When Doubts Disappear, Meaning Remains

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When Doubts Disappear, Meaning Remains

By Kailash Vajpeyi

 

Patanjali was the first to collate and codify the yoga sutras, the

aphorisms already current since Vedic times. According to Patanjali,

yoga is a psychophysical technique which manages the activities of mind.

 

He calls it chitta, always restless, never static. Yoga teaches the

technique of yukti to yoke the personal and impersonal self, a kind of

inner management or mind control.

 

Then the self stays in its native condition else it conforms to the

turbulent nature of subconscious psyche, sentient, mutative and

cognitive. Pain and pleasure are the result of these three attri-butes.

 

Some activities are painful and others, pleasurable. They are

experience, perversion, delusion, sleep and recollection. Experience

comes from perception, influence and evidence. Perversion is an idea

of an object not conforming to its nature.

 

Delusion is an idea conveyed by words, without any reality. Sleep is a

condition, which depends on cessation of perception. Recollection is

the recalling of past experience. Patanjali says: Control activities

of mind by practice and detachment.

 

 

Detachment is the deliberate renunciation of desire for objects seen

or heard. Desire for liberation is no desire, it is the affirmation of

our innate nature.

 

The highest form of detachment is the automatic renunciation of the

three qualities, the result of self-experience. The qualities of

passion are those of ignorance. But when one practices Hatha Yoga,

ignorance is superseded by qualities of purity.

 

Purity comes through breathing exercise. It leads to psychic solace.

Patanjali calls it Sampragyata samadhi. This state of mind is the

condition of conscious illumination, where mind is mixed up with

sentient consciousness.

 

Asampragyat samadhi, Patanjali says, is that unmixed condition of

conscious mind illumination, where by constant renunciation, all

knowledge in the form of past impressions is retained in mind. At this

juncture one may fall into the hands of power.

 

The more one is praised, the more does he exploit his spiritual power

and the more people exploit him, whereas a true yogi loses his

personality and identity. Those who lose attachment to body and yet

remain impressed by their popularity are born again. Success derails

them. Success is immediate where effort is intense.

 

However, if the yogi is sincere, the grace of God intervenes, and past

karmas are either condemned or postponed by the untouched personality

who is untouched by desire. In him lies the seed of omniscience. He is

the prim-ordial sound.

 

His name is Om. Repeat it constantly, because the sound Om enlightens

the soul and removes every obstacle. Doubt, disease, lethargy, sensual

pleasure, failure and hallucination distract the mind.

 

The cause of pain, nervousness, cynicism and sulky resentment is

nothing but irregular breathing. To des-troy these, meditate on one

object. It will automatically happen if you are aware of the expulsion

and retention of breath.

 

This tech-nique will control the activity of mind. When the mind is

controlled, it vanishes and there is illumination. When mind

activities stop it is the state of no mind.

 

At this stage there is no discrimination; no new difference remains

between self and non-self. The subject, object, instrument all become one.

 

When this state is permanent, when doubt disappears, mind recedes and

only meaning remains, Patanjali calls it Nirvilark samadhi.

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