“To the Yoga the hightest concept of God is that of a being who is free from all klesas, klesapramrishtah, but in actual practice in most cases we have God who is joined with klesas.”

—  Ram Swarup

Source: Meditations. Yogas, Gods, Religions (2000), p. 86

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