Saturday, March 11, 2017

SADHANA PAD SUTRA-- 54

               SWAVISHAYA  ASAMPRAYOGE  CHITTA  SWARUPA  ANUKARAH  IVA

                                                  INDRIANAM   PRATYAHARAH

    WHEN  THE ORGANS  ARE  DETACHED  FROM  THEIR  OBJECTS, THEY  BECOME OF

    THE  SIMILAR  TO  THE  NATURE  OF CHITTA  AND THAT  IS  CALLED  PRATYAHAR

         In the course of our life , we are having the union of organs to it's respective objects/ The Eyes can only see and not smell, and the ears and hear and not taste , and so on . So when there is reference to the Organs , there 11 and not the usual 5. These are the 5 organs of perception,and 5 organs of action and MIND. So the the five organs of perception are smell, touch, vision,here and see. So the when we SEE somethings , it is perceived by the Eyes and that creates the impression. When we listen to good or bad music we have impression , and so on . So the organs come in contact with their subject of perception, we have thoughts in Mind . When we take actions , and there are 5 organs of action are Hands, Legs , Tongue or the Speech, and procreation and excretion, the actions are thought off in MIND . The CHITTA is MIND STUFF. So we have 11 INDRIYAS.
      When we do the  meditation and our Mind or the Chitta, is away from the contact with their subjects, they loose the attachments that is created with the experiences that we perceive and get 'attachments' . So then we perceive the CHITTA . This is called PRATYAHAR. In our life in the beginning we have to 'GIVE'UP' things first and then slowly we get true detachments from these things or  we have the freedom from the attachments. Until we get the detachment , we will not succeed . But this giving up or detachment is called PRATYAHAR , which comes naturally , when we have done practice of YAMA, NIYAMA,ASAN AND PRANAYAM, the first 4 of the ASHTANG or the  8 things that are basis of the meditation. These are External and the rest of them are Internal, DHYAN , DHARANA, SAMADHI. The PRATYAHAR is in the middle,but to get to improved or success for the DHYAN ,DHARANA AND THE SAMADHI , we must GIVE UP , the attachments , which called PRATYAHAR. 

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