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senses and the memory and it does not mean the loss of self-consciousness as self.
Thus, we have in Yoga, Inhibition as the first mantra of self-control and self-consciousness. This means the renunciation of activity for a while so that the mind established in harmony may become facile through intelligent direction. The physiological control is also psychic control; the explanation which merely cares for behaviour will certainly face in the explanation of the mystic consciousness, a rock on which it will break and flounder. The reciprocal explanation even if it be satisfactory will not go far unless the explanation issues out of the problem of attitude. In morals, as in
mysticism, the explanation must proceed from motive to expression, attitude to behaviour and never from behaviour to motive, for that is not what is characteristic of the mystic's life. One goal, the goal of union, is the absolute criterion. It is the one poise, the one destiny of his being. This is the differentia between the behaviourist and the true psychologist; one seeks for the expression or behaviour, the other for the attitude, the all governing and focussing idea.
For "the identity of symptom does not mean identity of person. Deep oscillations of emotional tone, ecstasies and even hysterical attacks do not necessarily imply the intellectual and moral insufficiency characteristic of Medeline and her class. They may, on the contrary be allied with traits which make the genius.*
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We shall now discuss the criticisms levelled against the methods of yoga: about its metaphysics we have nothing to do especially because the metaphysics of the Yoga theory are not perhaps acceptable to the Vedantic thinkers. Truly later interpreters of yoga have made it into a system instead of what was called a darsana: a way or method of knowing the real, of experiencing reality of being.
"To characterize Yoga as a system of philosophy or ethics would be misleading. Its more direct analogy is with our manual of religion, for its