The Yoga of Patanjali

Lesson - 2 35conditioned, nor it is the last item of a cumbersome process.There is nothing last in this creation since everything exists always.To our mental understanding there is always a first and the last,a beginning and an ending. In the Yoga practice there is nothinglike the goal or the last item which can be compared with thedeath of the mind. Is it clear to you or is there anything doubtfulin what I explained to you hitherto? Ofcourse, it is concisebecause you are just being introduced into the parts of yourown machine. When you are taken to a big electrical plant or asoap factory with many departments of work, each having aunit of machinery, much sophisticated and when your guidetakes you to each section he can only introduce things to youat a glance. You can know things better only when you staythere and begin to work for it. The machine in which you existand the machine in which you are expected to use properly isa big wheel in which there are seven wheels, in each of whichthere are seven crank-wheels running. At first you should knowthe nature of each wheel and the procedure that is to be adopted.The guide explains you about every part. He makes youcapable of having a comprehensive idea of all the parts andtheir inter-relation. He makes you understand how the totalaction goes. Then you will know the whole unit. Each of us issuch a total self-sufficient unit. All these days we are understandingthis unit only as Mr. Rudolf, that unit as Ruth and so on. Bynoticing each other like this we do not know anything aboutthe units at all. We know only what we think of them, what welike, what we dislike, what we love and what we hate. Thenthe units are exposed to the mind and senses. We live in ourown world, each of us and the units exist to one another, notas they are, and not as they work but as we suppose. We aretaking things in toto and dealing with them wrongly accordingto our own impression. Many times we put fingers in a wrong