For them, Yoga is a self-abnegation in order to reach a state of ecstatic blissfulness in which the passive soul is lifted up by divine grace.
Here is a passive soul who will take whatever punches life may throw at him and then apologize for having got in the way.
But it takes a long, lulling buildup before Nazneen truly experiences the forces that will be "tearing apart her passive soul".
Ms. Foote has appeared to splendid advantage in many of her father's works, often as a passive soul hamstrung by her good manners and obedience to social custom.
Mary Lou Williams was by turns a wild woman living the freewheeling jazz life and a passive, self-flagellating soul scarred by an insidious array of guilts.
The Herzog character is passive, loving, an innocent soul who cannot make sense of a world in which people like his estranged wife and her lover can exist.
"Words are vital things," explained Crummell, since they are "always generative of life or death" and cannot "enter the soul as passive and inoperative things" (19).
Collecting souls for Threshes passive is a key element to his effectiveness as Thresh, unlike other champions, does not gain an armour bonus upon leveling up, meaning that Damnation is his only means of passively increasing armour.
What may have provoked Valla's anger about the traditional picture is the seemingly passive role allotted to the soul in perception and knowledge: it seems to come only at the very end of a long chain of transmission, which starts with outer objects and concludes with a merely receptive tabula rasa.
In the receipt of an impression, the soul is purely passive and the impression reveals not only its own existence, but that also of its cause just as light displays itself and the elements that are in it.
