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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.
Lesson - 3 59With the soul it is experience. The pleasures of the senses areall only attempts and they are not true. About the soul it is said,“Seek me as no other thing everywhere”, in the Bhagavadgita.When the consciousness is shifted from the not-self, (the kingdomof other things) to the real self (the kingdom of oneself), thenthere is no other thing to enjoy since enjoyment is one with us.At this point it is the natural state of existence. “I am theOne and there is no second to Me” says God to Mosses.This sentence from the Hebrew Texts is wrongly translated as“I, the Lord God, am a Jealous God”, and it is unfortunate. Heis not jealous, but he has no second thing besides Himself.Enjoyment of the senses has a touch of the soul and hence thesenses seek enjoyment. The quality of soul is enjoyment andthe quality of the mind and senses is to seek some other thingto contact. The quality of the mind and senses is natural but thequality of the soul is super-natural. Inertia, dynamism and poiseare the three qualities which produce the mind, senses and thebody. The soul is beyond these qualities and exists as theundercurrent of everything just as the layer of water exists underthe layer of the many blocks of ice floating. The manyness ispossible with the blocks of ice but not with the water.The three qualities apply to the senses and the mind butnot to the soul. The mind and the senses work in terms of thesethree qualities. If the quality of inertia (Tamas) is prominent wefeel like sleeping or relaxing. When dynamism (Rajas) is prominentwe want to know what is happening, what is there in today’snewspaper, etc. We feel like going out to find how the city is,how the people talk and how the weather is and how the snowis making its appearance on the Alps. When dynamism is workingwe cannot stick to a place. I do a job for one year and feel themonotony of it. To crave for a change. Changing environmentand friends, shifting houses and places, changing gaps etc. willbe found when dynamism is prominent. Some people do not
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