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50 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjalitension. Begin with the activity of growing passive to theenvironment on the subjective plane. This can be achieved byengaging yourself in a continuous programme. I will give youan example. Suppose there are two people among us talkingto one another while the lesson goes. If you want to knowwhat they are talking about, you are defeated. If you want tocontrol them, you are again defeated since you are entangledwith them. Grow more active in minding your own businessand the conversation cease to exist to you. After a little whileyour presence begins to shine forth and permeate in the room.It influences them and they stop talking and begin to mind theirbusiness gradually. Due to an unconscious telepathy that existsamong all the living beings of this earth, your passive naturemakes you shine forth in the environment as your presence,then it will be communicated to others through the unconscioustelepathy and they feel like keeping silence and minding theirown business as long as they are in your room. Know the artof growing passive to the environment and active to yourself.This is the real process of practising detachment.Curiosity or inquisitiveness is the main obstacle. Suppose,at the end of my lesson to you, I want to know your impressionabout my lecture. I will approach each of you and question youhow the lesson is. It means, I am stimulating you to disturb myawareness while at the same time I am disturbing your awarenessto yourself. Such mischievous traits having their origin in egoismor not-self, should be consciously controlled by trying to mindour work, without minding the results. Work controls the mindand makes us understand things better. Karma Yoga shouldlead us to Jnana Yoga. There is no other way. If we think ofJnana Yoga and try to understand what it is, we can have volumesand volumes of philosophy without Jnana Yoga. Work is thesolution and not philosophy. At every step we have to applyourselves to our work and practise detachment. Repeated
Lesson - 3 51application of mind to the awareness of oneself and the practiceof detachment go together to keep the lower mind engaged inits way of getting absorbed. The beginning should be made withthe lower mind only because it is the only available instrumentin the initial stages. The lower mind should be used to work forthe absorption of the lower mind.While practising detachment some people suggest thatyou should leave your people, house and belongings in orderto practise detachment. Leave your wife, children, father ormother and go away to the forests, they say. It is a negativeunderstanding of detachment. Abandonment should not beunderstood as detachment.A Question : “People very often go to India from Europeto meet their Swamijis. Do you mean to say that it is notcorrect?”Answer : “Surely”. You are expected to study where youare and do the required work for the Master and yourself. Ifyour going there does not mean anything except curiosity andemotion, (foolish devotion) then your going hinders the work,disturbs your master and breaks you off the practice ofdetachment. That is the reason why the Masters are not seen.They do not want you to honour them, recognize them andworship them, creating a big nuisance to them. They want youto do your work since they are doing their work and yourwork also. Desires should be gradually nullified with these twoattitudes.Desires should be differentiated from needs. Needs arelike food, drink, sleep and housing. They belong to you mainly.Hence we can define them easily and provide them. Desiresdo not belong to you, they belong to the mind. Hence you canneither define them, nor outline them, nor fulfill them. No onecan actually give a scientific definition of desire since desire
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