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| | Common Ground - March 2003 - Surat Shabd Yoga |
 | | The term yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj which means meeting, union, communion, consummation, abstraction, realization, absorption or metaphysical philosophizing of the highest type, that promises to bring close proximity between the soul and the Oversoul (jiva-atma and Parmatama or Brahman). |
 | | Patanjali, the reputed father of the yoga system, after the fashion of his progenitor Gaudapada, defines yoga as elimination of the vritis or modulations that always keep surging in the mind-stuff or chit in the form of ripples. |
 | | All this and more becomes possible through the Surat Shabd Yoga or the union of "self" in man (Surat or consciousness) with the Shabd or Sound Principle, through the grace of some Master-soul. |
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