yoga system (15)

managing mental
tendencies

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,Tuesday, January 29,2008:So far we have
dealt with the meaning of yoga as mastering the
mental tendencies,which are five fold, multiplying
into pleasant and unpleasant bearings.The means
of mastering are derived by practice and disinterest
in superficial appearances and disappearances.
When we understand the nature of human
consciousness, our disinterest, =vairagya= gets
stabilized to make us qualified into =samadhi=,
union with the radiating consciousness outside
of our body.

Led by reason,analysis,happiness,and remaining
aware of own individual presence behind in line,
we reach =samprjnata= samadhi,union.This is
the sum of the seventeenth sutra of Patanjali.It
reads: = vitarka,vichara,ananda,asmita
anugamat samprajnatah=.This is then the logistic
route of our consciousness getting fused to
the universal consciousness.The name of this
sort of union is designated as =samprajnatah=,
meaning substantive understanding.

It should be kept in mind that guiding the mental
tendencies cover all five fold diversion points
namely,worldly knowledge,wrong knowledge,
imaginary creative perception,sleep and
memories.In human life all these are essential.
But these should remain under management,
to avoid unpleasantness and problems that
could chase us all our lives. The tendencies
should work in team as a system letting
the boss enough room for decision making.
There should be no mistake that by yoga we
stop our mind like our watch from functioning.
This is what most gawd men like us believe
so they can assert their importance in other
people´s normal life.On the contrary,if we are
healthy,we should remain natural,maintain
our harmonious relation with the environment,
keep enjoying it in full awareness to fine tune
ourselves to our understanding,nature and
society as Buddha said to his followers in
that time´s people´s simple Pali language.
=Take care be mindful= is the sum substance
of the message.

For us it leads to our individual website.The
procedure starts with the morning prayer,
followed up mid day and evening.Once we
remain aware then the procedure of prayer
need not be theatrical, interrupted by =why
dog is calling?,look=etc.We should pray
internally avoiding ourselves being a nuisance
to the outside world.That is how the sages
of old went about.Not like the Jain muni
of yesterday,displaying in public how he
pulls out his pubic and other hair with the
help of wet ashes.It is not a =dharmasthala
Mela Yakshagana=! How one removes
unwanted hair is a private affair for every
man or women.That should be done
privately.Not as a public ceremony.
Even Dharmasthala =Pergade= should
know this simple thing,when he runs
yet another school of abstract yoga.(end)