The Yoga of Patanjali

80 Lessons on The Yoga of PatanjaliYoga is to rearrange the keyboard of your mind you shouldmake the process conscious. A mechanical utterance of OM isof no use. There is no place for monotony but there is theabsolute need for regularity. Sustained effort and venerationsupply the required commodity, devotion. If you are not consciousof this, you know what happens? As you begin to follow theYogic discipline, after two or three months it becomes a monotonyand you will lose all interest. This is the inevitable fate of allthose who imitate and all those who start the Yoga practice tosatisfy their idle curiosity. Curiosity does not sustain long becauseit is a craving for change. When we lose interest we may stoppractising Yoga or we may continue it like a dead machinewhere there is activity without progress. Sustained effort witha spirit of veneration becomes a necessary accessory.The second accessory is to apply all your available energiesand resources in the required directions. Energies are beingsupplied by nature to us every moment and they are beingdissipated through the various chasms of curiosity and desire.Time flows like a continuous river into the tube of our span withmany holes. The river continues to flow while people die in it.Many times the Time Eternal feeds the bottomless basins ofmillions of spans. The duty of a Yogic student is to apply thegiven energies in the direction of uttering the syllable, enteringinto it, and living, himself as the syllable. Does this mean youhave to stop all the daily activity to practise Yoga? Many peopleunderstood it in that way and took a pious retreat into the foreststo see nothing but wild animals and venomous insects. ‘TheScience of The Seven Rays’ is given by the Masters to understandthe direction of energies that flow into you and the mode ofapplication of these energies towards total awareness. All youractivity including your vocation, domestic duties and social duties,should be included in the process of your Yoga training. If theyare excluded, then someone has to feed you. You will be a monkor a beggar who has to depend on others for livelihood. Accepting