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29. From this repetition and reflection on its significance, there come a knowledge of the Spirit and the absence of obstacles to the attainment of the end in view. (Book I, Concentration)

— William Quan Judge The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali — interpreted by W. Q. Judge (1889)

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