The Yoga of Patanjali

30 Lessons on The Yoga of PatanjaliAfter one or two days I need not search for the way and thedoor. My mind automatically feeds the eye and I walk in thehouse automatically. This requires no effort. When you blindfoldmy eyes and say, “Go straight, there is the door and you canwalk through”. Then I walk. 1 take directions from you and Ican walk through the house. Even then I am using your directionas my measure. See how the blind man goes to the market witha stick in his hand. He touches with his stick and understandsthat there is the street and there is the turn to the right, or leftaccording to the memory. He applies the stick with the help ofone sense and supplements the other senses. Many times weuse one measure supplement the other like this. This is anotherexample of using the right measure.The second step is ‘wrong measure’, that is the wronguse of the right measure. One does not like to use the measurewrongly but many times we do it. I say “This is my friend.” Is ittrue? Is it the friend or the person sitting there? There is aperson having the same tissues, same atoms and same textureof vehicles as those that are in me. Still I do not want to takenotice of the same. I want to know something different fromme since I want to entertain my own idea of friend in the otherbodies. Here we are taking the measure of shape, colour andother things that are right measures but we do not like to seethem. We want to see our friend who is something differentfrom all these measures we see. This is an example of the wronguse of the right measure. Unless nature provides us with thiswrong use, we cannot have friends and relatives in this world.“This is my enemy,” 1 say. Here also I try to apply the measurewrongly. Whenever I see you I say, “here is my friend”. Infact, there is no friend, but there is Rudolf. Similarly there is noenemy, since there is only Rudolf. This is the way in which werecognise our father, mother, brother, son, sister, wife etc. This