The Yoga of Patanjali

16 Lessons on The Yoga of PatanjaliGarden. Actions are not based on any logic higher than that offood, drink, sleep and sex. Whenever he receives impressionsfrom the environment he gets their image of the mind. The mindis like plaster receiving and retaining the impressions. The numberof impressions increases day by day in thousands and the mindis blurred like the photographic plate exposed to many thousandsof landscapes. Mind is conditioned with these super-imposedpictures. Every picture gives an idea, a spur to do something.Doing something causes a re-arrange-merit of the existing thingsaround us. Again he gets a new picture which leads to a newspur. It leads to a sequence of consequences, causes and results.Every result becomes the cause to condition the mind. This iswhat is called self-conditioning or Karma-conditioning. Unlessthis is broken there is no possibility to know what existence is.Man lives in this conditioning like a chick having no idea ofwhat the world is.On the basis of this environment if we begin to act it isalways changing. Nothing is constant. When I meet you, youare my environment, when I meet Rudolf, he is my environment.It is always changing and I cannot call it a programme. Such astate is compared with a person sitting in a chariot, drawn byfive horses. Each horse is induced, in different directions, witha handful of green-grass from outside. Each pulls the chariot inits own direction and the chariot begins to move, propelled bythe objects of the senses, and it moves through the years ofour span. You cannot call it a journey since it leads nowhere. Itis only motion without destination. The whole span of life resultsin such a locomotion, displacement in time. This is the firstinitiation given in the Bhagavadgita. It is shown that the man inthe chariot needs a driver. The Bhagavadgita is the grand initiationand revelation caused by the driver to the man in the chariot.Now you can understand the symbolism of this picture ofBhagavadgita on the wall.