Regarding Patanjali-3

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The thing about the fluctuations is that they occur in real time.

They are thoughts. If I am fearful, then I am remembering something

I am convinced is scary. It is just a thought. If I have a

realization about myself or a fantasy it does not transport me to

that place where it is real. I have to have the thought "me" and put

me in that place. It all changes in an instant if the telephone

rings.

 

If we know the thoughts pass why would we give such supremecy over

our lives to them.

 

I.12 The restriction of these fluctuations is achieved through

practice and dispassion.

---Patanjali tells us that the stopping of the fluctuations is

possible.

 

I.13. Practice is the exertion in gaining stability in that state of

restriction.

---Seeing a thought is easy enough sometimes, but to remain stable

and see each thought as it arises is called practice.

Anyone practicing meditation for very long is aware of the thoughts

that arise. Seeing each thought without it turning into a chain that

distracts from the meditative focus and continuing in that alert

state is the aim of, as far as I know, all meditation. With the

stopping of thought other discriptions of the experience than

meditation are more precise. Patanjali of course describes them in

great detail in later sutra.

 

I.15 Dispassion is the knowledge of mastery of that yogin who is

without thirst for seen i.e. earthly and revealed objects.

 

Or as D'Andrade translates

I.15. Purity of Heart is the consciousness of mastery

Over the thirst for things of this world,

And the thirst for promised enjoyment

Here or hereafter, on earth or in heaven.

I.16. Perfected purity of heart is gained

When one masters the thirst

For the Play of Qualities

And abides in the awareness

Of the Infinite Self.

 

Love

Bobby G.