Yogaha chitta vritti nirodhaha

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the following is a very interesting small section of the

book " Kali's Odiyya " . I found the premise of the message to be very

powerful, powerful enough that I thought it beared worth sharing

with the group:

 

from page 186:

 

" Yogaha chitta vritti nirodhaha " = Yoga is the sublimation of the

modification of consciousness, but not the supression or destruction

of the mind. Stillness is the nature of consciousness. Leave it

alone and it will still itself. If you try to force it to

stillness, you will only agitate it.

 

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Personally speaking, i can give you an immediate real world

application to the above theory. Think of driving a car. If that

car goes into a skid, the more you attempt to outmanuever the skid -

the greater and stronger the skid becomes (unless you have the

wherewithal to turn " into " the skid). However, if you release the

wheel (which i find A LOT easier to do then trying to remember - in

a moment of panic - to turn into the skid) - then amazingly enough,

the car will straighten itself out - that has worked on three

separate occasions for me.