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(3) Q. What are the six qualities beginning with Sama?
A. Sama, dama, uparati, titiksha, samadhana and sraddha.
Sama is the repression of the inward sense called Manas--i.e., not
allowing it to engage in any other thing but Sravana (listening to what
the sages say about the Spirit), Manana (reflecting on it), Nididhyasana
(meditating on the same). Dama is the repression of the external
senses.
Q. What are the external senses?
A. The five organs of perception and the five bodily organs for the
performance of external acts. Restraining these from all other things
but sravana and the rest, is dama.
Uparati is the abstaining on principle from engaging in any of the acts
and ceremonies enjoined by the shastras. Otherwise, it is the state of
the mind which is always engaged in Sravana and the rest, without ever
diverging from them.
Titiksha (literally the desire to leave) is the bearing with
indifference all opposites (such as pleasure and pain, heat and cold,
&c.) Otherwise, it is the showing of forbearance to a person one is
capable of punishing.
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