How can an ordinary mortal free herself from this world of sorrow and grief and apparent dualities? The Katha sums up the answer of the Upanishads: When the five senses are stilled, when the Mind Is stilled, when the intellect is stilled, That is called the highest state by the wise. They say yoga is this complete stillness In which one enters the unitive state, Never to become separate again. When all desires that surge in the heart Are renounced, the mortal becomes immortal. When all the knots that strangle at the heart Are loosened, the mortal becomes immortal. This sums up the teaching of
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