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Reference: Postulate Mechanics

1. The world is all that can be known
2. The beginning, end, and all in-between.
3. The goal of religion is to actualize the human potential.
4. In Hinduism, this goal comes under the heading of Yoga.
5. Yoga means “uniting” through disciplined training of body and mind.
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6. There are multiple paths to this common destination
7. Each for a basic spiritual personality type:
8. Reflective, emotional, active and experimentalist.
9. The first step of every yoga involves 
10. the cultivation of good habits.
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11. These good habits are: Non-injury, truthfulness, non-stealing, 
12. Self-control, cleanliness, contentment, self-discipline.
13. And a compelling desire to reach the goal. 
14. Different spiritual personality types
15. Seek the same Goa differently.
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16. The reflective personality seeks the goal through knowledge.
17. He reflects deeply to get at the bottom of things.
18. He knows that he is not the things that he possesses.
19. He is neither the body, nor the mind, nor his personality.
20. This helps disentangle Self from its lesser identifications.
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21. The emotional personality seeks the goal through love.
22. God to him represents his chosen personal ideal.
23. He worships God by constantly repeats God’s name,
24. He directs toward God the love that lies at the base of his heart. 
25. This helps transfer his worldly attachments to an attachment to God.
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26. The active personality seeks the goal through work.
27. He is dedicated to his work and performs it selflessly.
28. He does each thing as if it were the only thing to be done.
29. Having done it, he turns to the next duty in similar spirit. 
30. The thought of self simply does not arise on this path.
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31. The progress may be accelerated through psychophysical Exercises.
32. Such exercises follow the path of contemplation.
33. First one settles the bodily and sensual distractions with discipline.
34. Then one settles the mental distractions by releasing them.
35. Then one resolves the anomalies by contemplating over them.
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36. Different stages of life call for their own appropriate conduct.
37. The first stage in life till early twenties is that of the student.
38. The second stage, beginning with marriage, is that of the householder.
39. The third stage of life is that of retirement from social obligations.
40. The final stage wherein the goal is actually reached is the state of the sannyasin.
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41. People are different; so they occupy different stations in the social order.
42. The brahmins stood supreme in honor and psychological power.
43. The kshatriyas stood supreme In salary and social power.
44. Next were the Vaishyas or producers, such as, artisans and farmers.
45. The last were the Shudras, or unskilled laborers.
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46. God is beyond things that can be sensed.
47. God is pure beingness, awareness and bliss.
48. God is also the archetype of the noblest reality.
49. God is the Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer.
50. God is the consistent whole.
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51. As the soul passes through this world
52. Living through all its incarnations.
53. His present condition is the product of his past. 
54. His present decisions determine his future.
55. This world grants all his wishes, but with consequences.
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56. It is a world of good-evil, pleasure-pain, knowledge-ignorance.
57. And this is the way things will remain.
58. This world is a training ground for the human spirit.
59. God, souls and nature have the same divine basis.
60. There are hallucinations, perceptions and superconsciousness.
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61. The world is lila, God’s play.
62. Everyone is like an actor on the stage.
63. Seen in perspective, the world is ultimately benign.
64. It has no permanent hell and threatens no eternal damnation.
65. Beyond this world lies the boundless good, which all will achieve in the end.

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