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48 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjaliallowed to approach the mind inside. This is possible only whenthe mind is applied to self-awareness. Unless the mind is engagedit cannot be kept off from the disturbances outside. See howthe Swamijee in an ashram inside his room does not allow anyonefrom outside to approach him directly. This is because theSwamijee has to mind his business inside. We have a Swamijeein India who gets irritated in the midst of his discourse andshouts whenever a child makes a disturbance from the audience.Can we call him a Swamijee? When the child can disturb theSwamjiee from his discourse on the Sacred Bhagavadgita hecannot be called a Swamijee because the child is more powerfulthan Bhagavadgita to him. So let not the Swamijee in you bedisturbed by the reports of the income through the sense. Whenyou get the mind engaged in awareness, it does not receive theimpressions from outside. Now the miracle happens. The fellowinside begins to shine into the environment. The robe of theSwamijee inside grows brighter and sends forth its flames ashis own presence. You should make the fellow inside composeenough to shine forth. This is detachment.When you make a wrong approach you will fail in thematter. Suppose you have great anger and irritability from whichyou should be detached. If you close your eyes and think ofgetting rid of the anger you will fail. You should never do it likethat because you are meditating about anger while doing so. Ifyou have a weakness or something undesirable in you, do notthink of getting rid of it, you will be thinking of the weaknessalways. The mind is playing a trick upon you and making youthink of something which you wanted to get rid of. “Trick thetrick” says Master C. V. V. It is a wonderful process. Youhave to play another trick upon the mind that is already playinga trick upon you by making you meditate the thing you want toget rid of. “Trick the trick” is a mantram given by Master C. V.V. to his wife to practise detachment. Curiosity should be made
Lesson - 3 49passive until there is no curiosity. Do not try to remove curiosityfrom your mind. Ignore curiosity by being aware of somethingelse. The first item makes the second one possible. Abhyasacauses Vairagya. Repeated effort to grow aware of oneselfand to observe his own activity makes his mind passive to theenvironment so that curiosity makes a total disappearance. Youshould rearrange your habits, social life and daily routine andcreate circumstances that are congenial to your work day byday. The possibilities of exposure to onslaughts of disturbanceshould be removed by selecting a place, a house, a companyof friends and a routine of continuous work. Acquaintance andfriendships should be gradually rearranged and reestablished.The company of positive persons which is calledSatsangathya in Sanskrit should be made. Avoid People whoare overcritical. If they come across you do not fight or opposethem. You can say yes with a smile and easily make an escape.You can help them, you can please them (though it is next toimpossible.) But you should not entertain them. Do not getattached to them by liking or disliking. If you like them it givesattachment, if you dislike them it gives a worse attachment.Within a few weeks or months such people among your oldacquaintances will fail to find anything interesting or attractivewith you and they drop off. In the meanwhile you can growpassive by observing yourself and locating yourself in a placethat is congenial to your practice. You can find a place whereyou are not exposed to the onslaughts. Objectively speakingsuch a thing is impossible since the activity of those who areacquainted with you cannot be controlled. Any attempt to controlit objectively creates tension between your mind and the mindof others. Circumstances appear inevitable in the objective worldwhereas in the subjective world you can grow passive andbecome the master if at all you begin to know how. Do notbegin the attempt by withdrawing yourself physically. It creates
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