The Yoga of Patanjali

Lesson - 6 111leave it there, and see that you are regular for the next item.Tomorrow you will be regular to more number of items.There comes a time, when regularity is a child’s play toyou. See how the child plays. He is happy about it since he hasno valuable ideas about the play. You should be able to submityour ideas and let the programme replace your ideas. Doingminimises thinking and it is what we know as the play of thechild. The child smiles not like the adult, because it has noideas about the smile. So let your routine of the day be a child’splay, If you have to run, to keep up timings, let your body runwhile you have no necessity to run. Run physically when needed,do not run mentally. If you do not know this secret, the wholeprocess of Yoga practice will be as much a hell to you as yourdaily routine. When you are able to make everything a child’splay, then the programme points on the dial of the clock will beestablished. The hours are arranged in the cycle of time. Yourconsciousness is the axis of the dial of time and you will have“Axis arranged hours” in the language of Master C. V. V.Gradually you will get a polygon of your daily activity.Everyone of you should have his or her own polygon in the 24hours. You can divide into four parts of six hours each, andmeasure accordingly if it is more convenient. There are fourcardinal points in the day, the Sunrise, noon, the Sun-set andthe midnight. These points form the cross within the circle. It iscalled the ‘Cross of Matter and Mind’ upon which the Lord ofTime is crucified. You can have some such arrangement foryour routine. When the daily activity is regularised, there is theuniformity of life expression which makes you fit to conductPranayama or tranquilizing the pulsations as described above.Every attempt to regulate your breath should be supplementedby your attempt to regulate your daily activity.