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52 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjaliitself is unscientific, being non-progressive in its origin anddevelopment.Suppose a watch is needed here while we are working.You can have a clock to the wall when all can use it and dotheir work. If I feel like having my own watch, it is desire. Ifmy watch is stolen, I can work with the help of the clock onthe wall. This is possible only when I know the need. If I knowmy desire, I cannot work when I find my watch stolen. Mythoughts of my watch make me sick of mind and I go intomoods. Now there is no scope for me to work. If I care onlyfor my need I can work with the help of the clock on the walland I can purchase my watch once again at leisure. Distinguishbetween desire and need, apply your mind only to the needs.Desires disappear. Food is a need and taste is a desire. Youhave to eat tasty food but you have to use taste as a convenienceto eat. Taste is a gift of nature in appreciation to your duty tosupply fuel to the body. If you care for the gift, you will doinjustice to the work. If you eat for taste you will fall sick.Whatever given by nature is good and desirable and you canuse it as a convenience to do your work. Using taste to eat isYoga, while eating for taste is Roga or disease. Repeated attemptto remember these things in daily life is Abhyasa. Growing passiveto these things by minding your own work is Vairagya. In courseof time you will grow less and less active to the environment(To the measures of shape, colour, smell, taste etc.) and youwill begin to grow more and more active and aware of thecontent of these measures, the Ishwara in everything, the IAM in one and all.Patanjali defines what repetition is. It is an attempt madeto grow aware of the awareness you have to develop. Thereshould be a desire to attain this. Your desire nature gets absorbedby applying desire to this object. The mind is like a handkerchief,made of a piece of cloth. If you place camphor in the handkerchief
Lesson - 3 53it carries the smell of camphor afterwards. If you press an onionto it carries the smell of the onion. If you carry a desire in themind, the mind begins to smell the desire. Afterwards, it smellslike the desire for some time. Now if you place a lump of fire inthe handkerchief for some time, it is not correct that handkerchiefsmells like fire. Fire is the only exception that cannot be carriedby the handkerchief.Similarly, when desire is applied to achieve Yogaconsciousness,the mind cannot carry the desire. Instead, thedesire disappears into the awareness since the mind also getsabsorbed into the awareness. Since it is impossible to driveaway the desire by fighting it out you have to apply it to yourown awareness and it disappears. This was the thing which theMasters aimed at when they talked to the founders of theTheosophical Society about Universal Brotherhood and aboutforming a nucleus. Forming a nucleus was understood in theobjective sense by the members of Theosophy. So they gatheredtogether to form a physical nucleus. They wanted to open anew centre of wisdom on the physical place with many heads(outer and inner), coming together physically. Unless everyoneforms a nucleus of Yogic awareness in himself, it is not possiblefor them to form a physical nucleus. By Lodge the Mastersmean that it is a Lodge where the Devas lodge to frame aconstitution which is called ‘Man’. Unless the members knowtheir bodies and minds like this there is no use of forming alodge on the physical plane. We see how the various Restaurantsare called Lodges. It is not in that sense that the Masters usedthe word ‘Lodge.’ It is not a house on the physical plane andthis is the reason why the Master D. K. says, “There shouldbe no Ashram on the physical plane in this century.” Whenthey gathered Lodges on the physical plane without knowinghow the Devas lodge as our constitutions, the result is different.Everyone began to make his or her own panel of Presidents to
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