THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
sprouting up from the roots of the older Upanishads two great
systems of practical philosophy:
1. The attainment by Sannydsa.
2. The attainment by Yoga.
The first seeks, by artificial means, to suppress desire. The
second by scientific experiments to annihilate the consciousness
of plurality.
In the natural course of events the Sannydsa precedes the
Yoga, for it consists in casting off from oneself home, posses-
sions, family and all that engenders and stimulates desire;
whilst the Yoga consists in withdrawing the organs of sense
from the objects of sense, and by concentrating them on the
Inner Self, Higher Self, Augoeides, Atman, or Adonai, shake
itself free from the illusions of Maya—the world of plurality,
and secure union with this Inner Self or Atman.
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