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122 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjaliexpand our activity wherever we go. At every step you shouldknow where to start.Understand the work you have to do and the work thatis not yours. Let your curiosity, vanity or fame must not makeyou poke your nose into things that do not belong to you.Indiscriminate, emotional expansion of work leads to manytroubles and entanglements. Your physical and mental vehiclesshatter to pieces when you try to do all sorts of things (thoughthey are good). Unless you have a programme for controlledactivity you may find vampires among people who can makeyou run crazily on the streets. Then you will be just runningwithout being able to do any service to anyone Then there isno Yoga. Purification of affection is the next step. Let youraffectionate feelings for others be not polluted by your emotionalnature. It is a process of distillation which you will graduallylearn. Affections belong to the heart whereas emotion belongsto the disturbance of the spleen and the liver. The emotionalactivity belongs to the naval centre, the Solar Plexus. Affectionsbelong to the heart-centre. When a person is agitated for someoneor restless about the welfare of his son or wife, then his affectionsare polluted by emotion. When the affection is pure the mind istranquil and the procedure is positive towards what is preciselyneeded and the application is instantaneous.Tapas, or fiery aspiration that forms the first item of KriyaYoga, should be practised in thought, word and deed when itincludes the items described above. The second item of KriyaYoga is to study and utter scriptures. Utterance is as importantas study. This is because the scriptures carry a double significance,(a) the content of the text and (b) the music or the sound as theKey that is imbedded among the words used in scriptures.“The scripture of Veda Vyasa is decorated with words in whichthe sounds are studded like gemstones. It is also embellishedwith symbols, human and divine”. Says a disciple of Veda Vyasa.
Lesson - 7 123The meaning of the words and sentences is important but theutterance of the sounds in the verses of the scriptures is alsoimportant, since they are “Sruthis” (Kabalistic in nature) Forexample in Sanskrit we have the word “Sahasra” it means athousand. At the same time we have “S-H-S” the sounds ofinhalation and exhalation and also exhalation and inhalation.When you utter the word Sahasra while reading the scripture,you will get the benefit of the sound.The keyboard of human perception includes sound,number, colour, smell, taste, shape and meaning. The scriptureshave passages that imbed all these items like gemstones in ajewel. A knowledge of this keyboard is handed over from manto man in the name of oral tradition or the Kabala. Any scriptureis Kabalistic in its composition. There are many ugly conceptionsabout the Kabala to predict whether your wife is going to kissyou this evening or not. Understand that the vocal utterance ofthe passages of the scriptures should be practised daily. It iscalled “Parayana” in Sanskrit. When it is done uniformly anddaily in a systematic way along with all the intonations of thetradition, then it is called “Swaddhyaya”. Certain passages shouldbe selected from the scriptures and should be recited with therules of utterance. Some people feel that they experience certainvibrations or shiverings in the spine or some parts of the bodyduring the utterance It is natural to get these experiences whenthe sounds purify the vehicles. As soon as purification iscompleted, such experiences stop.Following the scriptures is very important since itincludes the following aspects. (1) A knowledge of OMand its utterance. (2) the science and signals of the Lorddescending into us (the story of the Avatars). The import ofsuch stories is the science of incarnation (Word made flesh),The Lord comes down as our flesh and blood at first and welive on ‘-His blood and His Wounds”. Then the Lord comes
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