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Often appears with: transformation series · time and duration · three nature potencies · the rise and fall of greatness · fate, destiny, and necessity
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Patanjali describes the completion of the three nature potencies’ transformations, dividing them into moments, after which time yields to duration; the spiritual man ends the eternal cycle of change and attains lasting being.
32. Thereafter comes the completion of the series of transformations of the three nature potencies, since their purpose is attained. It is a part of the beauty and wisdom of the great Indian teachings, the Vedanta and the Yoga alike, to hold that all life exists for the purposes of Soul, for the making of the spiritual man. They teach that all nature is an orderly process of evolution, leading up to this, designed f…