Yoga for their foremost, and which indicate a complete stoppage of all operations of the Mind and the Understanding, have been laid down by Shandilya.

Having comprehended the seven subtile principles, having comprehended also the Supreme Cause of the universe with the six attributes, and lastly having understood that the universe so only a modification of nescience endued with the three qualities, one succeeds in seeing high Brahina,