The Yoga of Patanjali

Lesson - 7 129of it to the total exclusion of any other thing including yourself.Constant practice makes you apply your contemplation toanything you want. It may be your work in the office or in thehouse. During this process you should not allow any idea orany item of your environment to creep into your mind to formobject of your contemplation. You should prescribe and themind should not prescribe. You should prescribe and theenvironment should not prescribe. The practice of contemplationbecomes possible only when the vehicles are purified and madefit by the constant application of the four previous steps. Ifanyone practises contemplation or meditation directly it is false.The word ‘contemplation’ means the process of describing acircle around a square. It is the process of making a square ofa circle or a circle of a square. Life can be first squared up inits relationships with others and then be made perfect circle toform the base of the globe. Though it appears geometrical it isthe vital process, the process that produces flesh, and bloodto the geometrical science.(7) Meditation (Dhyana). When the above said applicationstands through a duration of time, then it is called meditation.You should be able to demand the continuity of the existenceof the prescribed object of contemplation. Your awareness shouldstand in time prescribed by you. It should not get shatteredthrough hours, days or months. Then it is called meditation. Inthis state of consciousness, the seers and the Masters receivesentences and give out to the world. Religions and cults arefabricated around these sentences and live through centuriesand thousands of years. Jesus Christ has given some sentencesand we are now meditating upon them after 2,000 years. Thechurch people are, busy to make a good bargain of thesesentences. This is because the sentences live through thousandsof years. Lord Krishna gave the sentences of Bhagvadgita 5,000years ago and we are meditating. Veda Vyasa had given the