HOW TO PRACTICE
THE MIND TO BE CALM!
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SAMADHI PRACTICE (YOGA)
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THE PRACTICE OF SAMADHI AND MINIMISING THE PAIN-BEARING OBSTRUCTIONS.
MOST OF US MAKE OUR MINDS LIKE SPOILED CHILDREN, ALLOWING THEM TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. THEREFORE IT IS NECESSARY THAT THERE SHOULD BE CONSTANT PRACTICE OF THE PREVIOUS MORTIFICATIONS IN ORDER TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE MIND. AND BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION. THE OBSTRUCTIONS TO YOGA ARISE FROM LACK OF THIS CONTROL, AND CAUSE US PAIN. THEY CAN ONLY BE REMOVED BY DENYTHING THE MIND. AND HOLDING IT IN CHECK, THROUGH THESE VAROUS MEANS.
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THE PAIN-BEARING OBSTRUCTIONS ARE - IGNORANCE, EGOISM, ATTACHMENT, AVERSION, AND CLINGING TO LIFE.
THESE ARE THE FIVE PARTS, THE FIVEFOLD TIE THAT BLINDS US DOWN. OF COUSE IGNORANCE IS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE REST. SHE IS THE ONLY CAUSE OF ALL OUR MISERY. WHAT ELSE CAN MAKE US MISERABLE? THE NATURE OF THE SOUL IS ETERNAL BLISS. WHAT CAN MAKE IT SORROWFUL EXCEPT IGNORANCE, HALLUNINATION DELUSION, ALL THIS PAIN OF THE SOUL IS SIMPLY DELUSION.
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IGNORANCE IS THE PRODUCTIVE FIELD OF ALL THEM THAT FOLLOW, WHETHER THEY ARE DORMANT, ATTENUATED, OVERPOWERED, OR EXPLAINED.
IMPRESSION ARE THE CAUSE OF THESE, AND THESE IMPRESSIONS EXIST IN DIFFERENT DEGREES. THERE ARE THE DORMANT. YOU OFTEN HEAR THE EXPRESSION "INNOCENT AS A BABY", YET IN THE BABY MAY BE THE STATE OF A DEMON OR A GOD WHICH WILL COME OUT BY AND BY. IN THE YOGI THESE IMPRESSIONS, THE SAMSKARAS LEFT BY PAST ACTIONS, ARE ATTENUATED, THAT IS, IN A VERY FINE STATE, AND HE CAN CONTROL THEM, AND NOT ALLOW THEM TO BECOME MANIFEST. OVERPOWERED MEANS THAT SOMETIMES ONE SET OF IMPRESSIONS IS HELD DOW FOR A WHILE BY THOSE THAT ARE STRONGER, BUT THEY WILL COME OUT WHEN THAT ARE STRONGER, BUT THEY WILL COME OUT WHEN THAT REPRESSING CAUSE IS REMOVED. THE LAST STATE IS THE EXPANDED. WHEN THE SAMSKARAS, HAVING HELPFUL SURROUNDINGS, HAVE ATTAINED TO GREAT ACTIVTY, EITHER AS GOOD OR EVIL.
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IGNORANCE IS TAKING THAT WHICH IS NON-ETERNAL, IMPURE, PAINFUL, AND NON-SELF, FOR THE ETERNAL, PURE, HAPPY, ATMAN (SELF).
ALL THESE VARIOUS SORTS OF IMPRESSION HAVE ONE SOURCE IGNORANCE, WE HAVE FIRST TO LEARN WHAT IGNORANCE IS. ALL OF US THINK THAT "I AM THE BODY", AND NOT THE SELF, THE PURE, THE EFFULGENT, THE EVER BLISSFUL, AND THAT IS IGNORANCE. WE THINK OF MAN, AND SEE MAN AS BODY. THIS IS THE GREAT DELUSION.
THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF THIS REPETITION AND THINKNG OF OM WILL BE THAT THE INTROSPECTIVE POWER WILL BE MANIFESTED MORE AND MORE, AND ALL THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OBSTACLES WLL BEGIN TO VANISH. WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES TO THE YOGI?
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DISEASE, MENTAL LAZINESS, DOUBT, CALMNESS, CESSATION, FALSE PERCEPTION, NON-ATTAINING CONCENTRATION, ARE THE OBSTRUCTING DISTRACTIONS.
DISEASE. THIS BODY IS THE BOAT WHICH WILL CARRY US TO THE OTHER SHORE OF THE OCEAN OF LIFE. IT MUST BE TAKEN CARE OF. UNHEALTHY PERSONS CANNOT BE YOGIS. MENTAL LAZINESS MAKES US LOSE ALL LIVELY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT. WITHOUT WHICH THERE WILL NEITHER BE THE WILL NOR THE ENERGY TO PRACTICE. DOUBTS WILL ARISE IN THE MIND ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE SCIENCE, HOWEVER STRONG ONE'S INTELLECTUAL CONVICTION MAY BE, UNTIL CERTAIN PECULIAR PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE COME, AS HEARING, OR SEEING, AT A DISTANCE, ETC.
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THESE GLIMPSES STRENGTHEN THE MIND AND MAKE THE STUDENT PERSEVERE. FALLING AWAY WHEN ATTAINED. SOME SAYS OR WEELS WHEN YOU ARE PRACTISING THE MIND WILL BE CALM AND EASILY CONCENTRATED, AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF WILL STOP ONE DAY. AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF PROGRESSING FAST. ALL OF A SUDDEN THE PROGRESS WILL STOP ONE DAY, AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF, IT WERE, STRANDED. PERSEVERE. ALL PROGRESS PROCEEDS BY RISE AND FALL.
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