Attain cosmic qualities such as absoluteness and unlimitedness through Yoga practice.
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Purity of Actions
According to Patanjali’s seventh sutra on absoluteness, the actions of the Yogi can never be good or bad. However, the actions of others - who have not yet attained absoluteness - are either good, bad, or mixed.
It is said that, as a Yogi, your actions are lavished with equanimity in such a way that prevents them from ever being categorized as pure or impure.
As a Yogi, you rise above good and bad.
While others may still categorize your actions, their discrimination is just something that has to be done. You have no power over this.
To explain the essence of absoluteness, let us take a knife as a fitting example.
A knife has no other purpose than to cut. But if you cut a piece of fruit with it, people will say that it is a good knife. On the flip side, if a knife is used to cut somebody, it will be considered a bad knife.
In reality, to the knife, a cut is just a cut.
Similarly, the Yogi is not an agent for his or her actions. The Yogi rises above dualities.
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