Sunday, March 5, 2017

SADHANA PAD SUTRA 52 AND 53

                           TATAH  KSHEEYATE  PRAKASH  AWARANAM   -52

THEN THE COVERING OF LIGHT (WISDOM OR ENLIGHTENMENT) IS  LIFTED OR

                             DESTROYED OR MADE WEAK--52

                           DHARANASU  CHA  YOGYATA  MANASAH  --53

AND THEN THE MIND  ATTAINS  FITNESS  FOR  THE VARIOUS  EXERCISES  FOR THE

                            CONCENTRATION  (BY PRANAYAM )  --53

     In these Sutras , we are told the effects of perfecting the meditation by doing the PRANAYAM and the Meditation. So the CHITTA is different from the PRANA. And the Prana is not LIFE and the Chitta is not Mind. There is no comparable English word for the Chitta or Prana. So the entire worldly activities originates due to vibrations of Prana and the Chitta. As we were told about the various afflictions that occur to the Chitta or MIND, cause the world to go on. These are ignorance , attachment, hatred, attachment to life  etc cause us to believe that physical body is everything and that is the veil or the covering of the pure KNOWLEDGE or WISDOM. Once we start practicing the meditation, PRANAYAM  or control of the PRANA energy and the CHITTA or the MIND energy, we have no KLESHA or the afflictions of the mind and we are enlightened.

     The mind is like monkey .It never stays quite or still. The mind is always engage in thoughts and usually one thought leads to second and the second thought leads to third and so on. So then mind is never empty and so it is never under our control. When the mind has a thought of our family member ,say son or daughter,we will have chain of thoughts. What is he doing , when is he finishing his studies or get job or promotion or make more money or have family , so on and so forth. Or one could have thought of food , music, play or TV show . These thoughts bind the mind and create more attachments. So it can not concentrate. So by the practice of the PRANAYAM or meditation, the MIND becomes 'fit' to get NO THOUGHTS and that leads to detachments. Then only one can concentrate on the 'REAL THING and achieve the highest goal.
   

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