What does it mean to be lowered in self exaltations? When we hold to the body and the things of the senses, we descend into the lust of ourselves. We fall in love with ourselves. That is what it means to be lowered in exaltation. This passage in antagonistic to yoga, written by people, after tao was first described, as the spiritual text but later modified. Still the changes preserved in language, open to the first person that genuinely tries to understand the scripture - The Upanishads and Tao Te Ching scriptures, including Quran, Bible and Torah is currently full of contractions, in Chinese, Arabic and Sanskrit, in 2020.