The Yoga of Patanjali

58 Lessons on The Yoga of PatanjaliWhat the Yogi gets at the end of his Yogic practice is nothingbut enjoyment. The senses should be liberated from trying toenjoy and they should be lifted into the enjoyment of reality.The very nature of soul is enjoyment and you cannot destroyit. If you try to distort the senses from their attempt to enjoy, itleads to dangerous consequences. It leads to baser instincts.What happens when you suppress the instinct of sex? It leadsto monstrous methods. You should create a taste for somethinghigher and more true. Then you will grow passive to the instinctof sex, through a sacred God-given process of ‘Monogamy’which is called Grihasta Dharma, by the Manu.Suppose your child is enjoying, eating something dirty, ifyou remove it, the child is disappointed. The next day the childlearns to eat without your knowledge. It is a worse development.Offer something that is more tasteful. The child will throw theprevious thing and is attracted to what you offer. You have tobehave in similar terms with the mind and the senses. Enjoymentis of two types, enjoyment of something else and enjoyment asan experience. By contacting something outside the mind andsenses try to seek enjoyment. The soul is having enjoyment asits own light, as its own taste. The lower yourself tries to findenjoyment with something other than itself. The tongue tries withfood, the ear with sound, the nose with smell, the touch with asurface and the mind with a thought that is different from itself.When it is cool, it finds enjoyment with something warm. Whenit is warm it finds enjoyment with something cool. The tonguehas no taste of itself. At the point of contact, with some otherthing the lower nature finds enjoyment. The soul exists aseverything and hence it has nothing which can be understood as‘some other things’. Hence the soul is the enjoyer and theenjoyment fused in one. The terms of enjoyment will be changedwhen we begin to live as soul. With the mind and senses,enjoyment is only as an incident, a concept, and a memory.