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54 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjalibe elected, to look after the Lodge. Then the Masters wenttheir own way, getting busy with their own work, leaving theirpictures in the physical Lodges. That is what had happenedwith the many spiritual organisations. There is a necessity totake care of the form side of things, but this should be doneonly as a consequence of our awareness to the spirit of thething.Keep yourself active without becoming busy. To be busyis a psychological disease. To grow active is to grow in health.It rearranges all the forces and intelligences in you. Activitymeans self-awareness. To be busy is only an auto-suggestion(which has nothing to do with your work) and it makes yousick and fatigued with the ideas of work. We frame autosuggestionsthat we are not able to withstand the work. Theprocess leaves you weak and sick, fed on self-pity. Eighty percentof the fatigue and neurosis among the Europeans and thewesternised Indians is only an auto-suggestion. You canconveniently remove all these things by keeping yourself activein self-awareness.Repetition is the effort to control the lower impulses. Itmakes you survive. See how the heart-beat and the respirationkeep you survive by repetition. Every minute you should makea repetition of the object of self-awareness. A new habit isestablished and the repetition needs no effort after a certaintime. Patanjali says, that the habit will be engrafted. When youkeep the branch of a tree under soil for some time, see howthe branch begins to send roots into the soil, making it anindependent tree, so that you can conveniently cut off the branchfrom the parent tree to make it an independent plant, a parentin its own turn. This is what is called grafting and it is not likethe grafting of skin or bone in the hospital. The new habit shouldbecome independent and make you independent of the old,unprogressive habit and then cut you off from the old habit.
Lesson - 3 55Repetition makes it possible. After the process of grafting iscomplete, you will go on repeating the process without anyeffort at all. Just as the practised driver need not think of hispractice while driving, you need not think of your repetitionwhile repeating. You will grow passive to the attempt and activewith the repetition. At first, we learn to do things and we dothings with effort. After some time, things are being doneby us without ourselves doing them. “Stop doing anything andlearn to sit in yourself, without doing. Everything will bedone” says Bhagavadgita.Desiring something seen and heard should go away bydeveloping a passive awareness. When you have seen someonein the market, who talked about very interesting things, youcan enjoy his conversation. After returning home, you shouldthink of your work and not the many interesting things talkedof. When you are tuned with your work, then you can rememberthose things that are included in the plan, while the others gointo incognisance by your active attitude towards your awarenessthat causes a passive retreat from the other things, Where thereis a plan you begin to do it, do not submit it to a process ofthinking and planning. There are people in this world who thinkand think, plan and plan, about a plan. A man wants to catchthe train by the night and he begins to think of it and think ofplaning for it from the morning or the previous day. Mentallyhe begins to catch the train, hours and days before. It results incrow-catching and nothing else. In India, we call it cat-catching.Every time the cat escapes and the catcher catches the spacewhere the cat stood. Every time the attempt is made with allthe procedure, caution, silence, ceremony and pomp, but hecatches only empty space. So the passenger goes to the station,purchases the ticket, stands on the platform for the train manythousands of times mentally before he does it once physically.Finally he finds himself in the train with his briefcase missing,left at home.
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