THE PERCEPTION OF EGO
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EGOISM IS THE IDENFICATION OF THE SEER WITH THE INSTRUMENT OF SEEING.
THE SEER IS REALLY THE SELF, THE PURE ONE, THE EVER HOLY, THE INFINITE, THE IMMORTAL. THAT IS THE SELF OF MAN. AND WHAT ARE THE INSTRUMENTS? THE CHITTA, OR MIND-STUFF, THE BUDDHI, DETERMINATIVE FACULTY, THE MANAS, OR MIND, AND THE INDRIYANI, OR SENSE ORGANS. THESE ARE THE INSTRUMENTS FOR HIM TO SEE THE EXTERNAL WORLD, AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SELF WITH THE INSTRUMENTS IS WHAT IS CALLED THE IGNORANCE OF EGOISM. WE SAY "I AM THE MIND, I AM THOUGHT, I AM ANGRY, OR I AM HAPPY". HOW CAN WE BE ANGRY, AND HOW CAN WE HATE? WE SHOULD IDENTIFY OURSELVES WITH THE SELF, THAT CANNOT CHANGE. IF IT IS UNCHANGEABLE, HOW CAN IT BE ONE MOMENT HAPPY, AND ONE MOMENT UNHAPPY? IT IS FORMLESS, INFINITE, OMNIPRESENT.
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WHAT CAN CHANGE IT? BEYOND ALL LAW. WHAT AN AFFECT IT? NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE CAN PRODUCE AN EFFECT ON IT, YET, THROUGH IGNORANCE, WE IDENTIFY OURSELVES WITH THE MIND-STUFF, AND THINK WE FEEL PLEASURE OR PAIN.
SUKHANUSHAYI RAAGAH
ATTACHMENT IS THAT WHICH DWELLS ON PLEASURE.
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WE FIND PLEASURE IN CERTAIN THINGS, AND THE MIND. LIKE A CURRENT, FLOWS TOWARDS THEM, AND THAT, FOLLOWING THE PLEASURE CENTRE, AS IT WERE, IS ATTACHMENT. WE ARE NEVER ATTACHED TO ANYONE IN WHOM WE DO NOT FIND PLEASURE. WE FIND PLEASURE IN VERY QUEER THINGS SOMETIMES, BUT THE DEFINITION IS JUST THE SAME, WHEREVER WE FIND PLEASURE, THERE WE ARE ATTACHED.
DUHKHANUSHAYI DVESHAH
AVERSION IS THAT WHICH DWELLS ON PAIN.
THAT , WHICH GIVES US PAIN WE IMMEDIATELY SEEK TO GET AWAY FROM.
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FOLLOWING THROUGH ITS OWN NATURE, AND ESTABLISHED EVEN IN THE LEARNED, IS THE CLINGING TO LIFE.
THIS CLINGING TO LIFE YOU SEE MANIFESTED IN EVERY ANIMAL, AND UPON IT MANY ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO BUILD THE THEORY OF A FUTURE LIFE, BECAUSE MEN LIKE THEIR LIVES SO MUCH THAT THEY DESIRE A FUTURE LIFE ALSO.
WHAT IS THIS CLINGING TO LIFE?
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WE HAVE SEEN THAT IT HAS BECOME INSTINCTIVE. IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LANGUAGE OF YOGA IF HAS BECOME SAMSKARAS. THE SAMSKARAS, FIND AND HIDDEN, ARE SLEEPING IN THE CHITTA. ALL THESE PAST EXPERIENCES OF DEATH, ALL THAT WHICH WE CALL INSTINCT, IS EXPERIENCE BECOME SUB-CONSCIOUS. IT LIVES IN THE CHTTA, AND IS NOT INACTIVE, BUT IS WORKING UNDERNEATH. THESE CHITTA VRTTIS, THESE MIND-WAVES, WHICH ARE GROSS, WE CAN APPRECIATE AND FEEL, THEY CAN BE MORE EASILY CONTROLLED, BUT WHAT ABOUT THESE FINER INSTINCTS? HOW CAN THEY BE CONTROLLED? WHEN I AM ANGRY MY WHOLE MIND HAS BECOME A HUGE WAVE OF ANGER. FEEL IT, SEE IT, HANDLE IT, CAN EASILY MANIPULATE IT, CAN FIGHT WITH IT, BUT I SHALL NOT SUCCEED PERFECTLY IN THE FIGHT UNTIL I CAN GET DOWN BELOW. A MAN SAYS SOMETHING VERY HARSH TO ME, AND I BEGIN TO FEEL THAT I AM GETTING HEATED, AND HE GOES ON UNTIL I AM PERFECTLY ANGRY, AND FORGET MYSELF, IDENTIFY MYSELF WITH ANGER.
WHEN HE FIRST BEGAN TO ABUSE ME I STILL THOUGHT " I AM GOING TO BE ANGRY". ANGER WAS ONE THING AND I WAS ANOTHER, BUT WHEN I BECAME ANGRY, I WAS ANGER. THESE FEELINGS HAVE TO BE CONTROLLED IN THE GERM, THE ROOT, IN THEIR FINE FORMS, BEFORE EVEN WE HAVE BECOME CONSCIOUS THAT THEY ARE ACTING ON US.
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WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF MANKING THE FINE STATES OF THESE PASSIONS ARE NOT EVEN KNOWN, THE STATE WHEN THEY ARE SLOWLY COMING FROM BENEATH CONSCIOUSNESS. WHEN A BUBBLE IS RISING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE WE DO NOT SEE IT, OR EVEN WHEN IT IS NEARLY COME TO THE SURFACE, IT IS ONLY WHEN IT BURSTS AND MAKES A RIPPLE THAT WE KNOW IT IS THERE. WE SHALL ONLY BE SUCCESSFUL IN GRAPPLING WITH THE WAVES WHEN WE CAN GET HOLD OF THEM IN THIER FINE CASUES, AND UNTIL YOU CAN GET HOLD OF THEM, AND SUBDUE THEM BEFORE ANY BECOME GROSS, THERE IS NO HOPE OF CONQUERING ANY PASSION PERFECTLY. TO CONTROL OUR PASSIONS WE HAVE TO CONTROL THEM AT THEIR VERY ROOTS, THEN ALONE SHALL WE BE ABLE TO BURN OUT THEIR VERY SEED. AS FRIED SEEDS THROWN INTO THE GROUND WILL NEVER COME UP, SO THESE PASSIONS WILL NEVER ARISE.
