HOW TO INCREASE OUR BRAIN POWER
(SELF-LUMINOUS)
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MIND IS NOT SELF-LUMINOUS, BEING AN OBJECT.
TREMENDOUS POWER IS MANIFESTED EVERYWHERE IN NATURE, BUT YET SOMETHING TELLS US THAT IT IS NOT SELF-LUMINOUS, NOT ESSENTIALLY INTELLINGENT. THE PURUSHA ALONE IS SELF-LUMINOUS AND GIVES ITS LIGHT TO EVERYTHING. IT IS ITS POWER THAT IS PERCOLATING THROUGH ALL MATTER AND FORCE.
FROM ITS BEING UNABLE TO COGNISE TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME.
IF THE MIND WERE SELF-LUMINOUS IT WOULD BE ABLE TO COGNISE EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME, WHICH IT CANNOT. IF YOU PAY DEEP ATTENTION TO ONE THING YOU LOSE ANOTHER. IF THE MIND WERE SELF-LUMINOUS IT COULD RECEIVE. THE PURUSHA CAN COGNISE ALL IN ONE MOMENT, THEREFORE THE PURUSHA IS SELF-LUMINOUS, AND THE MIND IS NOT.
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ANOTHER COGNISING AND BEING ASSUMED THERE WILL BE NO END TO SUCH ASSUMPTIONS AND CONFUSION OF MEMORY.
LET US SUPPOSE THAT THERE IS ANOTHER MIND WHICH COGNISES THE FIRST, THERE WILL HAVE TO BE SOMETHING WHICH COGNIZES THAT, AND SO THERE WILL BE NO END TO IT. IT WILL RESULT IN CONFUSION OF MEMORY, THERE WILL BE NO STOREHOUSE OF MEMORY.
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THE ESSENCE OF KNOWLEDGE (THE PURUSHA) BEING UN CHANGEABLE, WHEN THE MIND TAKES ITS FORM, IT BECOMES CONSCIOUS.
PATANJALI SAYS THIS TO MAKE IT MORE CLEAR THAT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT A QUALITY OF THE PURUSHA. WHEN THE MIND COMES NEAR THE PURUSHA IT IS REFLECTED, AS IT WERE, UPON THE MIND, AND THE MIND, FOR THE TIME BEING, BECOMES KNOWING AND SEEMS AS IF IT WERE ITSELF THE PURUSHA.
COLOURED BY THE SEER AND THE SEEN THE MIND IS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING.
ON THE ONE SIDE THE EXTERNAL WORLD, THE SEEN, IS BEING REFLECTED, AND ON THE OTHER, THE SEER IS BEING REFLECTED, THUS COMES THE POWER OF ALL KNOWLEDGE TO THE MIND.
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THE MIND THROUGH ITS UNNUMERABLE DESIRES ACTS FOR ANOTHER ( THE PURUSA), BEING COMBINATIONS.
THE MIND IS A COMPOUND OF VARIOUS THINGS, AND THEREFORE IT CANNOT WORK FOR ITSELF. EVERYTHING THAT IS A COMBINATION IN THIS WORLD HAS SOME OBJECT FOR THAT COMBINATION, SOME THIRD THING FOR WHICH THIS COMBINATION IS GOING ON. SO THIS COMBINATION OF THE MIND IS FOR THE PURUSHA.
FOR THE DISCRIMINATING THE PERCEPTION OF THE MIND AS ATMAN CEASES.
THROUGH DISCRIMINATION THE YOGI KNOWS THAT THE PURUSA IS NO MIND.
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THEN BENT ON DISCRIMINATING THE MIND ATTAINS THE PREVIOUS STATE OF KAIVALYA (ISOLATION).
THUS THE PRACTICE OF YOGA LEADS OF DISCRIMINATING POWER, TO CLEARNESS OF VISION. THE VEIL DROPS FROM THE EYES, AND WE SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE. WE FIND THAT THIS NATURE IS A COMPOUND, AND IS SHOWING THE PANORAMA FOR THE PURUSA, WHO IS THE WITNESS, THAT THIS NATURE IS NOT THE LORD, THAT THE WHOLE OF THESE COMBINATIONS OF NATURE ARE SIMPLY FOR THE SAKE OF SHOWING THESE PHENOMENA TO THE PURUSA, THE ENTHRONED KING WITHIN. WHEN DESCRIMINATION COMES BY LONG PRACTICE FEAR CEASES, AND THE MIND ATTAINS ISOLATION.
THE THOUGHTS THAT ARISE AS OBSTRUCTIONS TO THAT ARE FROM IMPRESSIONS.
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ALL THE VARIOUS IDEAS THAT ARISE MAKING US BELIEVE THAT WE REQUIRE SOMETHING EXTERNAL TO MAKE US HAPPY ARE OBSTRUCTIONS TO THAT PERFECTION. THE PURUSA IS HAPPINESS AND BLESSEDNESS BY ITS OWN NATURE. BUT THAT KNOWLEDGE IS COVERED OVER BY PAST IMPRESSIONS. THESE IMPRESSIONS HAVE TO WORK THEMSELVES OUT.
THEIR DESTRUCTION IS IN THE SAME MANER AS OF IGNORANCE, ETC,. AS SAID BEFORE.