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pass through a moral preparation. The isolation which the Yogi of the Patanjali school demands is the isolation from the bondage of Prakriti,, for the promise always remains that he can become the splendid ever-free Isvara of the Guru free from the bondage of Karma; the acceptance of Kapila is not a fault in Patanjali, because both of them wanted to represent to humanity the acuteness of the stress of environment, habitual actions and emotional disturbances and unethical behaviour on individual personality which contradict the way of harmony and because of their intimate connections with bondage. All bondage is due to uncognized and unconscious and unthought out activity and to lift all actions to the level of consciousness means to inhibit consciously all actions connected with such actions having their play in an autonomous fashion. To break the autonomy of the several habits and nerves and nervous systems and endocrine systems is the true aim of intelligence (Jitendriya). This can be done only through nirodha, restrain or control of all modifications in mind, that is in thought, all movements of habit all autonomic functions of the several organisms. Truly it is the way of regaining control. Once the control has been transferred to the levels of spiritual being, there is samadhi, the trance-state in which all are absorbed into the fold of spirit and thence function spiritually. This is the highest morality, beyond even the limits of social morality. If reflective action seeking harmony of being is unmoral and has no bearing on the moral practices of honesty and friendliness then one cannot understand the aim of mysticism, of even morality. That the initial aim of Yoga is utter detachment from prakritic influences is an absolute fact and is admitted; but that is the culmination of his entire existence or being is not necessarily involved in his attainment of perfect control or detachment from their leading strings. The isolation which is gained through the Yogic practice is the freedom to be within himself, 'ekanti', and that is not annihilation or becoming a prisoner in his own cave, nor is it the atomic existence which the individual seeks. Such is not the aim of Yoga, which is purely a mystical effort to join the true and the real and the perfect so as to be real, true and perfect. The meaning of cittavritti nirodha is not to be construed as the Path of Nirvana of Buddhist psychology, it is rather this self-establishment within oneself that one seeks. That there may be individuals who seek the release from the physical plane of existence does not involve the statement that those who exist in this world of matter are